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Tease
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Totally Useless Info
1. Coca-cola was originally green.
2. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
3. Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever.
4. Dumbest dog: Afghan
5. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
6. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
7. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2
8. Amount American Airlines saved in '87 by taking out 1 olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000
9. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
10. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
11. Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
12. Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
13. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
14. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
15. Estimated % of American adults who go on diet each year: 44%
16. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
17. Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
18. Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%
19. Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%
20. City with highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Washington DC
21. Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
22. % of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%
23. % of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%
24. % of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%
25. Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105
26. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
27. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
28. Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70%
29. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
30. Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
31. Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3
32. Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonald's each day: 7
33. Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90%
34. Percentage of mammal species that are: 3%
35. Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50%
36. Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
37. Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
38. Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
39. Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon
40. Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
41. Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage"
42. Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals
43. Only food that does not spoil: honey
44. Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)
45. Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
46. Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
47. Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
48. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
49. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
50. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
51. Polar bears are left-handed.
52. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
53. Eskimos never gamble.
54. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
55. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
56. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
57. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
58. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
59. Your nose and ears never stop growing.
60. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
61. Hot water is heavier than cold.
62. The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
63. They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.
64. Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
65. Starfish have eight eyes-one at the end of each leg.
66. Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.
67. First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer."
68. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
69. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
70. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
71. Men get hiccups more often than women.
72. Armadillos can be housebroken
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| September 10, 2004, 20:20 |
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bawbie
63 / female
mesa, Arizona, US
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Re: Totally Useless Info
re: #72 i want an armadillo! i will name him "amarillo" like the city. where can i get one? 
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| September 10, 2004, 20:26 |
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Tease
47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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The nearest woods? LOL I dunno! 
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| September 10, 2004, 20:27 |
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47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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- Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.
- Dolplins are the only other mamals besides humans that have sex for fun.
- Dogs can't decifer size. Thats why little dogs are mean.
- The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
- Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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| September 10, 2004, 22:16 |
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47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
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| September 10, 2004, 22:17 |
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47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
- You can't fold of piece of paper in half more than 7 times. Don't believe me? Try it.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The Library of Congress has approx. 327 miles of bookshelves.
The queen of England has two birthdays
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman, he changed it in honor of Dylan Thomas.
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| September 10, 2004, 22:24 |
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Tease
47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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I guess I could say I was really bored..Must have been to post all this..And Im sure nobody will read it all 
Johnny Depp is afraid of clowns.
Madonna suffers from garophobia (the fear of thunder).
Kim Basinger fears large crowds. She even locked herself in her house for 4 months, because of this fear.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
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| September 10, 2004, 22:31 |
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QUOTE (Tease @ September 10, 2004, 22:31) I guess I could say I was really bored..Must have been to post all this..And Im sure nobody will read it all
Johnny Depp is afraid of clowns.
Madonna suffers from garophobia (the fear of thunder).
Kim Basinger fears large crowds. She even locked herself in her house for 4 months, because of this fear.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
*A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. Myth Busters TV show on Discovey Channel proved they can learn and remember for days even weeks!
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| September 11, 2004, 05:16 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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61. Hot water is heavier than cold.
Heavier really means more dense, and of course as water rises in temperature its density decreases (as does pretty much everything else), hence a colume of water will weight less when warmer.
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| September 11, 2004, 08:22 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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- Dolplins are the only other mamals besides humans that have sex for fun.
Not true some species of monkeys or chimps engage in recreationial sex, including lesbianism, and sex for food.
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| September 11, 2004, 08:24 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Not true. I can sneeze with my eyes open. Its hard, but I do it when driving.
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| September 11, 2004, 08:26 |
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Tease
47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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Ok so I was wrong about a few things...
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| September 11, 2004, 09:53 |
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Now take your pants off! 
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| September 11, 2004, 10:42 |
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QUOTE (bawbie @ September 10, 2004, 20:26)
My gosh, what would you do with it, they are mean, when I was in texas they were all over the place, shouldnt be hard to get, think they are all over in the south, not sure though?
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| September 11, 2004, 10:48 |
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47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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QUOTE (hothands @ September 11, 2004, 10:42)
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| September 11, 2004, 11:03 |
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QUOTE (backfromaustintx @ September 11, 2004, 08:22)61. Hot water is heavier than cold. Heavier really means more dense, and of course as water rises in temperature its density decreases (as does pretty much everything else), hence a colume of water will weight less when warmer.
actually i think water is on it own here... most things are more dense in there solid state which is at the lower temps yes, but we all know ice floats (meaning its desity decreases with it's temp)
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| September 11, 2004, 11:08 |
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ummm....I've found some men to be dense, very , very dense.
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| September 11, 2004, 11:11 |
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47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ September 11, 2004, 11:11)ummm....I've found some men to be dense, very , very dense.
 
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| September 11, 2004, 11:14 |
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hardrock1955
69 / male
McGaheysville, Virginia, US
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QUOTE (Tease @ September 11, 2004, 11:14) QUOTE (Chazzy @ September 11, 2004, 11:11)ummm....I've found some men to be dense, very , very dense.
Does their density increas as they heat up?
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| September 11, 2004, 12:22 |
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ September 11, 2004, 11:11)ummm....I've found some men to be dense, very , very dense.
We want names!!!!
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| September 11, 2004, 13:46 |
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Tease
47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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I could give ya some names but I dont think Id be liked much around here anymore...  
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| September 11, 2004, 14:11 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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QUOTE (hothands @ September 11, 2004, 10:48) QUOTE (bawbie @ September 10, 2004, 20:26)
My gosh, what would you do with it, they are mean, when I was in texas they were all over the place, shouldnt be hard to get, think they are all over in the south, not sure though?
I did see one once when I lived in Austin, TX. It was laying flat on its back with all 4 legs up in the air. It was dead or playing dead. The kids got a kick out of seeing it. There is a store chain in that area called "Guitars & Cadillacs" that sells stuffed armadillos, laying on their back with 4 paws holding a beer bottle up to its face. LOL
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| September 11, 2004, 21:20 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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actually i think water is on it own here... most things are more dense in there solid state which is at the lower temps yes, but we all know ice floats (meaning its desity decreases with it's temp)
Actually, what I said only applies to water at a few degrees above freezing and above. The trend continues up through changing pahse to water vavour, etc. Upon freezing water molecules form ice crystals which have a lattice work structure, and its density decreases suddenly. We're both right BCB.
Don't you remember the classic Grade 9 science experiment? The teacher heats up some water in a basin and then adds cold water with food colouring in it. The students get to see what the cold water does as it is poured into the basin. The denser, colder water, falls to the bottom of the basin because the hotter water is less dense ("lighter" and floats on top of it.
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| September 11, 2004, 21:30 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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QUOTE (Tease @ September 11, 2004, 09:53) Ok so I was wrong about a few things...
Never! Thats just not possible! I don't think you can be 'wrong' for posting stuff found out there on the internet. BTW If you are wondering why I posted some corrections, its because - yes its true! - I'm an anal retentive Engineer, and I hate to see bad science. Doctor's have a core saying "First, do no harm". Mine is "Never propagate errors".
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| September 11, 2004, 21:38 |
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Tease
47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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I skipped that class...OFTEN!
I thought this thread originally would be fun. I found most of the info online. So if its wrong go find the people who posted it!
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| September 11, 2004, 21:40 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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QUOTE (Tease @ September 11, 2004, 21:40) I skipped that class...OFTEN!
I thought this thread originally would be fun. I found most of the info online. So if its wrong go find the people who posted it!
It is fun! Aren't you having fun? I am! 
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| September 11, 2004, 21:41 |
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Tease
47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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QUOTE (backfromaustintx @ September 11, 2004, 21:38) QUOTE (Tease @ September 11, 2004, 09:53) Ok so I was wrong about a few things... Never! Thats just not possible! I don't think you can be 'wrong' for posting stuff found out there on the internet. BTW If you are wondering why I posted some corrections, its because - yes its true! - I'm an anal retentive Engineer, and I hate to see bad science. Doctor's have a core saying "First, do no harm". Mine is "Never propagate errors".
Completely understandable And yes Im having fun! Always!!
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| September 11, 2004, 22:02 |
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QUOTE (Tease @ September 11, 2004, 14:11) I could give ya some names but I dont think Id be liked much around here anymore...
yeah, but you could give strong hints, if they are that dense, they would never recognize themselves !!
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| September 12, 2004, 00:04 |
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Tease
47 / female
small town, Minnesota, US
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ September 12, 2004, 00:04) QUOTE (Tease @ September 11, 2004, 14:11) I could give ya some names but I dont think Id be liked much around here anymore...
yeah, but you could give strong hints, if they are that dense, they would never recognize themselves !!
LMAO Yes I could..And someone would tell them I was badmouthing them on the forums! Want a list? Ill email it to ya...hehe
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| September 12, 2004, 01:48 |
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bawbie
63 / female
mesa, Arizona, US
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QUOTE (hothands @ September 11, 2004, 10:48) QUOTE (bawbie @ September 10, 2004, 20:26)
My gosh, what would you do with it, they are mean, when I was in texas they were all over the place, shouldnt be hard to get, think they are all over in the south, not sure though?
i've never seen one outside a zoo. even in texas. i want one to replace poor little lucille, the corn snake, who got out of her house one day, and was eaten by rex, the cat.
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| September 12, 2004, 21:32 |
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very few armidillos here, but I can send you a good sized wolf spider anytime you want one
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| September 12, 2004, 22:10 |
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Nobody has a cat named Rex. Dogs are named Rex. And thats all I have to say about that!
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| September 13, 2004, 14:59 |
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bawbie
63 / female
mesa, Arizona, US
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i had a cat named rex. but he was a bigamist- he had another family, and now he lives with them.i had a cat named "albotross" when i was a kid.
until someone stole him, i had the sweetest little cat named "habebe". it is arabic for sweetie. i worked with a doctor from syria, and she always called her husband habebe. we all thought it was his name. so the whole back office staff called him habebe. after the first few times she explained it to us. red faces all around
right now all i have is a wienie dog named "ladybug"
and a year old lab. her name is maab, after a character in the king arther stories. plus a bunch of nameless geckos.
thank you, but no on the spider. i can get one anytime i want one.
thus ends the name lecture.
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| September 14, 2004, 23:38 |
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I have 2 nameless geckos too. Just can't figure out what to call them. Not like they come when called anyway. 
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| September 15, 2004, 09:05 |
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hardrock1955
69 / male
McGaheysville, Virginia, US
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do they sit in the back seat of the car and sing along with you ? 
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| September 15, 2004, 09:52 |
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BTU = THe amount of heat it takes to raise one
cubic centimeter of water one degree
centigrade.
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| September 15, 2004, 10:13 |
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Why do we name cats anyway. Even if they recognize their name, they never respond to anything they don't want to respond to. You could call them kitty or you could call them Amadeus the Great and it wouldn't make a whit of difference to the cat.
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| September 15, 2004, 14:22 |
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maybe they have selective hearing like woman?
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| September 15, 2004, 19:03 |
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actually we hear quite well, we just have excellent "bullshit" filters. Normally it works like this: spoken by a male: BULLSHIT.. stop listening.... Spoken by any other living organism... "Gospel"
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| September 15, 2004, 19:33 |
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how about when you income tax return check comes in the mail from "Uncle Sam" do you Bull Shit it to the garbage? Or Gospel it to the Bank?
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| September 15, 2004, 19:58 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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QUOTE (hothands @ September 15, 2004, 10:13)BTU = THe amount of heat it takes to raise one
cubic centimeter of water one degree
centigrade.
At sea level.
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| September 15, 2004, 21:33 |
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to be more exact you would have to say average sea level, because it changes constantly, based on the position of the earth and moon in relation to the sun. some people call it high and low tide, but in terms of oceanography science there are actually 4 separate tide levels.
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| September 15, 2004, 22:55 |
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I love smart men.
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| September 16, 2004, 10:50 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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QUOTE (hothands @ September 15, 2004, 22:55)to be more exact you would have to say average sea level, because it changes constantly, based on the position of the earth and moon in relation to the sun. some people call it high and low tide, but in terms of oceanography science there are actually 4 separate tide levels.
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| September 16, 2004, 16:44 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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QUOTE (curiousgirl @ September 16, 2004, 10:50)I love smart men.
Well, at least some part of my anatomy is "Big". What does Red Green say? "I the ladies don't find you handsom, then they should find you handy".
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| September 16, 2004, 16:45 |
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hardrock1955
69 / male
McGaheysville, Virginia, US
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I really like Red Green , it doesnt come on a station I can get anymore.that sucks , he is really funny.
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| September 16, 2004, 17:14 |
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ September 11, 2004, 11:11)ummm....I've found some men to be dense, very , very dense.
Im probably one of them,,, Doesn't that mean your cock is harder?
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| September 16, 2004, 17:16 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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Ok, let me take a stab at some useless info... (Off the top of my head).
1) Coke a cola used to have cocaine in it. Really!
2) There are tissues that become erect on the tip of your nose when you are aroused.
3) Vaseline used to be a medicine you took internally.
4) Even today people are used to test Vaseline as it comes off the factory floor, by tasting it!. Aparently, some people have a gene that allows then to detect some substance or other in Vaseline. Don't remember more than that.
5) Water is not that good of a conductor of electricity! We always think electricity + water = death, but water has a break down voltage higher than the power in our homes. Why are baths so unsafe then? The oils and salts that come off of our body make water conductive.
6) To stop our heart electricity must flow across it. That means holding power wires in each hand. A shock across your leg will burn and strain your muscles but won't kill you. Hence, a hairdryer in the bathtub usually doesn't kill.
7) Lightning strikes the ground from above, but the flash we see results from the resulting stroke from the ground back up to the sky.
8) Salt is composed by two of the more deadly substances. Sodium and Cloride. When combined into salt they neutralize each other.
9) Why do we shake with right hands? Why not left hands? Soldiers would shake right hands to show that their sword hand was empty. Left hands were for holding shields.
10) Look at a face normally and then turn it upside down. A smile is always perceived as one, yet a frown is not.
11) If you wear special glasses that flip the image upside down long enough the brain will flip the image back again.
12) There is a spot on each eye that is blind - its where the optic nerve connects. But you don't see it because the brain fills the hole with what it thinks should be there. There is a test to demonstrate this.
13) To keep small imperfections of the eye from showing up as permanent spots in your vision the brain subtracts things in the image that never change. Thats why the eye ball must move every few seconds or so. If you force yourself to not blink or move your eyes your sight will slowely fade.
Geez. Look at all of the usless stuff I'be absorbed over the years. That must be why my kids used to call out to their mother saying "MOM! Dads 'splaining things again!". LOL
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| September 16, 2004, 17:18 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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QUOTE (kbateman @ September 13, 2004, 14:59)Nobody has a cat named Rex. Dogs are named Rex. And thats all I have to say about that!
But Data on Start Trek:TNG has a cat named Spot. How does that relate? I Don't know!!!
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| September 16, 2004, 17:21 |
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backfromaustintx
66 / male
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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QUOTE (hardrock1955 @ September 16, 2004, 17:14)I really like Red Green , it doesnt come on a station I can get anymore.that sucks , he is really funny.
Did you know he and his program is Canadian! I was really surprised when he and his gang showed up to promote the PBS membership drive. He has a new show coming soon - its being advertised here now.
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| September 16, 2004, 17:23 |
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