Things to think about...

[Poison]

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Is there another word for synonym?


Can you think of any others? Share them with us..

[zambezilover]

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
we evolved from an ape like species but are not directly linked to the species we have today

What if there were no hypothetical questions? Then this thread never would have started

[zambezilover]

Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick to the pan?

Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

[RustyBear]

What came first the chicken or the egg?

[Richard]

the egg

[RustyBear]

where did the egg come from?

[FerrariSucks]

the stork

[FerrariSucks]

why didnt they create a word to rhyme with Orange

[Shayne]

Daily facts that are very interesting to check out.

Red-haired people are twice as likely to be married by age 23 than their blonde-haired counterparts.

• 92 percent of rain falls into one of the world's oceans.

• One in three emails received by Microsoft's Hotmail is addressed to an inactive or nonexistent account.

• On average, it takes roughly 14,000 hours of game play before a person can compete at the level of a chess master.

• Disopiaephobia, a rare condition in which people fear anything in their peripheral vision, afflicts two in every million people.

Trivia heads... (http://www.gullible.info/)

[Greenballs]

I'm too hung over to even think about that

[calmc]

Richard, it looks like you're the exception!:smiley20::smiley20:

[kfm]

How come the soles of our feet never wear out?

[neilvr]

What happens if you get scare half to death twice?

[FerrariSucks]

is the glass half full or half empty

[Greenballs]

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
we evolved from an ape like species but are not directly linked to the species we have today

What if there were no hypothetical questions? Then this thread never would have started
I'm not so clever but I can lift heavy things!!!:smiley11:

[Greenballs]

The center of the bible...

The shortest chapter of the bible is Psalm 117, the longest chapter of the bible is Psalm 119. There are 594 chapters after Psalm 118 and 594 before Psalm 118- the center chapter. Add the chapters after and before Psalm 118 and you get 1188.

Q: What is the center verse of the bible?

A: Psalm 118:8...
"It is better to trust the lord than to put faith into man"

[FerrariSucks]

that is very interesting

[Poison]

If a stink bug didn't stink, what would they call it? A nice-smelling bug?

Why do we clap our hands to show approval?

Did you know that your kneecaps are the exact size of your eye sockets?

[kfm]

Did you know that your kneecaps are the exact size of your eye sockets?

Really? Thats interesting.... How did they measure it?

[FerrariSucks]

Did you know your eyeballs are the same size throughout life

[neilvr]

Did you know one foot is slightly bigger than the other

[Richard]

what the one in poisons mouth?

[Greenballs]

Did you know that 80% of Californians don't know what the capital of America is?

Do you know that more than 60% of Americans, when shown a map of the world didn't even know where Iraq is and even more mind boggling is that 50% of these useless fucking yanks pointed to Australia as being Iraq... WTF

[neilvr]

did you know that 53% percent of all statistics are made up?

[Cez]

Can you slam a revolving door?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

What happens if you get a paper cut from a Get Well card?

[neilvr]

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

[Greenballs]

:smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29: :smiley29:
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up every two hours?

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?



Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?

Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough?

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?

What is the speed of darkness?

Are there specially reserved parking spaces for "normal" people at the Special Olympics?


If the temperature is zero outside today and it's going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?

If it's true that we are here to help others, what are the others doing here?

Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?

Do you cry under water?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Did you ever stop and wonder......



Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"



Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there... I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta it's bum."



Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?



Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?



Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't
point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?



Why does your Obstetrician, Gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?



Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!



Can blind people see their dreams? Do they dream??



If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? (This one kills me!!!!)



If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?



If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?



Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?



Stop singing and read on . . . . . .. . . . .



Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?



Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at
you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?



Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?



Do you ever wonder why you gave me your e-mail address in the first place?

[Zulucowboy]

The hardest part of your body to touch with your left hand is.........your left elbow :whistling:

[Greenballs]

DOES CEZ HAVE A JOB???

[zambezilover]

haha i asked the same question. Cez do you have a job or social life or is the TCB your social life

[Cez]

:smiley36: Cez does have a job and a social life!!!!

just coz i am on the site a lot does not mean i am at home doing nothing all the time - my laptop lives with me and where i go it goes! so guys dont be jealous - accept it and move on!:smiley20:

[Raevoyn]

Why is it that we always tend to knock those that are better, worse off or just simply different to us?

[Cez]

they just jealous! :smiley36: so i'm not upset - i think its quite funny actually - they hate competition from a woman!!!!:whistling: :smiley20:

[Raevoyn]

They're only upsetting themselves I guess!

Rock on!

[Greenballs]

Why is it that we always tend to knock those that are better, worse off or just simply different to us?

Ahh... how sweet? What a LOAD of KUK!!! Dry your eyes Wops!!!

[Cez]

:smiley36: you should learn to be nicer to everyone greenballs - it'd get you further!!!

[Raevoyn]

I'm not bothered, sometimes people have to walk around putting others down to make themselves feel big. I'm pretty secure in myself not to let that bother me! Go ahead Greenballs, do your worst, you're not insulting me, but yourself, and letting everyone know in the meantime.

Think on this: Rather keep quiet and let everyone think you're a fool, than open you mouth and remove all doubt!

Just a thought ...

[Greenballs]

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber!!!

[Greenballs]

A friend in need is a pest indeed.
Marriage is one of the chief causes of divorce.
Work is fine if it doesn't take too much of your time.
When everything comes in your way you're in the wrong lane.
The light at the end of the tunnel may be an incoming train.
Born free, taxed to death.
Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.
Life is unsure; always eat your dessert first.
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
If you keep your feet firmly on the ground, you'll have trouble putting on your pants.

It's not hard to meet expenses, they are everywhere.
I love being a writer... what I can't stand is the paperwork.
A printer consists of 3 main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was the genius.

The trouble with being punctual is that no one is there to appreciate it.

In a country of free speech, why are there phone bills?
If you cannot change your mind, are you sure you have one?
Beat the 5 O'clock rush, leave work at noon!
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
It's not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the end.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
Hot glass looks same as cold glass. - Cunino's Law of Burnt Fingers
The cigarette does the smoking you are just the sucker.
Someday is not a day of the week

[Nyala]

If you tie a buttered piece of toast onto a cats back and drop them, which side will land on the floor?

[Nyala]

What would you call a fly without wings?...A walk?

[Greenballs]

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?



"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. (I'll bet you're going to check this out.)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT". (Are you doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.



The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. ( Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)


The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)


There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)


There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say .... A e I o u)


TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)


All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
(Some days that's about what my memory span is)

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. (I know some people that could do this too.)

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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.

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, 8 abreast,
The line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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. (Good thing he did that)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know everything!

[Raevoyn]

You have come up with some corkers! Well Done!

[dallas]

those were all good!!

[Poison]

Did you know this about keyboards?

Some quick facts about the 'QWERTY' layout:

It was designed for typewriters initially by Christopher Sholes all the way back in 1872!
He purposely selected a physical layout that was 'difficult' to type, so that typing speeds would be reduced! This was in an effort to reduce the jamming of 'hammers' used to create individual letters.
The QWERTY layout was never changed when computers started hitting the market. Secretaries and people using typewriters were used to the old layout and even when other, more efficient layouts, have been proven effective, the old layout has remained with us, and will for many years

[Raevoyn]

Some good ideas coming through ....

[Nyala]

Very good stuff here.

[sally]

all very interesting!!

[Nyala]

See what interesting bits of trivia you can drag up and share....




"Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.


The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help after (SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me"


Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.


"Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."

[Bianca]

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you "break wind" consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish don't have brains.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

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

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses.The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.

[Nyala]

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

How the hang do they know this???

[yarrumsg]

SH1T stands for Ship High In Transit, had something to do with carrying manure and the something to do with the methane generated the ships cargo had to be above the water line (i guess maybe to stop sinking can't remember the exact reason) so any ships that sailed high were avoided as one small spark, and the proverbial hit the fan

[yarrumsg]

and if memory serves correct and i could be wrong on this the other 4 letter word originates from Fonication Under Country and King basically before u got married the ruling King could have his way with you, basically what pee'd Braveheart off...

[Exzim]

SH1T stands for Ship High In Transit, had something to do with carrying manure and the something to do with the methane generated the ships cargo had to be above the water line (i guess maybe to stop sinking can't remember the exact reason) so any ships that sailed high were avoided as one small spark, and the proverbial hit the fan

Sorry Yarrumsg, you have been missled or taught/informed. You have however recited the internet myth verbatim. Whilst I am no way into the philosophy of correct English/germanic origins, there is no way on Gods Earth or common sence for that matter, that your fable is the real origin of SHIT.

One possible or plausible origin for the word, is most likeily to have originated during the Viking times or "old norse". Scholars indeed have been able to assertain that the word originated from Germanic culture during the Roman Empire. The word "scitte" was originally adopted into Medieval English. The word then evolved into schitte and into the current English vocabulary.

There is another "fable" of the word F**K . This again was another schoolboy interpretation of "fornucate under Country and King" Then the word should read FUCAK . Firsty, if one applies "common sence to it, we always refered to the monachy first country second-as in King and Country.

Fu**


a difficult word to trace, in part because it was taboo to the editors of the original OED when the "F" volume was compiled, 1893-97. Written form only attested from early 16c. OED 2nd edition cites 1503, in the form fukkit; earliest appearance of current spelling is 1535 -- "Bischops ... may fuck thair fill and be vnmaryit" [Sir David Lyndesay, "Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits"], but presumably it is a much more ancient word than that, simply one that wasn't likely to be written in the kind of texts that have survived from O.E. and M.E. Buck cites proper name John le Fucker from 1278. The word apparently is hinted at in a scurrilous 15c. poem, titled "Flen flyys," written in bastard L. and M.E. The relevant line reads: Non sunt in celi

quia fuccant uuiuys of heli"They [the monks] are not in heaven because they f*** the wives of Ely." Fuccant is pseudo-L., and in the original it is written in cipher. The earliest examples of the word otherwise are from Scottish, which suggests a Scandinavian origin, perhaps from a word akin to Norw. dial. fukka "copulate," or Swedish dial. focka "copulate, strike, push," and fock "penis." Another theory traces it to M.E. fkye, fike "move restlessly, fidget," which also meant "dally, flirt," and probably is from a general North Sea Gmc. word, cf. M.Du. fokken, Ger. ficken "f***," earlier "make quick movements to and fro, flick," still earlier "itch, scratch;" the vulgar sense attested from 16c. This would parallel in sense the usual M.E. slang term for "have sexual intercourse," swive, from O.E. swifan "to move lightly over, sweep" (see swivel (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/swivel)). Chronology and phonology rule out Shipley's attempt to derive it from M.E. firk "to press hard, beat." As a noun, it dates from 1680. French foutre and Italian fottere look like the Eng. word but are unrelated, derived rather from L. futuere, which is perhaps from PIE base *bhau(t)- "knock, strike off," extended via a figurative use "from the sexual application of violent action" [Shipley; cf. the sexual slang use of bang, etc.]. Popular and Internet derivations from acronyms (and the "pluck yew" fable) are merely ingenious trifling. The O.E. word was hÊman, from ham "dwelling, home," with a sense of "take home, co-habit." F**k was outlawed in print in England (by the Obscene Publications Act, 1857) and the U.S. (by the Comstock Act, 1873). The word may have been shunned in print, but it continued in conversation, especially among soldiers during WWI.
Modern Language Association (MLA):

"fu**." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 26 Feb. 2007. Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fuck)

[Nyala]

Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.


The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.


The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.


Months that begins with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."


The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.


The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer.


The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile





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[Poison]

Threads Merged..

All the same thing really..

[Exzim]

Bianca, I am very sorry to do this to your interesting post, but I couldnt resist...

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you are making,do it down the road. My preference is Columbian strength 5 and no milk

If you "break wind" consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Crickey, I had a teacher like that

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
I want to be a pig

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On that "other" subject...ok ...That must hurt, but I still want to be a pig..

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)
Want to become a dolphin now. Not, just kidding a pig will do

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
I know, I will not go into details

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
Poor lefties

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
When intoxicated, I know someone who thinks he is like that, but does fall on his right side.

Polar bears are left handed.
Shame again poor lefties

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
I dont want to know that

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
Interesting. I feel really enlightened

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Thanks for telling me, now I feel really cleaver

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
Once I had an girlfriend like that , amazing I am here to tell the tale

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Pig- dolphin- lion , I still would like to be a pig

Butterflies taste with their feet.
Thanks ,now I am a genius...

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
I knew that...

Starfish don't have brains.
What about a chocolate one? and is that why we call an arsehole an "asshole"

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Talking of spray, I know some people who should use spray deodorant.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Interesting..

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
I will take your word for it.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
......and your point is?

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Hmmm think about it, being a pig watching TV... what a life

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
I have a lovely Oak Dining table made by Adam bede.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Why do you want me to know this

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
Its spelled M o u s t a c h e ..but I still want to be a pig.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
Yes, they are really big, not as big as the new Airbus A380 but the biggest is the Antonov 225

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Cheap skate

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
And this affects me how.............

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Are you trying to get out of making me coffee..I said Columbian strength 5 no milk

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Mine are called sell-o-tape

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Yuk, but I knew that, ever thought about majority of the dust in a PC....yes skin!

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Poor "Rich bugger"..

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
I am a guy -so who cares. I still want to be a pig,

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Go, Capitalism!

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
See doctors are not always right.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Elaborate, was that on one foot or both feet ?

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
What will I do with this information?

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
So, I dont like snakes

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Hmmm Lovely....

Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
I did not know that, I was about 8 when i saw it.

Pearls melt in vinegar.
FYI Girls..the ones from the sea. It does not mean vinegar is a contraception.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Thats why I want to watch TV and be a pig.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
Maybe so, but Dividends are not that great.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
If I want to be a pig, your entitled to take a cow upstaires... I see your point- evidence..

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
It does,it really does, but you just cant hear it.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses.The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Fireman.. See they were used in the YMCA video..makes sence now

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
WHy do I really have to know this

[Nyala]

No probs...thanks ;)

[Nyala]

Good effort, ExZim....some good comments there.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Mine are called sell-o-tape

lol...excellent - mine are too.


Thanks for that post, Bianca, some interesting stuff there.

[dallas]

liked the come backs too!!

[Kirsty]

These are defiantely things to ponder over.

Facts of the human Body:

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

Approximately 75% of human faeces is made of water.

It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

One human hair can support 3kg.

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

Your thumb is the same length of your nose.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

Women blink twice as much as men.

The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.

When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.

It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.

You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

[sally]

why do we bother having seat belt signs on an aircraft when people dont even take note of them

[Kirsty]

Moms, look out for your babies doing this:

[Bugzy82]

Very good Kirsty!

[Kirsty]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets.

When we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun. We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendos, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

[Chick]

Ears are the only facial part that continues to grow - why? I don't want to be some 80 year old tannie with huge ears ............

[sally]

your nose also continues to grow

[Kirsty]

your nose also continues to grow

Oh thats crazy. Like my nose needs to grow any more, oh boy. I'm going to have one hell of a snorkle when I am a granny.

[Chick]

Elephants can not only detect another herd when they are miles away via their rumbleings, but they can tell if it is a herd they know or which territory they belong to.