----- SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING? A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. A snail can sleep for three years. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. Butterflies taste with their feet. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. There are more chickens than people in the world. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart! Only seven (7) per cent of the population are lefties. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. The toothbrush was invented in 1498. The average housefly lives for one month. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie". Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor. ...................Now you know everything
"The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns" Will that be US gallons 3.785 litres, or Imperial gallons 4.546 litres? Bit of a difference when travelling from London to New York....:laugh:
[Johnny Carson voice] "I did not know that".:grin: Cliff Claven - Eat your heart out!!:laugh: Unless there's alot of construction site accidents - I don't get that one.o No:
I was challenged to find these very rhymes once. I did not concede defeat, only a delay in finding the rhymes. I contend that "pilfer" is the legendary rhyme for "silver". If you where to say, "I wonder what made that twerp ill?" it would rhyme with, "Why is that guy painted purple?" but then again it's not a word that rhymes with purple, it's a trick to rhyme the word. "once" rhymes with "month" if you happen to have a lisp. I thought about rhymes for "orange" for days. I cannot come up with any in English but there must be a word somewhere. Gotta be. I know there is. I should stop before I attempt to research that again.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. Thats Just gross<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_10.gif' border=0></a> Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. My wife says thats false. She checked our 12 month old daughter 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_4_1.gif' border=0></a>
Dan, I've gotta know, PLEASE, where did you get those smiley's from? Those are awesome, I've been laugfhing for 5 minutes now.:laugh:
I right-clicked those smileys and looked at the properties. They're from http://smileys.smileycentral.com/ Funny. p
Thanks Greg! I'm onto somethin' really cool here.:Brow: My son's gotta help me though, I don't know what I'm doing.
I can just hear now the hysterical laughter the next time some one comes to the bathroom door and asks "Did ya fall in?":laugh:
You sure that ain't supposed to read, " Michael Garrison's Buick moves only six inches for each gallon of 106 octane fuel that it burns" ?? :Brow: :laugh: Mike
<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/7/7_2_115.gif' border=0></a> Greg beat me to it. This is the wb site http://www.smileycentral.com/ <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/1099.gif' border=0></a> <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_6_4.gif' border=0></a>
that is what we need! more smileys!<IMG SRC="http://leichte.info/Smiley_Archiv/grosse_Smileys/009.gif">
