Tell me something I don't know.. (Page 2)

Multicast addresses are in the range 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255

Wow this sounds like my day!  Agreed, it is a giant Charlie Foxtrot at the elementary school! 

I would also like to add that shaving cream will get sharpie off a wood floor and countertops.  

Other than that, if you would like to learn about painting, welding and wood sculpture, I'm your typical starving artist.  Wait scratch that, I found a sugar daddy, so I'm just a stay at home mom artist! 

Professional wrestling is nothing but Performance Art.     They have a script, they rehearse, they have a stage, and they perform their one  act play.

Are you saying sports entertainment is not real?

Three common ratios and their benchmarks that we look for in commercial lending are:

CA/CL >1.25

Debt/TNW <3

DSCR > 1.25

Just to hijack a bit, I knew that companies were moving away from D-B plans, didn't realize the number had fallen so low already. I'm lucky enough to have both D-B and D-C/401k, although my company eliminated the D-B for new employees some time back.

What percentage of government workers participate in a defined-benefit plan?

Drunken rats from wine cellars are considered a delicacy when roasted with garlic.  (Oh Rats!  The Story of Rats and People by Albert Marrin).

Where it is too dangerous/difficult to build lighthouses, they used to anchor lightships (now they aren't used any more).  (Lightship, by Brian Floca).

Many contemporaries of Hans Christian Anderson knew him not for his stories but for his paper cuttings (very few of which have survived because people talk a lot more than they try to save beautiful things...).  (The Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Anderson--forgot the author

The sewer in ancient Rome was called the Cloaca Maxima.  (Flush!  The Scoop on Poop Through the Ages by ...grr...losing my memory)

Boston gets its Christmas tree from Halifax every year in gratitude for their help after the munitions ship explosion/blizzard combo.  (Blizzard of Glass....I give up)

No, I am not trivial.  I am a children's librarian

when you throw a disc(frisbee) with your right arm and it curves left at the end it is a hyzer throw; to the right is an anhyzer.

composite materials require a further fastener spacing than metallic parts.  standard for metallic is 4D-6D, composite is 6D-8D. (D=diameter of the fastener)

when designing an airplane, every aspect of failure is taken into consideration. including a raccoon climbing into the auxilery power compartment and chewing the wiring harnesses.  (dumbest teleconference of my life.)

Maine-coon house cats are "full breed" if they have more than five toes on one or more of their paws.

 The CFA breed standard actually calls for:    "Five toes in front; four in back"

ah i forgot they can have less as well as plus; my friend Barley wouldn't like that.  something about being inbred on viking longships. the CFA standard is for show cats only? thank you for correcting that for meh

For 2011...

- The average student loan debt for graduating veterinarians was: $142,613

- The average starting salary was: $46,971

I sit on my azz all day and wonder how much longer it will be before I can leave.  That's all you need to know.

Ummm...I'm not sure (good question), but...Nearly 20 million government employees (teachers, police, fire fighters, and other public servants) are promised pensions. 

Also, state and local governments collectively admit to underfunding teacher pension plans to the extent of some $332 billion, according to figures in their Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.

I hope that I at least get to be on the top - it certainly would suck being anyone below.

That answers so many lingering questions!