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Dawsey

New member
Apr 25, 2004
1,607
Brighton
1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.

8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple, and silver.

14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.

15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World
War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film
down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".

19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law
which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record
player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".

28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a
woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

29. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the
book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into
space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback to farting in such a confined space....

32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
 




Gully

Monkey in a seagull suit.
Apr 24, 2004
16,812
Way out west
Thank you for that Dawsey, but I would like to dispute a couple of them:

5. Hard to believe that female ferrets die if they dont find a mate when they come into heat, what about those kept as pets away from any other contact with ferrets?

24. Celery does have calories, so they must be positive, however I believe it takes more calories to eat it than you gain from doing so, on that premise I flatly refuse to go anywhere near the stuff, plus it is absolutely bogging.

27. One day Dr Watson walked into Sherlock Holmes's study to find him smearing lemon curd all over his manhood, when asked what he was doing Sherlock replied "Lemon entry my dear Watson"

Getting my coat...
 












Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,324
Living In a Box
Somebody mailed me this at work.
 


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