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Can you guess which of the following are true or false?

#1 Postby bfez1 » Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:29 pm

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.

3. People do not get sick from cold weather;
It's from being indoors a lot more.

4. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart!

5. Only seven (7) per cent of the population are lefties.

6. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

7. Babies are born without knee caps.
They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

8. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

9. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

10. The average housefly lives for one month.

11. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

12. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

13. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

14. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

15. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

16. The REAL reason ostriches stick their heads in the sand is to search for water.

17. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

18. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie".

19. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

20. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

21. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.

22. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

23. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.
They are reused in vein transplant surgery.

24. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.
They were 7th cousins.

25. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE TRUE
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#2 Postby Suzi Q » Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:48 pm

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
Ok, that's NOT something I want a mental picture of

10. The average housefly lives for one month.
Not in my house. I'll chase em down with whatever is handy

11. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
Um, how?

13. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
Except when their contacts become glued to their eyes from staring

14. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
Great, so instead of snowshoes for feet, now I've got skis.

15. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
GAG-must go brush my teeth

18. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie".
No one other than Dustin Hoffman could have played Tootsie.

19. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
Okay, that's just WRONG!!!!!
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#3 Postby David » Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:49 pm

:o
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#4 Postby Lindaloo » Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:58 pm

ROFLMBO Suz!!!
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#5 Postby Skywatch_NC » Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:04 pm

Speaking of...

20. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.


I've heard in the past that Elmer's glue was used in place of milk for like ads displaying a bowl of cereal. :eek:

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#6 Postby Lindaloo » Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:07 pm

YIKES Eric.
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#7 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:20 pm

I read that thing about Hitchcock somewhere else. He was BORN with it, but had some kind of surgery later in life and that section of flesh was removed.

Travolta also turned down "American Gigolo" and "Chicago," two other roles that Richard Gere ended up taking.

Of those 40,000 Americans injured by toilets each year, I'm willing to be a large number of them are plumbers. I sliced my finger on a broken piece of ceramic from the back tank last year. So, now we just have to figure out who the other 39,999 were. Or maybe not. :wink:

And speaking of milk ads, in most of those "Got Milk?" ads, the featured celebs actually drank heavy cream so that the mustache would be more vsible.

Here's another true fact -- or at least, I like to think it is and I have yet to discover otherwise: Any American-made film made after 1968 in which the main story takes place in America after the Revolutionary War that is not sci-fi/fantasy/futuristic will show an American flag somewhere. My best friend and I like to try and fin it, even if it's in an establishing shot or closing shot in the distance. This is true for made-for-TV movies also. It won't always be THE flag, but it may be a depiction of a flag. Sometimes you have to look carefully, but you can find it -- as the camera pans down a city street, or behind a judge in a courtroom, or in a child's artwork, or on a cop's uniform.
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#8 Postby stormraiser » Mon Feb 16, 2004 10:02 pm

My son injured himself with a toilet once. He was just tall enough to stand up and go, so he pushed the lid up, like a good little boy and it crashed down on him. He was a littel bruised, but we think everything is fine.
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#9 Postby mf_dolphin » Mon Feb 16, 2004 10:19 pm

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#10 Postby coriolis » Mon Feb 16, 2004 10:51 pm

The mental picture of the toilet seat crashing down is a little scary.
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#11 Postby stormraiser » Mon Feb 16, 2004 10:54 pm

Yes, I was in pain for him. but 8 years later he's doing well.
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#12 Postby JQ Public » Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:03 pm

wow interesting!
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#13 Postby Suzi Q » Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:27 am

stormraiser wrote:My son injured himself with a toilet once. He was just tall enough to stand up and go, so he pushed the lid up, like a good little boy and it crashed down on him. He was a littel bruised, but we think everything is fine.


I'm SO glad I'm a female. Just thinking of that makes me cross my legs in pain! :eek:
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