Vademecum
* Today’s meaning: A collection of delightful and entertaining words and stories.
* Earlier meaning: A handbook with helpful hints to be carried along when traveling.
Hot Dog
The first hot dog eating contest took place in New York in 1916.
The winner managed 13 hot dogs. The current world record is 66.
There you have it:
Bob Dylan appeared with Pope John Paul II in 1997, which (then) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger tried futilely to prevent.
HIP-HOP-Pseudonyms
Afrob _ Robert Zemichel
50 Cent _ Curtis James Jackson III
Bushido _ Anis Ferchichi
Busta Rhymes _ Trevor Smith
Eminem _ Marshal Masters III
Foxy Brown _ Inga Marchand
Grandmaster Flash _ Joseph Saddler
Ice Cube _ O`Shea Jackson
Ice-T _ Tracy Morrow
Jan Delay _ Jan Phillip Eißfeldt
La Fee _ Christina Klein
LL Cool J _ James Tod Smith
Snoop Dogg _ Calvin Broadus
Sido _ Paul Würding
Thomas D _ Thomas Dürr
Luxury goods - sugar
In the middle ages, sugar was truly a luxury item:
6 kg of sugar were worth as much as an entire living, healthy horse!!!
Deep Throat
This porn film is the most profitable film of all time. It was produced for 25,000 dollars and brought in 600 million.
Cotton Candy
In French, cotton candy is called “barbe à papa” – daddy’s beard.
Noise levels in decibels ...direct physical presence to a maximum distance of 5 meters
0 db _ inaudible
10 db _ breathing, barely audible
30 db _ whispering (5 meters)
40 db _ quiet office or living room
60 db _ normal conversation
70 db _ loud restaurant
80 db _ hair drier, annoying
90 db _ city traffic, very annoying
100 db _ firecracker, banger
110 db _ rock concert, power saw, disco
120 db _ car horn
140 db _ sirens, airplane starting
150 db _ rocket launching pad, explosion
