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| jploveparade |
| quote: | Originally posted by caroline
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." |
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| rollypoles |
hmmmmm....i always knew there was something special about where i go to school...i just couldn't figure it out.
"A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. " |
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| caroline |
| quote: | Originally posted by jploveparade
Hunt |
Yea sure- if you have a Brooklyn accent it rhymes. Correctly pronounced, there is no word. |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by caroline
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." |
or purple or silver |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by jploveparade
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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HOLY ! thats not good news for me :nervous: :nervous: |
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| Maaz |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
or purple or silver |
silver rhymes with river :p |
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| trancendental |
Here are some more. Tho I don't remember my sources :rolleyes:
Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
Q. Most boat owners name their boats.
What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
Q. What trivial fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
Did you know...
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear & smell better.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
That San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts -Charlemagne; Diamonds - Julius Caesar
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a 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 as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hanand Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "The whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey"), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores("a pocket full of posies"). Furthermore, people who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").
Food
Worlds worst meal: eating a bicycle. A man did this by grinding it into powder.
When a pineapple was first shown to the infamous glutton King Louis XIV, he immediately grabbed it and took a giant bite. He cut his lips and thereafter outlawed pineapples in France.
Professor William Buckland acquired the dried out heart of King Louis XIV, provided by grave robbers. He ate it!
The word salary came from the word salt in Roman times. Salt was used as a trading medium - money.
John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola referred to it as, "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage."
7-Up was originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda when it was invented in 1929. The 7 is for the original size - 7 ounces - and the Up was for "bottoms up." The first advertising slogan for 7-Up was, "It takes the ouch out of grouch."
Cherries taste great, but if you eat the leaves or twigs of a cherry tree, you could die.
Strawberries are unique among fruits because they carry their seeds on the outside.
People have grown tomatoes with a strawberry growing inside.
Americans eat 5681 miles of carrots per day.
A genetic engineer in Japan has created cube-shaped watermelons. These stack more efficiently than round ones.
If you store carrots and apples together in your fridge, the carrots will become bitter because they are affected by the ethylene fumes (natural) given off by the apples.
There is a wild edible plant called Hernandulcin which is 1000 times sweeter than sugar.
Americans eat 127 chickens per second.
All members of the Roman empire were vegetarians until Julias Caesar.
In America, some people put sugar in their tea or coffee. In parts of China, people put salt into their tea.
In Old England, people drank beer at breakfast.
In Japan there is a liquor made from the fermented bodies of venomous snakes.
To grow the wheat for a single loaf of bread requires two tons of water.
An acre of farmland grows one-half ton of wheat, or five tons of potatoes.
A scientist is working on a new soft drink that will help you lose weight in a new way. When you sip this drink, it coats your intestines with a fluorocarbon that reduces the ability to absorb nutrition. When you eat, the stuff will just go right through you without benefit.
Chop suey was invented in America.
If you like exotic foods, perhaps you would like Haggis, from Scotland. It contains oatmeal, suet, onions, and sheep heart, lungs, liver and stomach.
Potato chips cost 200 times more per pound than potatoes.
If we all had a proper diet, 98 percent of the people who die of heart attacks would still be around. |
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| Maaz |
| quote: | | Americans eat 127 chickens per second |
Blimey :eek: It takes half an hour for my family to eat just one chicken, American people are really fast :D |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by Maaz
silver rhymes with river :p |
wheres the "L" in river?
and going bak to one JP said above. Wheres the "th" sound in Hunt.
2 words that rhyme are like "gold" and "bold" or "dick" and "prick"
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| DeeDee |
| if u ever get in a car accident, and its ur fault, just say u sneezed. when u sneeze u go legally blind and ur heart stops. chances are u wont be charged. |
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| Technaut |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
or purple or silver |
ORANGE! |
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| jploveparade |
| quote: | Originally posted by caroline
Yea sure- if you have a Brooklyn accent it rhymes. Correctly pronounced, there is no word. |
Most rappers like Dre dont give a wank :D |
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