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hehe Yeah, a six foot tall duck would make some echo! And, if you grafted a laser beam onto its head, it would a fearsome killing machine that i could use to terrorize the peasants in my realm!
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Posted: 2006-05-05 11:02:41
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lmao, finally something to make me smile! hahahaha
maybe we start start a thread - 'animals at war - whos the strongest' using their size and mobillity, this can help us determine with which weapon, whcih animal is the strongest....... up for it meths and anyone else? rather than spoiling this thread which is actually quite interesting.....
*i get excited over the littlest thing*
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Posted: 2006-05-05 11:08:57
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Hell yeah!
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Posted: 2006-05-05 11:16:53
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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.
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.
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 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. The same is true of most
domestic tiger cats.
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.
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Posted: 2006-05-05 11:23:56
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Guff!
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Posted: 2006-05-05 11:42:23
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the one about goldfish is nae true either,
you lot never seen finding nemo??
heheh
fatreg
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Posted: 2006-05-05 20:25:30
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@JN: The money in India is made of Threaded Paper (better believe it!), not Cotton. Till 1956 Indian Rupees were printed on cotton notes. Threaded paper is more difficult to reproduce, and easier to fold.
Quote:A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
So is a 'Pint', 1 'Pint' = 330ml, Infact, even 1 'Unit' = 330 ml. (anyone here who's donated blood probably knows this already
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Posted: 2006-05-05 21:51:56
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@786 - Nice input!
@debu - I guess the 'source' was generalizing the money-made-issue pal
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Posted: 2006-05-06 05:08:18
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surely the 40 statement is for fun
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Posted: 2006-05-08 04:10:39
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@kiwi - I just don't think matey
MOST of them are TRUE ! Btw, welcome to Esato !
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Posted: 2006-05-08 04:40:05
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