Paraskavedekatriaphobia

Friday, October 13, 2006

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.

---

Permanent Link: Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Filed under: Misc

---

---