Someone sent me these a few days ago. I found them quite funny (may just be my sense of humor
)...so I thought I would post 'em here;
moon.
2. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
3. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
solid.
4. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
5. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
6. The "sixth sick sheiks sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language...try it!
7. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
8. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
9. Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.
10. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
11. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
12. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
13. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand, lollipop
with your right.
14. A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
15. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
16. The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left
to right or right to left.
17. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.
18. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
19. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
20. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch face is 10:10.
21. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
22. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.
23. There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
24. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order: abstemious and facetious.
25. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which
occurs five times: indivisibility.
26. A snail can sleep for three years.
27. Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which the live?
That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little
for the rest of its life.
28. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
29. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
30. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
31. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.
32. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating is
uncopyrightable.
33. Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
34. It's impossible to lick your elbow.
35. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air
is a skein.
36. Pinocchio is Italian for pine eye.
37. Rats and horses can't vomit.
38. The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there
were three gifts.
39. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
40. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
41. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
42. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
43. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
44. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
45. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders.
46. Butterflies taste with their feet.
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1. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
2. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
3. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
solid.
4. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
5. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
6. The "sixth sick sheiks sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language...try it!
7. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
8. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
9. Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.
10. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
11. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
12. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
13. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand, lollipop
with your right.
14. A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
15. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
16. The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left
to right or right to left.
17. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.
18. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
19. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
20. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch face is 10:10.
21. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
22. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.
23. There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
24. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order: abstemious and facetious.
25. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which
occurs five times: indivisibility.
26. A snail can sleep for three years.
27. Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which the live?
That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little
for the rest of its life.
28. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
29. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
30. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
31. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.
32. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating is
uncopyrightable.
33. Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
34. It's impossible to lick your elbow.
35. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air
is a skein.
36. Pinocchio is Italian for pine eye.
37. Rats and horses can't vomit.
38. The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there
were three gifts.
39. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
40. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
41. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
42. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
43. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
44. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
45. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders.
46. Butterflies taste with their feet.
Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
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