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Wrigs
03-24-2004, 08:39 PM
> > > A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
> > >
> > > A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
> > >
> > > A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
> > >
> > > A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
> > >
> > > A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
> > >
> > > A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
> > >
> > > A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
> > >
> > > A snail can sleep for three years.
> > >
> > > Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
> > >
> > > All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on
> > the
> > > back of the $5 bill.
> > >
> > > Almonds are a member of the peach family.
> > >
> > > An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
> > >
> > > Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
> > > reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
> > >
> > > Butterflies taste with their feet.
> > >
> > > Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
> > >
> > > "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
> > >
> > > February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a
> > full
> > > moon.
> > >
> > > In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
> > >
> > > If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
> > > would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
> > >
& gt; > > If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
> > > average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
> > >
> > > It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
> > >
> > > Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
> > >
> > > Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
> > >
> > > No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
> > > purple.
> > >
> > > On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
> > > building is an American flag.
> > >
> > > Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
> > > never stop growing.
> > >
> > > Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
> > >
> > > Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
> > >
> > > "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
> > > "lollipop" with your right.
> > >
> > > The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
> > >
> > > The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of
> > diesel
> > > that it burns.
> > >
> > > The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
> > and
> > > a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
> > >
> > > The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
> > every
> > > letter of the alphabet.
> > >
> > > The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
> > > solid.
> > >
> > > The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they
> > are
> > > read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
> > >
> > > There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
> > >
> > > There are more chickens than people in the world.
> > >
> > > There are only four words in the English language which end in
> > "dous":
> > > tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
> > >
> > > There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels
> > in
> > > order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
> > >
> > > There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
> > >
> > > Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
> > >
> > > TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
> > only
> > > on one row of the keyboard.
> > >
> > > Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
> > >
> > > Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
> > >
> > > Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
> > > otherwise it will digest itself.
> > >
> > >
> > > ........................Now you know everything

Chalybos
03-24-2004, 08:41 PM
>>>SK's shaved scrotum itches when he used a dull razor.

Brad
03-24-2004, 08:54 PM
>>>SK's shaved scrotum itches when he used a dull razor.

..... :puke:

cowboy
03-24-2004, 08:54 PM
>>>SK's shaved scrotum itches when he used a dull razor.

The fact that you would know this much less tell others that you know this is a bit odd dont you think :D

Canadian Hick
03-24-2004, 09:58 PM
>>>SK's shaved scrotum itches when he used a dull razor.
I shaved the other day too, but couldn't stand the idea of leaving nothing. I left chops and a goatee on it. :roll: :D

SauerKraut
03-24-2004, 10:45 PM
>>>SK's shaved scrotum itches when he used a dull razor.
I shaved the other day too, but couldn't stand the idea of leaving nothing. I left chops and a goatee on it. :roll: :D


first of all, Chaly, that was just plain weird.


LOL @ you Hick.

ignus
03-25-2004, 12:46 AM
>> ive sneezed with my eyes open. i had to hold them open with my hands but it happened. kinda hurt too...

>> an American flag should fly over Canadian Parlaiment!

>> there should be a Betty Rubble vitamin, shes the only one i'd want to eat :evil: EDIT: unless its the Betty from the god-awful movies, Rosie O'Donnell *shudders*

>> Leonardo Da Binchi didnt invent no scissors, I did! Leonardo Da Binchi is the Debil!

laters
03-25-2004, 01:42 AM
> > > Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

Yeah... I didn't have to read this to know THAT. LOL!

> > > The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they
> > are
> > > read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

So is "kook." :D

> > > There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels
> > in
> > > order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

Nuh-uh. What about sequoia?
That was an interesting read, actually. Most of them seem believable, but I have my doubts about Da Vinci inventing the scissors. (edit)Wait I didn't catch the "in order" part. Never mind.

SauerKraut
03-25-2004, 01:52 AM
> > > Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

Yeah... I didn't have to read this to know THAT. LOL!

> > > The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they
> > are
> > > read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

So is "kook." :D

> > > There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels
> > in
> > > order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

Nuh-uh. What about sequoia?
That was an interesting read, actually. Most of them seem believable, but I have my doubts about Da Vinci inventing the scissors. (edit)Wait I didn't catch the "in order" part. Never mind.


Sequoia doesn't work because the vowels are not in ascending order.

laters
03-25-2004, 02:44 AM
> > > Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

Yeah... I didn't have to read this to know THAT. LOL!

> > > The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they
> > are
> > > read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

So is "kook." :D

> > > There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels
> > in
> > > order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

Nuh-uh. What about sequoia?
That was an interesting read, actually. Most of them seem believable, but I have my doubts about Da Vinci inventing the scissors. (edit)Wait I didn't catch the "in order" part. Never mind.


Sequoia doesn't work because the vowels are not in ascending order.
Yeah, which is why edited my message. Curse my short attention span... I have the worst case of selective sight/hearing.

laters
03-25-2004, 02:56 AM
By the way, thanks for yet another memory to repress... That scrotum shaving comment is just nasty. The goatee comment is pretty funny, though. Maybe I'll try to grow my hair in Fu Man Chu style. :D

Wow... I really need to get out of this place before I go completely nuts.

Chalybos
03-25-2004, 09:56 AM
By the way, thanks for yet another memory to repress... That scrotum shaving comment is just nasty. The goatee comment is pretty funny, though. Maybe I'll try to grow my hair in Fu Man Chu style. :D

Wow... I really need to get out of this place before I go completely nuts.
Speaking of nuts.....
8O
to paraphrase James Bond, "Shaven, not furred."
bah-dum-tsss

ignus
03-25-2004, 10:08 AM
By the way, thanks for yet another memory to repress... That scrotum shaving comment is just nasty. The goatee comment is pretty funny, though. Maybe I'll try to grow my hair in Fu Man Chu style. :D

Wow... I really need to get out of this place before I go completely nuts.

do it! do it now! get out your choppers! :D

Angry Kid
03-25-2004, 10:13 AM
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

OK - I call shenanigans on this; we had this discussion once before on another forum. The flag on the Canadian $2 bill is the Red Ensign, not the US flag.

LilPuppy
03-25-2004, 10:20 AM
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

OK - I call shenanigans on this; we had this discussion once before on another forum. The flag on the Canadian $2 bill is the Red Ensign, not the US flag.

It's moot , we haven't used a two dollar bill in years...


http://www.currencymuseum.ca/eng/grfx/interior/canadascoins/twoonie_big.jpg

CMontyBurns
03-25-2004, 01:05 PM
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

OK - I call shenanigans on this; we had this discussion once before on another forum. The flag on the Canadian $2 bill is the Red Ensign, not the US flag.

It's moot , we haven't used a two dollar bill in years...

http://www.currencymuseum.ca/eng/grfx/interior/canadascoins/twoonie_big.jpg

AKA
the Toonie

Dawg
03-25-2004, 01:24 PM
I could be wrong but didn't they recently (in the last few years) add Betty Rubble to the Flintstones' Vitamins? I believe that the bonding technology had developed to the point where they could have a figure with such a slender waist.

Dawg

Dawg
03-25-2004, 04:30 PM
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Urban legend.

I can't say for a fact that you are wrong but I found no reference to this on the Urban Legends webpage but did find several references to the supposed discovery of microwave techonology by Percy Spencer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Spencer).

Oh, and syringe is pretty close to a rhyme for orange.

Dawg

SauerKraut
03-25-2004, 04:49 PM
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Urban legend.

I can't say for a fact that you are wrong but I found no reference to this on the Urban Legends webpage but did find several references to the supposed discovery of microwave techonology by Percy Spencer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Spencer).

Oh, and syringe is pretty close to a rhyme for orange.

Dawg



Actually, it is no urban legend. that is exactly what happened. Dr. Spencer was working on the magnetron when his chocolate bar melted in his pocket. The next day he stood faaaaaaaar away after placing popcorn next to it...zaaaapp..pop pop pop.

He and another scientist deduced that it was the microwave energy from the anode to the cathode that was causing this. So, the next day, they built a metal box, and angled the radiation into the box from a hole on the side connected to the magnetron. Since the box was made of metal, the energy could not escape and the temperature inside the box escalated very quickly, cooking (nay, burning) the food inside.

True story.

LionRampant
03-25-2004, 05:17 PM
Oh, and syringe is pretty close to a rhyme for orange.
Yes, as is "meringue." :P