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Crazy facts (pg. 4)
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| dj_cuba |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
Actually people said "Bless you" in response to someon sneezing long before we knew that the heart stops briefly when you sneeze. It can be traced back to the sixth century AD, when many people who sneezed subsequently developed the plague. "Bless you" because a customary response to a sneeze, as it was meant to ward off the plague.
Nice list, though - very entertaining.
Cheers,
Arbiter |
like I just said.. :rolleyes: |
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| caroline |
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
immigrants. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | | Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. |
Total and utter bull.
Disney comics are more popular in Finland than anywhere else in the world. (Donald Duck in particular). |
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| TiestoInTheMix |
| quote: | Originally posted by caroline
Yea sure- if you have a Brooklyn accent it rhymes. Correctly pronounced, there is no word. |
as there's no rhyme for orange |
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| Nicke |
| quote: | Originally posted by TiestoInTheMix
as there's no rhyme for orange |
but it's both a color and a fruit, so those 2 must rhyme
orange (the color) rhymes with orange (the fruit), right? |
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| RenderedDream |
| recently, marconi was recognized has the true inventor of the telephone and not graham bell..bell registered the patent 2 years after marconi's patent expired..and bell worked in marconi's labs.. |
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| plastikE |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
if u asked me "mike did u go to school today?" i would say "Yes."
so is that not a complete sentence? and i suppose if im saying "Yes." is a full sentence then "No." must also be. |
Yes isnt a full sentence....good Lorde people
if someone asked you 'mike did u go to school today?', the CORRECT answer would be "Yes I did." :rolleyes: |
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| Nadi |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
if u asked me "mike did u go to school today?" i would say "Yes."
so is that not a complete sentence? and i suppose if im saying "Yes." is a full sentence then "No." must also be. |
Its still a sentence fragment. A real sentence you should be able to find a subject and a predicate in, without seeing lines before or after it. |
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| EbolaCola |
Here are some more:
The average woman in America eats 6 lbs. of lipstick during her lifetime.
Elephants are the only land mammals that can't jump.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
In Brooklyn, it is illegal for you to keep a mule in your bathtub.
You can lose 10 lbs. in a week if you have rough sex 8 hours a day. |
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| skiski1019 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nadi
Its still a sentence fragment. A real sentence you should be able to find a subject and a predicate in, without seeing lines before or after it. |
The shortest sentence is "Who?", or at least thats what my sources todl me... |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | | Originally posted by jp People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second. |
eh.....no?
people say bless you because sneezes were originally thought to be spirits trying to fly out your nose or something, and by blessing the person they went back
something along those lines |
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