"The South East Asian island of Muwiana is the only known civilization to have domesticated fish. "

I'm suspicious of this one, given that there are no hits for Muwiana in any of the major search engines. If there is no island of Muwiana, then the "factoid" is actually a "fictoid".

Having said that, I really do enjoy gullible.info. A good way to recognize that I'm hooked on the site is that I'll refresh my Google home page a couple of times just to see the next random gullible.info factoid pop up.

Thanks guys! (but fess up on this one...)

Do you understand what the word "factoid" means?

There's also no electricity on the island, so the internet isn't much of a priority.

I spent some time there while researching "lost" cultures. The Muwianas are a charming people, however, as D League said, very insular. It was a good two months before I was accepted enough for the villagers to even acknowledge my presence among them, as I am neither a native nor a relative thereof. Despite the lack of luxuries and the primitive (to Western eyes) living conditions, I greatly enjoyed the eight months that I was able to devote to my study of their culture. Besides the domesticated fish, which many of the village children keep as pets and train to do tricks, the Muwianas are known in sociological circles for their political system. The village headman is chosen by a democratic vote of all villagers who are old enough to speak, but is chosen for life, so cannot be impeached if he does not perform.

In the beginning, there were a lot of attempts at establishing some sort of sign language, however, as I spent more time listening, I was able to start picking up words. It helped that I had studied a limited amount of Aramaic previously - kind of like knowing Spanish can help you pick up some Italian words and phrases.

Their cannibal stew is to die for!

goes off topic just because someone mentions pie!!

Today is Pi day. Not Pie Day. There is no such thing.

You eat Pie on Pi day.

You eat pi of pie?

(you can't be exact when it comes to pi(e)!)

If you eat half a pie, you're eating pi radians of pie.

Wouldn't the diameter just be 2R?

Glad to see you're not ashamed of your mistakes, like some people!

How about

Athene, Fear not, for I am making you your own smiting smiley.

Awwww, thanks!! For that, I might even smite you. (if you ask really nice, that is)?

It's not an accusation, it's the truth and you know it!

Who's blaspeming?

Besides critdragon.

Athene, enjoy your new smiley!

He did in the religious thread a while ago.

Posted By: cmseagle

Posted By: Trance

Who's blaspeming?

Besides critdragon.

How is critdragon blaspheming?

Posted By: Trance

He did in the religious thread a while ago.

for christs sake!! i never blaspheme

no.. he would've said for god's sake... not christ's sake

Posted By: andresoforo

IGNORE THIS POSE

Is that anything like:

Strike a Pose.

Vogue.

/yep

Perhaps I could bring this thread back on topic?

Inspired by the efforts of the Muwianas I myself have tried to teach fish yo do some things to make life a little more convenient for myself. Its kind of an independent experiement, Im tryinf to get them to warn me when they see someone coming to the door. They could splash and get my attention, I can't afford a security system. So far I have had minimal progress.