BS: Interesting Facts

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: 19 Jul 06 - 11:25 PM

Does your wife know?

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: bobad
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:08 PM

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

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: 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: Janie
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:40 PM

Pokeweed seeds remain viable for more than 100 years.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 05:41 PM

It was composed about hair, not April 1!

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Wolfgang
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:51 PM

I do like Michael's joke!

Wolfgang

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: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 12:26 PM

It is in the dictionary.

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: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:29 AM

are u being dogmatic no. 6?

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: kendall
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 11:17 AM

Dog Days has nothing to do with dogs.

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: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:54 AM

LoL!!

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: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:38 AM

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: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:35 AM

Napoloean was terrified of cats.

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 - 10:34 AM

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

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: 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: bobad
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:23 AM

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

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: freda underhill
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:15 AM

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.