Posted on 10/19/2005 8:42:55 PM PDT by Mo1
SOMR USELESS FACTS
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
The most extras ever used in a movie were 300,000, for the film Gandhi in 1981.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The only person they could find to first model the bikini was a stripper Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day
The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
In Nevada sex without a condom is considered illegal.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Mosquitos have teeth.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
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Yep. Doomed....especially now that we wimmin can exploit your weaknesses...although I can't help getting this nagging feeling that you would enjoy it.
Cute fonts.
On the 25th anneversary of the New York City marathon, the worlds longest urinal (290ft) was installed at the beginning of the race
A fruitflies gestation period is 48 hours
The distance between Los Angeles and Tokyo is 5451 miles
The average human sheds around 18kg of dead skin in a lifetime
The mass of all the ants on Earth is more than th mass of all the people on Earth
Each eyelash hosts a minimum of three hundred dust mites mO< There is a hotel in Jukkasjaerui, Sweden which is built entirely out of ice, it is built each fall and melts each May
The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I ran the Zoo"
In "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" all the classic cartoon characters had to have appeared on screen before 1946 because that is when the movie was set, but the rule was broken for Wile E. Cyote and the Road Runner because they are Robert Zemekis' favorite characters
Char-gogga-gogg-manchaugg-agogg-chabuna-gunga-maugg is the name of a lake in Webster, MA, and it means "You fish on your side, I fish on mine, nobody fishes in the middle" Besides Star Trek, William Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, James Doohan, and George Takei have all appeared at one time or another on The Twilight Zone
FIANAL USELESS FACTS....
Chimney's used to be cleaned by dropping live chickens down them
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treas.
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
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
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
Percentage of mammal species (including humans!!) that are: 3
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
Who said anything about Halloween? I thought Ezzy was just showing us her collection of specimens from the DU.
Who, us??? Candy Chocolate, little boys?
Chocolate!
I hope so. I tire of all this ridiculous, childish, embarassing and downright dangerous, scrapping. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that the democrats make a political issue out of who uses the bathroom first in the morning and what kind of coffee their opponents drink.
I haven't had time to follow the whole sorry mess, but if the democrats are squealing like stuck pigs, he is probably a good choice.
It's been miserable here today. It's bad enough that it gets dark in the middle of the afternoon, but this dismal weather combined with the early darkness is just depressing.
SL, I'm having a bad day, too. :(
Same here. Cold, raining, dark at 4:00. Having to deal with disappointing idiots --- on more than one level.
I think we need an attitude adjustment. LOL!
You could move further south. (I understand there's plenty of houses that could be bought for a song in New Orleans)...
The dems had been chomping at the bit about the possibility of Rove being indicted, thinking that would throw the White House into meltdown. But, then, today the President nominated a sitting judge that is almost as textbook perfect as John Roberts. It so threw them off their feed that the best the libs could muster up is that he wasn't the President's first choice and that Laura Bush had wanted him to nominate a woman. Schummer, Kennedy and Leahy were all frothing and sputtering about dividing the country over that same old, tired Roe v Wade argument.
K, gotta go.... Happy Halloween, everyone. :)
I think I'll pass on that one, thank you very much.
*Gasping for breath*
That was a great play on Swervie's old lines. My ribs are still hurting.........
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