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Topic: Random mundane facts you know!
Posted By: Anne
Subject: Random mundane facts you know!
Date Posted: 18 September 2006 at 11:15pm
List them here, Could get interesting! Did you know robins only live a year?

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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 12:42am
average 178 sesame seeds on a macbun apparently.

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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 12:44am

leonardo da vinci invented scissors!

(wow Pierre! you are a mine of sh*t facts!)

 



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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 12:45am

flies hide behind radiators in winter

 



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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 12:51am

steve is a russian spy

Ann is the little spy-ette that appears in the adverts, ever getting smaller whilst being chased by the russian police.

(it took several years to film that advert as she refused to stop growing. And it is filmed in reverse. if you look carefully she is older in the first scene and appears to get younger as she gets smaller!)

probly...



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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 12:58am
daddy long legs all ways get a leg pulled off


Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 7:22am
On averge we eat about 10 spiders a year when sleeping

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 9:25am
LEGO is the worlds largest producer of rubber tyres

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Posted By: J.R.
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 11:47am
you can't lick your own elbow !

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Posted By: Jenny
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 12:12pm
For those men who hate trying on clothes when out shopping:
Leave a pair of trousers done up and then wrap them around your head (at forehead level) if the material overlaps slightly then the trousers will fit you.


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No one really cares if you are miserable so you might was well be happy. (Cynthia Nelms)


Posted By: phisch21
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 12:26pm
Originally posted by Jenny Jenny wrote:

For those men who hate trying on clothes when out shopping:
Leave a pair of trousers done up and then wrap them around your head (at forehead level) if the material overlaps slightly then the trousers will fit you.


Presumably this only works for seeing whether they fit round the waist, not the length and only if you are "average" build - ie you don't have an enormous beer gut (unless you have a fat head to match!)


Posted By: Jenny
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 1:04pm
As most men have the waist of their trousers sitting almost on their hips (i.e. below any beer gut) this works for all sized / shape men. You can tell if trousers will fit lengthwise by holding them to your leg!


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No one really cares if you are miserable so you might was well be happy. (Cynthia Nelms)


Posted By: Malc London
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 1:21pm
I think I'd rather try them on.


Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 2:14pm
so what happens if you have thunder thighs ?- yeah they fit around the waist but they dont hoist up past your knees ?

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 2:20pm

Originally posted by Jenny Jenny wrote:

For those men who hate trying on clothes when out shopping:
Leave a pair of trousers done up and then wrap them around your head (at forehead level) if the material overlaps slightly then the trousers will fit you.

 

 i'm bored at work, as we are closed....... so i decided to check this one out,

 i took a tape measure and measured the distance round my head at forehead level - result is 25 inches, - so add abit for the 'overlap' say 5 inches..... so are you telling me my waist is 30 inches ?

 

I wish ! 30 plus the VAT at 17.5 %  maybe !!!!!!!!!



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Posted By: Jenny
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 2:23pm
No! If you kept the trousers done up when putting it round your head then your calculation should be:

Circumference around head x 2 (as material is doubled up) = waist


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No one really cares if you are miserable so you might was well be happy. (Cynthia Nelms)


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 2:56pm
A 50" waist baggles?


Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 4:47pm

room in there for the wife  aswell at 50 inches..... not that big.......

more like 44 to 46 depending on the cut.....

 



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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 4:49pm
action mans thumbs are anatomically incorrect, check the positions of the thumb nail on both hands ( only true action men have this feature to make counterfeits easy to spot !)

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 4:53pm
the majority of lemon scented washing up liquids are actually fragranced using orange oils not lemon !

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 4:54pm
if you handle some frogs native to the UK your body temperature actually burns the frogs skin

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Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 5:02pm
Ow poor froggies i manhandled in my youth

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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 5:13pm

Originally posted by big baggles big baggles wrote:

action mans thumbs are anatomically incorrect, check the positions of the thumb nail on both hands ( only true action men have this feature to make counterfeits easy to spot !)

I remember BMW as an April fool joke put out a statement out saying that there are some counterfeit BMW in Europe and to spot them easily you can see which way around the is badge, they put a photo of there own batch and made out this is the counterfeit car



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Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 8:09pm
scientifically bumble bees should not be able to fly!

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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 8:58pm

If it wasn't for the big toe humans would find it almost imposable to walk.

 



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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 19 September 2006 at 9:40pm

cat scabs make ideal fishing "flies"



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Posted By: Fans
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:58am
YUK


Posted By: gsilvester
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 2:29pm

  http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZCxdm473YYGB">Baby  Happy Birthday Alexander the Great - born 365BC





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Posted By: doonhamer
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 2:52pm

Whale meat tastes like beef*

*or it does to me 



Posted By: DanW
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 3:51pm
Mister Ed was not a horse. He was, in fact, a zebra.

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Posted By: Malc London
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 5:27pm

Originally posted by DanW DanW wrote:

Mister Ed was not a horse. He was, in fact, a zebra.

He was in his pyjamas, silly!



Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 6:11pm
Astronauts get taller when they are in space


Posted By: Cracker Man
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 6:38pm
Originally posted by doonhamer doonhamer wrote:

Whale meat tastes like beef*

*or it does to me 

Pidgeon tastes like chicken



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Posted By: Cracker Man
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 6:39pm
Us and the Americans trained the Taliban and sold artillery 2 the Iraqis when they were at war with Iran.

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Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 6:46pm
I should go in space! Then

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Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:10pm

In the past few decades 90% of the big fish in the oceans have been eaten, or otherwise disposed of.

 



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Posted By: Emsy
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:13pm
Originally posted by Cracker Man Cracker Man wrote:

Us and the Americans trained the Taliban and sold artillery 2 the Iraqis when they were at war with Iran.


We have also supplied artillery to Iran in the past.




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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.


Posted By: Dave-R
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:15pm
Thats all because we had a common enemy in the Soviets


Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:17pm
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."

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Posted By: Emsy
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:23pm
Something I didn't know until today: the word Jeep is derived from the acronym G.P used by the Army for a General Purpose vehicle. 

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Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:24pm
Did you know the daddy long leg spider could kill you? Luckly they cant brake human skin when biting

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Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:26pm

hey my sister told me that today, where did you hear that? She was worried cos her dog keeps eating them lol



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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:27pm
Homer Simpson does all his stunts himself.

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Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:37pm
HAHA andy you silly person you. So does my cat kate! Only time she moves!

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Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 10:51pm
The bible has been translated into Klingon

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Posted By: Dave-R
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 11:00pm

Ambidextrous people ( people who can write with both hands) are considered by some Doctors to be brain damaged because the human brain is supposed to favour one side.

This is quite interesting for me because i can write with both hands! 



Posted By: Helen
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 11:17pm
i would say rather clever as you can multitask as a bloke this is very good


Posted By: jessama
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 11:28pm
Originally posted by Cracker Man
<P>Pidgeon tastes like chicken</P>
<P>[/QUOTE Cracker Man

Pidgeon tastes like chicken

[/QUOTE wrote:

Pigeon is nothing like chicken.  I'd change

Pigeon is nothing like chicken.  I'd change my supplier if I were you.

 



Posted By: jessama
Date Posted: 20 September 2006 at 11:29pm

Originally posted by pierre pierre wrote:

Homer Simpson does all his stunts himself.

 

 



Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 12:21am
Originally posted by Dave-R Dave-R wrote:

Ambidextrous people ( people who can write with both hands) are considered by some Doctors to be brain damaged because the human brain is supposed to favour one side.

This is quite interesting for me because i can write with both hands! 

I'd give my eye teeth to be ambidextrous... er, no... that should be

right arm!

I too can write with both hands!  

reading what the left hand has achieved is dissapointing though!



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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 12:33am
Originally posted by jessama jessama wrote:

Originally posted by pierre pierre wrote:

Homer Simpson does all his stunts himself.

 

 

dohh



Posted By: BigDave
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 7:42am

Originally posted by Anne Anne wrote:

Did you know the daddy long leg spider could kill you? Luckly they cant brake human skin when biting

A common misconception apparently.  The Daddy longlegs doesn't actually have a mouth.  Ricky Gervais once famously said that the daddy longlegs has the most poisonous venom known to man but cannot do anything because it has no teeth.  The "Daddy longlegs" he's talking about is actually a spider - not the common horsefly.



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If you can keep your head whan all about you are losing theirs, it's possible you haven't grasped the gravity of the situation...........

Champion Tugger 2005 + 2006


Posted By: DanW
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 8:10am
May I once again point people in the direction of http://www.snopes.com - www.snopes.com before they post their 'facts'? It's well worth a look!

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Posted By: J.R.
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 9:30am
spoil sport

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Posted By: Jenny
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 9:41am
Originally posted by DanW DanW wrote:

May I once again point people in the direction of http://www.snopes.com - www.snopes.com before they post their 'facts'? It's well worth a look!


May I courteous recommend that the honourable gentleman takes his own advice. For if he were to do so he would see that Mr Ed was NOT a zebra but a horse!


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No one really cares if you are miserable so you might was well be happy. (Cynthia Nelms)


Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 9:52am
now stop it you two..... kiss and make up

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Posted By: DanW
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 9:53am

Originally posted by Jenny Jenny wrote:

Originally posted by DanW DanW wrote:

May I once again point people in the direction of http://www.snopes.com - www.snopes.com before they post their 'facts'? It's well worth a look!


May I courteous recommend that the honourable gentleman takes his own advice. For if he were to do so he would see that Mr Ed was NOT a zebra but a horse!

Shhh...you'll spoil the suprise about the lost legends section!



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I used to be with it. But then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems scary and weird.


Posted By: jessama
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 10:19am

Originally posted by DanW DanW wrote:

May I once again point people in the direction of http://www.snopes.com - www.snopes.com before they post their 'facts'? It's well worth a look!

Why are they always Urban Legends?  Aren't there any Rural Legends?

 



Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 6:26pm
Touching and stroking a plant will aid in it growing healthy


Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 21 September 2006 at 6:39pm
Oh.. that told me then!boo!

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Posted By: Cracker Man
Date Posted: 23 September 2006 at 4:32pm
Originally posted by Dave-R Dave-R wrote:

Ambidextrous people ( people who can write with both hands) are considered by some Doctors to be brain damaged because the human brain is supposed to favour one side.

This is quite interesting for me because i can write with both hands! 

Although I write with my right hand, I play guitar with my left



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I'm happy, hope you're happy too


Posted By: Cracker Man
Date Posted: 23 September 2006 at 4:33pm
A banana has just as many calories as a mars bar

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Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 12:30am
Originally posted by Cracker Man Cracker Man wrote:

Originally posted by Dave-R Dave-R wrote:

Ambidextrous people ( people who can write with both hands) are considered by some Doctors to be brain damaged because the human brain is supposed to favour one side.

This is quite interesting for me because i can write with both hands! 

I wouldnt say you where brain damaged, but there is definately something wrong with you

 

Although I write with my right hand, I play guitar with my left

hmmm maybe you should try playing with your right hand it might sound better?



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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 2:36pm

Did you know that

The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol

and 33% of the world's electricity.

 



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Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 3:10pm
well that dosent suprise me!

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Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 3:10pm
Did you know aftershock tastes like mouthwash?

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Posted By: Cracker Man
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 3:48pm
Don't ask me how I know, but a gorilla's erection only reahes 3 inches.

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Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 6:17pm
hahhahhahahhahahahahahahah

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Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 6:20pm

well i know someone who is the size of a gorilla but im not commenting on the size of anything else because i cant (something to do with alcohol?)



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Posted By: Dave-R
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 6:27pm

Oh God i had to laugh then!



Posted By: KATE
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 6:37pm
no no, i insist on having the last larf

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i am happy!! Pierre is just intoxicated


Posted By: Dave-R
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 6:51pm


Posted By: Cracker Man
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 6:55pm
The Queen has a myspace page. So does Alan Partridge, Les Denis and Pat Sharpe

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Posted By: Dave-R
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 6:59pm
Dont care about the other 3 but Pat Sharpe!!!WOW!


Posted By: Cracker Man
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 7:07pm
Yeah check it out http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=28695725 - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewpro file&friendid=28695725

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Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 7:11pm
Dont get myspace..

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Posted By: Cracker Man
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 7:20pm

Every1 with internet access can get myspace.

 



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Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 7:33pm
Ive got it on my phone aparently

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Posted By: pierre
Date Posted: 24 September 2006 at 8:09pm

Originally posted by Cracker Man Cracker Man wrote:

Don't ask me how I know, but a gorilla's erection only reahes 3 inches.

crackerman has sex with monkeys!!!

ha ha ha!

and... how does he know that a banana has more calories than a mars bar?

bless you crackerman! you were brilliant with your jokes on friday!!!



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Posted By: jake
Date Posted: 25 September 2006 at 12:13am
don't praise him up please


Posted By: Cracker Man
Date Posted: 25 September 2006 at 8:30pm
Saying I have sex with monkeys is an insult not praise

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Posted By: Anne
Date Posted: 25 September 2006 at 9:32pm
I have 157 sidekick glasses as a tower in my livingroom

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Posted By: hissing sid
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 2:28am
Following Steve's topic on a death by a Rottweiler. Did you know the first litter Rottweiler puppies born in England, were born in Chalfont st Peter.


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It's a free country, adopt whatever PC stance you want. Just don't tell me which stance I should take just because it clashes with your opinion.



Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:34am
the liquid inside a coconut can be used as a substitute for blood plasma

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:34am
donkeys kill more people every year than plane crashes

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:35am
you use up more calories sleeping than watching the TV

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:35am
oak trees dont produce acorns until they exceed 50 yrs old

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:46am
wrigleys gum was the first product to get a bar code

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:46am
in a pack of cards the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:48am
in 1987 american airlines saved $40,000 by removing one olive from each salad served in first class onboard their flights

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:53am
pearls dissolve in vinegar

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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:53am

the 3 most  valuable brand names  on earth are 

Marlboro

coca cola

budweiser



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Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 9:56am
a turtle if required can actually inhale/ breathe/ stay alive, by getting air though its bum- it can do this due to the natural make up of its shell,

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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 10:40am

Good job that turtles don't eat Currie and drink lager

 



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Posted By: jessama
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 10:42am

Not busy at work today Baggles?

 



Posted By: big baggles
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 11:40am
nope - pretty quiet, plus we are encouraged to spend time away from the solvents and stuff, so i spend a few mins on here from time to time !- it sort of clears the head !

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Posted By: baldsam
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 4:10pm

I know loads of stuff:-

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

(now get this...)

 

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

 

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.

 

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and

>Wilma Flintstone.

 

In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to hit his

wife with a stick no thicker than

>his thumb.  Hence we have "The rule of thumb."

 

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

 

Coca-Cola was originally green.

 

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

 

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

 

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

 

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

 

Try this math: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

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 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. Half of all Americans live

within 50 miles of their birthplace.

 

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

requested? "Obsession"

 

If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you

 



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Posted By: DanW
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 4:26pm

I'm not sure that cut and pasting counts - especially when so much of it is wrong:

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.

 

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/golf.asp - http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/golf.asp

 

In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to hit his

wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.  Hence we have "The rule of thumb."

 

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000512.html - http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000512.html

 

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

 

http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/8108/508120235zw.jpg - http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/8108/508120235zw.jpg

 

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

 

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm - http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm

 



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Posted By: Big Dunc
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 5:22pm
Originally posted by baldsam baldsam wrote:

I know loads of stuff:-

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

(now get this...)

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

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

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

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

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

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.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and

>Wilma Flintstone.

In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to hit his

wife with a stick no thicker than

>his thumb.  Hence we have "The rule of thumb."

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

Coca-Cola was originally green.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

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

Try this math: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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 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. Half of all Americans live

within 50 miles of their birthplace.

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

requested? "Obsession"

If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you

 

You have been spending far too much time with Kirby, you geek!!



Posted By: Dave-R
Date Posted: 26 September 2006 at 5:26pm
Randon fact - Baldsam knows how to copy and paste!



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