Spencer Eldon
Jan. 20th, 2003 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenI love this book of useless information. Unusually, it has a whole bunch of stuff I never knew before. I'll have to read it from cover to cover before the next quiz - yes, I am in the team again. So far the team consists of me, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lilka and Harriet, and the quiz is the first week of February.
I don't know why, but I've been keeping tabs of stuff I did know already. Like the fact there are eighteen hummingbirds to the ounce, and an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain, and during World War II the Oscars were made of wood, and apparently Benjamin Franklin's most famous namesake was Hawkeye Pierce, and various other bits of information.
Some, I think, are too funny to be true - the scientific name for gorilla cannot be "gorilla gorilla gorilla," can it?
I never knew Kermit the Frog was left-handed, or that more Monopoly money than real money is printed every day.
And my favourite so far... if anyone can tell me who Spencer Eldon is, I will give them a prize of some sort. For general livejournal friends it will have to be my eternal gratitude, but for those real life folk, it can be a packet of Skittles.
Tell me, who was Spencer Eldon?
lilka and Harriet, and the quiz is the first week of February.I don't know why, but I've been keeping tabs of stuff I did know already. Like the fact there are eighteen hummingbirds to the ounce, and an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain, and during World War II the Oscars were made of wood, and apparently Benjamin Franklin's most famous namesake was Hawkeye Pierce, and various other bits of information.
Some, I think, are too funny to be true - the scientific name for gorilla cannot be "gorilla gorilla gorilla," can it?
I never knew Kermit the Frog was left-handed, or that more Monopoly money than real money is printed every day.
And my favourite so far... if anyone can tell me who Spencer Eldon is, I will give them a prize of some sort. For general livejournal friends it will have to be my eternal gratitude, but for those real life folk, it can be a packet of Skittles.
Tell me, who was Spencer Eldon?
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I claim my prize
on 2003-01-20 03:00 pm (UTC)And for my prize, I want a copy of Nirvana's album "Nevermind".
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on 2003-01-20 03:07 pm (UTC)I'm clever!
(With the help of google)
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on 2003-01-20 03:10 pm (UTC)2)I swear I didn't see his entry first
Gorilla my dreams
on 2003-01-20 03:38 pm (UTC)Skittles for DougS?
on 2003-01-20 03:40 pm (UTC)All of my Liverpool friends are posting confectionary-related stuff today. Odd.
Re: Gorilla my dreams
on 2003-01-20 06:47 pm (UTC)--TC, using her zoology credit.
Gorilla-sized typo
on 2003-01-20 07:22 pm (UTC)Ï