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It's 2 AM and I'm bored. Have these.
Obligatory FP Edit: First time here, guys! Woo! I'm glad my 2 AM drunken decision to post these got me somewhere. Thanks!
Don't forget to help control the pet population. Spay and neuter your animals.
uitSCHOT
symbolics.com website actually is about it being the oldest website
BeeboopbeeboopSMASH
The image explaining interstate numbering....and suddenly the internet is driving my old commute down 77 South. Hello, internet.
BenjaminFink
Whoah I live off the gaston Swansea exit on #7 west Columbia here
Hendlton
"Tehrapy"? Pfft... I could spell that with eyes closed and my hands tied behind my back!
WhenInDoubtReferTheHellOut
#8 is a picture of I77 in my hometown! Columbia, SC! :)
FuckTheUSCjrShamecocks
My names sort of relevant!
HaniiPuppy
Relevant to Scotland/Unicorn:
Unquote
You just had to ruin it with horsefucker brony autist shit huh?
HaniiPuppy
The world doesn't cater solely to your tastes.
Unquote
Fuck off degenerate horsefucker
xofr
"Yeah fuck this guy for liking something I don't like. That totally justifies me calling you a horse fucked."
bagelsforbreakfast
i LOVE ass facts!
MakeTabbouleNotWar
These aren't ass facts! They are random-ass facts.
cogs
More like random-ass made-up bullshit.
MakeTabbouleNotWar
That too lol
justpointingouttheobvious
If your allowed to have mythical animals as your national animal, how has a country not adopted the Cthulhu.
Csel
at the time people thought they were totally real animals
justpointingouttheobvious
Thank you Sheldon.
DancesWithChihuahuas
Your lack of hyphen caused your title to lie to me! Devilish fiend!
Pheanyxe
But hey, it got you here, didn't it? :D
GoodGuyGonzo
#8 The same holds true for German autobahns
nommon
Whenever someone posts a fact about a blind person, my first thought is, "fully blind or just legally blind?" That can be a big difference.
theUniverseMomentum
Bonus fact: That interstate numbering scheme also applies to the German Autobahn (odd = north-south, even = west-east).
Moose1991
How many people went to symbolics.com immediately after reading this post?
SculderAndMully
Ronald Wayne...that poor, foolish man.
monkeymanwhee
That would totally be something I would do, $800?!? Haha suckers I'm rich!
notlego
How much would that 10% be now?
oasisamid
more than 800.. that's for sure.
nameisunavailable
around 70 billion
notlego
Ouch
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IllooSIV
That's what I get for trying to math on a Monday.
NowDoThatVoodooThatYouDo
IIRC, he sold because he was an investor, and, unlike Jobs/Woz who didn't have much, he'd be liable for losses if the company failed.
TheManInTown
Not really foolish, just unlucky. You don't go to the beach and expect to find buried treasure there
ThatShiftyMonkey
That's why he changed his name to Saul and started a law practice.
thedawnoflazy
#1 is a Chevy steering wheel.
ThatMomentWhenImgurJokesAreOnlyFunnyToImgurians
ok
thedawnoflazy
you're welcome. ;]
morelike
Hi! It’s me from the future! You’ll need to add another name to that list on the last one. ;-)
middlehead
If it was the first vitamin, why is it B3?
theBEARDEDarchaeologist
Should be B4 :)
qussow
According to wikipedia, it was the 3rd B vitamin discovered. The first was Thiamine.
pinoyimgurian
B1 and B2 are names already given to Bananas in Pajamas...
DougForcett
@tylerwarranty is correct. The structure is a N and 5 C atoms making a hexagon with a carboxyl group in the 3 position of the hexagon.
TylerWarranty
Probably something to do with its structure
Amalthea22
Phhfft, logic.
squip
I call them "Hawaiways".
IsuckAsthis
But how long was William Henry Harrisons speech?
BobRover
Have a Drunk History lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDukCTcITLY
IsuckAsthis
Thank you that was very informative.
H0b0J0e
They think he contracted pneumonia because his speech was so long and he didn't wear an overcoat.
samsonguy920
Pretty sure the rain was a factor.
ChristopherColumbus
Too long
Avrafrost
I was hoping for an album of Donkey facts. You've let me down sir. Good day to you.
JSmith90
Did you tip your fedora while writing this? I think so.
Pheanyxe
Ma'am.
Avrafrost
ThatQuietlySmirking
#18 Technically speaking, JFK failed to get re-elected, too.
Felman
He never tried to be re-elected. For obvious reasons.
DragonOnSteroids
I don't know why he didn't, I would vote for Ghost-FK if he ran.
TravNel
He never bid to be reelected. so the factoid is still true.
MrXilas
Too soon
Foreskindisabled
And many others
Iambikecurious
And Ford
MrGrayandPink
But did he try?
Rayxor
He was a bit too scatterbrained.
ThatQuietlySmirking
He tried to get on the ballot, but they shot him down.
kichigaimentat
The one about CD length is just a rumor. There's no solid evidence backing it up.
IAmWhoEverYouSayIAm
The evidence is the post, duh. You're the type of person that thinks the Holocaust actually happened.
Shamorza
I like how people downvote you because they don't get the obvious humor in your comment:)
demonjester1515
Not to mention that length varies based on compression rate. Put more basically, a CD holds 700mb of data.
poochyena
I can't put more than 80min of music on a CD, no matter how much data it uses/doesn't use.
kichigaimentat
CDDA, which is what is talked about here, is always LPCM, 16-bit, 44.1kHz, so length was fixed at 74 min. Also it was originally 650MB.
LiamO92
Anybody else see the kamehameha highway?!?!?
shalmdi
They said I would be stuck on that road for 5 minutes, but three and a half hours later...
shalmdi
... HA!
rockerBOO
Next time on Kamehameha Highway...
bobtheaxolotl
Yeah, this isn't a DBZ reference. It's the name of a Hawaiian king, and predates anything dragonball by 226 years.
Dispari
I used to dispatch tows all over the US, and I had a lady on that highway once, and she was impressed I said it right. I didn't tell her.
bentwrenches
http://imgur.com/mG7dwAi
griffinzoth
Fighting traffic like http://38.media.tumblr.com/d8693fced95b806bd5714608543737d0/tumblr_mi4xo6yQrL1s56vouo1_500.gif
DirtyA
Kaio Ken! Noo....
DirtyA
Times... No no no!
DirtyA
FOOOOOOUUUUR NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
NachosFlandersStyle
Used to live on Kamehameha avenue-- pretty much everything is Kamehameha here.
shalmdi
I am sincerely curious. Does the DBZ reference bother Hawaiians familiar with it?
NachosFlandersStyle
I'm not a DBZ person-- but I think that most people think of King Kamehameha first, and the DBZ reference waaayy down the list.
OverpricedCrayon
Are you sure his real name wasn't king goku?
gutclusters
So, how many people are pronouncing that name the DBZ way instead of the correct way?
jackalsblood
Probably everyone who watched DBZ as a kid and had little to no Hawaiian influence in their lives. So mostly everyone.
FatherJack
Didn't get the reference at first and was just thinking "...well yeah if they looked at the pictures..."
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
But he gets sailing from turn 1!
ricktroolled
they did it takes 5 episodes for them to reply kaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaammmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ha
MrBananaBeak
Fuck that highway. The traffic man...I was stuck for two hours on that highway today.
Amalthea22
On the plus side, you're in Hawaii, so you've got that going for you.
ifmusicbethefoodofloveplayon
I had a friend who lived there tell me the crime is pretty bad.
MrBananaBeak
Which is as nice as you would think, for the most part. Has significant drawbacks. My electricity bill is $750 a month.
Amalthea22
Dang! Can you get solar?
MrBananaBeak
I have solar lol. It's not efficient enough to power the whole home.
thornmallow
They had a King with the same name, it's probably his memorial highway?
waitwhut
Yep. If you go up North on the big Island you can see a cool statue of him in his hometown.
MrBananaBeak
Living in Hawaii: everything is named Kamehameha. Everything.
DKPRIMUSRETURNS
KA...
candiru
...ME...
DKPRIMUSRETURNS
...HA...
LiamO92
thornmallow
I know.
Kargathia
If the tidbit about the logic behind highway numbers is a trivia, then some public awareness guy failed at his job.
Misora
It's harder to follow in places like Dallas where 635 meets 75 at a right angle while running eat and west.
CaliforniaBear1968
Possibly, although most people I know couldn't tell me which way was north if asked.
RonOfMars
Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.
roonmian
First one is bullshit, Laszlo Biro built the first automatic transmission. General Motors bought the patent so nobody would use it.
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
Same guy who did the pen! What a guy!
causality
Biro designed a reliable one but it wasn't the first, though Teetor didn't have anything to with automatic transmissions at all.
memeseekoo
I thought a US woman invented the automatic transmission during ww2(?) while all the men were off fighting.
roonmian
No, the one by Laszlo Biro predated WW2. He patented it but according to @causality there were others before that.
cousteau
It should be illegal to own patents solely for preventing development. Production should be mandatory after X years.
TheNuclearSaxophone
And if an interstate has 3 digits, it means it goes in a circle around a city, like I-270/I-255 in St. Louis! That confused me as a child.
X88B88B8II
Wait, what? There is an I-270 in Maryland that connects between I-495 (DC beltway) and I-70 in Frederick. Doesn't follow that rule.
Vyrro
Saint louis has a pretty confusing interstate system.
TheOneTheOnlyThunderCunt
I got confused on I44 and I55 and wound up in East St. Louis. Scariest night of my life
titanfries
Like that scene in national lampoons vacation
CaliforniaBear1968
For everyone saying XXX doesn't do that, keep in mind the system was designed in the 1950s before many cities were the size they are now.
KeeptheChangeyaFilthyAnimal
US-421 and 220 in NC don't go around shit
shoka
Roads that do that in the UK don't have such luxury, so you can send tourists for 100 miles on the M25, but they're just circling London.
hathorlover
What confused me were the multiple I495s. I grew up on Long Island (LIE is 495), NH where my nana lives also has 495
Oblivion59
Also they give general location info. On i75 for example 75% of the country is west of you. On i80, 80% is south of you.
Smead
I guess that makes sense, sort of, but I-35 is pretty much in the middle of the country...
Oblivion59
Looking at a map average the line
ChickswithKnives
and if it's 3 numbers, the last number is the freeway it connects to. So, the 405 connects to the 5 and the 101 connects to the 1, etc.
grundalug
Ah I was wondering why 595 seemed to be breaking the rules
MeAnd2Bs
or the last 2 numbers--495 connects to 95
Gabriasdiamondsplinter
They are also generally a percentage placement in the country. I-50 is e-w about halfway up the country. Doesn't always work but mostly
WARHAMMER405
There is also Loop 410 and Loop 1604 in San Antonio. I-10 meets both roads in the north and south ends.
cldar
I don't know anything about loops. I do know 1604 isn't a federal road and 10 starts in CA and goes east. It's just north and south in SA
nspark48
San antoniooooo!!! I'm from here
WARHAMMER405
I miss San Antonio. I lived there in the early 90's. I always wanted to visit the Hemisfair Tower but never had the chance.
becauseracecarsdontbuildthemselves
im here now...and people cant drive for shit
nspark48
Yupp :|
EveryCommentIs140CharactersExceptMaybeThisOne
a fellow St. Louisan! *fist bump*
titanfries
Hey! Hi !
TheOneTheOnlyThunderCunt
There are dozens of us, DOZENS of us!
demolitionlover09
I'm visiting you guys this weekend!
titanfries
Hang on, are you from Australia?
demolitionlover09
Haha, if you're wanting to show me what a true biscuit is no worries, I'm from Georgia.
titanfries
Awh, damn. I was hoping you were my cousins, they're coming in too.
WhimsicalCalamari
It's more complex than that. If the first digit is even, it's a circle route or bypass of a city (like 270/255). (1/2)
sleete
880 isn't like that.
WhimsicalCalamari
I looked it up. It appears that, since 80 goes from Oakland to SF, 880 is a bypass of SF and the Bay Bridge on the way to San Jose.
sleete
Weird to think of the freeway I spend 70% of my time on as just a bypass.
Wrongleveeeeeeer
Of course you spend 70% of your time on it. Because FUCK 880. Going through Fremont can take a goddamn hour...
titanfries
As a guy who is learning to drive in St. Louis.. I'm scared
WhimsicalCalamari
Oh this is just general interstate numbering rules, useful for cross-country route planning. Nothing to be worried about here.
WhimsicalCalamari
(2/2) If it starts with an odd number, it's a spur, a direct route from the main interstate to somewhere it can't normally serve.
greggor
I don't think that's correct. In CA we have 280, 580, 680, 780, and 880. None of them do loops. They're all just branches off I-80.
WhimsicalCalamari
They don't form a perfect circle, but they do bypass certain areas. (Also, 580, 780, and 980 are spurs, thus the odd number).
UnpopularOpinionPuffinPersonified
Even numbers are for circle loops OR bypasses. They bypass going through the heart of the city typically.
WhimsicalCalamari
Looking at it on a map, it appears: 280 bypasses US-101 (main route into SF from south), 880 is a North/South bypass of SF, [1/2]
WhimsicalCalamari
[2/2] and 680 is a North/South bypass of a large portion of the Bay Area. That said, auxiliary Interstates don't always follow the rules.
Hashtagusername
and generally follows the rules of the last 2 digits being it's primary highway (like i395 being part of i95)
SlickerThanNick
and! and! and! the 3-digit routes will repeat in different states! exciting!
Wombatfisher
It's true! Driving from southern Utah to Anaheim on i15, you hit a i215 in Vegas and another one in San Bernardino.
TheNuclearSaxophone
Neat! I didn't know all that!
Tootiespewpew
commenting to come back and look at this again to try and remember cause its wicked info to know
Tasteslikeapenny
Yeah, the McDonald's in Sedona. It's not as if the space ship under Bell Rock doesn't already clash. Google it. Crazies!
fakyubish
I created an account just to reply to you. Arizona doesn't get enough love. Also, took a tour in Sedona recently. The way OP phrases it,
fakyubish
he makes it sounds like the people in Sedona weren't sure of their decision. No, it was a stipulation that they provided McDonald's.
Tasteslikeapenny
I was an electrician and built an office for a chiropractor and had to put mirrors in the wall to keep out the bad juju....
fakyubish
Haha, I should clarify, I'm not criticizing you. I'm criticizing Pheanyxe.. tour guide was talkin bout vortexes and inter-dimensional
fakyubish
portals opening up on a local farm. They're definitely a little fruit loopy up there.
Tasteslikeapenny
Oh, I'm from a town 10 miles from Sedona. I love the place, just got burned out on the local fruit loops.
cogs
The McD's in Freeport, ME doesn't have an exterior sign, only the arches in frosted glass.
DollarStoreProphet
Just moved to tucson and drove through sedona on my way in...dident wanna leave, but i remember thinking, "ooh i love the turquise here"
xrasser
Of course its not an I in Hawaii, you cant have an interstate on an island that only has one state
thatauzzieguy
This gets updoots?
gbird
Florida has I-4, which runs from Tampa to Daytona, neither of which are a state (I think.)
cogs
And CA has a couple single-digit interstates, I-5 & I-8.
Treblaine
It's simple, the I stands for "INTRAstate" rather than "INTERstate".
CrimeBrulee
Or maybe, and this is just a maybe, we use the existing word highway.
atairov
You're just not trying hard enough. With enough manpower, dedication, American spirit, and an unlimited amount of concrete,I'm sure we could
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Hawaii has "Interstate Highways" because after required to pay into the highway fund for years they finally demanded something in return.
codblackcocks
can't, as in cannot, so an ' thingy is used, you're welcome.
WhimsicalCalamari
H1, H2, H3, and H201 are still part of the Interstate System and are up to Interstate Standard, as are some unsigned Puerto Rico highways.
zombiesphere
Well you sound like you know what you're taking about
WhimsicalCalamari
NOT TO MENTION that "I-" isn't an official abbreviation, just a shortening of "Interstate" to distinguish from US and State highways.
RichterCa
What about Alaska? Do the Interstate Highways go through Canada, and back into the US?
rkito118
No interstates is AK either just state highways. There are a few freeways but no interstate signs.
cousteau
Misread "cant" as "can" and was wondering what the fuck you understood by "inter".
DougForcett
I have never seen the H3 that empty before.
shinigami052
It's that empty during the week sometimes.
turdferguson74
I ran the inaugural 10 miler from Kaneohe to Pearl back in 97 before it opened to traffic.
ratholos96
A couple weeks ago they closed down h3 for five-o filming and I got to walk along it while it was completely empty. It was pretty sweet.
fhdhbcb
They could have let the I stand for island
xrasser
You sir are going places
CaliforniaBear1968
The Interstate designation refers to the standards to which it is constructed, not the route it takes. (1/2)
cogs
Also the fact there's federal highway funding involved.
CaliforniaBear1968
The standards require that the roadway and bridges be able to support tanks to facilitate moving the military if the U.S. was invaded.
MrBananaBeak
And yet, we still call them "interstates" here and have the Eisenhower interstate system signs.
AyAyRonn
You can't call them interstates. You can call them Interstates (the capital I makes it a proper noun)
MrBananaBeak
Wow that's pedantic.
Djalabajoe
#7 Scottish Unicorns are always shown chained up because normal unicorns are all sweetness and rainbows but Scottish ones will fuck you up
Dravit
Scotland's national animal is about as realistic as its chances of financially-prudent independence.
thepundom
The original mythology about unicorns says that they fuckin ate people!
bowtiesarecool95
We're chained to the crown cause we just wanna fuck up every country but England won't let us
zombiesphere
US here.. Bring it
bowtiesarecool95
Drinking contest you'll get fucked up first
zombiesphere
I'd love to see it bub.. We drank
bowtiesarecool95
It's an government mandated hobby for us
iritebooks
Sconies represent! We'll drink you under the table!
AstartesLibrarius
Well if you were a drunken unicorn and every dress you lifted belonged to a man you'd be pretty angry too.
lidsyam
I laughed way too hard at this. I'm ashamed.
IrnBruce
It's true, I just fought one
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
That's an awesome username!
AngeIa
Impossible! If it was a REAL Scottish unicorn... You'd be dead.
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
I remember you! Did you have Dave Grohl's baby yet?
AngeIa
Haha amazing! Live said it before and I'll say it again... I wish! :)
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
That much awesomeness would maybe be too much to bear anyway :)