BS: Little known facts

Subject: BS: Little known facts
From: Partridge
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 05:25 AM

If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go

through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a

hoop of fire.

They're trained for that

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: GUEST,The Long Arm
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 08:40 AM

And NEVER wrap your arm in a thick blanket.
They'll get you every time.
/.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: kendall
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 08:42 AM

One should never piss into the wind.(Or vomit)

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 08:48 AM

Erm... what's wrong with p***ing into vomit?

Never eat yellow snow!

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 09:13 AM

John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, the USNS Seawolf, Bob Hope, the USNS Thresher, and all of the "casualties" from the Vietnam War are actually frozen at a secret base in Iceland so that if there's ever a nuclear war the US will have a good leader and lots of trained and equipped troops to surprise the enemy with. And the troops will have great entertainment, too.

Don't tell anyone.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: GUEST,;+}
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 09:22 AM

So Truman and Kennedy are the entertainment.
Which is the good leader?

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 09:35 AM

Joplin, hands down.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 09:39 AM

Nah, gotta be Garcia...look at all the hippies he led around the country for all those years...

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Partridge
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 10:57 AM

Got a phone call today to do a gig at a fire station.

Went along. Turned out it was a bloody hoax.

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 12:16 PM

I bet you were really put out!!

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 12:19 PM

Really hosed off, I'll betcha. But you have to go if you want to get on the ladder of success.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 01:36 PM

Cats have nine lives   - makes them perfect for experimentation

Ouch!!!

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 01:41 PM

True, but they're lousy for LD50 trials.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 01:51 PM

just because

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 02:20 PM

Partridge that must have really driven you up the pole.....

...well I'm sorry but all the better jokes had been taken.....*G*

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 04:53 AM

Men have to sit with their legs apart when travelling on the tube. This is due to special magnetic fibres on the upholstery of the seats which interacts with testosterone to provide an antimagnetic outward force.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 09:07 AM

"frozen at a secret base in Iceland"

Well that was bloody brilliant planning, what with all the ice up there melting and all...

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 09:40 AM

Actually, it's northern Greenland, but keep it to yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 10:13 AM

Interesting fact from a BBC TV programme about trees last night, if you plant an apple pip it has the capability to grow into any type of apple tree not just the type it came from, weird.

ric

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 10:17 AM

OLd cure for the pox, MERCURY, if the pox don't kill you the mercury would.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: GUEST,thurg
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 12:23 PM

"frozen at a secret base in Iceland"

"Well that was bloody brilliant planning, what with all the ice up there melting and all... "

Question for geographers: What's going to happen to Iceland when the ice all melts? Does it just disappear into the waves? Or do we have to start calling it Landland?

Here is an interesting fact: Iceland was named on the opposite principle to the naming of Greenland - Lief and the boys figured that calling it "Iceland" would discourage just anybody from showing up on their shores. And now one of their two main industries is tourism (the other being cod-fishing). Go figure.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Oct 06 - 11:45 PM

Well the fishing won't last for ever...

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: GUEST,Autolycos
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 03:52 PM

The US Army's Comanche helicopter, 'initiated' in1983, has had $48.1 billlion investment plus, and hadn't gone into production by 2002.

   The first day of the 21st century was 1st January 2001.


   It's also little known that somebody once said,"We do not see the world as it is , but as we are."


   Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 04:43 PM

The National Guard says its 369 years old (370 on December 13, 2006), but as far as I know no party is planned.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 10:47 PM

I read

"The US Army's Concrete helicopter,"

My eyes ain't what they used to be -they used to be my ears...

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 10:56 PM

Well, during WW2 the US made ships out of concrete. Worked, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 11:05 PM

At Betty's Boudoir & Massage Parlour the customer always comes first!

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: NH Dave
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 11:20 PM

Apples are the result of pollen from one tree fertilizing the blossoms on another tree, which may not bear the same type of apple as the one being fertilized, which results in strange results. ALL apple "trees" are actually the result of grafting a shoot from the sort of apple you want onto a sturdy root system, and waiting for the apples, which may have little resemblance to the root system. Potatoes are propagated asexually too.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 11:39 PM

Not in Idaho they aren't! Our potatoes propogate like God intended, without none of that PRE-vert stuff!

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Old Guy
Date: 15 Oct 06 - 11:54 PM

Confucius say woman who cooks carrots and pees in same pot, very unsanitary.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Partridge
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 03:51 AM

More people are alive today, than have ever died

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 05:07 AM

There are more Irish people outside Ireland than in it.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 05:20 AM

Rapaire, my pal's son just sailed to Fiji in his ferro-cement yacht. Quite a common building material.
It has been raining there for three weeks, he says.
Some landing beaches for WW2 D-Day had no harbours, so they built concrete ones and towed them over and sank them into place.

In WW2 the British experimented with ships built of Pykrete, which is sawdust frozen in water. It worked, but the war ended before it was used, to the relief of brass monkeys. The formula is in Wikipedia, if you want to try.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 04:16 PM

If you lay down every pensioner from head to toe around the world,only half of them would be able to get back up.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 05:09 PM

Half of twelve is seven!
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Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Cool Beans
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 05:53 PM

LOL at Landland!

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: GUEST,Adrianel
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 07:32 PM

There are four million people in Ireland, and ten million outside singing about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Little known facts
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Oct 06 - 04:17 AM

If you laid all the people in Birmingham end to end accross the atlantic ocean they would all drown.

eric