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| quote: | Originally posted by DuMonde TrAnCeR
more people have died from licking stmaps than taking ecstacy... |
how long have stamps been in existence? hundreds if not THOUSANDS of years? and how long has E been around? ..invented by Merck in the 20s i think - and used recreationally(beyond crowd control in South Africa(the dutch are lovely ;))) only since the late 70s and 80s. have fun/ |
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| DuMonde TrAnCeR |
stamps have been around less than 200 years...
stamps are small squares of paper...
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| yujie__ |
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| biznology |
| quote: | Originally posted by DuMonde TrAnCeR
stamps have been around less than 200 years...
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well considering you guys sold the American colonists 'stamps' in order to collect taxes(we didnt take to well to that) theyve been around at least 200 years. do you honestly think that with 'advanced' civilizations in the past, a service like mail was free? even if its less than 200 years 150:20 years is an unfair comparison. plus most of the debate on e is not that it can kill you, but whether it makes HOLES in your brain. just cause there isnt research doesnt mean that its safe. |
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| TiestoInTheMix |
| quote: | Originally posted by SpykeChyld
^^^Ummm, ok, wow.
My only one, which I thought was the funniest thing I've ever heard:
~~~In Florida, it is against the law to go "Dwarf Tossing"~~~
OK, now think about that one. That means someone had to actually go "Dwarf Tossing" at some point, and some dwarf had to be offended. Now a good question: Has anyone ever been arrested for "Dwarf Tossing"?
OK, I have a sudden urge to throw a midget, lol.
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they had a thing about this on tv, so ridiculous! i was at my friend's and we were laughing our asses off! it appears they even have contests of who can toss a midget the furthest... now, when the law came out, some of the midgets protested it by saying that they are expressing themselves that way and no one can take away their urge of being tossed...:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :stongue: |
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| TiestoInTheMix |
| quote: | Originally posted by biznology
well considering you guys sold the American colonists 'stamps' in order to collect taxes(we didnt take to well to that) theyve been around at least 200 years. do you honestly think that with 'advanced' civilizations in the past, a service like mail was free? even if its less than 200 years 150:20 years is an unfair comparison. plus most of the debate on e is not that it can kill you, but whether it makes HOLES in your brain. just cause there isnt research doesnt mean that its safe. |
i read that it definitely affects your memory in a bad way. also i heard that e makes your spine melt, but hmmmmm....:rolleyes: anyway, e is ed up. |
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| biznology |
| quote: | Originally posted by TiestoInTheMix
i read that it definitely affects your memory in a bad way. also i heard that e makes your spine melt, but hmmmmm....:rolleyes: anyway, e is ed up. |
all i would be willing to say is that there was one medical study where e caused adverse effects in people that had done more than 50 pills, and that it affected women more than men. will that stop me from ever doing it again? prolly not, but then again ive only done it like 4 times, and it wont be much more than that. you can put those chemicals in your body and not expect it to do bad things. late/ |
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| kr00t0n |
Useless info:
Frank Zappa was an eccentric chap and named his children 'Moon-unit' and 'Dweezel'
Weirdo! |
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| Waxen |
It's impossible to eat 10 crackers in under 1 minute. :D
*Try it... you can't do it*...
~S~ |
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| USSR Junkie |
Coca-cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever;
Dumbest--afghan
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36
Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43
City with the highest per capita viewership of television
evangelists: Washington DC
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80
Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or
separation: 58
Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes
cards: 105
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3
Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
Percentage of mammal species that are: 3
Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary
schools are above national average: 50
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon
Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in
Courage
Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying
vessels over shoals
Only food that does not spoil: honey
Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)
Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antartica
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Eskimos never gamble.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
Your nose and ears never stop growing.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system
combined.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.
First novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of
the year.
Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Men get hiccups more often than women.
Armadillos can be housebroken. |
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| CLuver? |
These are cool :)
* Technically, "Down Under" (e.g Australia, where i live) is on top and the northern hemisphere should be "down under". why?
When you use a compass, the north end of the compass points to the North pole. Shouldn't 2 North magnets repel? It's because the North Pole is actually a magnetic South pole. So The North Pole is the South Pole and the South Pole is the North Pole :eyes: hehe
* I heard that Earth has been through 4 major extinctions, which we can see by looking at past stellar events. These 4 include ones like the current (us), The last one (The dinosaurs) and 2 mysterious previous ones. *What if* the 2 previous mystery extinctions were made up of completely different lifeforms, maybe beings more advanced in technology than we currently are, but they got wiped out by a supernova, and all evidence of their existence was vaporised (literally, that is why there is no fossil evidence, the life on earth must have experienced a quick, violent extermination, which vaporised the surface of the earth.
* Einstein married his first cousin. I had complete admiration for the guy until i found this out. :eek:
* If you shoot a bullet out of a gun horizontally, say on a salt lake plain, and at the same time, drop a bullet out of your hand, vertically, they will hit the ground at the same time. (forget air resistance)
* Arnie only had 17 lines in the movie Terminator.
* This one rocks - if a FLEA weighed 1 gram, it would be ~2 kilograms or ~4 pounds when it does its flea jump, because it experiences accelerations of ~200 g (g-force). I dont know how heavy they are. Lets just say 1 gram :p
* Fastest speed of any human-made object is ~40,000km/h, a satellite, around saturn or jupiter or some planet...ohh forget that one! :p
* cats average 16 hrs of sleep a day, the fat bastards.
* The best place to be in a nuclear bomb blast is at ground zero, you will only get blown apart or mangled, rather than vaporised if you were further out. just incase.. LOL! :toothless
* Scientists were concerned about some experiments in an acceleration chamber in the US a little while back because they *thought* that they may possibly be producing SUPER-DENSE atomic particles that had so much mass that they could form black holes and swallow up the earth. :eek: :eek: :eek:
* I space nobody can hear you scream, unless you win powerball.
* A Baboon called "Jackie" became a soldier in the South African army in World War I. hehe i saw this one on this site:
http://www.angelfire.com/ok3/clem/amazingindex.html |
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| TiestoInTheMix |
the airport code for Providence, Rhode Island is PVD :D
i have a huge tag that says PVD on it :stongue: :D :p |
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