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High Performance Boats Knowledge Base

Pratical use of automobile engines in boats ? what are the differences for rust, corrosion protection? I'm always dreaming up wild ideas, and I had one for a new breed of high performance personal watercraft - the Tube boat. I want to put a V-8 engine into a very stretched Seadoo-type watercraft, and just use a simple propeller shaft off the back of the engine, with maybe a simple clutch mechanism to engage/disengage the power to the shaft. Anyway, that all said, I know boats use automobile-type engines, but use special water-cooled exhaust manifolds, etc. What other Boaterizing is done to an automobile engine to make it into a "marine" engine? Any special gimmicks to prevent the corrosion of dissimilar metals inside the motor? If I chose to use a straight car engine, with the watercooled boat manifolds, how long would a motor last without any other mods? Obviously a boat style cooling system as well would be installed <duh>. So other than radiator, coolant, and exhaust manifolds, what else would normally be changed?

Anyone know where to find a Myspace Boat Layout? Anything that has to do with boats like Donzi, Hustler, Fountain, and Outerlimit Or any other high performance boats.

where can I find someone who wants to swap a muscle car for a speedboat? I have a 21 foot latemodel high performance boat all in perfect condition (as new) and would like to aquire a ford cobra kit car or any gm muscle car or a t-bucket

Life jacket preference - Lifeline, Mustang, Stearns, others? For high-performance boating, what are your preferences? Best retailers for purchase?

How do you clean inside of fuel tank without removing it? I have a jet boat with a high performance 455 olds.make is Wriedt The fuel tank needs cleaning badly, the problem it's built into the bow of the boat. Can it be cleaned without removing it? Can I do it or do I have to have it done? Cost?

A tall, dark and hansom Italian ask you to join him on his boat for a weekend. What do you do and expect? you have seen this person because you watch high performance boat racing. Because it is a "glory sport" and he is well known women are no problem for him.

Will using a higher octane gasoline produce better performance (speed) when used in a boat?

Can Graham obtain a decree of specific performance? Chiu agreed to sell his custom-built sailboat to Graham for $60,000. Before delivery, Chiu received another offer for $68,000 and wrote to Graham that he had decided not to sell his boat after all? My questions-yes or no 1. Can Graham obtain a decree of specific performance? 2. Would a suit for money damages completely satisfy Graham? 3. Can Chiu avoid Graham's suit by claiming that he was merely selling to the highest bidder?

92 nitro190dc 150 evinrude. Just recently my live well stop filling up it .And my speedometer stop working.? I am the 2nd owner i really never figured out the proper way to fill up the live well.Most of the times i would turn on the freshwater switch on manual to fill the live well slowly and other times it just fills up on its own.The fresh water switch works on recirculate only not manual and when i am ready to drain the live well i shut off the main fuel switch and it usally drains.My other promblem is that my speedometer doesn't work at all.What can i do to try to solve these promblems without taking it to a dealer? I am also looking for a original manual for this boat it's a 1992 nitro bass boat 150 evinrude high performance. I thank you very much for any information that you can provide.Thanks again,Joe.

Can someone help in choosing a small, affordable boat? Hey everyone. I'm looking for a small boat, prefferably AROUND 20' (give a little take a little, doesn't matter.). A good beginner boat would be great. The usuage of this boat would be STRICTLY fresh water for skiing, tubing, cruising, ect. ect. I do not fish either. I have no prefferance as far as inboard or outboard. I don't need anything too high performance just a good reliable boat but don't get me wrong, I love horse power. As far as price goes, I would love to stay around 20,000, less being great and more being managable. I've looked at the Glastron GXL 205, but that's a bit much, the Sea-Doo 150 Speedster which I am a bit interested in, and a dealer recently got me interested in the 2008 Tahoe Q4 SS because of a great price and it's a good beginner boat. I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks!

1979 Johnson 70hp 3cyl. Excellent cond. hood is removed! maintenance and upgrade tips please!!!!!? I'm 15 and I LoVe my Boston Whaler. It's a 1975 15ft. Whaler Sport. My father let me use his alumnacraft last year. He gave it to my uncle for his house up north, leaving me without a boat. All my neighbors and practically everyone in our yacht club have whalers. Ironically, our neighbors were selling theirs so my dad bought it for me! I love engines n high performance. Alot of people on our lake have smaller whalers, mostly 13 footers with 25-50 hp motors on them. not mine! I got 70! The kid's like to race eachother and stuff. People always made fun of my crappy tin boat. But im more respected with my whaler. I recently installed a whale tail stabilizer fin. Now its really fast. tops out at 48mph. So far I have the fastest whaler. I've never lost a race with it yet. In a few weeks, I'm going to take it out and restore it. - redo the wood finish - add seat cus

Should I live in Austin or Dallas? I have a new opportunity to take a job in TX. I now live in Indianapolis, IN and can choose between Austin and Dallas. My wife and I are 36 and have 2 kids in Jr high and 1 in elementary. We live a fairly active lifestyle and enjoy outdoor activities. We spend a fair amount of time biking, hiking, boating, camping, etc. We tend to be pretty social as well, so we'll definately be searching out local night-life activities. Having lived in Indiana my whole life, I would like to settle in a place that has some topographical diversity. We value education, so local school performance will likely drive our decision as well. Thanks!

Just a joke .....................................? An American automobile company and a Japanese auto company decided to have a competitive boat race on the Detroit River. Both teams practiced hard and long to reach their peak performance. On the big day, they were as ready as they could be. The Japanese team won by a mile. Afterwards, the American team became discouraged by the loss and their morale sagged. Corporate management decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found. A Continuous Measurable Improvement Team of "Executives" was set up to investigate the problem and to recommend appropriate corrective action. Their conclusion: The problem was that the Japanese team had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, whereas the American team had 1 person rowing and 8 people steering. The American Corporate Steering Committee immediately hired a consulting firm to do a study on the management structure. After some time and billions of dollars, the consulting firm concluded that "too many people were steering and not enough rowing." To prevent losing to the Japanese again next year, the management structure was changed to "4 Steering Managers, 3 Area Steering Managers, and 1 Staff Steering Manager" and a new performance system for the person rowing the boat to give more incentive to work harder and become a six sigma performer. "We must give him empowerment and enrichment." That ought to do it. The next year the Japanese team won by two miles. The American Corporation laid off the rower for poor performance, sold all of the paddles, cancelled all capital investments for new equipment, halted development of a new canoe, awarded high performance awards to the consulting firm, and distributed the money saved as bonuses to the senior executives.

Car engine in boat? I cracked the manifolds and block on my 305 mercruiser. Can I use a high performance 350 automotive engine block and swap the rest of the parts?

What would you get???? I am looking to get a boat since I live at the beach. But I am having a hard time deciding what type to get. I like the center consoles, but you can't hang on the boat comfortably. The sencond is a open bow, but You can't really take out of the inlet into open oceans. The third is a high performance, but I can't go wake boarding with it. It's a hard decision. I am trying only to spend $30,000. What do you think???

Vmk deep sea pin S.O.S? im stuck on the question of the deep sea pin where it says "find a stage where you can hop on if your not shy while people can watch you performance from way up high Hint: It's on a boat!" Ans i went to fantasy lansd in the sky but nothing happens :( please help me S.O.S

Office etiquette: giving donations/signing cards? I have worked at my new job 5 months and discovered there is high turnover in this dept because of a clique of 5 people (out of 9). The "ringleader" is an older woman who apparently has to have a target for the clique to dislike. The current target is me, the new person (I don't care as long as they don't interfer with my job performance). One of the 5--a student worker--is graduating college and leaving. Not once has she assisted or spoken to me, even when asked and spoken to, but I have heard her make disparaging remarks about me (HR acknowledges there is a problem but since the dept manager takes no action, feels their hands are tied and just keeps transferring people wanting out or accepting resignations.) The dept is taking a monetary collection for a present for this young woman, signing a card, and taking her to lunch. My inclination is to say "No, thanks." But should I participate just to go along and be a "team player" and not "rock the boat"?

find washington rural country single mother to marry? thanks for the message, i think you catch my attention is not just by your looking, i prefer the women has her natural beauty in their heart. i am an adult and i do not believe in true love, but i trust life-long marriage. so my wish is my future wife is never married before, if they have children, that is fine, we can raise them up together with my own children. oh, my hobby is walking, reading and enjoy the good food. actually, my plan is after my marriage, i will give my wife 50% my salary, if we have children. i will give her another 10%, i need keep 40% my salary is enough, maybe 20% to support my mum and dad later, i think i just belong to the middle class, one house and one boat, two or three car, own my own land and some restaurant business, i want to open my own sushi bar later in San Francisco area. anyway, life is short, i will try my best, work hard and glory the God, help more people. i think i believe in god since i am a postgraduate student in england nottingham, i need do two part time restaurant job to survive, pay my rent and pay my tuition fee, life goes the hardest way, every night when i finish my night shift job, i pass by one 700 years old church, jesus picture is just there on the window, i pray him to give me some peace in my heart, Jesus is always ready to listen and he is a great father. i think i will follow his rule whole my life, i never married and so far i have no children, but i do not want divorce, i can sign contract with my lawyer, if i divorce due to my family affair, i am willing to pay 80% my salary to my children as penalty fee, i believe i am the only few can do this in Seattle area, haha.....nice talk to you, if you want to meet, i think i have time next week, by the way, if you really want to go step further on our future relationship, i think i do not need bother to date other women, i believe i am a honest man and i am a good family man too. best regards young ps: my resume 4748 19th AVE seattle, WA 98105, Tel: 206-816-5015 Email: yiyangprivate@hotmail.com / Gender: Male Education: Ph.D in University of Washington, focus on organisation design and financial management. (January 2006- present) Master degree in research (Mphil) in manufacturing engineering, manufacturing organization research group, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, England, UK. (Sep 2003- Dec 2005) Dissertation topic: Building a boundaryless leagile manufacturing organization through HITOP method. Advisor: Professor Neil Burns (editor of IJPR) ( Email: n.d.burns@lboro.ac.uk ) Master degree in Science (Msc) in Electrical engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK (Sep 2002-Sep 2003) Thesis topic: Extra high voltage (EHV) power transmission control in China three Gorges project using Newton Raphson method and Mathlab computer iteration method. Advisor: Dr Dave.Thomas (Email:dave.thomas@nottingham.ac.uk ) Bsc in Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian city, China (Sep 1990-July 1994) Thesis topic: Testing a new diamond cutting tool material performance in Japanese Sanyo Company through comparing with other traditional cutting tools. Advisor: Dr Hong Tao Zhang. (Head of cutting tools research group) Experience: Academic Research: I: I worked as a research Assistant at Wichita state university on the subject of Industry engineering. The main focus of the research is on lean and green manufacturing system design for Boeing Company in Wichita, Kansas. Since Boeing Company set the goal to be "100% lean and green company" in 2011, I as a researcher focused on waste management and energy conservation in order to achieve the goal. After years of experiment on a small motor workshop provided by private companies, we have achieved to reduce the waste and contamination by 35 percents. The quality of the motor increased by 25 percents by detail cleaning and better combustion technology.II: When I was completing my master in electrical engineering at University of Nottingham, I worked at fire-power station in England Nottingham city. I worked on power transfer through super-computer. The use of C++ and Java was needed and the station was responsible for providing power for more than three million people in the surrounding cities called East-Middle land area including Birmingham city, Nottingham city and south Manchester city. Working experience: 1: Electrical engineer: Seattle Trident seafood company, help solving the seafood manufacturing line mechanical and electrical problem.01/2008-Present. 2: Manufacturing supervisor: Japan Mabuchi motor company in Hong Kong china, in charge of one plastic injection molding workshop following ISO 9002/ 14001 standard. (Sep 1994-Nov 2001) This company has worldwide reputation on mini DC motor products and its customers include Sony, Toshiba, Sanyo, Sharp and HP, Ford companies, through Japanese Just-in-time management, my workshop quality has been improved from 67 percent to 95 percent, on October

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The coon caricature? The coon caricature is one of the most insulting of all anti-Black caricatures. The name itself, an abbreviation of raccoon, is dehumanizing. As with Sambo, the coon was portrayed as a lazy, easily frightened, chronically idle, inarticulate, buffoon. The coon differed from the Sambo in subtle but important ways. Sambo was depicted as a perpetual child, not capable of living as an independent adult. The coon acted childish, but he was an adult; albeit a good-for-little adult. Sambo was portrayed as a loyal and contented servant. Indeed, Sambo was offered as a defense for slavery and segregation. How bad could these institutions have been, asked the racialists, if Blacks were contented, even happy, being servants? The coon, although he often worked as a servant, was not happy with his status. He was, simply, too lazy or too cynical to attempt to change his lowly position. Also, by the 1900s, Sambo was identified with older, docile Blacks who accepted Jim Crow laws and etiquette; whereas coons were increasingly identified with young, urban Blacks who disrespected Whites. Stated differently, the coon was a Sambo gone bad. The prototypical movie coon was Stepin Fetchit, the slow-talking, slow-walking, self-demeaning nitwit. It took his character almost a minute to say: "I'se be catchin' ma feets nah, Boss." Donald Bogle, a cinema historian, lambasted the coon, as played by Stepin Fetchit and others: Before its death, the coon developed into the most blatantly degrading of all black stereotypes. The pure coons emerged as no-account niggers, those unreliable, crazy, lazy, subhuman creatures good for nothing more than eating watermelons, stealing chickens, shooting crap, or butchering the English language.1 The coon caricature was born during American slavery. Slave masters and overseers often described slaves as "slow," "lazy," "wants pushing," "an eye servant," and "trifling."2 The master and the slave operated with different motives: the master desired to obtain from the slave the greatest labor, by any means; the slave desired to do the least labor while avoiding punishment. The slave registered his protest against slavery by running away, and, when that was not possible, by slowing work, doing shoddy work, destroying work tools, and faking illness. Slave masters attributed the slaves' poor work performance to shiftlessness, stupidity, desire for freedom, and genetic deficiencies. The amount of work done by a typical slave depended upon the demands of individual slave owners and their ability to extract labor. Typically, slaves worked from dawn to dusk. They were sometimes granted "leisure time" on Saturday or Sunday evenings; however, this time was spent planting or harvesting their own gardens, washing clothes, cooking, and cleaning. A slave owner wrote: "I always give them half of each Saturday, and often the whole day, at which time...the women do their household work; therefore they are never idle."3 Slave owners complained about the laziness of their workers, but the records show that slaves were often worked hard -- and brutally so. Overseers were routinely paid commissions, which encouraged them to overwork the slaves. On a North Carolina plantation an overseer claimed that he was a "'hole hog man rain or shine," and boasted that the slaves had been worked "like horses." He added, "I'd ruther be dead than be a nigger on one of these big plantations."4 After the closing of the African slave trade, the price of slaves went up, thereby causing some slave owners and their hired overseers to be more careful in their use of slaves. "The time had been," wrote one slave owner, "that the farmer could kill up and wear out one Negro to buy another; but it is not so now. Negroes are too high in proportion to the price of cotton, and it behooves those who own them to make them last as long as possible."5 Slaves are generally associated with the harvest of cotton; however, slaves worked in many industries. Almost every railroad in the ante-bellum South was built in part by slave labor. Slaves worked in sawmills, fisheries, gold mines and salt mines. They were used as deck hands on river boats. There were slave lumberjacks, construction workers, longshoremen, iron workers, even store clerks. Slaves monopolized the domestic services. Some slaves worked as skilled artisans, for example, shoemakers, blacksmiths, carpenters, mechanics, and barbers. These artisans were generally treated better than the slaves in the cotton and tobacco fields; therefore, it is not surprising that the artisans did better work. They included "many ingenious Mechanicks," claimed a White colonial Georgian, "and as far as they have had opportunity of being instructed, have discovered as good abilities, as are usually found among [White] people of our Colony."6 The supporters of slavery claimed that Blacks were a childlike people unequipped for freedom. Proslavers acknowledged that some slave masters were cruel, but they argued that most were benevolent, kind-hearted capitalists who civilized and improved their docile Black wards. From Radical Reconstruction to World War I, there was a national nostalgia for the "good ol' darkies" who loved their masters, and, according to the proslavers, rejected or only reluctantly accepted emancipation. In this context, the conceptualization of the coon was revised. During slavery almost all Blacks, especially men, were sometimes seen as coons, that is, lazy, shiftless, and virtually useless. However, after slavery, the coon caricature was increasingly applied to younger Blacks, especially those who were urban, flamboyant, and contemptuous of Whites. Thomas Nelson Page, a White writer wrote this in 1904: Universally, they [White Southerners] will tell you that while the old-time Negroes were industrious, saving, and when not misled, well-behaved, kindly, respectful, and self-respecting, and while the remnant of them who remain still retain generally these characteristics, the "new issue," for the most part, are lazy, thriftless, intemperate, insolent, dishonest, and without the most rudimentary elements of morality....Universally, they report a general depravity and retrogression of the Negroes at large in sections in which they are left to themselves, closely resembling a reversion to barbarism. 7 At the beginning of the 1900s many Whites supported the implementation of Jim Crow laws and etiquette. They believed that Blacks were genetically, therefore permanently, inferior to Whites. Blacks were, they argued, hedonistic children, irresponsible, and left to their own plans, destined for idleness -- or worse. It was not uncommon for Whites to distinguish between Niggers (Coons and Bucks) and Negroes8 (Toms, Sambos, and Mammies), and they preferred the latter. Racial caricatures are undergirded by stereotypes, and the stereotyping of Blacks as coons continued throughout the 20th Century. The pioneer study of racial and ethnic stereotyping in the United States was conducted in 1933 by Daniel Katz and Kenneth Braley, two social scientists. They questioned 100 Princeton University undergraduates regarding the prevailing stereotypes of racial and ethnic groups. Their research concluded that Blacks were consistently described as "superstitious," "happy-go-lucky," and "lazy." The respondents had these views even though they had little or no contact with Blacks.9 This study was repeated in 1951, and the negative stereotyping of Blacks persisted.10 The Civil Rights Movement improved Whites' attitudes toward Blacks, but a sizeable minority of Whites still hold traditional, racist views of Blacks. An early 1990s study conducted by the National Opinion Research Center found that the majority of the White, Hispanic, and other non-Black respondents displayed negative attitudes towards Blacks. For example, 78 percent said that Blacks were more likely than Whites to "prefer to live off welfare" and "less likely to prefer to be self-supporting." Further, 62 percent said Blacks were more likely to be lazy; 56 percent said Blacks were violence-prone; and 53 percent said that Blacks were less intelligent than Whites.11 Stated differently: the coon caricature is still being applied to Blacks. Martin Gilens, a Yale University political scientist, argued that many White Americans believe that Blacks receive welfare benefits more often than do Whites and that "the centuries old stereotype of blacks as lazy remains credible for a large number of white Americans." He claimed that opposition to welfare programs results from misinformation and racism, with Whites assuming that their tax money is being used to support lazy Blacks. Gilens blames, in part, the media. "Pictures of poor blacks are abundant when poverty coverage is most negative, while pictures of non-blacks dominate the more sympathetic coverage."12 The coon caricature was one of the stock characters among minstrel performers. Minstrel show audiences laughed at the slow-talking fool who avoided work and all adult responsibilities. This transformed the coon into a comic figure, a source of bitter and vulgar comic relief. He was sometimes renamed "Zip Coon" or "Urban Coon." If the minstrel skit had an ante-bellum setting, the coon was portrayed as a free Black; if the skit's setting postdated slavery, he was portrayed as an urban Black. He remained lazy and good-for-little, but the minstrel shows depicted him as a gaudy dressed "Dandy" who "put on airs." Unlike Mammy and Sambo, Coon did not know his place. He thought he was as smart as White people; however, his frequent malapropisms and distorted logic suggested that his attempt to compete intellectually with Whites was pathetic. His use of bastardized English delighted White audiences and reaffirmed the then commonly held beliefs that Blacks were inherently less intelligent. The minstrel coon's goal was leisure, and his leisure was spent strutting, styling, fighting, avoiding real work, eating watermelons, and making a fool of himself. If he was married, his wife dominated him. If he was single, he sought to please the flesh without entanglements. Hollywood films extended the brutalization inherent in the coon image. The first cinematic coon appeared in Wooing and Wedding of a Coon (1905), a stupendously racist portrayal of two dimwitted and stuttering buffoons. Several notable slapstick "coon shorts" were produced in 1910-1911, including How Rastus Got His Turkey (he stole it) and Chicken Thief. In the blackface comedy Coon Town Suffragettes (1914), a group of domineering mammies organize a "movement" to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home. These early coons laid the foundation for the "great" movie coons of the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1929 Fox film Hearts in Dixie, Chloe is married to Gummy, a "languid, shiftless husband whose 'mysery' in his feet prevents him from being of any earthly good as far as work is concerned, although once away from his wife's eye he can shuffle with the tirelessness and lanky abandon of a jumping jack."13 Chloe dies of swamp fever, and Gummy remarries. The new wife is portrayed as a shrew because she tries to force Gummy to work. This movie was a comedy, and most of the humor centered around Gummy's attempts to avoid work and his coon dialogue, for example, "I ain't askin you is you ain't. I is askin you is you is." The actor who played Gummy was Stepin Fetchit, the "greatest" coon actor of all time. Stepin Fetchit was born Lincoln Theodore Perry on May 30, 1892. A medicine show and vaudeville performer, he arrived in Hollywood in the 1920s. Perry claimed that he got the name Fetchit from a racehorse that won him money. However, he also told an interviewer that he came to Hollywood as a member of a comedy team know as "Step and Fetch It," and later adopted a variant of the name. His first featured movie role using the name Stepin Fetchit was in MGM's In Old Kentucky (1929). Whether as Gummy, Stepin Fetchit, or other names, he essentially performed the same role: the arch-coon. Daniel J. Leab, a cinema historian, said this: Fetchit became identified in the popular imagination as a dialect-speaking, slump-shouldered, slack-jawed character who walked, talked, and apparently thought in slow motion. The Fetchit character overcame this lethargy only when he thought that a ghost or some nameless terror might be present; and then he moved very quickly indeed.14 Fetchit was the embodiment of the nitwit Black man. As with the Zip Coon and Urban Coon, this old-fashioned coon character could never correctly pronounce a multisyllabic word. He was portrayed as a dunce. In Stand Up and Cheer (1934), he was tricked into thinking that a "talking" penguin was really Jimmy Durante. Fetchit, scratching his head, eyes bulging, portrayed the coon so realistically that Whites thought they were seeing a real racial type. His coon portrayal was aided by his appearance. According to Donald Bogle, a film historian: His appearance, too, added to the caricature. He was tall and skinny and always had his head shaved completely bald. He invariably wore clothes that were too large for him and that looked as if they had been passed down from his white master. His grin was always very wide, his teeth very white, his eyes very widened, his feet very large, his walk very slow, his dialect very broken.15 Fetchit's coon characters were racially demeaned and often verbally and even physically abused by White characters. In David Harum (1934) he was traded to Will Rogers along with a horse. He was traded twice more in the movie. In Judge Priest (1934), he was pushed, shoved, and verbally berated by Will Rogers; even worse, his character was barely intelligible, scratched his head in an apelike manner, and followed Rogers around like an adoring pet. In Black communities, Stepin Fetchit remains a synonym for a bowing and scraping Black man. In 1970 he sued CBS unsuccessfully for $3 million, charging defamation of character for the way he was portrayed in the television documentary Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed. "It was Step," he claimed, "who elevated the Negro to the dignity of a Hollywood star. I made the Negro a first-class citizen all over the world...somebody it was all right to associate with. I opened all the theaters."16 That statement is hyperbole; however, Stepin Fetchit was a talented actor who added depth -- albeit, slight -- to the movie coon's portrayal. What is his legacy? He was the first Black actor to receive top billing in movies, and one of the first millionaire Black actors. He spawned imitators, most notably, Willie Best (Sleep 'n Eat) and Mantan Moreland, the scared, wide-eyed manservant of Charlie Chan. In 1978 he was elected to the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. But he will always be remembered as the lazy, barely literate, self-demeaning, White man's Black. He attempted a comeback in the 1950s, but it was unsuccessful; his coon caricature then seemed merely embarrassing. In the late 1960s he converted to the Black Muslim faith. In 1999 Fetchit's name was again in the headlines. Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace included a character named Jar Jar. Critics claimed that Jar Jar, a bumbling dimwitted amphibian-like character, spoke Caribbean-accented pidgin English, and had ears that suggested dreadlocks. Wearing bellbottom pants and vest, Jar Jar looked like the latest in Black cinematic stereotypes. Newspaper editorials and internet chat room discussions repeatedly invoked Stepin Fetchit's name. For example, Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal described Jar Jar as a "Rastafarian Stepin Fetchit on platform hoofs, crossed annoyingly with Butterfly McQueen."17 This incident suggests that Fetchit's legacy is to be remembered as a coon caricature: lazy, bewildered, stammering, shuffling, and good-for-little except buffoonery.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II countered this by jokingly saying that he was off to see a performance of 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.' *Both turdoid and turdine mean "belonging to the family turdus," Turdus musicus is the song thrush & Turdus viscivorus is the mistletoe thrush *Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species *January is National Soup Month in the United States, January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; & on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken! *You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle *Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms in the first 14 nestling days of their life and that is not even their main food on the menu (14 feet a day is wrong) But parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day! *The first man to die during planning & construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower. * You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily *The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700 *Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air *A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday *There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people *Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music *Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th *One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water! *Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur *Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever *A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water *If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny. *The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Myth or fact?? *The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats) *A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts * Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law * Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain *An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight *The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85. *Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much *In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone (I bet cell phones/mobiles were not taken into consideration when that fact was worked out!!) * Henry VIII was once served a loin of beef while visiting the house of a noble. He was so impressed with the beef that he asked for a sword and knighted it! Ever since, that particular cut of beef has been known as sirloin. ("Sir Loin").. This is a MYTH *In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair. *Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup. *In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'. *Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our solar system. *The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine. *Sunglasses were first worn by film stars, not to look mysterious, but to relieve there eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights *If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5. *Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.) *Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides *There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries. *Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims, when you can pronounce the word you are cured. Friggatriskaidekaphobia has the same meaning. *American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class *Titan arum is probably the world's smelliest flower. Originating in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra, this huge, extremely rare flower is a giant lily. It seldom blooms, but when it does the smell is described as something like the dead carcass of an animal *A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer *Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day. *Turtles can breath through their bottoms. *Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. *The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G. *Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, Blood and Puke. *When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle. *Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints. *The first flying-trapeze circus act was performed by Frenchman Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon on Nov 12th 1859. He invented the garment now known as the leotard. *In 1972 when Gordon Brown (British Chancellor of the Excheque) was 21, he won a Daily Express competition for "A Vision of Britain In The Year 2000." *It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round). *The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day. *The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses. *The French invented the pop of the Christmas Cracker in the 19th century (Tom Smith bought the idea back to UK after holidaying in France) *The chances of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 8 million *Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries *Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds *The ancient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first *During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room * The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man *Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet of which 80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes. *When screen lover Rudolph Valentino married Jean Acker (on Bonfire Day), she locked him out of their bedroom, the marriage lasted only six hours *160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. On paper they can, as the road (actually it's an avenue) is 865 feet wide, but in reality they can't. *When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the off-spring is called a mule; but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the off spring is called a HINNY *On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000 *Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair *While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate No.85 *Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries *A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F *Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor *In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it *A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering 100 square feet *Before the 1800, there were no separately designed shoes for left and right feet *Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch *The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honour of his 32nd birthday, July 28th 1933. * The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched *In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight." *There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball *A 75-year-old male driver received ten traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in McKinney, TX on 15 Oct 1966 [Worst driver: G. B. of Records] *The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." *Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal *The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters. Also in medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, AND the Roman Goddess, Trivia, is the goddess of crossroads, witchcraft and the harvest moon. *In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men. *During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains. *The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign *The name of Canada is believed to come from the Iroquois Indian word "Kanata", meaning "village" or "community". The word Canada was first used in a 1534 text written by Jacques Cartier describing the Indian village of Stadacona. *The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means "the act of estimating as worthless." *Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags. *Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey *Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet *The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change! *The sound you hear when macho people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. *Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow *Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston *The WD in WD40 means "water displacement." The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product. *Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed. *Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra. * The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." *American car horns beep in the tone of F. *The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers. *China has more English speakers than the U.S. *Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world *The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too *You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses. *There are no public toilets in Peru. *Samuel Clemens [aka Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again *The pound sign is called a 'octothorp.' *In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run *"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language to end in "mt." *The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day *The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging," eveything else was allowed. *A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout *The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female up to 1.8 miles away *A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away *The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet out of the body. *A puff of smoke, such as when someone is smoking a cigarette or a pipe is called " a lunt " *The name "Pinocchio" is from Tuscany, Italy and means "pine nut" or "kernel". *Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy *It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again. *Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator. *Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour & if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee *For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. None of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed. *Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated. *Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom." *The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever. *The phrase "rule of thumb" was popularized by an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb top to first joint. (a thumb measurement is an inch) *More redheads are born in Scotland UK than in any other part of the world *The Sanskrit word for 'war' means - "desire for more cows". *The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites. *Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting. *Las Vegas means "The Meadows" in Spanish. *Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the 'sandwich.' He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted. *Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada *Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute. *Your fingernails grow 4 times faster than your toe nails *Pain travels faster than 3000 feet per second *A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person *About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you *The snail mates only once in it's entire life, also a snail has 4 noses *The Coca-Cola company is the biggest consumer of sugar in the world *The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle. *All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split) *Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott" *The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked *Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old. *Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots *The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres *Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty." Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh." *You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. *The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards. *Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy *The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr. *Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday. * When Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a "tabaka" by the locals, hence our word tobacco. *Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. *The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. *Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle. *Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. *In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt. *Queen Victoria [UK 1837-1901] eased the discomfort of her monthly cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana. *The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. [usually in our sleep] ~ this is a MYTH *If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough energy is produced to create an atomic bomb *Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple). One way to assure business!! *The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. *The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil. *The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs." *23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts. * There was one U.S. state that no longer exists? In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee. *The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is "daysypgal." *A duck's quack doesn't echo, and ... no one knows why.~ MYTH everything echoes. University students have recorded a ducks echo. It is usually so quiet we cannot hear it. *"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. ??? Maybe if said fast. *Clans many many years ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down - hence the expression " to get fired." !!