If you're ever on jeopardy, you'll thank me

[harnesslover]

...2 completely insignifant and random facts that my wife and I learned from playing old school trivial pursuit Sunday night:

1) Rats do not have the ability to vomit, leaving them highly succeptible to poison

2) Graham crackers were originally invented to help cure alcoholics

Good to know..

[Ron]

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2) Graham crackers were originally invented to help cure alcoholics

Good to know..

That seems to be inconsistent with everything that I have read. They were invented to suppress carnal urges.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_cracker

[DJofSD]

1) Rats do not have the ability to vomit, leaving them highly succeptible to poison


Neither do horses have the ability to "up chuck."

[harnesslover]

I found this, relative to the initial post

Graham was an early nineteenth century health reformer who lectured on the evils of meat, alcohol, fat, and processed grains such as refined flour. He urged housewives to bake using whole meal wheat flour (with the bran left in the flour) because whole meal or Graham flour rendered first-rate digestive foods. Thus, Graham's name was given to the biscuits, breads, and crackers made from this Graham flour. The true Graham crackers were baked without fat and refined sugar.

[chickenhead]

my only Jeopardy advice is this...if you have the lead going in to final Jeopardy, bet enough TO FRIGGIN WIN if you get the answer right. If you don't, know that I will be screaming insults at you from my couch.

[bigmack]

my only Jeopardy advice is this...if you have the lead going in to final Jeopardy, bet enough TO FRIGGIN WIN if you get the answer right. If you don't, know that I will be screaming insults at you from my couch.
You may have to break out a Tommy gun for this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zn2KODSsY

[banacek]

It also says that:

"Graham believed that adhering to the diet would prevent people from having impure thoughts (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Impure_thoughts&action=edit) and in turn would stop masturbation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masturbation) (thought by Graham to be a catalyst for blindness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness)) among other things"

[DJofSD]

Mackie -- I remember that well. Amazing result. I think the returning champion that deliberately bet just enough to make it a three way tie lost the next day.