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#1 Postby southerngale » Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:59 pm

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

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.

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

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

6. Only 7 per cent of the population is lefties.

7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9 The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

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

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

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

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

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie." (But accepted the lead role in Battlefield Earth --- not smart John!)

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem. (Why Michael?)

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

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

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

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 . . .
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#2 Postby stormie_skies » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:34 pm

6. Only 7 per cent of the population is lefties.


Then what accounts for Gore's success in winning the popular vote in the last presidential election, or for the dead heat between Bush and Kerry now? :roll:

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.


True chameleons can also ~ in fact, their eyes pivot and turn independently, so they can be looking in front of themselves with one eye, and behind with the other at the same time! 8-)
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#3 Postby southerngale » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:41 pm

stormie skies...left handed, not politically left. lol
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#4 Postby stormie_skies » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:44 pm

LMAO!!! That will teach me to dive into something fun after reading all the political banter on here .... :oops:
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#5 Postby southerngale » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:47 pm

It's ok. lol :lol:
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#6 Postby Josephine96 » Sat Jun 12, 2004 4:25 pm

I had a feeling that thing about sneezes was true.. But I keep being told it's a myth lol
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#7 Postby Brent » Sat Jun 12, 2004 4:45 pm

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.


:eek: :eek: :eek:
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#8 Postby Josephine96 » Sat Jun 12, 2004 4:47 pm

I'd hate to know how they get injured lol
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#9 Postby GalvestonDuck » Sat Jun 12, 2004 5:02 pm

Most are actually plumbers or do-it-yourselfers, knocking a knuckle on a pipe or slicing a finger open on broken porceline. Since work-related injuries are *supposed* to be reported, these make it into the statistics. Then there's the occasional stubbed toe from walking into one in the middle of the night on the way to the bathroom, the once-in-a-blue moon busted rump of the woman of the house from slipping off the rim when the man of the house didn't put the seat down, and the very rare occurence of one pinching one's fingers between seat and lid.

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#10 Postby Josephine96 » Sat Jun 12, 2004 5:03 pm

LOL Duck
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#11 Postby abajan » Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:58 pm

Here's another:

There's no word in English that rhymes with month. :eek:
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#12 Postby Guest » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:15 pm

Please tell me the spider thing is a lie. It's close to bed time now.... I'm skeeved just thinking about it, lol.
...Jennifer..
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#13 Postby Brent » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:26 pm

mrschad wrote:Please tell me the spider thing is a lie. It's close to bed time now.... I'm skeeved just thinking about it, lol.
...Jennifer..


:lol: :lol: :lol:

There's no word in English that rhymes with month.


I NEVER knew that. :eek:
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#14 Postby Yankeegirl » Sat Jun 12, 2004 11:10 pm

Well I guess I am in the 7%.. I am a leftie... So was my mother and my mother in law and her sister and her mother...
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#15 Postby abajan » Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:10 pm

mrschad wrote:Please tell me the spider thing is a lie. It's close to bed time now.... I'm skeeved just thinking about it, lol.
...Jennifer..


Hey Jennifer, I once ate part of a cockroach in my sleep. YUCK!

Oh well...such is life in the tropics, I guess. One consolation is that insects are said to be high in protein. :lol:
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#16 Postby Skywatch_NC » Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:27 pm

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

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.

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

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

6. Only 7 per cent of the population is lefties.

7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9 The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

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

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

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

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

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie." (But accepted the lead role in Battlefield Earth --- not smart John!)

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem. (Why Michael?)

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

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

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

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 . . .


Robert Leroy Ripley eat your heart out! :eek: 8-)
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#17 Postby southerngale » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:51 pm

abajan wrote:
mrschad wrote:Please tell me the spider thing is a lie. It's close to bed time now.... I'm skeeved just thinking about it, lol.
...Jennifer..


Hey Jennifer, I once ate part of a cockroach in my sleep. YUCK!

Oh well...such is life in the tropics, I guess. One consolation is that insects are said to be high in protein. :lol:


Ewwwwww!!!! I'd probably die after I got through cleaning my mouth with bleach! I disinfect everything if I even get one in my house and they're pretty common here in Southeast Texas. I HATE ROACHES!!! YUK! YUK! YUK! I exterminate quite often to avoid them. 8-)
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