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- unknown0
On the animal balancing point so steathilly brought up by vinney, I would like to say that animals have a raw enough deal as it is, without having to do dangerous balancing acts in busy shipping lanes with in-appropriate boyancy aids. If animal testing and death for meat wasnt enough.
Right i'm off for a clinique facial and serloin stake, all washed down with a packet of hedgehog crisps.
- grunt0
Not really interesting but a fact... UnitedStates (the poster not the country) types alot... and is also probably not being very productive today at work. =]
- 5dp0
Mexicans dont plop lime into their beer.. they rest a bit of lime in the top so it will keep the flys away. We, as north americans adopted it, but decided to put the lime inside the bottle.
Do, do, do, doooo... the more you know...
-clink'
- stretch1160
balloons? big hairy gibbons, run away with an anteater if you don't mind.
never alone in my head....
- unknown0
Fact but not very interesting...grunt is obviously bored stupid, as he found it necessarry to reply to US at all.
- grunt0
fact but also not interesting, QuavaQuash is exactly right.
- unknown0
Ostricised beyond all dought...said mabel the bottle top fitter.
- unknown0
Cats can tell when their owners are within 10 miles/ km from home. 6th sense which has been proven.
- stretch1160
I can smell the nearest pub out in a jiffy!
- Droid0
the randomize me thread is near to the 3K.
- kodap0
Many chemicals cause the smell in bad breath including hydrogen sulphide, methyl mercaptan and putrescine.
Garlic rubbed into the soles of the feet can be detected later in the breath.
“You can have affection for a murderer, but you cannot have an affection for a man whose breath stinks - habitually stinks, I mean” (George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier).
Women clean their teeth more often than men - 76% of women brush their teeth at least once a day, but only 58% of men do (British Dental Association).
Politicians, lawyers, judges and teachers have the worst breath - they talk a lot, so their mouths dry out (Professor M Rosenberg).Shakespeare mentions breath smell - sweet or stinking - more than 100 times. In his day, most people had bad breath (Professor M Rosenberg)
- vespa0
It is not possible to touch your elbow with your tongue.
If you multiply any number by 9, then add the resultant numbers together, you will get 9. e.g:
9 X 5 = 45
4 + 5 = 9
- Uncle_Moe0
It took me approxinmately four minutes and 15 seconds to scroll through the entire "Randomize Me" thread.
- unknown0
Mid-Oceanic Ridges are producing new ground every second and subsequently old groun dis being subducted at continent edges. Meaning you will never see rock under the ocean older than Jurassic in age. LOL ;)
- lnu0
The word "Manhattan" is from an old natyive american word (don't remember it exactly) that basically means "the place where we all get drunk".
- lnu0
I mean native americans.
If you managed to drop nine pingpong balls from one meters height, right on top of each other, and there was no whattayacallit friction in the air the top one would bounce as high as the distance from here to the moon.
- lnu0
Birds have cold feet all the time.
- Gorbie0
Birds actually have no sphincter muscle.
So they don't really mean to shit on you. They just can't help it.
- Gorbie0
There are more insects per typical squale mile - than humans on Earth.
- lnu0
Maybe that's why god gave them wings, so they wouldn't shit themselves.