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Sorcerer Alex 07-13-2002 08:10 AM

Did you know...

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

A shrimps heart is in it's head.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches
over a period of 80 years,
no one reported a single case where
an ostrich buried it's head in the sand.

It's physically impossible
for pigs to look up inyo the sky.

A pregant goldfsih is called a twit.

More than 50% of people in the world
have never made or received a telephone call.

Horses can't vomit.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick"
is said to be the toughest tongue twister
in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard,you can fracture a rib.
If you try to to suppress a sneeze,
you can rupture a blood vessel
in your head or neck and die.
If you try to keep your eyes open by force
they can pop out.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,
two rats could have over a million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour
will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

If the government has no knowledge of aliens,
then why does Title 14,Section 1211
of Code of Fedaral Regulations,
implemented on July 16,1069,
make it illegal for U.S. citzens to have any contact
with extraterestrails or their vehicles?

In every episode of Seinfeld
there is a Superman somewhere.

A duck's quack does'nt echo,
and no one knows why.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their butts.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints,everyone's
tongue print is different.

Over 75 percent of people who read
this will try to lick their elbow.

LennonCook 07-13-2002 08:21 AM

<nobr><font color="lightblue">Why do I get the feeling that i`ve seen something like this somewhere<nobr><div style="text-decoration:none">before</div>?? :D </font></nobr>

Megabot 07-13-2002 08:26 AM

Why not tell us something that we dont`t knowe?!! :D

Kakero 07-13-2002 08:29 AM

hmm..got nothing else to do? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Willard 07-13-2002 09:18 AM

Here's ones you probably didn't know:

The largest (heaviest) crustacean in the world is the lobster.

In a shop in Hong Kong, you can pay $200 to shit on a golden toilet.

The best-selling RPG is Diablo 2.

It is impossible for a person to lick their back.

0% of people reading this will try to lick their back.

A woman who flies upside down soon has nasty crack-up.

A blue whale has the largest brain in the world, but is not as smart as a dolphin.

Porpoises can swim underwater for 15 minutes without taking a breath. So can dolphins. Porpoises are dolphins.

Megabot 07-13-2002 12:33 PM

I did not knove that Diablo II was RPG, i dont think so it`s and hack and slash game or more like action game some sort not rpg!

Willard 07-13-2002 02:36 PM

Well that's what the Guiness Book said...

DiabloRex 07-13-2002 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Arledrian:

implemented on July 16,1069,

Say what year again? :eek:

Willard 07-13-2002 02:56 PM

Well, the U.S' roots go way back.........

DiabloRex 07-13-2002 03:31 PM

Nice going that they can pass a law on extra terrasterials 714 years before the country was even founded...

Bruce The Aussie 07-13-2002 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Arledrian:
Did you know...

If the government has no knowledge of aliens,
then why does Title 14,Section 1211
of Code of Fedaral Regulations,
implemented on July 16,1069,
make it illegal for U.S. citzens to have any contact
with extraterestrails or their vehicles?

thats 3 years after england was invaded by william the conquerer isn't it?

Lioness 07-13-2002 06:49 PM

Sorry, Willard, those facts aren't all correct. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I tried to lick my back. :D That's not zero percent. ;)

Willard 07-13-2002 09:53 PM

Okay, that's 0.1 percent, Lioness. :D

DeSoya 07-14-2002 12:33 AM

I've met people who can lick their elbows. I've also met a woman who could cram her clenched fist into her mouth. She did not have teeny hands.

Neat fun facts that you might not know but will bore people at parties:

The Solar Wind is spiral shaped.
The Solar equator is shaped roughly like a twirlling ballerina's tutu.

Sorry, i've got work on the brain.

DeSoya

Aelia Jusa 07-14-2002 12:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Willard:

It is impossible for a person to lick their back.

I bet that guy from Kiss could lick his back [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Lady Blue03 07-14-2002 12:58 AM

<font color=pink>Don't go dissing D2 in fronta me now, or you will b cryin when my legit sorceress whoops yo sorry ass :D

Actaully, dolphins and porpises are different...porpises are smaller, and don't have the pointed noses and such :D </font>

Bahamut 07-14-2002 01:18 AM

And my Barbs going to be there too helping out... :D

Scholarcs 07-14-2002 01:24 AM

<font color="snow">I will go barmy if I ever read this again! </font>

Scholarcs 07-14-2002 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DeSoya:
I've met people who can lick their elbows. I've also met a woman who could cram her clenched fist into her mouth. She did not have teeny hands.

Neat fun facts that you might not know but will bore people at parties:

The Solar Wind is spiral shaped.
The Solar equator is shaped roughly like a twirlling ballerina's tutu.

Sorry, i've got work on the brain.

DeSoya

<font color="snow">What do you do for work? I`m just curious, thats all [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>

caleb 07-14-2002 01:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
I bet that guy from Kiss could lick his back [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Among other things [img]graemlins/showoff.gif[/img]

Leonis 07-14-2002 03:45 AM

I can lick my elbow...

GokuZool 07-14-2002 03:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by caleb:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
I bet that guy from Kiss could lick his back [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Among other things [img]graemlins/showoff.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]Sick sick mind [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Downunda 07-14-2002 04:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GokuZool:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by caleb:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
I bet that guy from Kiss could lick his back [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Among other things [img]graemlins/showoff.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]Sick sick mind [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]eh? When Caleb said "among other things" he was meaning that the guy from KISS could lick his feet. What did you think he meant? [img]tongue.gif[/img] ;)

Who's got the dirty mind now :D

Willard 07-14-2002 12:43 PM

Also did you know that almost every person that watches TV has heard a dead person laugh? It's true, I tell ya!

johnny 07-14-2002 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Willard:
Also did you know that almost every person that watches TV has heard a dead person laugh? It's true, I tell ya!
I've heard John Wayne laugh last week ! :D

Willard 07-14-2002 01:56 PM

Even on new shows you hear dead people laugh!

DeSoya 07-14-2002 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Scholarcs:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by DeSoya:
I've met people who can lick their elbows. I've also met a woman who could cram her clenched fist into her mouth. She did not have teeny hands.

Neat fun facts that you might not know but will bore people at parties:

The Solar Wind is spiral shaped.
The Solar equator is shaped roughly like a twirlling ballerina's tutu.

Sorry, i've got work on the brain.

DeSoya

<font color="snow">What do you do for work? I`m just curious, thats all [img]smile.gif[/img] </font></font>[/QUOTE]I work for LASP. That's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. http://lasp.colorado.edu if you want more info. I'm doing level three data analysis on the UARS (I think there's a section on UARS on the web site) stellar data. Or, in English, I'm doing grunt work number analysis programming. Put in a wodge of numbers and get back a graph. It's interesting work.
Lately though, I've been futzing around with some numbers from the Heliospheric Current Sheet. Here's a picture: http://quake.stanford.edu/~wso/gifs/HCS.html
My boss says it has something to do with comet tails and their distortion when they hit the solar wind at different places. Here's a paper (one page) that mentions it and has a cool picture. http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/pdfs/ulss99-10.pdf

anyway... hope you don't regret asking. :D

DeSoya


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