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Location: SC Rep Power: 6 ![]() | Anyone buying Nortel Stock? Dont know if all these are true..... A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 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. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. 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. Butterflies taste with their feet. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 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, in single file, 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. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; lollipop" with your right. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts. 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. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. There are more chickens than people in the world. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.< BR> There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. :P | ||||||||
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Rep Power: 6 ![]() | Cannot login to Option 11C Just a couple of points. 1. The China thing about the reproduction. I've never tried it, but how can you reproduce while walking in a line? 2. The Bible doesn't even say they were wise men. Either Magi or Kings. You might also, note that it says " The young boy" Christ, not the infant or baby. It was some 8 yrs after the birth that they arrived at the "House of Joesph and Mary not the " Manger." Also, Mary did not become a virgin until proclaimed so by the Catholic Bishops circa 1300's. No where in the Bible does it say she was. and 3. a jiffy 1. The duration of one tick of the computer's system clock. Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the US and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. 2. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond wall time interval. Even more confusingly, physicists semi-jokingly use "jiffy" to mean the time required for light to travel one foot in a vacuum, which turns out to be close to one *nanosecond Interresting tid-bits. | ||||||||
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FROM WEBSTERS Immaculate Conception: 1 : the conception of the Virgin Mary in which as decreed in Roman Catholic dogma her soul was preserved free from original sin by divine grace 2 : December 8 observed as a Roman Catholic feast in commemoration of the Immaculate Conception [Edited on 15/7/2003 by SD_WILSON] __________________ Life is far too important to be taken seriously! | |||||||||
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Location: Somewhere in the Ford Galaxy Rep Power: 6 ![]() | Console question Good afternoon, I am the Devils advocate. He has instructed me to inform you that while he is in the Bible he is NOT in the details. He has not, nor will he ever be, in the details. He states for the record that while he may be written about in the bible he was never actually IN the Bible. He would like to say further that he completly distances himself from the Bible and everything good, pure , and decent in general. As far as he's concerned you can all go to Hell. Thank you. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: | ||||||||
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I don't know about you but 'know not a man' means a virgin in my books! __________________ Life is far too important to be taken seriously! | |||||||||
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Location: The other side of the Lake from work Rep Power: 11 ![]() | Ok...back on to the subject as a whole...SOME of these I HAVE heard (aka researched) to be true: YES...the Microwave was invented because of a melted chocolate bar YES...SOME Dragonflies have 24hrs to be born, find food, mate and die (while other species DO live longer) YES...for the most part our eyes are the same size at birth as they will ever be, and our ears and noses (and anyother cartilge in our body's ) continuly grows. (Our eyes GROW, but not bigger, just stronger.) YES...there is not, nor has there ever been a Betty Rubble in Flinstone's Vitamins, reason: she was to hard to distinguish from Wilma at the time Then there are the wrong: There ARE some words (recently invented I'm sure) that will rhyme with orange, purple and silver And I have yet to find ANYTHING supporting that in 1932 Nigara falls froze over completly....YES there have been MANY years where it's been cold enough to freeze up the river that feeds it, thus causing ice jams at the top of the falls, and YES, they HAVE had to stop the falls for repairs to various parts...but that's all I can find on it.. Lastly...The Devil's not in the details OR the Bible...he's in the PUDDING, and that's why mine tates so awful...got nothing to do with the experation date being from six months back __________________ You can't wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you - Look, if I went 'round saying I was an Emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! | ||||||||
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| Moderator ![]() SD_WILSON is AWESOME!!!
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As to Niagara drying up... yes, it is a verifyable event from about 30th 1848 and lasted 30-40 hours. Try: http://www.iaw.com/~falls/faq.html#where He even lists verifiable sources. And as to the Devil... he is actually in Georgia looking for a soul to steal. And he is in a bind 'cause he is way behind and he's willin' to make a deal. :wink: SD __________________ Life is far too important to be taken seriously! | |||||||||
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