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Old 01-21-2011, 10:26 AM
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A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All Polar bears are left-handed.

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

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

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

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

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

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

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

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

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

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

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

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

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.
 
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Old 01-21-2011, 10:56 AM
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Nope - Bonobo monkeys do too

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
In my next life, I wannabe..................
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Yup, one of dem
Now you know where the phrase"making a pig of yourself" comes from, pse excuse the pun.......

China has more English speakers than the United States.
And most people in the Chines quarters in US cities can't speak Engrish.......

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
And we all know why that is, don't we.........

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Sometimes 6 inches is enough...............

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
Nope it wun't - it's the abbreviation of Gwendolyn..........

No word in the English language rhymes with month
Nope whattabout "nunth" - a 3 year old will tellya that's the plural of "Nun"

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Not if you live in Africa or Ozzzztralia.........

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.

So that's where the phrase "getting head" comes from..........(sorry couldn't resist)

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Oh and Noddy was banned too - for being disrespectful to policemen..........

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.


Nope ti's "*****" every one get's called that many more times in a lifetime than their given name.

Especially if you're from Maine..............hehehehe
I was bored, soooo
 
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Old 01-21-2011, 04:05 PM
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***** ........except for the second from last sentence


There's a spider on yer toilet seat !


& ya learn something new everyday ........
I swear I never knew Noddy was a cop hater ! .....lol

So what's the scoop on the magic roundabout ????? LOL
Prolly some kinda of subliminal cult message in that show
I never know about !
But then that was created in France ....so anything is possible
 

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No word in the English language rhymes with month.

I am informed by daughter No. 2 [and to be fair she does know about **** like this,she is the only person I know that actually owns a Rhyming Dictionary] that silver and purple are the same.
 
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Old 01-23-2011, 04:16 AM
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Apparently Christopher Columbus never actually made it to North America.

Tooled around the Carribean for a few years, never realised that Cuba was an island and not a continent, went for a bit of a sail, bumped into Brasil and then buggered off back to Spain.

So there you go, the most over-rated explorer in history.
 
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According to Barbara Walters, once rhymes with month.
 
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Nice elaboration, Pete.

According to Barbara Walters, once rhymes with month.
HA!!!

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
This one explains why fat chicks won't leave you alone.
 
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Originally Posted by Sprock
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
I'm sure there isn't a single person on here that is surprised you know that

You should be ashamed of yourself

It's still not too late, there are professionals that can help people like you!

 
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Originally Posted by Sprock
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
And then she will not stop calling. That's why I don't do shots anymore.
 
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Old 01-24-2011, 04:18 PM
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LOL

freakin' comedians one and all

"Cept for Trout ....... he really digs fat chicks
 


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