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- tasty0
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
- xenicon0
Brando: Harley
Dylan: Triumph
Che: Norton
TELawrence: Brough
- version30
My latest clients have butchered my design.
brooke
(Apr 10 06, 10:17)
- canuck0
The height of the average American male is declining the Average now is 5'9. The hieght of the average Dutch male is increasing, the average height is now 6'0.
Poor diet (junk food) is a leading factor for Americas decline in height.
- k0na_an0k0
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
- madirish0
the character "Radar" appeared in all but 2 of the original cast episodes of M*A*S*H
- xenicon0
donkey attacking
- ribit0
I'm hungry
- mattyd040
There are more people alive today than have ever died. Ever.
- richie_gunnz0
52% of all cases of herpes are caused by me.
- Boar0
Enter response: A full grown ostrich can run 50 mph for a half hour.
- Boar0
Enter response: I am taller than you.
- Boar0
Enter response:Boar does not know how to post properly. Newb.
- determinedmoth0
*Bump
When Paraselene clears her throat she sounds a lot like Marg Simpson.
- Nairn0
The average British woman worries about her body every 15 minutes.
- GreedoLives0
Somebody just sharted and nobody wants to fess up. It's a mexican standoff as to who runs to the bathroom first.
- paraselene0
when moth thinks i might see something unkind he's posted about me on nt, he says 'uh-oh'.
audibly.
- dbloc0
1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
3. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a 'tittle.'
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller ..
6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster 's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small-sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
16. Upper- and lower-case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the Upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the
other at the same time, hence multi-tasking was invented.18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange and purple.
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa 's lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white..
25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)
26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
27. 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.
28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples.
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart, "Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her off to jail."
- vaxorcist0
Rank of Bush among U.S. presidents with the highest disapproval rating: 1
Average percentage of Americans who approved of the job Bush was doing during his second term: 37
Percentage of Russians today who approve of the direction their country took under Stalin: 37
- waterhouse0
It is impossible to freeze a video of someone directly on a photogenic frame.