Nutsgeezer...
I think you're right about antidisestablishmentarianism. I haven't checked into it, but I have heard from several people that it is the longest word.

I may be wrong though...
(brainchild, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:57, Reply)

language
there are 7 languages native to britain, appart from English they are all celtic.

basque has no roots in any other european languages.

english is a creole

the mos common language in the world is manderin chinese.

english has more words than any other language.

latin is not a dead language as it is still the offical language of the vatican city state.

after 1066 there wasent a king whose native language was english till 1399, the courts didnt use english untill 1483 and church services werent conducted in english till 1536
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:46, Reply)

The skin of a potato contains 90% of the toxin - the selfsame toxin found in Deadly Nightshade
and tomatoes. However, only green potatoes, or those that have begun to "stalk" are posionous. And the lethal dose of green potatoes is somewhere around 4Kg for the average human.

That's alot of raw potato to eat...
(Fido Dido, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:42, Reply)

Useless information
Improve your vocabulary. Then add these words to your daily conversation at their expense:
1 merkin
2 retrominjet
3 catamite.
This is sure to be a funny comedy laugh riot.
(Lister, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:34, Reply)

wot no vowels?
In czech, the letters t and k can act as vowels.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:31, Reply)

cocaine is an acid
and crack is an alkali, so crack can be smoked while cocaine would just burn.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:29, Reply)

zodiac
there are 13 signs of the zodiac not twelve. if you are born on the 19-21st of november you are a othapucian. the sign of witch is Othapucious the serpent bearer.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:26, Reply)

fags
the last 3 english kings before Elizabeth II all died of diseases linked to smoking. The only exception is king George VI who was euthanased by his doctor so his death could be reported by broadsheet newspapers before the trashy tabliods.

His last words were "bugger bognor"
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:23, Reply)

Carrots
are orange because the Dutch did a lot of the experimentation with carrot breeding in the 16th c. This resulted in fantasticly productive plants with the carrots coming in a fetching patriotic orange colour. Carrots can come in a whole variety of colours, but the orange one just caught on early.
( Darth Mittens, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:23, Reply)

life
stastistiacly religious people live longer than atheists. Out of all the religions seventh day adventists live longest on average.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:20, Reply)

foxes
there were more than twohundred more hours of debate in the houses of parliment over the ban on fox hunting than there were on the decision to go to war with iraq
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:18, Reply)

Walibris
Men of the Walibri tribe in central Austrailia greet eachother by shaking eachother's penises instead of their hands.

Maybe that's where 'Hi Cockalorum' came from.
(Burb Lulls, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:18, Reply)

Frenchies!
Have the same word for Aubergine as they do for lawyer. I'd be insulted if i was an aubergine.
(Fondler of small mammals, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:12, Reply)

At some point in Russia...
Suppositories made out of potatoes were thought to releive haemorrhoids.

Potatoes, is there anything you can't do?
(Burb Lulls, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:11, Reply)

VIctoria cross
The victoria cross, the highest decoration in the british military is made from the gunmetal of russian cannons captured at the charge of the light brigade.

this tells you all you need to know about millitary inteligence.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:10, Reply)

VHS
the reason vhs beat beatamax is baecuse its porer quality and hence lower cost ment that more porn was available on VHS tapes when they first came out.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 22:09, Reply)

Micheal Caine
Michael Caine has never actually said " Hello, my name is Micheal Caine. Not a lot of people know that "
(fistcount shite, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 21:52, Reply)

swahili and being wrong
jambo was taken from the word hujambo meaning "how are you" but now has been made more informal and now more or less means hello, how are you, but habari is more common amoung locals.
The chances are, whatever you do, whatever you say, you are wrong. Because their are a limited number of right answers or actions, and an unlimited number of wrong ones.
(spike4848, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 21:34, Reply)

Lazy
I have a book called The Book Of Useless Information, it's full of random facts, so this could take forever, but i'm a lazy craphead so I'll make it short.

The guy who invented the lightbulb was afraid of the dark.
In summer, walnuts get a tan.
(LooSee, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 21:33, Reply)

This may be a lie....
...but my friend told me that badgers can do a 'handstand' against trees whilst they pee as the coolest badger (and hence the one who gets all the badger chicks) is the one who can pee highest up the tree. I might just be being incredibly gulible, but I always knew badgers were cool.
(Laura Buttercup, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 21:33, Reply)

Swahili and consonants
Contrary to popular belief, "Jambo!" doesn't really mean hello in Swahili. It's only used when addressing tourists.
EDIT: Fair play. turns out i have useless wrong information. Hooray!

The word with the longest collection of consecutive consonants is "polyrhythmic," closely followed by "Knightsbridge".

Excellent QOTW!
(The Spelling Police, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 21:26, Reply)

Humpty Dumpty
was actually a cannon during the english civil war, which ws stationed at the top of a clock tower in Colchester, Essex. It "had a great fall" when the Cromwellians blew the top off the tower with their own cannon. The kings horses and men couldn't fix it.

There. (Apparently thats teh story, according to an old history teacher of mine)
( mr_wicksy is.... old., Fri 18 Mar 2005, 21:19, Reply)

Spiders
Contrary to popular thought, daddy longlegs are not the most poisionous spider in the world AND do have the ability to bite. Their bites are so tiny most don't notice them.

Thank you myth-busters.
(HaMM, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 21:16, Reply)

Two to mention.
Whoopie Goldberg has no eyebrows.
The QOTW bit is not a message board.
( DrPoppers Touched by his noodly appendage, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 21:13, Reply)

yeah
thats what I meant (honest)
(nutsgeezer, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:59, Reply)

Nutsgeezer
Potatoes aren't poisonous raw - the fruits of the potato plant are. The potatoes we eat are tubers (underground stems).
( Bob Todd whee, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:57, Reply)

brainchild
you arent the only one with it on in the background (my mum does too)

Deadly Nightshade is from the same family as the potato (spuds are poisonous raw).

Also, some long words are listed below. I always thought the longest word was antidisestablishmentarianism, but maybe not.
(nutsgeezer, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:50, Reply)

It was all a lie about Captain Pugwash
You know 'Seaman Staines', 'Master Bates' and 'Roger the Cabin Boy'? They never even existed.

www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm

Can't even count how many people have said "Remember Captain Pugwash and all those filthy names?" and I go, "Nooooooo, check out snopes you fool" - like the pissy pedant I am.
(Peelmytangerines, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:47, Reply)

Potatoes
In Europe there are 5000 different varieties of potato.

In the world there are 9000.


Thankyou Gardener's World.
(brainchild, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:41, Reply)

Lemmings don't commit suicide after all...
www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Disney/Lemmings.html
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 20:40, Reply)