Totally useless facts ...

[marval]

On April 4, 1974, John Massis of Belgium pulled two New York Long Island railroad passenger cars totaling 80 tons with a thick rope, with a small bit attached, using only his teeth.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Isn't that the gent who underwent massive maxillo-facial surgery the week after that pull?

 

[Contratrombone64]

I'd hate to be his dentist when he went in for an extraction ...

 

[Contratrombone64]

A little more research netted:

John Massis (4 June 1940–12 July 1988) was a Flemish bruiser and teeth-acrobat. His real name was Wilfried Morbee.
Massis specialized in bending iron with his teeth. He also performed stunts where he lifted cars, pulled trains and stopped motorbikes and even helicopters and hot air balloons with his teeth. This resulted in several entries in the Guinness World Records book.
He also funded a political party called positieve radicalen in Dutch or positive radicals.
With waning media interest and diabetes undermining his condition, Massis ended up in a psychiatric hospital and committed suicide at the age of 48 on the 12th of July 1988.
In 2004 Johan Heldenbergh performed a play based on Massis' life: Massis, the musical.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Massis"

 

[Corno Dolce]

In other words, A Rabble-Rouser.

 

[Contratrombone64]

with bite ...

 

[Corno Dolce]

and baditude....

 

[marval]

Thank you CT for your research, poor man.


Sorry this is a bit yuk.

Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Too much navel-gazing....

 

[marval]

Well that's the last time I stuff a pillow.


Margaret

 

[Corno Dolce]

Dame Margaret.

I adore your sense of humour

It has been said that metametric music was formerly known as the Totalist Style.

 

[methodistgirl]

I just bought some new knitting thread and this is what it looks like
made with mohair.
judy tooley

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that as late 1837 the *Eglise Sainte Marie Madeleine* in Paris was to be a railway station. Louis XVIII had proclaimed it to become a Church after the fall of Napoleon. So, finally in 1842 it was inaugurated as a Church:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2177/2181674566_a2a360ccd6.jpg?v=0

http://www.uquebec.ca/musique/orgues/france/smadeleinep22.jpg

 

[marval]

Thank you CD, keep laughing.

That is one impressive church, possibly a bit ornate for a station.

That wool looks lovely Judy.


A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.

 

[Corno Dolce]

One cubic foot of dry air is said to contain 0.00005% Hydrogen.

 

[marval]

David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon.

 

[marval]

There is a village called Crackpot, in North Yorkshire.

 

[Corno Dolce]

There is a four house hamlet called *Canton* just SW of Stockholm, Sweden

 

[sunwaiter]

since the no-smoking-in-public-places law has been voted in france, there is hardly any crickets left in the subway.

 

[sunwaiter]

there is a village called Hellbourg on Reunion Island