Maybe "Frankenword" would have been a better choice on my part in place of fabricated since "conundrum" was stitched together from the body parts of a dead language?

I'd like to nominate merek for the Nit O' The Day Award.

Speaking of Encyclopedia Brown, I remember another story that hinged on seeing penguins in a museum display depicting the North Pole; that discrepancy was a clue for Encyclopedia.

Extremely Useless fact that Encyclopedia Brownophiles will appreciate-
I used to play in a band called Bugs Meany.

Yeah, and that was pre-internet and -ESPN. Run number 1,000,001 was scored by Dave Concepcion a few seconds later.

That's cool. Two of the best teams of the era, too. The losing pitcher in that game was Tony Cloninger, the only pitcher to hit two grand slams in one game, which he did when he pitched for the Braves a few years earlier.

altough german soldiers during WWII weren't allowed to have sexual encounters with soviet civilians, every soldier was equipped with packet of Vulkan Sanex condoms.

"The English word 'turncoat' apparently originated in a ruse de guerre whereby soldiers were issued with uniforms that are their own country's on the inside and the enemy's uniform on the outside. The purpose was deception in order to get within the point blank range area of the enemy, suddenly opening fire. The expression "turn coat" comes from the act of physically turning the uniform inside out."

elephants are the only animals that cannot jump

Really? I don't think snakes can jump, or fish, or snails.

the brightest star in the sky (other than the sun) is called Sirius...but its actuallly a binary system (two stars in orbit around each other)

I think he meant "mammals".

A good southern boy like ya'self oughtta know fish can jump. They remain, however, miserable pole vaulters.

Whales are mammals. I guess it would work if he said land mammals, but that's specific enough that it's no longer an interesting statistic.

Landon. Buddy. Whales can jump.

BUT CAN THEY WIN A OLYMPICS GOLD MEDAL LIKE THE DREAMBOAT SHAWN ^SWOON^

Idk if you're joking or not. If you're trying to tell me that breaching = jumping, then I'm gonna have to disagree unless you can prove to me that it's scientifically classified as jumping.

ginger and kudz..stop it wheres teh get a room trading card?

lf, less time being a nit and more time turning your head from side to side so you can remember interesting universe stuff...

In Buck vs. Bell (1927), the US Supreme Court held that compulsory sterlization of mentally ******ed adults was permissible.

Not Moby Dick, though. Everyone knows white whales can't jump.

From the same reliable folks who brought you the Dred Scott Decision and Roe v Wade. They also, in their infinite, lawyer class wisdom, ruled that Scientology is indeed, a USA-certified religion.

How about this for pointless knowledge . . . An infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of keyboards will never ever reproduce the works of Shakespeare over an infinite amount of time.

I think the above is factual and proven by mathematical probability geeks but I could be wrong.

If factual, I don't really see a point in knowing or proving it to be, and the idea of an infinite number of monkeys pressing buttons . . . gaaa, head asplode.

:: sigh :::

Okay.

This from Enchanted Learning's Whale Glossary-

Really, if you can't accept the learning of the enchanted, I feel for you. They're enchanted, for Pete's sake..

Or this Wikipedia page, with the definition provided by cetacean researcher and whale groupie Hal Whitehead, in which he defines a breach as a "leap". In fact, virtually everything I checked defined a "breach" as a jump or a leap.

As to a "scientific classification" of jumping, there is none; different species do it in different ways. Frogs and horses both jump, but are not physiologically identical in doing so. But even if you accept the rigorous definition that demands the jumper has to be at some point 100% airborne after propelling oneself up, using one's own power, then whales can, indeed, jump.

Now, as to whether other mammals can or cannot jump: there is no real consensus. Even the guy at AllExperts, who seems to have zoological degrees spewing out of his wazoo, cannot give a definite answer, although he seems to doubt the jumping abilities of sloths and bats. Also unable to jump, at least according to Wesley Snipes? White men. This in spite of the House of Pain imploring us to do so.

So then jumping is subjective. In that case, I refuse to believe that it's possible to jump without the involvement of legs of some sort.

Also, showing a bunch of articles where breaching is described as jumping doesn't mean it is jumping. It's just being compared to jumping because that's the best way to explain it.

How do you prove a negative?

Awaiting your explanation as to why Mexican Breaching Beans have never broken through as a novelty item.

Only here in the South, where five constitutes a full set of teeth, would two be considered a "bunch".

The fact that there is no consensus in a physiological or scientific definition of "jump" does not mean it is purely subjective. In the examples cited, breaching is not being compared to jumping, it is being identified as jumping. If you want to google up, you'll find plenty of qualified folks who consider it "jumping" without giving one thought to whether it passes your definitional muster.

If you want to continue to use such a semantic loophole, be my guest. It's unassailable, really.

You can also put on a Burger King crown, walk around town in your bathrobe, and call yourself the King of Landonfanland. Just don't expect a whole lotta bowing and scraping going on when you walk by.

blah blah blah, can't jump without legs, end of story. Whales are just flailing around in the water until both a whaleologist and a jumpologist tell me otherwise.

A whaleologist did tell you. See my first response. If you read that article, he further explains the difference between a breach and a lurch, and describes the physical activity needed to achieve such feats. None are achieved by simply "flailing around".

As for a jumpologist, I am awaiting a call back from Doctors Roth and Van Halen.

Landonfan and kudzudemon...I think that this is really what you want from each other...



You ain't foolin' me with all these talk about "whales"...

Did he describe the part where the whale bends its knees and pushes off from the ground? Cause otherwise it's not jumping.

HH,

How about I breach your face?