Paraskavedekatriaphobia

Thirteen random things:

1: Sean Astin's parents are Patty Duke and John Astin

2: Mormon women were not allowed to pray in church between 1967 and 1972

3: There is no way to get hepatitis from a toilet seat despite the fact that my mother maintains to this day that she got her near-fatal case of the disease from a public restroom in San Francisco in 1967.

4: The ghosts in Pac-Man were named Shadow, Speedy, Bashful, and Pokey.

5: The term "ox in the mire" appears nowhere in the Mormon scriptures.

6: Vince Clarke isn't even a little bit gay. Who knew?

7: Andy Bell is HIV positive.

8: It is reported that Sting earns $2000 a day in royalties for his song "Every Breath You Take"

9: The San Francisco Giants were once the New York Gothams. This was 1883, long before Batman.

10: It is harder than you'd think to come up with a list of 13 things that anyone might find interesting.

11: Jericho, Palestine has been continuously occupied for more than 10,000 years.

12: Though William Clayton and Orson Pratt claimed to have invented the odometer they had been used on ships and wagons since about 15 B.C.

13: The fiddley is an area above ship boilers designed for the intake of fresh air. Fiddley grates prevent people or objects from falling into the boiler room.

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Yet another reason why I was never really a molly mormon

Submitted by Christy (not verified) on October 14, 2006 - 1:01pm.

I never knew what ox and the mire meant until a few years ago. If I heard that phrase before, I must have blocked it out. And I think it's funny that a song about stalking earns such huge royalties.

Here's my random fact for you: speaking of Sting and his songs, did you know that the song "Don't Stand So Close To Me" is about a pedophile?

PS- your image verification thing can bite me!

Mired in references

Submitted by Danny (not verified) on October 15, 2006 - 5:04pm.

Luke 14: 5 in the New Testament talks about rescuing your ox from a pit as something rational people would do in spite of the uptight sabbath laws of the old ways. So I mean...it comes from somewhere.
I mean If my whatever were stuck in something I'd pull it out even if it were sunday.

Toilets

Submitted by portable toilets california (not verified) on December 5, 2007 - 6:43am.

I disagree,anyone can get hepatitis from a toilet seat especially in public toilets

right

Submitted by Pete on December 5, 2007 - 8:32am.

But you'd have to lick the seat. So, no, not anyone could get it from a toilet. You're more likely to get pregnant from sitting on a public lou.

More to the point, howcould my mother begin to even guess that was the source. Much more likely she knew exactly which boyfriend gave it to her and was using the San Fran toilet story as misdirection.