Wednesday, September 06, 2006

why you shouldnt leave toothpicks on the ground

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Anonymous said...

i TOLD you america was dangerous!!! i TOLD you! now come back home where i can watch out for you...LOL i've noticed you've become a lot more accident prone out there in the wilds of america...at least in Van we know we HAVE to be careful or we'll step on a used needle! i think monteray has seduced you with it's small town american charm, your defenses have dropped, and LOOK what happened! LOL
(yea, so MAYBE i have an ulterior motive in wanting you to come back... just maybe though) i miss you, love you...now check your mail!

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i TOLD you america was dangerous!!! i TOLD you! now come back home where i can watch out for you...LOL i've noticed you've become a lot more accident prone out there in the wilds of america...at least in Van we know we HAVE to be careful or we'll step on a used needle! i think monteray has seduced you with it's small town american charm, your defenses have dropped, and LOOK what happened! LOL
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Anonymous said...

ok, yes i'm a retard with computers too...yes tiresa, you're not the only one...god, can you erase my double post now? lol

itinerant_tee said...

never..

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hehehe so did you hop on one foot, in excruciating pain, to get the camera? true blogger!

itinerant_tee said...

Thank god no, our apartment is pretty small, and my camera just happend to be on the bed, right beside where i sat down in excruciating pain. To be honest though, i probably would have gone to find it if it wasnt there though.

Oakley said...

Toothpick grooves have been found in the teeth of prehistoric humans.

There are several references in toothpicks from ancient historical times. Marcus Valerius Martialis mentions Dentiscalpium in his Epigrammata (86-103 AD) [1]). Furthermore, a toothpick is also mentioned in Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter (60 AD).

Shakespeare mentions a toothpick in Act II, scene I of Much Ado About Nothing:

I will fetch you a toothpicker now from the furthest inch of Asia; bring you the length of Prester John’s foot; fetch you a hair off the Great Cham’s beard; do you any embassage to the Pigmies, rather than hold three words’ conference with this harpy.

The first use of the toothpick in the United States was perhaps in the Union Oyster House of Boston, Massachusetts, one of the oldest restaurants in the United States. Charles Forster, who had imported toothpicks from South America, apparently decided that the best way to increase demand for his innovation was to pay Harvard students to eat there and to request toothpicks.

The first toothpick-manufacturing machine was patented on February 20, 1872, by Silas Noble, and J. P. Cooley of Granville, Massachusetts.

The toothpick is now part of many utility knives, such as some models of the Swiss Army's.
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Sports

The toothpick is the centerpiece for a pool game simply called toothpick. Players pick teams and one player dives to the bottom of the pool, placing the toothpick somewhere on the pool floor. The object of the game is to be the first to see the toothpick as it rises out of the water and grab it while jumping in before anyone else can. A player has to catch it in the air as they may not swim around for it or move their arms in the water to find it. A player can have multiple chances at it if they get out of the pool and jump again. Players from opposite teams can play defense against the other by boxing them out but can not push the other player into the pool or hold him back from jumping. However, a player can push an opposing player while he is in the air in order to change his flight path and miss the toothpick.
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* The American state of Maine claims to be the toothpick capital of the world, producing "90% of the country's toothpick supply." [citation needed]
* The toothpick is claimed to be the object Americans most often choke on. [citation needed]
* The toothpick may be made out of plastic, wood, or in recent cases, rubber.
* Toothpicks may come in a variety of colors.
* Joe Pesci is an avid toothpick fan.
* Sylvester Stallone's character in the movie Cobra always had a toothpick jutting out his mouth.
* A toothpick is a slang name for a very narrow pointed boat.
* A Spanish toothpick (also called toothpick bishop-weed or bisnaga) is an umbelliferous plant (Ammi visnaga) whose hardened rays of the umbel are used as toothpicks.
* A toothpick is also a BMX trick. It is a stall/grind performed on the front peg/axle only.
* Paleontologists have found evidence of toothpick use by 600,000 year old hominids.

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Toothpick grooves have been found in the teeth of prehistoric humans.

There are several references in toothpicks from ancient historical times. Marcus Valerius Martialis mentions Dentiscalpium in his Epigrammata (86-103 AD) [1]). Furthermore, a toothpick is also mentioned in Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter (60 AD).

Shakespeare mentions a toothpick in Act II, scene I of Much Ado About Nothing:

I will fetch you a toothpicker now from the furthest inch of Asia; bring you the length of Prester John’s foot; fetch you a hair off the Great Cham’s beard; do you any embassage to the Pigmies, rather than hold three words’ conference with this harpy.

The first use of the toothpick in the United States was perhaps in the Union Oyster House of Boston, Massachusetts, one of the oldest restaurants in the United States. Charles Forster, who had imported toothpicks from South America, apparently decided that the best way to increase demand for his innovation was to pay Harvard students to eat there and to request toothpicks.

The first toothpick-manufacturing machine was patented on February 20, 1872, by Silas Noble, and J. P. Cooley of Granville, Massachusetts.

The toothpick is now part of many utility knives, such as some models of the Swiss Army's.
[edit]

Sports

The toothpick is the centerpiece for a pool game simply called toothpick. Players pick teams and one player dives to the bottom of the pool, placing the toothpick somewhere on the pool floor. The object of the game is to be the first to see the toothpick as it rises out of the water and grab it while jumping in before anyone else can. A player has to catch it in the air as they may not swim around for it or move their arms in the water to find it. A player can have multiple chances at it if they get out of the pool and jump again. Players from opposite teams can play defense against the other by boxing them out but can not push the other player into the pool or hold him back from jumping. However, a player can push an opposing player while he is in the air in order to change his flight path and miss the toothpick.
[edit]

Trivia

* The American state of Maine claims to be the toothpick capital of the world, producing "90% of the country's toothpick supply." [citation needed]
* The toothpick is claimed to be the object Americans most often choke on. [citation needed]
* The toothpick may be made out of plastic, wood, or in recent cases, rubber.
* Toothpicks may come in a variety of colors.
* Joe Pesci is an avid toothpick fan.
* Sylvester Stallone's character in the movie Cobra always had a toothpick jutting out his mouth.
* A toothpick is a slang name for a very narrow pointed boat.
* A Spanish toothpick (also called toothpick bishop-weed or bisnaga) is an umbelliferous plant (Ammi visnaga) whose hardened rays of the umbel are used as toothpicks.
* A toothpick is also a BMX trick. It is a stall/grind performed on the front peg/axle only.
* Paleontologists have found evidence of toothpick use by 600,000 year old hominids.

Anonymous said...

i had no idea there is a watersport involving a toothpick. I wonder if it was used? did you have somebodys tooth juice in your skin then? ew.

off-topic, but today was Mels first post on our blog. Finally... oh and did i tell you i got into a fist-fight?

Anonymous said...

hmmmm, oak, is the double post a subtle mocking, or were you trying to make t and i feel better about being so incredibly pc challenged? i'm going to assume the latter, coz i prefer to think the best of people...yea right! lol

lots of interesting toothpick facts... random that you went and FOUND all of them, but def educational!
t, hope you didn't give yourself a lasting injury...tiny little toothpick hole scar! lol
love you, kat

itinerant_tee said...

Tom.. you got in a fist fight??? who with? was alcohol involved? whiskey perhaps? Ill check mel's post on your blog later today. Tell her i say hi.

Kat.. oak didnt search all those random facts. Nor did i know all that sciency info that i posted on your blog. No, its called the power of the cut and paste my friend. You really are PC challenged..even more so than me..
hehehe

Anonymous said...

no whiskey, just road rage. i posted a story about that on our blog a while ago :) you should check it more frequently, we miss your comments!

tom

Anonymous said...

LOL...yea, last night i was so ridiculously pleased with myself, coz i searched an addy on 411, and it actually WORKED! i'm not just pc challenged, i'm pc RETARDED! gradualy gettting better..i'm now on the same level as a special needs 6 year old! my mummy even says i can leave the house without my helmet now! lol

check your goddamn mail already!
what use is it stalking you from overseas if you don't even SEE it! lol
"ditto" kat

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