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indi
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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 03:40
My bro sent this via email, if u havent seen it already.





Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
> Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
> The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
> No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
> Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
> The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
> Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
> Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
> The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
> Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
> The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
> Pearls melt in vinegar.
> The three most valuable brand names on earth:
> Marlboro,Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
> It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
> A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
> Turtles can breathe through their butts.
> On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
> Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
> It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
> The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
> because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account theweight
> of all the books that would occupy the building.
> A snail can sleep for three years.
> No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
> All polar bears are left-handed.
> A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
> Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.


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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 04:03 Edited at: 10th Mar 2004 04:04
I didn't try to lick my elbow!

Quote: "Elephats are the only animals that can't jump."

ants (as far as I can tell),Snails, Starfish, and there ought to be some more...
Quote: "> Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes."

Where have you ever seen a chart saying how many people were killed
by a donkey??? Just because someone once said "It's more probable that
you'll get killed by a donkey than in one of our planes"...

And a duck's quack does echo. I've heard it.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 04:15
Quote: "> It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow."


Actually...my brother and his friend did that...I was there.

They were trying for over an hour, non stop (Im dead serious) and my brother was behind the kid pushing his head forward and ripping his arm back and eventually the kid finally got his tongue on his elbow. They were prancing around the house and telling everyone on AIM that they did it. I think the kids shoulder and neck hurt for about 2 more days tho.

Probably impossible to do it BY YOURSELF without someone forcing it He probably actually partially dislocated his shoulder

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Heres one

Bill Gates real name is William Henry Gates III

If you add the III onto 'Bill Gates' and get "Bill Gates III" the ASCII values of the letters in that name add up to 666 Thats wicked freaky.


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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 04:52
Yeah, I saw that before. Went through the trouble of doing the math to see if it was true too. Really freaky.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 05:09
LOL Indi

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 05:15
Hello Black Sabbath Fans (And Curious On-Lookers)

The Black Sabbath song E5150 is unusual in name (as you could see), but it has a double meaning (it's the prelude to The Mob Rules). 5150 is a police term insanity, while if you put it into Roman Numerals: 5=V; 1=I; 50=L, spelling out EVIL

But...no one cares

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 05:37
Quote: "And a duck's quack does echo. I've heard it."


Yup. The "a duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one know's why!" was made up by somebody for attention.


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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 07:50
Quote: "The three most valuable brand names on earth:
> Marlboro,Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order"


Valuable? None of those 3 are valuable at all.


Quote: "> On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year."


I very much doubt that. Choke on them, maybe. But choke to death? No way.


Quote: "> All polar bears are left-handed."


That one also sounds a bit iffy, it's not like polar bears write or do anything else to make them use their paw in a favourable way to classify them as left/right handed.

I also did not try to lick my elbow, partly because I already knew it wasn't possible though


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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 09:49
I love these debates about useless trivia!

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


The one I heard was "Your ears are their full size at the age of seven"

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 11:05
ONCE rhymes with MONTH.

Ducks Quacks do echo, it is just quiet.

The new echo theory is that Wolves Howls don't echo, but that may also be false.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 11:38
How can a sound not have an echo? It doesn't make sense.
here's a curious fact: This is a MAC. ->
The one about people choking to death on pens doesn't sound right.

Quote: "> Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning."

Hmm... With my little brother, icy-cold water thrown at the face while still asleep works wonderfully.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 11:54 Edited at: 10th Mar 2004 12:02
Quote: "A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why"

That is actually incorrect. See http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm


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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 13:56 Edited at: 10th Mar 2004 14:00
Quote: " Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing"


Not true, your eyes will grow up to 1.8 time their size from the time you are born.

Quote: "No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH.""


Ditto with orange. Pincho, you must have some kind of really bad accent, cos ONCE DOES NOT rhyme with MONTH.

Quote: "No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times."


Actually, its 8 times. I can easially fold a piece of newpaper 7 times


Quote: "All polar bears are left-handed"
and @Exeat

This is true. It was figured out by understanding why this happens in people, which is basically that left handed peoples brains are a mirror image of a right handed persons brain.

Quote: "It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow."


Unless you dislocate your shoulder or your are my friend Ryan, who can climb a metal street light post golum style and not only lick his elbow, but stick his tongue IN his nose. He is a strange person. He's also actually quite smart

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 14:05
Quote: "How can a sound not have an echo? It doesn't make sense"


It's very easy, BMW used the theory at one stage to reduce engine noise inside the car, as did GM. If the reflecting noise inversely coincides with the original noise, it will be suppresed, it's the simple addition of 2 waves. It's the opposite theory of resonant frequency, where two waves coincide exactly, not inversely. In the case of resonance, the wave is increased.

Back to BMW...they installed a gadget which monitored the engine noise inside the car, and emitted the inverse wave via the radio. This had the effect of suppressing the engine noise.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 14:08 Edited at: 10th Mar 2004 15:42
that made sense...
Still, an echo would be hard to suppress using negative waves.
the duck would have to make a sound followed by the negative, so that the echo would be suppressed. This would
also have to be timed to sync with the reflected sound exactly. This
would varry depending on the position of the duck and what's causing
the echo.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 15:44
Not really a fact but:
The more we study, the more we know.
the more we know, the more we forguet.
the more we forguet, the less we know.
the less we know, the less we forguet.
the less we forguet, the more we know.
So why do we study in the first place?!

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TKF1SH, I was responding to a sound not having an echo, rather than the duck theory. The duck thing is obviously rubbish like you say, because it's to do with the acoustics of the surroundings, not the sound the duck makes.

Besides, French ducks don't say "quack", they say "charlatan" so the theory is far too general.

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that pen things probably tru, bear in mind its 100 ppl a yr... GLOBALLY thats a small figure, i would hav guessed it'd be more than 100. consider the ammount of people who work in an office. now consider the number of themwho are bored. lets say, 99%. 99% of those bored people are probably chewing a pen.

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and then add to that the ammount of times a man was probably kicked in the nuts while chewing a pen

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 18:35 Edited at: 10th Mar 2004 18:35
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from salads served in 1st class.

If the population of China walked past you in a single line, it would never end due to the rate of reproduction.

The average male thinks of sex every 6.2 seconds.

Once comfortable, it takes you around 7 minutes to go to sleep.

There are more sheep then humans in Wales.

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Quote: "and then add to that the ammount of times a man was probably kicked in the nuts while chewing a pen."


Actually, the average man gets kicked in the nuts chewing a peanut butter sandwich.

I wouldn't like to be him.

He lives in Ireland, and he dreads his work lunchtimes because he nearly always has peanut butter sandwiches.

"Oh no! Not Peanut Butter again!" he says.

The stupid thing is...........

He makes his own sandwiches!!!

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Quote: "Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush"

I didn't think that was a stupid fact. Erm, am quite worried now. And probably explains the smell of s**t instead of toothpaste I get every morning... erm....

Sadly I had heard most of them over the years. Sadly as in I had remembered them that is.

Sigh. And I tried the elbow thing. Oh dear. Isn't there some other idea that the space between your elbow and your wrist is the same as the length of your foot? Or somesuch.

Isn't LEMON another non-rhyme word? Am sure the idea was ORANGE and LEMON don't rhyme with anything, or something like that when I was in school.

Quote: "A snail can sleep for three years"

Bloody snails have it all man...

Quote: "The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year"

Yeah, my university town had a library that is similar. Massive building on a steep hill. Falls down the hill about an inch a year too. Apparently they were planning on shoving in loads of support, or it would fall over in about a couple of decades.

Heh, one of the most entertaining courses you can do at Uni for Computer Science is critical systems. I don't remember much (I rarely went to lectures), but there was some real amusing stories (read tragic) about cock ups with critical systems. The airbus stuff was really funny, but the UK ambulance service was one of the best. Basically they were replacing the system with a whole new super system that cost a load. They asked what the load was on the old system. The admin people it was X thousand calls a minute on average. So they basically tripled this figure for load testing minimum requirements. Not too bad. Then it went live. If I remember rightly everything seemed fine with a parallel run after a few days, so the fully let it run on it's own, chucking out the old system. Unfortuantly taking the average figures is a bad idea. As soon as it was a more heavy day (dunno, perhaps a bank holiday, Xmas, whatever) the whole system fell down because it was hit way above their max limit. Arf. Got to laugh. Although not if you needed to get to hospital at the time, obviously

Heh, and the Defcon one was pretty good. Apparently once they got the radar setup going, everything was looking good. Then the night came and basically so did a full on nuclear attack. Thousands of missiles were detected. Obviously you have to fire your missiles before the enemy's weapons land, as most of them are aimed at your missiles. You can't wait for confirmation essentially. So basically the US was phoning up the USSR demanding confirmation. They hadn't got the foggiest. Turned out the radar was so strong it was picking up the moon. So they had to code it to ignore the moon. Nice. Think that was generally the story.

Heh, also read something years ago about an electrical storm setting off the first 2 or 3 correct digits in a nuclear bomb's arming sequence. At the time they only had about 12 (or so) digits in the whole sequence. Ok, so the stats are pretty long to even get the 1st 3 digits, but to get all 12 is nutty. Even so, it was worrying enough to basically expand it to something nuts, like 100 digits or so. Nice.

Just getting this off my head from years ago, so could be wrong with details, but I researched some stuff for a Uni project at the time, so should be generally okish.

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There is a rhyme for oranges
Quote: "......SYRINGES.....peaches,pears,plums,ORINGES.......com'n here I come ma minges (or something like that)"
It was in Eminems song buisness

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tha things tha i dun seen and the shit ive been through that made my heart turn cold
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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 20:17
Aha. Yep, and Melon rhymes with Lemon when you spell it Memon....

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Quote: "The average male thinks of sex every 6.2 seconds.

There are more sheep then humans in Wales."


u get uber religius men who vow never to think of sex for like a yr at a time... providing they stick to their vow (doubtable) that means there must be men around who think of sex once every synaps fires in their brain.

and yes. 3 sheep per man. hehe... today in biology we were talking about cross genetics, and someone sed "what about a sheep and a man... would u get a sheepman?"


i had some other fact but i forgot what it was... ill post as sooin as i remember

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How is it possible to test how often someone thinks about something specific. You can detect use of the different areas of the brain, but it's no where near accurate enough for that use, plus you would get variations in every man's brain structure etc. You also can't say tell me every time you think about sex because this will inadvertently make them think of sex.

To quote a nursery rhyme

Quote: "Oranges and lemons said the bells of St. Clemonts"



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you've got more chance of being struck twice by lightning on a sunny day than you have of winning the lottery... apparently

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i bet u guys never knew that microsoft train an army of moles in the earth core. they can script upto 10 lines a second.

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Quote: "Quote: "Oranges and lemons said the bells of St. Clemonts""

That's plural. And it's a name, not a word.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 23:35 Edited at: 10th Mar 2004 23:35
AND IT STILL DOESNT RHYME!

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isn't clemonts pronounced in french? It would rhyme. But it's not english in that case.
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That thing with the pens - I remember reading 26 people a year (Just in America) choke to death on bits of finger-nail they bite off. There's 6billion people in the world so for the 100 a year choking pen deaths you looking at just 1 person in every 60million - this seems very possible to me.
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Red Eye: Is that after you buy a ticket or not? o_0?
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i believe PINT and SILVER also have no rhymes.

"The average male thinks of sex every 6.2 seconds."

maybe a pervert

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for me its more of every 6.2 girls i see.
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0.2 of a girl? you must be into some really freaky stuff

OK, i was a bit conservative with my release date. predicted DBP P6 release date: Bjork 45, 3418

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Quote: "AND IT STILL DOESNT RHYME!"

Yeah... I thought that. And was going to mention that it only sort of rhymes in a sing song kind of way. Which doesn't count. But then I found myself singing it, and couldn't decide if it properly rhymes even then. Suffice to say I decided to stop before I bought my little pony or somesuch.

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Quote: " i believe PINT and SILVER also have no rhymes."


MINT rimes with PINT! no wait....... CURSE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!

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Hello World:

If you don't acceot syringes and oranges rhyming, then doorhenges

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not all of the girls at my school look like girls...
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LOL!!!

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I know what you mean mattman....

For the fact of who the hell does those serveys about sex and men thinking about it?

i wonder if its those religious freaks again....jesus they got there hands in everything, only if i could put an end to them all! AHHHH HA! i got it i'll go back into time and kill god befor the creation of the universe....well wait no that even back fired in that one show 'Tripping the rift' for any of those sci-fi fans out there almost as good as futurama but not as good.

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Here's a weird one I have seen and heard...

In America, they put braille on drive-up ATMs...

Whats up with that?

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Those figures are grossly out. You're saying that 99% of people who work in an office are getting paid to chew on their pens? I'd like to know how businesses even survive with that going on. I guess it could be different in the USA, but from when I was working in office buildings there were barely even any pens around to be chewed as everyone used computers. And chewing is not swallowing.

Quote: "That thing with the pens - I remember reading 26 people a year (Just in America) choke to death on bits of finger-nail they bite off. There's 6billion people in the world so for the 100 a year choking pen deaths you looking at just 1 person in every 60million - this seems very possible to me."


Is it even possible to choke to DEATH on a fingernail? Unless they bit the whole thing off it isn't even large enough to fill your whole airpipe. I can consider that number for choking on them realistic, but honestly, choking to death? That means they actually died.


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The thing is Exeat it's just something I read and I can't remember where - it may of been a very reliable source or some Forum on the internet.
If a small sharp object like a fingernail or a shard of splintered pen(I assume its splintered bits of plastic they choke on) is capable of causing death then I see the figure as most reasonable -even a little low - 1 in 60 million. But like, you say, fingernails/shards of splintered ballpoints aren't big enough to cut off air supply. So can they kill you by causing a spasm or something in your lungs? Is there a Doctor in the house - until I find out I gonna stop chewing my pen.

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Quote: "but honestly, choking to death? That means they actually died.
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lol

Quote: "Is there a Doctor in the house - until I find out I gonna stop chewing my pen."

I'll get onto the nail-biting part.

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Posted: 11th Mar 2004 20:05
Here's an interesting statistic:

99.9% of statistics are made up

Quote: "you've got more chance of being struck twice by lightning on a sunny day than you have of winning the lottery... apparently"


Even though people win the lottery jackpot (in the UK) usually once a week, but nobody has ever in the history of freaky events been struck by lightning twice on a sunny day.

Although, statistcally, a more realistic one is that:
If you by a lottery ticket on Saturday for the next draw the following Saturday, you have more chance of dying in that week than you have of winning the jackpot - be it a road accident, sudden chronic syphillis, heart attacks caused by hearing a ducks echo, or dislocating your spine while trying to lick your elbow.



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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 11th Mar 2004 20:05
Quote: "What about Purple?"
<--- hurple, burple... and some other word.. theres 3 that rhyme with purple

its door hinges.

is there a word with the same meaning as "synonym"?

http://www.tinnedhead.tk under re-construction.
Fallout
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Posted: 11th Mar 2004 20:10
how about "alternative"?

Blowing the shite out of people sinse 1981.

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