BS: Interesting Facts

Subject: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:06 AM

"7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day."

That's 87,600,000 pots of coffee a year. That's LOTS.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:07 AM

"Bananas aren't fruit! They are a type of herb."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: michaelr
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:08 AM

The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:09 AM

"The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean."

This one I do not understand. I have heard the Pacific Ocean washing up on a California beach, and it can be really loud. Besides, I didn't think that sound carried on the moon where there is no air.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:09 AM

"The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary."

I checked. He's right, it isn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:10 AM

"It is illegal NOT to smile in Pocatello, Idaho!"

Rapaire could check this one out.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:12 AM

"Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!"

Why does this not surprise me?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 01:11 AM

The leading cause of death among lesbians is hairballs.

Dogs lick their dicks because they can't make a fist.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 01:19 AM

The "human genome" which has recently been sequenced consists of a very long string of four molecules. If the molecules are "named" by binary numbers, 00, 01, 10, 11, the entire record of all the genetic information for a "typical human" can be written as a binary data record consisting of a long string of 01100101011... etc.

Written as a single binary data string (also a perfectly acceptable concept) Windows XP is a longer string (i.e. contains more data) ... I've been told.

The author who made the claim may have exaggerated, but I'm too lazy to check it out. Anyone sufficiently interested is welcome to look up the figures.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 01:45 AM

If you put a ball of aluminum foil in the tableware/flatware/silver ware soaking bucket it helps keep it shiny.

The 'regular' ice is NOT from pure water but the bar ice is.

Are we off topic yet???

PUPPIES! Aug 10!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 01:51 AM

That is an interesting fact. It is also another interesting fact that you are not on the off topic thread. This is an on topic thread, the topic of which is whatever you want it to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 01:55 AM

Sir, yes sir! I hear and shall obey sir! Chat room?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 01:58 AM

I'm still trying to resist the temptation to look up "gullible"...

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 02:06 AM

LOL...so am I.....but I'm going to bed now before the Garg attacks again

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 02:33 AM

If you laid all the kazoo players in the world end to end accross the Atlantic ocean,   they would all drown.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Sooz
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 02:46 AM

Please can I be in the shallow end?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 02:54 AM

NO

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:02 AM

Ever played S.O.S on a kazoo?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:07 AM

"In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust."

And you wondered where our farmland is going?

Say with 330,000,000 people in North America (give or take a few million), that means that people are taking away 7,260,000 TONS of arable land. Man oh man, like what is THAT about, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:16 AM

Yeah Peace, but where are they taking it away to?

It's recyclable/recycled ain't it?

John

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:18 AM

Oh yeah.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:19 AM

"The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century."

And now it appears as President of the United States in the twenty-first century.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:28 AM

"The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:18 AM

Well, then, what about Iraq? Hmmm... I looked it up and I guess there is a differnce between a donkey and an ass.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 07:11 AM

Surely you meant ' arse '

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Crystal
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 07:14 AM

Dog saliva contains fewer pathogens per millilitre than human saliva. HOWEVER the pathogens it does contain tend to be the ones which cause severe illness/disability in humans.

The practical upshot of this is that you still should not kiss your dog!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,NODDY
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 07:36 AM

The first sign of madness is hair on the palm of your hands.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 07:37 AM

The second sign is looking for it!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 07:41 AM

When you buy something that say it is "95% Fat Free" the other 5% is 100% pure fat!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:00 AM

You can kiss your dog safely, no tongues though.


eric

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:38 AM

If you delouse a hedgehog it gets withdrawal symptoms.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:40 AM

I still want to know why I need to keep my aluminum foil shiny...

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:41 AM

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+gullible

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 09:29 AM

If you take cranberries and stew them like prunes, they taste much more like applesauce than rhubarb does.........Groucho as Captain Spalding.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: mack/misophist
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 09:33 AM

Both WordNet and the Collaborative Online Dictionary list gullible - didn't bother with the hardcover copy but the OED must have it.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: John O'L
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 09:40 AM

I guess you know what it means then, eh mack?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 09:50 AM

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 09:51 AM

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Splott Man
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 09:58 AM

Can you keep this thread going till I get back from hols on 1 August please?

Splott Man

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:15 AM

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:17 AM

HA! Gullible is in MY Webster's 7th! I looked! So there!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:23 AM

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Paul Burke
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:27 AM

There is no proper name for the back of the knees.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: JennyO
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:28 AM

Some random thoughts on flies.......



Flies take off backwards at an angle of 60 degrees - so if you want to swat one, sneak up on it from behind.

Time flies. You cannot. They fly too fast.

Time flies like a arrow - fruit flies like a banana.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:34 AM

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:35 AM

Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:35 AM

Napoloean was terrified of cats.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:36 AM

Eels are the only fish which can swim backwards, slimy little buggers.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:38 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:45 AM

If you want REALLY interesting facts, you need Peter Cook:
PETER COOK: ...not as interesting in my opinion as another fact I've come across. It's about the eagle. It's quite interesting that the eagle has an estimated wingspan of eighteen feet, whereas its two feet span three feet, which is double the length of its tail feather and over four times the width of its beak alone. That's quite an interesting statistic, isn't it?
PETER BELLWOOD: Fancy that - the eagle. I never knew.
PETER COOK: I doubt if the eagle does either. It's quite interesting to think that if all the Chinamen in the world linked hands they'd girdle the earth three times.
PETER BELLWOOD: Three time, eh? That's amazing.
PETER COOK: I wouldn't call it amazing. I'm not amazed by it. I just take an intelligent interest in it. Of course, I've not bothered to check up at all. I've just taken it on trust. I've not got time to go round organising Chinamen to link their hands, and the practical difficulties are immense. You'd have to have rafts over the sea. Anyway, I shouldn't think they'd agree to do it. But it's quite interesting as a fact.
PETER BELLWOOD: Yes. Yes, I suppose it is.
PETER COOK: The grasshopper is an interesting creature. It has a disproportionate leaping ability. It's the powerful hind legs that cause it. You can seem them hopping over grassy terrain. That's why it's called a grasshopper. But it is its leaping ability that interests me. Do you know that if the giraffe had the same leaping ability, pound for pound, he'd be able to jump onto the moon and Britain would be first in the space race?
PETER BELLWOOD: Yes, well I'm trying to read this article.
PETER COOK: I'm very interested in the grasshopper and its leaping ability. I haven't got an unhealthy interest in it, mind
you. I'm not obsessed by it. I haven't got an unhealthy sexual interest in the grasshopper. At least I've never had any sexual activity with a grasshopper. Or if I have, nobody saw me. And if they did see me it's their look out.

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/minisites/petercook/

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:54 AM

LoL!!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:05 AM

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: kendall
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:17 AM

Dog Days has nothing to do with dogs.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: number 6
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:24 AM

"Dog Days has nothing to do with dogs."

... they do ... siriusly.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:29 AM

are u being dogmatic no. 6?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: kendall
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:01 PM

There's always one "wag" in the group.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:26 PM

It is in the dictionary.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:31 PM

A guy walks into a bar with his dog and says, "I'll have a Scotch and water and my dog would like a whiskey sour." The bartender says, "Sorry, we don't allow animals in here." he dog replies, "Hey, I'm tired of being discriminated against. Just give me a drink."
The bartender says, "Oh, no, not another ventriloquist with the old talking dog trick. Both of you, get out of here!" "No, no, no, this isn't a trick, I promise you," says the man, "I tell you what, I'll go for a walk around the block and you talk to Rover here."

The man leaves and the bartender sees him turn the corner. "Now, can I have my drink." says the dog. The bartender is amazed. "Sure you can and it's on the house! Listen, can you do me a favour? My wife works next door at the cafe. It'll make her day if you go in and order a cup of coffee. Here's ten bucks and you can keep the change afterwards." "Okay." says the dog and he takes the ten dollars and leaves. Ten minutes go by and the dog doesn't come back. The owner returns and asks where is the dog. So both of them go off to see what happened to the dog.

As they approach the cafe, they see Rover going at it hot and heavy with a French poodle in the alley between the bar and cafe. The owner shouts, "Rover! What are you doing! You've never done this before!" The dog shrugged. "Hell, I've never had any money before."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Wolfgang
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:51 PM

I do like Michael's joke!

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 01:11 PM

Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches are insoluble in gasoline.

(that one MUST be true, I saw it on a men's room wall at the Methodist Student Union at the University of Kansas!)

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!


Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers. (that might explain some things around here)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 01:17 PM

well...SOME of those are true *grin*

here is a list to make you go..."Huh?" them make you go "Nawww!"

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:49 PM

Test pilot Paul Tibbets performed a full roll of a 747 during a European air show during the tour in which the official "international introduction" of the airplane occured. (It was not a scheduled or sanctioned maneuver' but the wings didn't fall off.)

See Bill D's list above. Of course the rest of them are all true (see dictionary op. cit.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:08 PM

"Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason."

So the seal carries them around then?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:10 PM

Picture of the Australian seal. I can't get a picture of how that would work.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: kendall
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:22 PM

I was born at night, but it wasn't last night.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: number 6
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:24 PM

I think it would be too awkward (physically) for a seal to carry around a kangaroo ... sorry to disappoint you Peace, but it is a myth.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Charmion
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:26 PM

Gullible is so in the dictionary: my 2002 OED on CD has it as follows:

gullible, a.

... bunch of phonetics, [f. GULL v. + -IBLE; historically it seems to have been a back-formation from prec. Cf. GULLABLE.]

Capable of being gulled or duped; easily cheated, befooled. Also absol.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:40 PM

"I think it would be too awkward (physically) for a seal to carry around a kangaroo"

But a GULL may be ABLE to.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:42 PM

"Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought"

How could they tell when they were finished??



"Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed."

The same is true of the lens from a sheep's eyeball, an experiment I performed myself in Biology class.


"Fish have "dandruff" caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water"

This one makes me not want to drink water ever again, thank you very much.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: number 6
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 04:50 PM

You gotta point there Bobad ... guess Peace got it all mixed up.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:11 PM

Well, this thread is drifting from itself thanks to the contributions of people who can't seem to stay on task. Sheesh.

However, on another topic, why do farts smell?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,ritchie not really a guest
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:15 PM

nuber six wrote
"I think it would be too awkward (physically) for a seal to carry around a kangaroo ... sorry to disappoint you Peace, but it is a myth."

How do you know? from the photo it's hard to tell what sex it is, it could be male or it might even be a female seal that is married and in that case it would be a mythus.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Alba
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:15 PM

During our lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

Where does it all go, I mean the plughole in the Shower can only handle so much!

From Bill's Link,

"When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always points toward the north."

Now how did they find that out huh!

and

"There have been four documented cases of humans who have hibernated through an entire winter"

Someone should get funding and come up here and do a documented study in the backwoods of Maine this Winter...:)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:39 PM

I read that link for about 10-12 posts before I decided it must have been composed about April 1.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:41 PM

It was composed about hair, not April 1!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 05:42 PM

"An average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day."

Go figger . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 06:12 PM

OK, here's the math on THAT!

0.5 x 365 = 182.5 liters of flatulent gas per year. There are about 300 million people in America. That makes 54,750,000,000 liters of flatulent gas per year. HELL, there is NO energy crisis. There is the solution.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 06:22 PM

My gawd, where has all that stuff been going? Was Dylan right? Is the answer really 'blowing in the wind'?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 06:46 PM

And to think they blamed the hole in the ozone layer on hairspray and car exhaust. Speaking of which, whatever happened to that thing? Hasn't been in the news in ages.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 07:01 PM

Let's have a great big round of applause for all those who were gullible enough to go check their dictionaries.

Don T

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:28 PM

"Speaking of which, whatever happened to that thing [the ozone layer]?"

There's nothing left to talk about.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 09:28 PM

Lizards, tho cold-blooded, run a fever when they get sick.

There are entire species of lesbian lizards. They are parthenogenetic (no males exist), but they go thru mating rituals all the same.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Mens sana qui mal y pense. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Janie
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:40 PM

Pokeweed seeds remain viable for more than 100 years.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: number 6
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:58 PM

A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse ... a hinny is the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey .... both mule and hinny are sterile.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:06 PM

It is impossible to rotate your right foot in a clockwise direction and rotate your right hand in a counterclockwise direction at the same time.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:08 PM

You're right, at least I can't.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: number 6
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:16 PM

I can ... just did it ... but then I'm ambidextrous.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:25 PM

Does your wife know?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 12:05 AM

"Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1."

Posted without comment . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 12:17 AM

"The first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 12:22 AM

Where are you calling from, sir?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 12:36 AM

LOLOLOLOL

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 12:39 AM

Oooooooooooooookay . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 11:01 AM

The winner of this years "Supermileage" event, in the Collegiate Design Series sponsored by SAE International, was a vehicle from the University of British Columbia.

Rules require a single person vehicle using a standard four-cylinder engine to cover 9.6 miles (6 laps on a 1.6 mile track) and the "remaining" fuel from a 1 gallon initial "fill" is measured to compute the mpg (km/l) obtained.

The UBC vehicle achieved 3,145 mpg (1,337 km/l) at an average speed of approximately 16 mph.

Six teams got more than 1,000 mpg.

A high school team from Indiana won the HS division at 1,897 mpg.

The Guinness book reports however that a vehicle at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Zurich holds the current record, at 15,212 mpg.

(But none of these vehicles look like they'd be very comfortable to drive very far.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,My Father, Sir
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 12:12 PM

The largest organism in the world is a fungus that lives in a forest in Canada. It is estimated to be several thousand years old.

If you pick a mouse up by its tail, its eyes will drop out. If you do the same to a weasel, it will gnaw your fingers off.

Lobsters use quantum microfluctuations to aid night navigation, whereas it has been proven that homing pigeons use main roads as their main navigational aid.

There are more molecules in a small glass of water than there are particles of dust in the entire observable universe.

Due to the precession of the equinoxes, there was no visible Pole Star in 1AD. In 3000AD, the current Pole Star will no longer be even approximately in the north, even without the expected Magnetic Pole Inversion.

You can make a good approximation to guacamole from pea-pods and yoghurt.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Molasses
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 12:16 PM

'Treacle' derives from an ancient Greek word meaning "A Good Thing To Give To One Who Has Been Bitten By A Poisonous Snake".

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 12:22 PM

68% of all Rutabaga is eaten by Republicans...the rest is thrown away.


(I heard that years ago, and I never heard a refutation...so it must be true, huh?)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 02:55 PM

By the time you learn anything worth mentioning, you're a grumbling old fart and nobody wants to sit around listening to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 03:58 PM

It is an interesting fact that the next person to post will get the 100th.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 03:58 PM

Well, maybe it wasn't THAT interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 05:59 PM

nope..and now it isn't even true.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Janie
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 06:49 PM

The New River, which arises in North Carolina and flows into the Ohio at Point Pleasant, WV (after being renamed the Kanawha where the Gauley River flows into it at the lower end of the gorge) is probably the oldest extant river in the world. Leastways, that is what my 8th grade WV History teacher said.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Kaleea
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 08:30 PM

The word, "perogative" is not in the dictionary! I'm a woman, so I know these things.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: John O'L
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 09:28 PM

Kaleea, that's 'cause ther's no such word. I'm sorry but your gender has nothing to do with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 09:38 PM

But, perogies IS.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 09:45 PM

"Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: John O'L
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 09:53 PM

While I am prepared to concede that it's a woman's foremost rogative to spell it however she likes, I will defend with my life the right of the dictionary not to.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 11:27 PM

Peace - so deaf people can enjoy them too?

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 11:30 PM

Huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: John O'L
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 11:38 PM

Seamus - You'll have to write louder.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 11:41 PM

WHAT?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bert
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 11:54 PM

There are two kinds of fart, the ones which smell are caused by gases given off by the digestive process and those which don't smell (unless mixed with the first kind) caused by air being ingested when eating.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 06 - 11:55 PM

How do you KNOW that? And WHY?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 12:31 AM

"I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 12:34 AM

LOL

"I spilled Spot Remover on my dog. Now he's gone."

LOLOLOL

That is the best laugh I've had in weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 12:35 AM

Those two are from Steve Wright. Keriste, he's funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 12:37 AM

LOL

"I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 12:40 AM

Gawd, my stomach is sore from laughing.

"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 12:41 AM

LOL Again.

'I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?"'

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 12:43 AM

"In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs."

LOL

His name is Steven Wright, FYI.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 12:55 AM

What are imitation rhinestones?

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

What's another word for Thesaurus?

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 02:22 PM

I forget who said (and I'm too lazy to go back and look):

There is no proper name for the back of the knees.

Sorry, no cigar!   It's "the popliteal space".

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 05:00 PM

Pronunciation: "pä-pl&-'tE-&l also pä-'pli-tE-&l

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: mack/misophist
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 08:58 PM

Anatomicaly speaking,
   That bit of flesh under your tongue that keeps you from sticking it
   all the way out is a frenum. There's another just by the glans on
   you guys.

   And an ear is an 'external auditory meatus.' (mee-ate-us)

   That groove below the nose is a philtrum.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 10:12 PM

Click the screen that comes up when you open this link.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 10:20 PM

"Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: leeneia
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 11:49 PM

"You can make a good approximation to guacamole from pea-pods and yoghurt."

Look, we are simply not that gullible.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 11:55 PM

Leeneia's right. It isn't even a distant approximation. It tastes like *%$#*.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 06 - 11:57 PM

Heh. Like I'm gonna fall for THAT old trick a seventh time . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 12:33 AM

I append a list of "facts" that came to me by e-mail. I don't believe them all. When I got the e-mail, I ignored the first entry, but then later I paid attention to it, and to my amazement, I could indeed read it, just as it says.
------------
Don't delete this just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod

uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The

phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde

Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the

ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit

plae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?


In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"

-------------------------------------------

Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
(I've hear this is untrue - leeneia.)
-------------------------------------------

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

-------------------------------------------

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S.Treasury.      

-------------------------------------------

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

-------------------------------------------

Coca-Cola was originally green.

-------------------------------------------

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

-------------------------------------------

The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

-------------------------------------------

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...)

-------------------------------------------

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

----------------------------------------------------------------------

The average number of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour: 61,000

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.   
(Could this be because the mentally handicapped don't dye their hair?)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
(Maybe there some obscure ms was actually first, who knows?)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:   

Spades - King David

Hearts - Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great   

Diamonds - Julius Caesar
(Fakelore!)
--------------------------------------------------------------------

   

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321   
(Would somebody with a huge calculator please check this?)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.   

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?

A. Their birthplace
(Hmmm! Let's take a poll. I don't. - leeneia)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?

A. Obsession   
(How could anyone know this? Do the states keep records of boat names?)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?

A. One thousand

----------------------------------------------------------------------   

Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?

A. All were invented by women.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?

A. Honey

----------------------------------------------------------------------   

Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year?

A. Father's Day

----------------------------------------------------------------------

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "goodnight, sleep tight."

(I doubt it.)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.

(1. Don't tell me somebody wrote this out in cuneiform.
2. Did all weddings occur on the first of the month?)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down."

It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

(Naw! When learning cursive writing, small p's and q's are easy to mix up, that's all.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

(Do I look gullible or something?)


~~~~~~~~~~~AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~

At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!

(I did, but that was only the FIRST time I got this thing.)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: LadyJean
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 12:33 AM

Someone might want to mention to Rover that poodles aren't French, they're German. The name comes from Pudlehund. Puddle hound. Poodles were bred as duck dogs. They don't shed, which is why you have to have them groomed. The fancy cut was created to protect the dog's joints, since they were supposed to swim out and fetch the duck from the water. Toy poodles were bred as lap dogs, of course. The first poodles were large, like Irish water spaniels or Portugese waterdogs. The French for poodle is Caniche. I was raised with poodles, so I know a lot of poodle trivia.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 01:03 AM

A bit more on poodle history here.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:17 PM

The standard poodle was bred to hunt Deer.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Splott Man
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:19 PM

"The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone."

I'm sure Laurel & Hardy would have got there first.

Morecambe & Wise may have beaten them as well? (will somebody check, I can't be bothered?)

"Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? "

A: Quarter

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Amos
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:25 PM

Quadrillionth would get there much sooner, if you're going to split hairs.

If whole numbers, one thousand.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 01:02 PM

Can anyone answer this? It has been puzzling me for years.

If you were to dig a hole through the centre of the Earth would you come out up side down? If not why not?
Ignore the bit about being boiled alive in the core!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 02:37 PM

depends on whether you stood in the hole, or hung by your heels in your hole!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 02:38 PM

(test it with a Barbie doll and a watermelon)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 02:43 PM

Or ask these guys.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 03:10 PM

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?

A. One thousand

One hundred and one!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Amos
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:05 PM

Well, that's a semantic quibble.

The answer to the CHina Syndrome question is that you would come out with your head pointing up, even if you entered the hole with your head pointing down, because that's the nature of "up". It means (in this usage) "away from the center of mass causing the dominant gravitic field". Down means toward the center of mass.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:05 PM

7 out of 10 women are wearing the wrong bra size (according to a sign in the changing rooms in Debenhams last week)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 08:48 PM

Farts can't smell.

They don't have noses.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 11:05 PM

"The answer to the CHina Syndrome question is that you would come out with your head pointing up, even if you entered the hole with your head pointing down"

Amos, think a little more; you're right, of course, in that when you come out of the hole on the other side, you are going "up", away from the earth's center of gravity. But that doesn't mean you would come out head up , unless you entered the hole with your head pointing down; not "even if" you entered head down. Passing through the center wouldn't necessarily imply that you would flip end-for-end on the way. I think I gotcha!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Amos
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 12:34 AM

Not because your body woud change absolute direction, FP, but because you would cross the divide from one "up" to the other "up".   

I withdraw the word "even".

A

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Splott Man
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 03:53 AM

Been down so long, it looks like up to me

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 05:33 AM

The origin of "minding your ps and qs" give is one of several that are proposed in dictionaries of hrase origins. There is no provable origin so far.

   I like interesting facts that aren't facts. 2 exx.

   1. Originally, "the survival of the fittest"(Henry Spencer) did NOT mean 'the survival of the strongest'

Originally, he meant 'the survival of the most fit",that is, the most appropriate, as in 'most fit for the purpose', which , in some circumstances coulf mean the weakest surviving.

Those stalks that are the stiffest will break before those that bend with the wind.


   2. Dr.Guillotin invcented the guillotine.

   Actually, it was invented by a mechanic called Schmidt under the direction of Dr.Antonin Louise,hence it was at first called a 'Louison' or 'Louisette'.



    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 12:37 PM

to put a yet finer point on the "suvival of the fittest": The "survivor" will be the one most apt to achieve reproduction before dying, under whatever circumstances prevail, regardless of his, her, or it's other weaknesses.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 08:34 PM

The bacteria used to ferment Limburger cheese and other rind-washed cheeses is Brevibacterium linens; this same bacteria is found on human skin and is partially responsible for human body odor. A likely reason for this is that the monks of Limburg who created the cheese would originally mix the milk and curds into cheese by stomping it with their feet.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 09:16 PM

Any further with this line of reasoning and I'm gonna be turned off donuts for a long time . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 09:21 PM

...and hamburger patties...

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 06:03 AM

There are only TWO kinds of Farts.................................... Loud Ones and Quiet ones!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 10:37 AM

"What are imitation rhinestones?"

missed that one before before...but I knew a woman once who eloped to Oklahoma, and 2 weeks later had the marriage annuled....she later explained "I should have had a premonition when I noticed that the ring we stopped to buy in a small shop had an inscription inside that read "**GENUINE IMITATION LUCITE**"

(I know the hamburger patty/donut joke...*grin*)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,mack/misophist
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 10:47 AM

A couple of months ago a video of the necco wafer/coca cola volcano was popular on the internet. Explanations were scarce. Here's the answer: nucleation. ie. In any gas saturated solution (coca cola) the gas tends to separate out on the sides of the container. If one places a sponge shaped solid in the liquid (necco wafers). the gas may separate out so fast that a veritable eruption occurs. I think the video showed it spurting 10 feet into the air.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Nick
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 03:12 PM

Any piece of paper can be folded as many times as you like.

As long as you unfold it.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 10:40 PM

Apparently dissolving Mentos in Diet Coke gives spectacular nucleation.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 10:49 PM

The octopus' testicles are located in its head.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 11:08 PM

Thanks bobad - now I know what word to use in some of those threads...

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Bert
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 04:16 PM

...The octopus' testicles are located in its head...

That's funny - I know some guys whose brains are located in their testicles.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 04:19 PM

I guess that it could be said that they are on the ball.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: terrier
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 06:43 PM

I've just found this thread, i've read it from start to finish and now my brain hurts!
Try this one:

if a pianist turns their back to the keyboard,(with their hands behind them)it's difficult to play because the keyboard is back to front, OK! if the pianist crosses their arms whilst having their back to the piano, it makes playing a little easier. If the pianist is upside down with their back to the piano keyboard they should (if they rotate their wrists thru 180)be able to play as normal.
Anybody care to try it???

T

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 09:00 PM

"If the pianist is upside down with their back to the piano keyboard they should (if they rotate their wrists thru 180)be able to play as normal."

Been done before.

You can also play a button or piano accordion 'upside down'.

You can also play a pennywhistle by rotating it so that the holes face toward you too.


The Three Key Secret Tricks:

Practice!

Practice!

Practice!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 09:27 PM

"The experiments also revealed a rather surprising effect: both men and women found it easier to have an orgasm when they kept their socks on. Draughts in the scanning room left couples complaining of "literally cold feet", and providing a pair of socks allowed 80 per cent rather than 50 per cent to reach a climax while their brains were scanned."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,589-1662280,00.html

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 11:59 PM

A snail's sex organ is also in its head (or neck. where does one start and the other end?) And that is the organ it does the business with!


You can stop auto/car oil-leaks with mint humbugs.
Ditto petrol/gasolene leaks with chewing-gum.
Emergency fix for a slipping clutch (manual gearbox) is Fullers Earth. But it will block up the Bendix-gear.

My Dad told me these. The only one I've used is Fullers Earth. It worked, but made for interesting driving. NO slip in the clutch. None.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 03:46 AM

'and providing a pair of socks allowed 80 per cent rather than 50 per cent to reach a climax while their brains were scanned."'

So, how much are socks and scanners going for?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: mack/misophist
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 07:47 PM

Not only is a snail's sex organ at the front end, it's a calcite dart that each snail shoots at the other. Somehow. Then the target snail absorbs the dart and the genetic material attached to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: 282RA
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 10:17 PM

"Incorrectly" is never spelled correctly.

Also when I first read the title of this thread, I swear I thought it said, "Interesting Farts."

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 11:35 PM

If you lie down with dogs, you'll stink in the morning.

The pen is mightier than the pigs.

A penny saved is not much.

Don't bite the hand that looks dirty.

Two's company, three's the Musketeers.

Don't put off till tomorrow what you put on to go to bed.

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you have to blow your nose.

If at first you don't succeed, get new batteries.

You get out of something only what you see in the picture on the box.

When the blind leadeth the blind get out of the way.

Better late than pregnant!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 12:13 AM

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Splott Man
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 08:58 AM

The equals symbol (=) was invented by a Welshman, Robert Recorde in 1557.

The pi symbol (sorry, can't type it) was first used by a Welshman, William Jones in 1706.

Diw, there's posh!

Subject: gullible
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 12:34 AM

i have an essay over gullible. what does "prec. Cf GULLABLE" in the definition mentioned somewhere in these messages mean?? i have the exact definition.. mayble i should just change the word of my essay.. (its an essay with a word that is intresting to us)

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Gurney
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 03:43 AM

BillD, I seem to remember that several codfish have an odd number of 'whiskers.' One is an odd number.

The old tale of there being lots of sheep for every human in NZ is a load of cobblers. I've been here for 35 years and no-one's given me any!

I thought it was a Hamster who's eyes fell out if you held him up by his tail?

We've owned nine cats, and the only ones that could recognise a picture were Siamese. Both of them.

Whales were once land animals.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Joe_F
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:34 PM

There is a kind of eel that, when grabbed, secretes a thick slippery slime all over its body, making it hard to keep hold of. After it escapes, it cleans the slime off by tying a knot in one end of itself and working it to the other end.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:37 PM

I'll have to try that the next time I have sex.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:40 PM

What, keeping your socks on?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:43 PM

Absolutely NOT. It chafes too much.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: bobad
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:44 PM

One word....silk.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:52 PM

YOU are a genius. THANK you from the bottom of my . . . well, thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Amos
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 10:36 PM

Excel says that 111111111*111111111 =12,345,678,987,654,300.00

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Gurney
Date: 30 Sep 06 - 10:51 PM

All eels are difficult to hold, but the one Joe F mentions is the marine Blind Eel. If you catch one with a hook, it 'winds' the slime up it's body and onto the line. I only ever caught one, and hope never to catch another.

The knot is properly called a Half Hitch, and anglers don't want them, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: chrisgl
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 02:53 AM

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 06:42 PM

The perpetual criminal war on drugs was begun by Richard Nixon.

The perpetual religious war was begun by George Bush

Both cocaine and marijuana were demonized by the US government as drugs that caused black men to rape white women.

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Ana. L. Fin.
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 07:52 AM

To immobilise it, just drop your freshly caught eel onto a newspaper!

(The Sun or Daily excess/Mail are the best slime containers.)HeeHee!

It does work - honest...

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:31 AM

Prerogative. It was mine to look up!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,3refs
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:33 AM

Didn't log in! Which was also my prerogative!

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: GUEST,Davetnova
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 09:49 AM

twelve plus one is an anagram of eleven plus two

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: *Laura*
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 03:19 PM

that thing that Bee-Dubya said you can't do (rotate your right foot clockwise and your right had anti-clockwise at the same time)
I can do it.

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 02:27 PM

When Jon Sebastian wrote 'Nashville Cats', he used the number 1352 as the number of guitar players in Nashville purely at random, because it fitted the rest of the verse. Years later, he checked union membership, records of session men hired by studios and anything else he could find, and discovered that in the year he wrote the song, there were near enough 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville.


Spooky, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 11:18 PM

Donuel: The inventor of the drug war was not Richard Nixon, but someone far earlier and viler. His name was Harry Anslinger, and he was a prohibition agent who needed a new racket after repeal.