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Stuff like: Most watch advertisements show the watch-faces with the needles pointing to 10:10 o’clock
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If you inflate the colon with CO2 during a colonoscopy the procedure is less painful than if you use air.
The platypus is venomous.
I shared this in an earlier similar thread, but it’s kind of fun and worth repeating. Pigs love to eat coal. Then their excrement is used as a fuel.
Mark Twain smoked 15 cigars in each 5 hour writing session. And he started smoking cigars at age 9!
If you’d eat a donut with a hole, would you eat the hole as well?!
15% of Americans who have internet access….still have it via dial-up
@ SeVen – I need to start a rhetorical question..question tomorrow. Right now I can’t, I’ve run out of my questions quota for the day!
I must admit that I only got highspeed a couple of weeks ago :(
spiders have transparent blood.
and spiders pump blood to their extremities (arms + legs) to move, they dont have muscles
If a pigeon walks on a treadmill, its head doesn’t bob.
Why do their heads bob anyways?
more imortantly, why would someone take a pigeon for a stroll on a treadmill?
To check if they bob their head when they’re on a treadmill, perhaps?
Pigeons need exercise too you know.
Barney was arrested as a Pedophile
And Barney’s suit once caught fire during a taping of the show. “I love you (cough!), you love me (cough, cough – let me outta this f**king suit!!!) kids run screaming….
You know when barney was singing he was high, so hence he was genuinely happy….hahahha.
He HAD to be high, or ‘tarded!
Do you want to know a funny story on barney?
Does anyone want to tap the collective on why pigeons’ heads bob when they walk? I ran out on my question quota today (didn’t know you can do that!)
Wrestle… rhetorical question!!!
Anthony would you like me to?
Sure, tap the collective!
The CENTER of a donut, and the CENTER of a toilet seat, are composed of exactly the same material! (from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!)
August 23, 2008, 5:22 PM EDT
A bunch of idiots believe 9/11 was a conspiracy.
“Alice in Wonderland” author Lewis Carroll was a pedophile.
August 23, 2008, 7:44 PM EDT
Girraffe tongues are up to 2 feet long
@JackAdams That is a canard, sir.
“Karoline Leach’s work and the ‘Carroll Myth’
A new analysis of Dodgson’s sexual proclivities (and indeed the evolution of the entire process of his biography) appears in Karoline Leach’s 1999 book, In the Shadow of the Dreamchild. She claims that the image of Dodgson’s alleged pedophilia was built out of a failure to understand Victorian morals, as well as the mistaken idea that Dodgson had no interest in adult women which evolved out of the minds of various biographers. She termed this simplified, often frankly fictional image ‘the Carroll Myth’.
According to Leach, who cites much prima facie evidence, Dodgson’s real life was very different from the accepted biographical image. He was in fact keenly interested in adult women and apparently enjoyed several relationships with women, married and single. Some of these were his child friends with whom he retained good relations into adulthood (in complete refutation of the mythic idea that he ‘lost interest’ in any girl over the age of 14), but others, like Catherine Lloyd, Constance Burch, Edith Shute, Gertrude Thomson (to name but a few, were women he met as adults and with whom he shared very close and meaningful friendships. Suggestions of pedophilia only evolved many years after his death, when his well-meaning family had suppressed all evidence of these adult friendships in order to try to preserve his reputation, thus giving a false impression of a man only interested in little girls. This serves to repudiate some of the classical evidence for the claims of pedophilia.
Dodgson’s problems with societal disapproval, Leach says, stemmed not from his usage of nude child models but his attempts to get slightly older models to pose in ‘bathing dress’ and other immodest clothing. These studies of scantily-dressed older models have all disappeared, leaving commentators only the photos of young girls to comment on.”
Jeff Albertson is the name of Comic Book Store guy in the Simpson’s. The name has nothing to do with anything relating to any characters in the simpson’s or involved in making it. Matt G. did this on purpose knowing the obsessive nature of his fans. The first and only time he says it was when he introduced himself to Ned Flanders.
at the convention where he wants the video of homer and the octopus
a domokun is a brown monster hatch from an egg and lives with an old wise rabbit underground.
His favorite pasttime is watchig television.
Pete Ross was a boyhood friend of Clark “Superboy” Kent, who accidentally discovered Clark’s secret identity on a camping trip, and chose never to tell Clark what he knew.
In many issues of “Superboy,” Pete would “cover” for Clark, in situations were it looked like Clark’s secret might be revealed to others.
Clark never knew what Pete was doing for him, even though they were the very best of friends, and remained so, into their adult years.
August 23, 2008, 11:40 PM EDT
Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
The name JASON is short for:
July
August
September
October
November
August 23, 2008, 11:41 PM EDT
@ JackAdams – that is cool!
The blue whale’s penis is 6 feet long and they do “it” belly to belly.
That a Shrimp running on a treadmill to the Bennyhill Show Song is hilarious. And good exercise for the shrimp?
@Trance24 Strangely compelling.
You CAN touch your right elbow with your right hand, IF your right hand is first amputated.
August 24, 2008, 1:18 AM EDT
people with red hair feel less pain.
According to Warner Brothers, no one who is a stutterer, has ever complained that the cartoon character PORKY PIG’s stuttering, was “making fun” of them.
August 24, 2008, 1:56 AM EDT
@cheeb
Which explains why the Scots and Irish can tolerate the bagpipe
I know a joke about an octopus and a set of bagpipes, but have to relate it via PM or e-mail…
August 24, 2008, 2:15 AM EDT
all of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20
After starring in the movie “PSYCHO” (1960), actress Janet Leigh (1927–2004) stopped taking showers alone, after see her famous shower scene from that movie, and said to an interviewer, “It’s actually, honestly true. And not because of the shooting of it. It was the seeing of it. It never dawned on me how truly vulnerable we are. But that’s what [Alfred Hitchcock] did. A shower. A bird. All these things that are absolutely ordinary, he made extraordinary.”
August 24, 2008, 2:09 PM EDT
@ stratman, is there a reason?
anthony…don’t be so naive! It’s the universal time to smoke weed! Even April 20th is a national holiday for tokers. I’ve outgrown the stuff myself, but I hear it’s much more potent today.
It’s not really. It’s so stupid and corny. It’s for high school kids.
oh RIGHT! I knew that! My brain isn’t functioning at 100% right now, in fact it hasn’t since school ended.
not all the clocks In pulp fiction are set at 4:20 (when the kid recieves the watch it’s 9:00).
Hitler was born on 4/20/1889
4:20 is actually international tea time
Beavis and Butthead have reincarnated and made Fluther their playground.
(If I need to explain, you haven’t encountered the phenomenon and you should hope it stays that way)
@wildflower- I blame mike judge
To some extent, but I suspect various MMORPG’s have to take their share of the blame for this incarnation…
The russian language does not have a words that would adequately translate the English words, LOGISTICS or FUN
Almost everyone has more than the average number of feet.
@lightlyseared, I just checked and I still have only 2 feet.
“On February 22, 1732 George Washington was born. George Washington was the only of all Founding Fathers to free his slaves. Marijuana was the primary crop grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon. He was the first Mason to serve as president. Washington rejected a movement among army officers to make him king of the United States. Washington is the only president who was elected unanimously.”
interesting facts
Not until AFTER WWII, was there such a thing as a Japanese word meaning, “surrender,” just because such a concept was totally inconceivable to them.
When the Japanese Emperor announced on the radio that the Empire of Japan would no longer fight anyone, he said something similar to, “We have mutually agreed with the Americans, to cease any and all hositilities.”
August 26, 2008, 11:19 AM EDT
@indy318 My point exactly. 2 is not the average number of feet for a human.
“The Fantastic Four” do not have secret identities, for some reason.
Everyone in their fictional world, knows their real names.
The only other Superhero in “comicbookdom” like that, so far as I know, is “The Elongated Man,” Ralph Dibny.
August 26, 2008, 11:29 AM EDT
Aerosmith’s “Dude Looks Like a Lady” was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
There is no word that rhymes with orange and silver.
Technically, there is a rhyme for orange.
You are told to go to the Orange for your firearms qualification, but the instructor says, “The Orange is shut down today, so use the Prange located next to the Orange, and if that one is unacceptable, then use the Rrange or the Srange.”
August 26, 2008, 8:35 PM EDT
@jack zilver is not in the dictionary you used for the Gadsby question (zilver) I thought that was the dictionary you stood by.
Also in the dictionary you quote this time zilver is the Dutch spelling of silver so quite frankly it’s a bit of stretch anyway.
@Lightlyseared: wrestlemaniac simply stated that, “There is no word that rhymes with orange and silver.” He did not say that, “There is no ENGLISH LANGUAGE word that rhymes with orange and silver.”
Therefore, his statement is slightly “incorrect,” in light of what I found, wouldn’t you agree?
August 27, 2008, 6:52 AM EDT
Dammit!! I have Fallen, bury me home….....
Don’t cry. You meant well..
August 27, 2008, 3:15 PM EDT
when I grow out my hair I have an Afro.
What are you talking about? A guy was in two movies about time travel? Why is that interesting?
that’s what I’m wondering simone…....
Omg you and I had the same thought on the same website! What a interesting fact!
Sonny Bono played a restauranteer in an episode of Murder She Wrote
elephants are really skittish about mice
Yes, they are, and here’s video proof, from Mythbusters
I noticed JackAdams is no longer time stamping his responses.
Yes I am!!!!!
I never stopped.
thanks for ghe vid JA I had been away
You’re welcome!
(Spread the word! LOL)
Hoff, love the new avatar!
Good!
(Copies are available in the lobby, as you leave the theater.)
A munchkin commits suicide in the Wizard of Oz movie. It’s actually caught on film. You can find it on Youtube.
No that isn’t true. It’s a bird.
Simone is right. It’s a bird. I spent a fair while finding the spot and going through frame by frame to make sure, cause it gave me a start when I did see it at normal pace, because it did look like someone hanging themselves. But don’t worry. It’s definitely a bird.
polar bears have clear fur but when the sun hits it it looks white!?!
I have perfected exactly how much water my body mass displaces when running a bath.
I can fill the bathtub within one inch of the rim and sink up to my chin without one drop of overflow! This skill has taken many years to perfect. lol
wolves can chase their prey for upto 4 days . . . imagine all that running.
Waterfowl ( ducks & geese ) are the only birds that have an actual penis.
An Argentine blue bill duck had the longest penis in proportion to body at 17 inches. lol
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