Did You Know?

[sakic]

Are they all true? I don't know.

[sauropod]

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...)

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

Thanks for posting this. Gives the big fat lie to the Nature Conservancy's blathering about saving the "last few wild places."

[Pukin Dog]

Everyone who just tried to lick their elbow, admit it now.

[Charles Henrickson]

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

Wonder what the last novel written on a typewriter was.

[Pete]

Everyone who just tried to lick their elbow, admit it now.

I think I hurt myself.

[Charles Henrickson]

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air. . . . If the horse has one front leg in the air. . . .

If a statue in the park has one back leg in the air, it's a dog.

[capt. norm]

My elbow is really ugly. Wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.

[drjimmy]

Everyone who just tried to lick their elbow, admit it now.
As for those who don't know their ass from their elbow.....

[FReepaholic]

>>...If a statue in the park has one back leg in the air, it's a dog....<<

ROTFLMAO!!

[Charles Henrickson]

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air. . . .

So who has their legs in the air--the statue, the person, or the horse?

That's a lot of prepositional phrases there.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

If the statue has all legs in the air, its Clinton at his presidential library in Arkansas.

[Charles Henrickson]

If you can read this, you must be a man.

[dighton]

Did you know?

General Sheridan died in battle, from wounds received in battle, and of natural causes.

[Huck]

Everyone who just tried to lick their elbow, admit it now.

Check.

[ClearCase_guy]

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. so in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

I've always heard this came from Printers who had to make sure that metal type for "p" and "q" were not interchanged.

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

I find it hard to believe that whistles were built into the cup. I think most people can whistle with their lips, and that wetting the whistle refers directly to their mouth.

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

I dunno. I just have a funny feeling about the veracity of this one.

[Constitution Day]

Wonder what the last novel written on a typewriter was.

Excellent question!

"That's not writing, that's typing."
- Truman Capote, commenting on Jack Kerouac's On The Road

[Charles Henrickson]

General Sheridan died in battle, from wounds received in battle, and of natural causes.

So what did they do, cut off his horse's legs?

[PMCarey]

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

Nope. It's called "golf" because all of the other four letter words are taken, OR, it's called "golf" because it's flog spelled backwards.

[aculeus]

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. so in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

I thought it was a printers' phrase, a warning to typesetters since p and q were easily mistaken for one another.

Oh well, maybe it was a printers' pub.

[Cobra64]

Forgot one. You know when Liberals are lieing; when they move their lips.