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rogue
PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 8:49 am Reply with quote

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Butterflies taste with their feet.


A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.




In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the
world's nuclear weapons combined.

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

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.



Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are

already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.



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 the
weight 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."

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.



Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing. SCARY!!!



The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left-handed.



In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.



TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only

on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand seven feet, two inches tall.



A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.



The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.



Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know.

They will get a kick out of it !!

You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?
 
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kanaloa
John C. Derrick
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I did... I confess. LOL

Those were good. lol
 
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dlt
PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 9:55 am Reply with quote

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Very interesting...I like the left handed polar bears.
 
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SCgone
PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 10:17 am Reply with quote

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Pretty good, but right now, I'm trying to imitate a duck.
 
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kanaloa
John C. Derrick
PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 10:35 am Reply with quote

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Quack?
 
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 3:14 pm Reply with quote

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Keoni Mana wrote:
Quack?


Hmmm, no echo!
 
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John C. Derrick
PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 3:43 pm Reply with quote

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How strange. I totally expected one. lol
 
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RIP!
PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 5:23 pm Reply with quote

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LMAO ..... I thought I heard one blink Now that is strange.
 
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Mac33
PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 5:36 pm Reply with quote

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Now if i could only learn to do yoga, then i just might be able to lick my elbow lol
 
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kanaloa
John C. Derrick
PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 6:38 pm Reply with quote

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LOL Mac.

You know it just dawned on me why we can't. By the way the arm is attached to our upper body, the bone between our shoulder and elbow is longer than is the capability of our spine to stretch forward. Even if you could flip your arm all the way around it wouldn't work. Not that I've been trying or anything. rolleyes
 
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