**potpourri thread '03**

[nitsuj3580]

small fish or fry

 

[moonshinemadness]

One word mosquitos?

 

[DrPizza]

Egads! Trivial pursuit is wrong then! It's the dragonfly larvae that eat the mosquito larvae

 

[p0ntif]

ok just a sec, got one and just working on phrasing . . .

 

[stockjock]

Egads! Trivial pursuit is wrong then! It's the dragonfly larvae that eat the mosquito larvae

Was just reading it from the card...typed it in exactly how it was written....

 

[DrPizza]

I wasn't doubting you I just remember the most boring movie in 8th grade that we had to watch each day for 2 weeks... Not a very creative science teacher.. Watch a movie over and over on "The pond" until we could identify absolutely everything in the movie. Then, "The desert", then..... Most of us could quote half of each movie, and one of my friends still does (20 some years later)

edit: Oh, and dragonfly larvae were eating mosquito larvae and everything else they could get a hold of. They left out the part in the movie where the adult dragonfly ate the larvae.. My education was inadequate!

 

[p0ntif]

How many times was Mikhail Tal the USSR champion?
this guy is my hero btw.

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: p0ntif
How many times was Mikhail Tal the USSR champion?
this guy is my hero btw.

8

 

[DrPizza]

edit: Oh, duh.... Chess... I knew that. Back in the 60's, before my time.

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
champion of what??

Chess

 

[stockjock]

12

 

[Gage8]

Originally posted by: p0ntif
How many times was Mikhail Tal the USSR champion?
this guy is my hero btw.

11

 

[Gage8]

Mikhail Tal won 11 games, drew 19 games, and lost 12 games in world championship play. His highest Elo rating was 2700

 

[p0ntif]

Mikhail was awesome at chess and only lost to kasparov once and karpov once, but you guys are all way to high

 

[stockjock]

5

 

[p0ntif]

Originally posted by: Gage8
Mikhail Tal won 11 games, drew 19 games, and lost 12 games in world championship play. His highest Elo rating was 2700

yep world champion play, we're talking USSR here

 

[Jugernot]

6

 

[p0ntif]

Not to mention we're talking championships won, not games played.

 

[Gage8]

no no no 6 for USSR

 

[stockjock]

4

 

[p0ntif]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
6

Bingo!
Jugernot has the baton.

 

[Gage8]

doh! slow celery strikes again...

 

[stockjock]

oooh man...I was all around it....5 and 4...

 

[Gage8]

know what you mean

 

[stockjock]

I still have no clue what a pyramidal neuron is....thank god for Google...