BS: Interesting Facts

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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:38 AM

If you delouse a hedgehog it gets withdrawal symptoms.

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: 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: 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 - 07:36 AM

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

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: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 07:11 AM

Surely you meant ' arse '

eric

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: 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: 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 - 03:18 AM

Oh yeah.

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 - 03:07 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: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 03:02 AM

Ever played S.O.S on a kazoo?

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

NO

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 - 02:33 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: 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: 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 - 01:55 AM

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

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 - 01:45 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 12:09 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 - 12:09 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: 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 - 12:07 AM

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

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.