get the facts

slappy / psychoticsumo · Wed Aug 20, 2003 4:37 pm

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?

the spotlight kid · Post by **the spotlight kid** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 4:59 pm

Nice one Slappy,What I want to know is who was the weirdo that led that cow upstairs,and WHAT FOR,in the first place!

Cheers the spotlight kid.

P.S. no I didn't try the elbow licking,though I did when I was a kid when I first heard it!

Vagrant · Post by **Vagrant** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:50 pm

You can lead a horse to water - but before you do think about what a wet horse smells like.
You can lead a cow upstairs - but from there he has to bungee jump.

HTMLBali · Post by **HTMLBali** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:42 pm

well its simple think of what cows do........they go up the stairs but dont come back down unless they are in pre-packaged pieces ^_^

Greyblade · Post by **Greyblade** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:40 pm

The word "month" rhymes with "orange", but only if you say it real fast. Incidentally, I licked my elbow last month and it tasted like an orange.

Greyblade

mrbigg · Post by **mrbigg** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 2:55 am

yup i tried. nope i couldn't do it. thanks mr slappy / psychoticsumo - i feel as though my life has been enriched by this info!

Pushbutton · Post by **Pushbutton** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:05 am

Slappy how long would it take for a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?
PB

slappy / psychoticsumo · Fri Aug 22, 2003 5:24 am

lol monkys dont like pickles

Stone Knife · Post by **Stone Knife** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 9:22 am

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

What a dish! And she wouldn't kill you with the talking.

.45acp · Post by **.45acp** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:46 pm

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

What a dish! And she wouldn't kill you with the talking.

Thats what I´m talking about....bring on Barbie!

Vagrant · Post by **Vagrant** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 5:02 pm

.45acp wrote:
Stone Knife wrote:"If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand seven feet, two inches tall."

What a dish! And she wouldn't kill you with the talking.

Thats what I´m talking about....bring on Barbie!

Two men can sit in a boat fishing for 4 hours and the conversation consists of "damn lost one." and "sux to be you." Or "got one." "Me too."