Category: Omnibit

U.S. Army scouts tracked Apaches by the odor of burning mescal, a cactus that they  cooked and ate. They were able to find them from six miles away.

Scouts tracked Apaches by the odor of mescal — Willliam Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-3-16

So why do we call the pants jeans and denims? Credit the French. Weavers in Genoa, Italy back in the 1600s developed an inexpensive but tough blue fabric that became popular in France. The French name for Genoa was Genes and hence comes jeans. Then weavers in Nimes, France created their own version. This fabric was said to come from “de Nimes” (from Nimes) and hence comes denims.

Why do we call the pants jeans and denims William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-2-16

Yes Miranda, the best way to eat a cupcake is to make it sandwhich. Tear the bottom half of the cake part off and put it on top of the icing.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-1-16

How many leap years have there been?

Well,  how do you know when it’s a leap year?

If it is divisible by four it is a leap year i.e. 2016/4 = 504.

Unless it is also divisible by 100.

Unless it is also divisible by 400.

This means that the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, but the years 1600 and 2000 were.

So, there have been 105 leap years as of 2016 since the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1582 with the first leap year being 1584. (2016-1584)/4-3.

How many leap years have there been — 105

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Yes Anthony, the greater the number of observers, the less likely it is that one of them will help you. This is due to a phenomenon called Diffusion of Responsibility.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-27-16

Red Sparowes — Mao Tse Tung once had the people of China kill a billion sparrows. Famine was the result as there was nothing left to eat the locusts. Hipster environmentalists for some unfathomable reason admire Mao and communists in general.

In fairness, the rock group Red Sparowes created an opus concerning the event called Every Red Hearts Shines Toward the Red Sun. It was a condemnation of Mao and it featured movements with titles such as  Millions Starved And We Became Skinnier And Skinnier, While Our Leaders Became Fatter And Fatter.

You can see it below:

 

Red Sparowes — Every Red Hearts Shines Toward the Red Sun — William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-26-16

Cats can’t taste sweet.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-25-16

If a Nigerian child continues to wet the bed past the age of 8, the parents send for a man with a hyena on a leash and the child is made to ride the hyena through the public square. The bedwetting then ends. Reportedly.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-24-16

Rodney Dangerfield Jack Benny — Who was Rodney Dangerfield? He was  a cowboy character used by Jack Benny on his radio show in the early 1940s. There was a different one? Well, Rodney Dangerfield was the stage name of comedian Jack Roy who was born  Jacob Rodney Cohen but that one got no respect.

Rodney Dangerfield Jack Benny William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-23-16

A hippopotamus is more closely related to a whale than an elephant.

But they are lousy swimmers.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-22-16