Bet ya didnt know.....

[Sharni]

Heres a place for the useless trivia that we all have heard at some time:D

Eg:
In a park, if a statue of a person on a horse has the horse's both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

[Sharni]

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy

If you were locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation

[Sharni]

Everytime you lick a stamp, you're consuming 0.1 calorie

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

[legend]

on average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day....eeek :D

[Lovediva]

Originally posted by legend
on average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day....eeek :D

Gee thanks Legend..I really needed to know that!!!! LMFAO! :D

Guess my b/f ain't healthy..nor is my youngest daughter...LOL..
PPPPPewwwwwwww!!!!!!


And I must be super healthy cause I don't fart!!!! :D :D :p
But if I do happen to fart....it smells like ROSES!!! LOL ;) :D

[MilkToast]

Originally posted by Sharniqua
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple [/B]
hmmm... and here I was thinking that "syringe" rhymed with "orange" as they both have an "-inj" pronunciation to them and a pair of sylables each :)

[Sharni]

Nope "syringe" and "orange" dont rhyme...well not how i know rhyming to go anyway..:)

[Irish]

legend&LoveDiva4u---According to my wife:Women don't fart;they
"whisper." Irish
P.S.My favorite passtime used to be to fart in bed and then pull the covers over my wifes head!

[Sharni]

Originally posted by Irish
P.S.My favorite passtime used to be to fart in bed and then pull the covers over my wifes head! [/B]
I know that as a Dutch Oven...and Bilbo does it to me...*LOL*....and i tell ya brings tears to the eyes...:D

[Sarriah]

ROFL- Mendiin doesnt do that it ! he knows better.. Although i have gotten him back and done it to him ROFL.. (ok that was a VERY long time ago, but its still funny)

Sarriah

[Sharni]

Although i have gotten him back and done it to him
LMFAO

You go girl!!!!

[Sarriah]

LOL thanks Sharni hehe i still laugh about that one... :D

[legend]

gee, i've taken this perfectly nice thread and dragged it throught the mud :)

PS - a booger is a sign that your nose is working properly :D

[luv2please]

OK Sharni, I'll try to get this back on track...for now anyway.-- In the northern hemisphere, the sun is closer to the earth in the winter than it is in the summer.

[Sharni]

I dont mind people hijacking the thread for a laugh :D
Thanx luv2please for the new one...:)

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit :D

[legend]

the fear of men is called androphobia

[legend]

and the fear of sex is called genophobia :)

[Lilith]

Neither are a disorder I suffer from..... LMAO :D

[Ophelia]

The average American has 7 pounds of rotting red meat in their intestines.

Sorry...I don't know how that translates into kilos or stones! :)

Humans lose an average of 40lbs of dead skin cells in a lifetime!

Ophelia

[Reverend Silky]

uh... uh... 'racecar' spelled backwards is 'racecar'. yeah! beat that! *thrusts arms into the air in celebratory fashion*

[scotzoidman]

Rev, that's what's called a "palindrome"... and the longest palindrome (as far as I know) is, "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama"

[Oldfart]

Able was I ere I saw Elba.

2 letters shorter, but by Napoleon, also shorter.

A palindrome, to be true, should form a sentence

or so the purists say. Phrase or word will do.

[Reverend Silky]

sure, just ruin my fun.

[scotzoidman]

Hey, it all qualifies as useless knowledge, right?

[Lovediva]

Bet you didn't know that I was sitting here in a wet chair..... :(

And yes that was usless information to tell you...lmfao!:D :p






The moon is a completely silent place as noises cannot be heard, as there is no air to carry sound from one place to another. :)

[scotzoidman]

Diva, the info on your chair is not really useless... but neither was it a real newsflash to those of us that know you lol...

[Lovediva]

Is it that obvious???;) :D

[legend]

useless trivia....

if you drink too much alcohol, you'll get sick and probably won't remember what happened :D

[GermanSteve]

Reverend Silky:

the strongest magic spell of "Catweazle" is:

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS

You can read the same words not only back and forth, also up and down!
Try to beat this...
(the words are latin, but don´t ask me the meaning)

Planes do not have sear rows numbered 13, and hotels do not have a 13th floor

[PantyFanatic]

Originally posted by Ophelia
...Sorry...I don't know how that translates into kilos or stones! :)...
[/B]

that's 15.4 lbs of rotten meat and 88 lbs. of skin cells.... :cool:that only Americans [and the English] can equate to.:o
[and a stone probably equal an uneven number of pebbles (which NOBODY knows the density of:confused: )]

TRUE STORY-
One of my customers is a small firm of ALL Russian born fellows doing development of vacuum plasma vapor deposition (tool coatings) who are an extremely sharp bunch of guys that have a super sense of humor.
Having worked on a number of projects with them, they share some of their “inside jokes” with me. They say that after they get here, they understand how the US beat the USSR in the space race days. They are introduced to the stupid system of measurement we work with:mad: and immediately know that :confused:“every American HAS TO BE A GENIUS.”

[legend]

PF - I would have thought that US scientists would be using the SI units (eg kilogram, metre etc.)....if they aren't then they should be.

[MissX]

Did you know that elephants can't jump.

Sorry that is my fav useless piece of info :)

[Oldfart]

Tale is told of the millions USA spent developing a "space pen",

while the Russians just used crayons.

Spend enough money and you can re-invent a wheel.

It's still a wheel, just more expensive.

[Oldfart]

Legend,

A Mars probe was lost because some scientists were working

in SI and others in Imperial. Only cost about $800 Mill I Think,

about a trillion Aussie Pesos.

[Wicked Wanda]

*putting on her nursing uniform, unbuttoned to show just a bare hint of cleavage*
I have heard that old joke about "Americans have so many pounds of undigested red meat in their intestines" for years, AND IT ISN'T SO!
At the clinic I manage, our Doctors do colonoscopies all the time, and we have to do a "bowel prep" which means the patient takes nothing by mouth except for a liquid laxitive the night before the procedure. This cleans you out! Completely! And no one has lost more than a pound ir two, and most of it is water!

I know Americans eat too much red meat, but that is seen in heart disease and being overweight, not carrying around undigested meat in their tummies!


*Removing the nursing suit and cap... much more comfy this way!*

WW

[Oldfart]

Go to the supermarket, pick up a 3kg (6.5lb) roast and picture

that in your innards.

Not so, I think, he chuckled....

[sadora]

The average human head weighs 8 pounds.
A pit bull terrier has 2000 pounds of pressure per square inch in their jaws.
In Japan, Akitas are used as babysitters. Helen Keller brought the first Akita to America.
You can make napalm by mixing gasoline and styrofoam.
A squirel fish looks nothing like a squirel.

[Oldfart]

Petrol, mothballs, topped up with lux flakes will give

you either get napalm or something harmless but smelly.

[legend]

OF - either way, there aren't going to be any moths around :)

[Irish]

If you recieve the "Death Penalty"for a crime.They will not give you a "lethal injection"unless a sterilised(sp)needle is used and
they use an antiseptic agent to sterilise the injection site!The sentence has been heldup or postponed because this could not
be performed.Why?
If you are raped.If the person that rapes you has"AIDs";you cannot find out because if you are told;it is-an invasion of their "Privacy."
Aquaman---In most states"Sodomy"is illegal.As an "Ass Man";why
aren't you active in the repeal of this law? Irish

[axe31]

2002 is a year long palindrome

[axe31]

its afact that rats can not vomit
sick but true:redghost: the bigger the smile the sharper the knife

[Aqua]

Originally posted by Irish

Aquaman---In most states"Sodomy"is illegal.As an "Ass Man";why
aren't you active in the repeal of this law? Irish

1)Washington's not one of those states! ;)
2)In most of the states that have Sodomy laws, 'Sodomy" includes oral sex as well as anal! :eek:

Regardless I do feel that the Sodomy laws are ridiculous!

[Irish]

Aquaman---I was just"breaking your balls."I was kidding around
inferring that you love asses.As Pantyfanatic is known for Panties;
so Aquaman is known for Asses! Irish

[Oldfart]

Axe31. Can you land a palin on a palindrome?

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

[scotzoidman]

Sharks do not sleep - they must keep water moving constantly thru their gills.

[souls_cry2000]

Bet you didn't know that with enough Lube you can do anything.

:D LOL!

[Oldfart]

Zoid

You are correct with abyssal species, but a number of

pelagic species, notably the grey nurse and the Port Packson

shark (Wobbegong) regularly rest still on the sand in rock gullies

close to shore. Scared the shit out of me one day.

[Ophelia]

OF is the winner!

Ophelia

[GermanSteve]

Did you know that an octopus is growing his whole life?

[Aqua]

A beaver's teeth do not stop growing. If they don't gnaw on trees there teeth will grow long enough to curl up into there brain.

PS, OF, I too have heard of the million dollar space pen... I also read that it's just a tall tale.
Irish-I've been around you long enough to know you were just "bustin my balls!" Jsut thought I'd add my 2 cents... :D

[Lilith]

Aqua~ rabbits teeth too

[Oldfart]

Aquaman43, no ball busting on the pen.

Fisher market a pen which is sealed and pressurised, with

a piston to keep the ink in contact with the ball of the pen.

It writes through grease, upside down and all such. It also

writes on paper.

GermanSteve,

As a Beatles fan, I want to know if an octopus grows in an

octopus' garden.

Aquaman43, All rodents do that.

Ophelia, thank you. I'll be round later to pick up my Felix.......

The smaller and tidier "Oscar".

[jay]

o/f when I was a kid I saw the "space pe for sale in a magazine for three easy payments of 19.99 I guess NASA had to find away to pay for the thing.

[crazybrit]

Originally posted by scotzoidman
Sharks do not sleep - they must keep water moving constantly thru their gills.

sorry to tell you, but Jaques Cousteau proved this theory wrong by filming stationary sharks in still water!! :(

But my contribution:

by all laws of aerodynamics, a bee's wings aren't large enough, don't beat fast enough and the body is too heavy for a bee to fly!!

trouble is, noone told the bee!!!!:p

[scotzoidman]

Ok, I've been busted twice on the same post, y'all can climb off the dogpile now... and on the bee's wings issue, I did read recently that reseachers now understand how bees' wings work... I'd explain it further, but my track record isn't very good here, so...

[Oldfart]

Zoid, Crazybrit.

Instead of depending on the lift an airfoil develops or the simple air-paddle like moths and dragonflies, the movement of small
insect wings create vortices which suck the insect up.

They change direction by re-aligning the wings and thus the
direction of the vortex.

Either that or they carry little jet-packs from Bees-R-Us.

[scotzoidman]

yeh, jet-packs, that's it, that's the ticket...

Has also to do with scientists thought that they coundn't possibly move their wing muscles fast enough to sustain lift; turns out these muscles vibrate like a rubber band when stretched & plucked, thus giving them enough wingbeats to fly. Just shows that we all have more to learn - science marches on...

[Oldfart]

Insects "muscles" aren't like ours.

There is a lot of fun science in bugs.

They're looking for a stable analog to use instead of motors

in some applications.

[GermanSteve]

In the cine film "Ben Hur" there is a horse car race. In the background you can see for a moment a little red car.

[axe31]

in england anal sex between a man and awoman
is against the law but between two men is not

[mindboxer505]

i am quoting here.....'' do you know that in the Navajo language it is impossible for a person to say...the horse kicked me?''
you have to say..''i let the horse kick me.''
otherwise you are implying that the horse is smarter than the man, which is an impossibility to them...... imagine that........unquote.......found in snowboarders magazine...march2002 issue....page164

[sugarfreecandy]

Hehehe, Mindboxer, that's close to being right --- I never knew that Snowboarders magazine was a good source of linguistics lessons, LOL! In Navajo, the natural world is seen as ranked hierarchically. It's a little hard to explain though: it's not so much that one kind of creature (eg, a human) is smarter or more advanced than another (eg, a horse); it's just that they are thought to have more independent will, if that makes any sense. The creature who is ranked higher is in control of the situation, and therefore is the subject in any sentence, while the lower creature is the object. Thus: The man allowed the horse to kick him, rather than the horse kicked the man.

Too late at night for me to launch into a proper explanation of the ideological significance of this way of linguistically ordering the world. The SFC Institute of Linguistics will, however, return sometime later with an explanation of how the Hopi categorize every object by shape and conjugate verbs accordingly, or some other equally inane piece of trivia, the moment something triggers my automatic lecture mode switch again! *giggling*

--- sweetstuff

[Geek Boy]

A couple of months ago we passed:

2002 20/02 20:02

In a little over 110 years, it will be:

2112 21/12 21:12

And that will never happen again. Useless, huh?

[Geek Boy]

If you do a Google search on "pleximorph", it will find exactly one reply.

P.S. "pleximorph" has become my new favourite word for exactly that reason.

[scotzoidman]

Originally posted by sugarfreecandy
The SFC Institute of Linguistics will, however, return sometime later with an explanation of how the Hopi categorize every object by shape and conjugate verbs accordingly, or some other equally inane piece of trivia, the moment something triggers my automatic lecture mode switch again! *giggling*

--- sweetstuff Frankly, I'm more interested in SFC's other lingual skills & knowledge...

[Oldfart]

You Hopi to deal more later.

[scotzoidman]

Yes, some conjugating would be nice...

[Oldfart]

I'm waiting for my next conjugal visit with SFC

[legend]

i'll be happy just to get English right...although i'm wondering why an Indian would want to admit that they let a horse kick them

[kimmer22]

OK..here's my uselessness for the day!
It is impossible to lick your elbow!!

Go ahead...try...you can't do it!

***Imagines everyone on Pixies tryin to do this!***

[Geek Boy]

>It is impossible to lick your elbow!!

>Go ahead...try...you can't do it!

Sorry to say this, Kimmer, but it's not impossible. It just requires a lot of dexterity and a very limber tongue (says he with the wet elbows).

[kimmer22]

ok...for the average person...not possible...but i suppose if you try you can do it...jeez!

[ASH]

The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared.

this is the kind of stuff you have flying through your head if you are a physics major.

[Irish]

Kimmer22---That is wrong!I'll bet that if you put your crotch on my
elbow;that I could lick it!You can do anything if you have the
proper incentive. Irish

[Mercury_Maniac]

well i cant lick my elbows, i'm sure if you had really short arms as a deformity or a really long tongue it could be done

[danziggy]

my bit of info is..........

if you had an infinite number of pixies in a room and an infinite number of typewriters they would eventually write the Kama-sutra!!!

but no pics......but lots of practice to get the positions correct!! :D ;D

[kimmer22]

LoL Irish...how true...I could probably muster up enough strength...or flexibility....to lick a penis that so happened to appear on my elbow!!!

[Oldfart]

With all this focus on licking elbows, are we perhaps losing focus

on where we should be licking?

[sadora]

wow! I thought I was the only one who knew this much useless information about animals!

The tallest breed of dog is the Irish Wolfhound.
The heaviest is the English Mastiff.

Parrots have the intelect of an average 2 year old.

[axe31]

the domesitc cat is the only animal that
is taller siting than standing:fish:

[raraa]

the horniest animals are i guess the bunnies (rabbits) they fuck so much u cant see one alone .... loooool

[Mercury_Maniac]

The only animal that has sexual intercourse for Pleasure(also to multiply but they fuck for fun) besides the Human species is PIGS!!!

[Sharni]

The halves of a dolphins brain take turns to sleep....so one half is awake at all times