What Are Blogs, Alex?
Just watched Jeopardy. One of the categories in Double Jeopardy was “Blogs.”
I felt like Cliff Clavin.
Just watched Jeopardy. One of the categories in Double Jeopardy was “Blogs.”
I felt like Cliff Clavin.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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October 1st, 2004 at 9:26 pm
You know, the smell most people associate with natural gas isn’t the gas. Natural gas is actually odorless. They add that smell so you can detect gas leaks.
I’m not sure if Cliff actually ever said that or not, but it’s my favorite Clavin-esque factoid.
October 2nd, 2004 at 10:33 am
I don’t know if Cliff ever said it, but I know Ross did, on Friends, when he was trying to flirt with a pizza-delivery girl.
October 2nd, 2004 at 11:06 am
You were full of it? 🙂
I actually knew the natural gas thing, from a utility worker who was moving a gas pipe in my brother’s kitchen.
October 2nd, 2004 at 2:00 pm
I was pretty annoyed that not a single blog I regularly read, including Instapundit, was mentioned.
October 2nd, 2004 at 4:43 pm
What kinds of answers were given in that category?
October 2nd, 2004 at 4:54 pm
Oh, shoot…uh, like, “Some lawyer started blogging after he quit working on the lawsuit against this software giant.”
October 2nd, 2004 at 11:47 pm
You guys watch Jeopardy? When do you get the time to watch jeopardy?
I knew there was something missing in my life…the decompression you can only get from game shows.
What time is Wheel of Fortune?
October 3rd, 2004 at 6:19 pm
One of the gases they put in natural gas to make it smell, mercaptans, also occurs as a by product of spoiling wine.
Once when I was at Cornell a guest speaker for the advanced wine class (in the hotel school) brought a cannister of mercaptans so that students could learn to spot the smell of decaying wine.
Unfortunately, the leaking cannister put enough mercaptans into the Statler hotel’s air handling equipment to lead many people to believe there was a sizable natural gas leak underway.
Evacuation hilarity ensued.
Mercaptains wine info.
Mercaptans gas info.
October 3rd, 2004 at 7:11 pm
My 7th-grade science teacher described the smell as “buffalo farts.”
I can’t believe I’ve let my thread be hijacked like this.
October 4th, 2004 at 9:57 am
There was one regarding Margaret Cho’s blog-that was the top value one-and one about the orgin of the word ‘blog’
Nothing at all about Dan Rather.