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| • Please describe your most hated boss? |
| Mine were all women. I think the one out the top three I most couldn’t stand was this witch who should have owned a broom to fly off on. According to a co-worker, she told them within 5 minutes of my being there that I “would never work out” All three of these women were totally deluded too, thinking that everyone liked them when people were just kissing their ass and playing up to them. I much prefer men bosses. They are straight-foward and don’t play stupid little games. |
| • did the pigs fly today? |
| i thought pigs would have to fly, before some man would admit a woman over 40 was anything but a nagging wench… please see below… 60 Minutes Correspondent Andy Rooney (CBS) As I grow in age, I value women over 40 most of all. Here are just a few reasons why: A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, ‘What are you thinking?’ She doesn’t care what you think. If a woman over 40 doesn’t want to watch the game, she doesn’t sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do, and it’s usually more interesting. Women over 40 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you d eserve it, they won’t hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it. Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it’s like to be unappreciated. Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over 40. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 40 is far sexier than her younger counterpart. Older women are forthright and honest. They’ll tell you right off if you are a jerk if you are acting like one. You don’t ever have to wonder where you stand with her. Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it’s not reciprocal . For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself wit h some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, ‘Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?’, here’s an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage! Andy Rooney is a really smart guy! |
| • WHO THINKS.. the diamond backs have the UGLIEST stadium in the mlb? |
| dont get me wrong i love them as a ball club (yankee fan) but MAN is that park UGLYYYY. i was watching the met game cause as soon as the yankee game was over the met one started and i just had to watch that awesome pitching duel and the first 3 outs were fly balls and it is just ugly there, who agrees who doesnt and what is the ugliest park in ur eyes? |
| • How does this sound? |
| • How does this sound? |
| • what is the meaning of this song? |
| BEANIE SIGEL LYRICS “Watch Your Bitches” As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be was a gangster… (Watch your bitches!) [Verse 1] Hey yo I walks like a pimp, talks like a mack Spit lobster and shrimp, you could tell by the hat Gators and flavors, colors like now & laters Split champagne wishes to bitches, trips to Vegas Jot down numbers on small pieces of paper I got ya, skate, watch these bitches catch the vapors Breaks down doe over a hoe? Spend my chips over a trick? I don’t rock no masquino shit I don’t know know labeled me no trick Biatch! You should pay me for dick All I’m gone do is fuck you crazy Bust a couple nuts, get lazy Bust another nut, it’s Swayze Tell your ass don’t page me, see you when I see you You need doe for what? Wouldn’t wanna be you Yeah I’m a break you off, after I stroke you off When I break you off, biatch! That’s when I broke you off Tell your ass get lost Only thing I’m gonna pay for, is to be the boss Can’t see me giving no skee’s my cheese Tell ‘em like they tell Bean’s, I got four seeds to feed Till I fuck you and some change fall out of your ass (watch your bitches!) Biatch! Ain’t nothing changed, I’m all about the cash [Chorus: repeat 2X] Hey yo I walks like a pimp, talks like a mack Spit lobster and shrimp, you could tell by the hat Gators and flavors, colors like now & laters (watch your bitches!) Leave you jelly like fishes Niggas watch your bitches [Verse 2] You know Mack pop fly bitch No Jonny Gill ’round my bitch Bye Bye bitch Fuck that red dress on, get a head step on Speed on ‘for you get peed on When I piss, I don’t miss (Shit) Get mad, scratch your ass, and get glad ‘For I, scratch your ass and get Glad-bags Throw your shit out on the trash B-Mack, pimp-slash Hustla, muthafucka! But, back to the sript When I’m twisted off that sip You know my twist, Mack on that lick On that super hero juice but could handle my cake Quick to throw bags, zams, and cakes Cocktails come banana and grape Yellow and purple, everything mellow in your circle Feeling like metal can’t hurt you Got that pro meth ‘itch (Watch your bitches!) Keep a hoe in check quick off that pro meth shit [Chorus: repeat 2X] Hey yo I walks like a pimp, talks like a mack Spit lobster and shrimp, you could tell by the hat Gators and flavors, colors like now & laters (watch your bitches!) Leave you jelly like fishes Niggas watch your bitches [Verse 3] I don’t gotta play games and chase a hoe Spend cheese, say please, and lace a hoe Man, all my bitches know to SUCK me off and hit the door Especially if I hit before, They know the rutine, Dick to jaw, I don’t give a bitch shit but game And spit that like Rudy Raymoore Man my whole squad play on tours That’s all we do is play on whores That’s up to you if you pay for yours I might let ‘em run around in the apartment Just don’t steal shit or spill shit on the carpet You know the address, apartment 3F Find you, fuck you, and flee, and my man Bleek next [Chorus: repeat 2X] Hey yo I walks like a pimp, talks like a mack Spit lobster and shrimp, you could tell by the hat Gators and flavors, colors like now & laters (watch your bitches!) Leave you jelly like fishes Niggas watch your bitches |
| • Regardless of your Politics, Don’t you think Bush is just a Great Guy? |
| Here is a descent hard working god fearing Christian that deserves your respect. This man served his country flying jets in the National Guard until his HONORABLE discharge. He earned a Harvard MBA! Just an all around great guy who has brought Honor and Dignity back to the White House after those awful Clinton years. You have to admit LIBS. It’s kind of nice having a President who does not spend all his time in front of special prosecutors, Grand Juries and Impeachment Hearings! My kids were embarrassed that the President disgraced the office like that. Now, they look at Bush with pride! |
| • How can I get rid of my fear of ghosts? |
| I have had fear of ghost since i was in my early teens. Not only am i absolutely terrified or petrified of hearing, seeing them I have weird thoughts that run through my head. I will sleep and have thoughts of a ghost girl(looking like the grudge) come through the house and being next to my son. I have thoughts of a man or woman coming in taking my son, thoughts(when i give my son a bath) that someone will come and shoot me and leave my son to drown…(he is 6 mths old) I also have the most in depth nightmares. to a point i get scared to do alot of things. I cant be in a dark room. i swich every light on every where i go or else i get withdrawels. I accidentally saw one ghost reality thing(my friend was watching it) and i started shaking, started crying. its like people with a fear of spiders). its weird. I have felt ghosts and i dont want to believe in them, sometimes they come into my dreams, i see them watching me and then fly over and touch me, i was dreaming but it felt so real.. |
| • PS2 gta san andreas? |
| does anyone knows any cheat code that cj can fly? or change his suit to super man’s suit? like this>http://youtube.com/watch?v=ivW2hDCe00w&feature=related OR like this>http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnELNlmemiA&feature=related |
| • My first effort to write an Elyslund Sonnet - Has it met with the rules? |
| Not a particularly riveting poem - but, I hope it conforms to the rules. Dreamland Each sleep-filled, cheap-thrilled night my spirit flies Endlessly peeking, seeking dream’s surprise Effort rewards me, accords me my prize Eyes free to see joyous internal skies. Desert oases, no traces of man Deep gorgeous gorges, and rivers they span. Downtown New York, eat, talk, walk (if you can) Dine with our fine Queen, I’m no also ran. My trained fertile brain pushing me ahead Metamorphosing or posing instead Maybe a baby or new man to wed My body solidly snug in my bed (oases is spelled that way as it is plural) Couplet coming up, neonman - forgot that bit! Edit - (here it is) Well travelled, knitted ravelled sleeve of care Wondrous places , I can’t wait to get there. Damn I edited out the internal rhyming in the last line! change to Wondrous places, and faces I’ll find there Thanks for tips Ari - but, I’m working to a very tight formula here. (I could change snug but I like alliteration) Solidly is supposed to rhyme with body…poor rhyme…but better than ’solid’ |
| • Anyone knows this movie? |
| I don’t know too many details… It was a movie about some meatball-like monsters, that could hover in the air and had sharp teeth… It was a horror movie of course. Here are the most I know: There was a man named Craig, a blind girl that was stabbed on the belly with a knife, and the blade remained there, and the survivors tried to remove it, I think it was set in an airport, there was a well-known actor (don’t remember his name) as the pilot, and they wanted to refill the plane so they could escape.I think the name of the movie was something about these monsters… They were roaming the airport and were trying to kill the survivors… I can’t describe them greatly, they were like flying balls, brown, with sharp teeth that were sort of rotating… And lastly, IM NOT SO SURE ABOUT THAT! I think that they escaped by going to another dimension with the plane, and one of the survivors gave his life to save them. Sry about the almost no details,. but I was 6 years old! |
| • How should I perform this poem? |
| A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? I need to memorize it and perform it for reader’s theater.I easily memorized it,but I need to perform it as an 80 year old suicidal man.I can’t have any props and have to involve the class(I can have them sit a certain way or I can touch them,etc.)Thanks for any help/suggestions! Please nothing too drastic-I have incredible stage fright |
| • Have you read the first draft of a new form of sonnet? |
| Viking Voyage For lo! The forty four grey cast away Fetters, mooring. Roaring past the old quay. Flying, fleeing, sighing with unknown day Far ahead. Frenzied eyes watched for the way Showing the Way, rowing towards the far West, Sunned with gulls, fecund with mountainous crests. Slowing, rowers graveing ill with tiredness. Shallow hope, fallow horizons’ cruel test. Then, with men exhausted, starving, the call! That tiny branch floating briny waves tall! The mens’ eyes gleamed, streamed. New land welcomed all! Tears amongst cheers, from Fathers in their Hall! Voyagers of Old! Stories told this night! Valhalla tested…not bested. Lands’ sight! Been thinking about this new form a long time…Sunday’s a good day to try it! What is this new form’s structure? I know, and I crunched two lines, not having it! Rules: 1…each stanza must start with the same letter…and couplet. 2…each stanza and couplet must have their end rythmes the same. 3…MUST be one internal rythme in each line. You’re right….’quay’ is pronounced ‘key’…always heard it pronounced ‘kway’….3 lines crunched! That’s what revision’s for!!!! Thanks!!! Yes, I used poetic license on ‘graveing’…but, one gets the picture of THAT amount of illness! No alliteration…must be pure ryhme. 3 of mine slipped past me…go ahead, try it!!! |
| • ok c.kisback gave me these to post hope you enjoy? |
| What did the light say when it was turned off? I’m delighted! A man rides into town on Friday, stays three nights and leaves on Saturday morning. How is this possible? His horse was called Friday! Which months have 28 days? All of them! What did the hat say to the scarf? You hang on around while I go on ahead! If you drop a white hat into the Red Sea, what does it become? Wet! What can a whole apple do that a half apple can’t? Look round! There was a red bungalow. Everything in it was red – the walls, the carpets, the furniture. What colour were the stairs? There weren’t any stairs. It was a bungalow! Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9. What is the longest word in the English language? SMILES – because there is a mile between the first and last letters. What two things can’t you have for dinner? Lunch and breakfast! If you drop a white hat into the red sea, what will it become? Wet! What house weighs the least? A lighthouse! What’s pink with huge teeth, hairy legs and green spots? I don’t know. Why? Because one’s just crawled down your Tshirt! What is Rupert the Bear’s middle name? The! What has a head and a tail but no body? A coin! Why did the baker stop making doughnuts? He got fed up with the whole business! What’s the difference between a wizard and the letters S A M E K? One makes spells, the other spells makes! What starts with e, ends with e, but has only one letter? An envelope! Why did the boy throw his clock out of the window? To see time fly! What has no beginning, no end, and nothing in the middle? A doughnut! Why do you always find things in the last place you look? Because when you have found it you stop looking! What is full of holes but can still hold water? A sponge! What is brown and sticky? A stick! What comes once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day? The letter E. What has arms & legs but no head? A chair! What am I? No one wants to have one of these But when you do have one, no one wants to lose it! What am I? An argument! |
| • 320 Useless Facts Most Intresting One? |
| 1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen. 2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen. 3. The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had. 4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person. 5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels. 6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself. 7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim. 8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. 9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper. 10. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle. 11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son. 13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number. 14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. 15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately). 16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. 17. The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan. 18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903. 19. A “2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2. 20. It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk. 21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar 22. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print. 24. The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino. 25. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled. 26. The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards. 27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively). 28. Camel’s have three eyelids. 29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day. 30. John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son. 31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister. 32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system. 33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps. 34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape. 35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses. 36. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. 38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name “soyce”. 39. Slugs have four noses. 40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. 41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil). 42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows. 43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON’T TRY IT, DUMBASS) 44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing. 45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads. 46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States. 47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called “Solarmax”. 49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess. 50. Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and “lower” because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters. 51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 52. The numbers “172″ can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. 53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks. 54. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday. 55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. 56. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. 57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. 59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original. 60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves. 62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar). 63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”. 64. IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”. 65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget. 66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 67. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is. 69. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service. 70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived. 71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes. 72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s. 73. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from. 74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide. 75. In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward). 76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, “Red Vineyard at Arles”. 77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. 78. One in ten people live on an island. 79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%. 81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”, Humphrey Bogart NEVER said “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca, and they NEVER said “Beam me up, Scotty” on Star Trek. 84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. 85. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model. 86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head. 87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia). 88. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas. 90. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 92. Back in the mid to late ’80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator. 93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 94. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public). 95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 96. Jim Henson first coined the word “Muppet”. It is a combination of “marionette” and “puppet.” 97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words “North” and “South). 98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company’s first ads in 1896. 99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity. 100. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. 101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive. 102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a “palindrome”. 103. A snail can sleep for 3 years. 104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide. 105. China has more English speakers than the United States. 106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year’s Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes. 107. One in every 9000 people is an albino. 108. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 110. Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury. 111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on. 112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten. 113. Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing. 114. In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere. 115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck. 116. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. 117. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity. 119. About 55% of all movies are rated R. 120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually. 121. Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India. 122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. 123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. 125. There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. 126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 127. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. 128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 129. There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world. 130. The word “maverick” came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick. 131. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse’s legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building. 134. An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000. 135. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 136. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”. 137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy. 138. Almonds are members of the peach family. 139. Rats and horses can’t vomit. 140. The penguin is the only bird that can’t fly but can swim. 141. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. 142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance. 143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 144. There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 145. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. 147. “101 Dalmatians” and “Peter Pan” are the only Disney animations in which both of a character’s parents are present and don’t die during the movie. 148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. 149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure. 150. Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies. 151. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21. 153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 154. All polar bears are left-handed. 155. The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal) 156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. 157. Butterflies taste with their feet. 158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump. 159. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. 160. Starfish have no brains. 161. 11% of the world is left-handed. 162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later. 163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 165. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. 166. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray. 168. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months. 170. Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A. 171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour. 173. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 174. A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second. 175. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade. 176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old. 177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. 178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured. 179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it. 181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. 182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. 183. Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. “You’ve got Mail!”). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as “Q-Link.” 184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white. 185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother. 186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. 187. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes. 188. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” 189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth. 190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 192. The name Jeep comes from “GP”, the army abbreviation for General Purpose. 193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. 194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 195. Cats’ urine glows under a black light. 196. A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip. 197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970. 198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items. 199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated. 200. 25% of a human’s bones are in its feet. 201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic’s distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). 202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. 203. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined. 204. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the ’30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition). 205. “Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”. 206. Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older. 207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. 208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S. 209. The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet. 210. A jellyfish is 95% water. 211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001). 212. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day. 214. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. 215. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle) 216. In golf, a ‘Bo Derek’ is a score of 10. 217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined. 218. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. 219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple. 220. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross. 222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France. 223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the stadium becomes Nebraska’s third largest city. 224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”. 225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50. 227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers. 228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5. 229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal. 230. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand. 231. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119. 232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand “1″ and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner. 233. Judy Scheindlin (”Judge Judy”) has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary. 234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z. 235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years. 236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. 238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day. 239. John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. 240. You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. 241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 242. “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. 243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330. 244. The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn’t kill their enemies. 245. “Duff” is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. 246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. 247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. 248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world). 249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. 250. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined. 251. At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves. 252. Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000. 253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient’s arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer. 254. People say “bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond. 255. US gold coins used to say “In Gold We Trust”. 256. In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks. 257. A shrimp’s heart is in its head. 258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion. 259. The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+) 260. Pearls melt in vinegar. 261. “Lassie” was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal. 262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself. 263. Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag. 264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible. 265. Tiger Woods’ real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname “Tiger” in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. 266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol. 267. Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House. 268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther. 269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census. 270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world. 271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment. 272. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash. 273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed. 274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice. 275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen. 276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital. 277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day. 278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people. 279. The “if” and “then” parts of conditional (”if P then Q”) statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q). 280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech. 281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. 282. Only female mosquitoes bite. 283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world’s mail. 284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells. 285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age. 286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female. 287. The “countdown” (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called “Die Frau Im Monde” (The Girl in the Moon). 288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system. 289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul’s armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas. 290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel. 291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died. 292. Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit. 293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were “Thomas Jefferson survives.” 294. The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player. 295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open. 296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person). 297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today. 298. While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the “Treaty of Paris”: Seven Years’ War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951). 299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln’s oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father’s assassination as well as during President Garfield’s assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated. 300. The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands. 301. The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”. 302. Don Mac Lean’s song “American Pie” was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same plane crash. 303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard. 304. Hummingbirds can’t walk. 305. When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym “Allen Smithee” instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with “Death of a Gunfighter” (1969). 306. Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing). 307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence (7/1/1967). 308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history. 309. William Shatner is credited for being the first person on TV to say “hell” as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek. 310. While the US government’s supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its supply of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY. 311. Alexander Graham Bell’s wife and mother were both deaf. 312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works. 313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men. 314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who’s bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex. 315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for pleasure. 316. Pac-Man, Namco’s 1979 arcade game, was originally called “Puck Man”. The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter “P”. 317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616. 318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population). 319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother’s Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. 320. The “middle finger” gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play “The Clouds”. |
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| What do you call a man with a tree growing out of his head ? Ed-Wood ! What do you call a woman with a sheep on her head ? Baa-Baa-Ra ! What do you call a man who wears tissue paper trousers ? Russell ! What do you call a nun with a washing machine on her head ? Sister Matic ! Why did the man with a pony tail go to see his doctor ? He was a little hoarse ! What do you call a witch flying through the skies ? Broom Hilda ! How did the Prime Minister get to know the secret ? Someone Blairted it out ! What did the idiot call his pet zebra ? Spot ! What do you call a fish on the dining table ? A Plaice Mat ! |
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Harry says there isn’t a spot of rust on this IRON MAN!!!… says there isn’t a spot of rust on this IRON MAN!!! How much awesome was tonight’s screening of … Drafthouse South with Jet Pack Man? It was like freebasing pop tarts. Ridiculously … mind tries to absorb it. But the idea of seeing a man fly… under the power of Hydrogen Peroxide… … Construction and all my various liberal concerns… this was a flying man – using technology that James Bond …
SPOILER WARNING - The Fate of a Certain Flying Ex-Congressman…is the fate of Nathan Petrelli. Regardless, the rest below shall be shaded in spoiler warnings. Ex-Congressman Nathan “Flying Man” Petrelli was shot by an unknown assassin at the end of the episode mentioned above, and his fate was …him alive than dead. 2. He is, at the very core, a good man and not the selfish politician persona his enemies make of him. 3….
Iron ManIntroducing one of my superheroes: Ironing man! …yeah, I thought it was hard to beat a flying man wearing a heavy suit of armor too. ——————– Help fight Aids, Cancer, Malaria, and Muscular Dystrophia on WorldCommunityGrid.org . Anyone worth doing is worth doing well.
Flying vs TeleportingFlying all the way. Teleportation sounds pretty cool of course but, well, FLYING MAN !! how sweet would be that ? ^^ _________________
GEEZ: The Memoirs of The High Flying Man-of-MulletQuote: Originally Posted by DaGeek Dude, congrats on the pilotage! How long have you been learning? I have been flying since June of 2005. I’ve had my license since August of that year. I am graduating this Spring, and I may be finding an airline job before the end of the year…..
GEEZ: The Memoirs of The High Flying Man-of-Mullet
Quote: Originally Posted by mulletman I have been flying since June of 2005. I’ve had my license since August of that year. I am graduating this Spring, and I may be finding an airline job before the end of the year….. Very, very cool! Perhaps I shall one day ride your tube of airplanage . That would …
GEEZ: The Memoirs of The High Flying Man-of-Mullet
… my best for the video thing…… And yes, there have been grand times in the CPF. Schweet! Quote: Oooh, that is an excellent question. I’m going to have to go with flying F-16’s or F-22’s for the Hawaii Air National Guard. And then retire from that to go fly the whale out of Anchorage for UPS…. Mmmm. Nice! How likely …
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