Useless Information!!!

[Jo Elson]

A thread on the mouth piece made me ramble out some completely useless information. However I do find some useless information quite interesting and funny, so I was just wondering what other useless info everyone else knows. For instance the reason why your fingers and toes go wrinkly in the bath is because it's the only part of the body with no hair!
:wow

[Roger Thorne]

Twigglet - come on! here's your chance . . .

Sheep - Windfarms et all!

:lol:

[groovy]

From your wrist to your elbow is the same length as your foot.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

No one can lick their own elbow. (try it!)

A cockroach can live for nine days without its head before it dies of starvation.

Their are over 10 trillion living cells in a human body.

I have tons of these facts!

[Despot]

[quote="groovy"]
A cockroach can live for nine days without its head before it dies of starvation.

quote]

Oh God I really didn't want to know that.......uuuugggggggghhhhhhh! :(

:)

[Mike Saville]

From your wrist to your elbow is the same length as your foot.

No one can lick their own elbow. (try it!)



Groovy - I've done myself a mischief finding out if these are true!!
:roll:

[Lisa]

From your wrist to your elbow is the same length as your foot.


And if you stretch out ur arms like this- ]--------- -----------[



then the length will be the same as your height!

[Keppler]

to add my 2c worth...

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes

[On the Horn]

If you include pedal boats then Disney have the largest fleet in the world!

[Big Twigge]

the fear of snow is known as chionophobia

[BigHorn]

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

But if you could fold a piece of paper (1/1000th inch thick) in half 50 times it would be over 17 million miles thick!

[leisa]

we have a random facts session in our music lessons at college (mad teacher).

a Ducks quack doesn't echo

the fone rings in 5/8 time cos apparantly 5/8 time agitates people so they need to pick the fone up quicker and if it rang in 4/4 time they wouldn't feel the need to or summit!! (don't ask me just repeatin wht mad music teacher tol,d me)

[TheMusicMan]

you just gotta love this thread folks eh.... keep 'em coming in thick and fast....

I think this is a contender in the "12 Months Live Awards" ... just not sure in what category though... :)

[PeterBale]

a Ducks quack doesn't echo

There was an item in one of the papers yesterday where a university professor reckons he has proved that a duck's quack does echo, but he needed a very large building - I forget where, but something like St Pauls' - to prove it :!: :wink: :lol:

[leisa]

lol!!! oh well ok then:-

a ducks quack doesn't echo in small buildings!!

:lol:

[Straightmute]

Eskimos have a special song to sing to their eldest son on the occasion of his first haircut.

True.

D

[PeterBale]

Eskimos have a special song to sing to their eldest son on the occasion of his first haircut.

Hair we go, hair we go, hair we go . . . :?:

Oh well, never mind :lol:

[Jo Elson]

The average mouse pad is 8.75 inches by 7.5 Iinches.

St. Stephan is the patron saint of bricklayers.

[Euph-Bari]

i have a fridge

[HBB]

I have a fridge too!!

Did you know that a pregnant goldfish is called a Twit! :?:

[Big Twigge]

St. Stephan is the patron saint of bricklayers.

St Fiacre is the patron saint of taxi-drivers and St Jerome is the patron saint of librarians!

[leisa]

who wants to be a millionaire is on tele!

[Euph-Bari]

when will they stop showing that - its getting annoying! that and weakest link

[leisa]

i KNOW!!!! They've gone on to celebrity but don't they realise it's just the same!!!!! :?

[Euph-Bari]

at first with the celebratey thing i thaught it was cause they were getting desprate but they just went back to the normal ones

[leisa]

they did the same with the weakest link they do it with more or less everything and it's even more borin watchi celebs cos they neva win!!!

u no what else is borin fame acadamy!!!!

[Jo Elson]

-There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.
I'll stop with the bricks thing now!
-Contrary to common belief, elephants are not afraid of mice.
-There is such a thing as pink frogs, which actually rained down from the sky onto various parts of Great Britain in 1987 and 1988.
:shock:

[Euph-Bari]

u no what else is borin fame acadamy!!!!

the only good thing bout those things is watchin the auditions and seeing all the terible singers and that - but once thats over never watch anymore

[Jo Elson]

-Dry ice does not melt, it evaporates.
-The Statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

[engelbert humperWink]

the bible was written over a period of 1600 years by 40 different writers and contains (at the last count)31,181 verses,724,692 words and 3,671,480 letters.Also the word 'and'occurs 35,543 times!

[Roger Thorne]

A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour. It is impossible to sneeze and keep ones eye's open at the same time.

:wink:

[Pythagoras]

lol!!! oh well ok then:-

a ducks quack doesn't echo in small buildings!!

:lol:

Probably would echo in a small building. I think the jist of the argument was that ducks tend to live in the middle of lakes and wide open spaces so there isn't much for their quack to echo against.

Viking women could get a divorce by walking around the village wearing trousers.

If there are more than 25 people in a room it is more likely than not that 2 of them will have the same birthday.

On Venus a day is longer than a year.

[Pythagoras]

You can't fit the world's entire population on the Isle of Wight anymore :(

If everybody in China formed a line walking past a certain point the line would never end.

[Jo Elson]

A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour. It is impossible to sneeze and keep ones eye's open at the same time.

Someone told me this once and I had to try it out, and it really is impossible. Apparantly if you do sneeze with your eyes open they will in fact pop out. - remember kids don't try this at home!!! :roll:

[Big Twigge]

hey Jo, have you got a book called 'Schott's original miscellany' I'm sure I've seen some of those facts before (thats where I got my useless facts from.......ok, ok I'm a cheat, don't all hate me! :oops: :oops: :oops: )

[twigglet]

Ahem.....

Here we go Roger those interesting facts you just love, although some credit has to be given to Danny Sinclair on this one, king of useless facts...


Why do they have so many ugly windmills on windfarms instead of having fewer larger ones?........... Because if they were any bigger when turning at there maximum speed they would cause sonic booms

A piece of gold the size of a match box could be rolled out to cover a tennis court

A sheep if on its back should be rolled over immediately as they cannot get up themselves and will have a heart attack and die.

Barbed wire was invented in 1874 by a man in America called Joseph Glidden

A fear of kissing is called philematophobia

A group of cobblers is called..... a drunkship of cobblers

whereas a group of starlings is of course known as ....a murmuration

Swiss cheese has holes in because of gas bubbles that form in the making of it.


:wink:

[Jo Elson]

hey Jo, have you got a book called 'Schott's original miscellany'

nope. sadly these are completely useless stuff that I already knew! However I am having difficulties retrieving some from my brain, so I may have to strat lookin some up soon.

[Jo Elson]

someone has just told me this one, so it's not really cheating because it was in my memory bank before I wrote this(well it would have to be seeing as I wrote this anyway!?)

-There is only one question you cannot accurately answer with no and that's 'are you asleep?'

[Darth_Tuba]

What about "Are you dead?" and "Can you speak?" :?

[Darth_Tuba]

Actually, shouldn't it be "yes" rather than "no". Because if your asleep you can't answer, but the answer should be yes. Or have I confused myself. :?

[geordiecolin]

The founding father of Scouting and hero of Mafeking, Lord Baden-Powell's godfather was none other than the founding father of the railways - George Stephenson!

It is doubtful that Hadrians Wall was built as a military defensive emplacement, it is more likely to have been an early customs barrier as well as being a egotistical project for Emperor Hadrian. Contrary to popular tourist belief, it does NOT mark the England/Scotland border

The Meerkat enclosure at Dudley Zoo is a Grade II listed building

The word posh comes from the words Port Out Starboard Home - on packet steamers the richer passengers would have the south facing cabins, which i think means if travelling to and from India would be on the Port side going out and Starboard coming home...... can't remember which is left and which is right, if i'm wrong then the story refers to packet steamers going to America!!

The Milburn/Sir John Hall stand of St James Park is the largest Cantilever stadium stand in Europe.

Jelly Babies were invented to celebrate the end of 1st World War

Until recently England's most Northern town, Berwick upon Tweed was at war with Russia, being right on the border and requiring a special mention, both England and Scotland assumed it was mentioned in the others peace treaty!

Sting's dad was a Champion Riveter at a Tyneside dockyard, whilst Alan Shearer's dad was a sheetmetal worker. Kevin Keegan's Grandad was a Durham Coalfield hero after saving several lives in a mine collapse.

[PeterBale]

There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't understand it.

[TheMusicMan]

Domestos kills 99.9% of all known germs.... :)

[Danny]

At Last!

Something that I am good at!

1, Did you know that humans and dolphins are the only mamals that have sex for pleasure.

2, Everytime you sneeze your heart stops for one second.

3, All windmills turn counter-clockwise! Apart from in Irelend!

4, The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.

5, Finger nails grow nearly 5 times faster than toe nails!

6, The biggest "nudger" in the animal kingdom belongs to the blue whale - 11 feet long.

7, The averge human will eat 8 spiders while sleepin! - Urrrgh

I could go on all day! - But I wont

[BassBoneShep]

New to all this but for starters;
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
A crocodile cannot stick its tounge out
If Barbie were life size her measurements would be 39-23-33 and stand 7 foot 2 inches tall.
TTFN :roll:

[Kernewek Den]

Most toilets flush in E flat!

[PeterBale]

Most toilets flush in E flat!

. . . although there are some that flush in a flat, your flat or his flat :wink: :lol: :lol:

[groovy]

Toucans have hairy tongues.

A 10 gallon hat holds less than a gallon.

If half the people in China stood on each others heads, they would reach the moon.

There is a hill in Zew Zealand called : Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikl imaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. It means - The place where tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as landeater, playd his flute to his loved one.

It once rained fish on Rhode Island, USA.

[Jo Elson]

Actually, shouldn't it be "yes" rather than "no". Because if your asleep you can't answer, but the answer should be yes. Or have I confused myself.
dunno but I'm confused!?!

[manx_yessir]

You should never fall in love with a Tennis player.......Love means nothing to them! :wink: :lol:

[Naomi McFadyen]

lol! :lol:

[Cantonian]

According to the title of this thread I would say Emile Heskey's name on an England team sheet.

[Pythagoras]

The number 10 to the power of 10 to the power of a million (haven't typed this wrong) (called a Google Plex) has more zeros than there are atoms in the world.

[faerie]

The Trafford Centre has 2 million facing stones, 17 escalators and 3 miles of shop frontage (this is what Alevel geography does to you. I used to to know how many miles of drainage pipes there were but that was just too random to retain!).

[Fishsta]

lol!!! oh well ok then:-

a ducks quack doesn't echo in small buildings!!

:lol:

Haven't read all the pages of this thread, but the duck's quack thing is an urban myth. All sound waves can echo.

[Fishsta]

Women often say that a man must have invented the bra, as they're often uncomfortable.

And they would be right.

Take a bow, Otto Titzling!

[twigglet]

At Last!



I just knew you wouldn't be able to resist posting on this one Danny.... :wink:

[asteria]

lol!!! oh well ok then:-

a ducks quack doesn't echo in small buildings!!

:lol:

Haven't read all the pages of this thread, but the duck's quack thing is an urban myth. All sound waves can echo.

http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm

The one major discovery by salford uni, and it's completely useless!!

Particularly like the quote giving one possible explanation - "Ducks don't quack near reflecting surfaces. You need a large reflecting surface, a mountain or building for the sound to reflect off. Maybe ducks don't hang around reflecting surfaces."
Yeah, good scientific explanation!

[Danny]

After many drunken conversations/arguments on this topic the only explantion for a ducks quack not echoing is that it is a non percussive sound, i.e. a release of gas! - So does a burp echo?

I think someone needs to go and steal a duck and take the little blighter to a cave and end this topic once and for all!

Also after swimming in windermere and watching my brother allmost get attacked by a swan, it is common knowledge that a swan has enough power in its wing to break a mans arm! - Does anybody know somebody who has sustained such an injury?

The mind boggles!

[Straightmute]

[http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm

The one major discovery by salford uni, and it's completely useless!!

Particularly like the quote giving one possible explanation - "Ducks don't quack near reflecting surfaces. You need a large reflecting surface, a mountain or building for the sound to reflect off. Maybe ducks don't hang around reflecting surfaces."
Yeah, good scientific explanation!

Helen

Maybe ducks don't hang around in Salford. At York University we learnt fairly quickly that ducks' quacks echo off the surface of the lake. And around all the buildings. Especially at night.

D

D

[asteria]

I think someone needs to go and steal a duck and take the little blighter to a cave and end this topic once and for all!


Yep, that's what this guy has actually done! He took Daisy the Duck to a cliff face, and also to the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester! He found that a duck's quack does actually echo, it was just a myth.

I need an acoustics project for my final degree year, reckon they'd let me find out if a cow's moo echoes in the royal albert hall?! :lol:

On second thoughts that could end up rather messy!

David, can't say i've ever seen a duck round salford come to think of it. Possibly something to do with scallies and bb guns!

Maybe there's correlation between the intelligence of a species and the number of them in Salford. Don't see many dolphins around.....

[BigHorn]

it is common knowledge that a swan has enough power in its wing to break a mans arm! - Does anybody know somebody who has sustained such an injury?

The mind boggles!

This is an old wive's tale. A mute swan weighs all of 40lb - it is on the limit of maximum weight for a flying bird.
Could a 40lb child break your arm.? No. Birds have very hollow bones to remain light. If it came to a contest between your arm with its heavy bones and its ultra light wing I know which one snap first.

I once saw a swan with fishing line and float wrapped around its beak. A man, who obviously knew this old wives tale was nonsense, strode up to the swan grabbed it, tucked it under his arm and extracted the fishing tackle. Although the swan made all the aggressive display behaviour, spitting, stamping and waving its wings there was just no contest.

But back to the useless info:
Did you know birds dont wee. The white stuff in their poo is uric acid.

[Naomi McFadyen]

I'm sure I've seen ducks in Salford... from the Pint Pot... in the River... Poor things

:lol:

[Pythagoras]

No European football team has won the World Cup when its been played outside Europe.

Hummingbirds and Swifts are the only birds that gain lift when bringing their wings up as well as down.

[Roger Thorne]

Since the Mouthpiece.com review appeared on 4BarsRest a week ago we've welcomed 33 new members and had 53,882 hits to the site.

:wink:

[Lisa]

Bradford has the cheapest curries in Britain.

Bradford has the most curries per square mile outside of New Delhi.

Omars curry house in Bradford sells the largest naan bread in Britain.

[WhatSharp?]

The phrase "Cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey" comes from brass rings which where used to hold cannon balls together on warships. During the winter the cold would cause the metal to contract and the balls would roll out. (so nothing to do with monkeys privates :) ).

The female procupine will have sex with males to ascertain their suitability prior to actually choosing one as a mate.

Anyone know how many miles of tubing in a brass band?

Oh and anyone know where the phrase "Done up like a kipper" comes from?

[bladder]

A mute swan weighs all of 40lb -
...is that an African swan?

Strange but true (honest)
It doesn't matter how hard you shake it, the last drop always ends up on your shoe.

Hens are completely unaffected by the active compounds in chilies!!

e^(i*pi)=-1


Finally a song, take it away daisy....

http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/anechoic_chamber.jpg

[manx_yessir]

Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number.

If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.


A worrying one for the 'Lefties'.......More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products!

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk. (Does this mean that 0.7% of the worl's population play in a Brass Band??)

[Jo Elson]

Anyone read 1984 by George Orwell? Well there is a word in this book called "duckspeak" which means to quack like a duck. It says it is an interesting word which has two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someoneyou agree with, it is praise.
Just thought you might be interested in this those of you who are obsessed with the duck thing!!!

[jo]

was sent these today:
:lol:

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in
tropical fish stores. (But of course!)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Who volunteers for this stuff?)

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
(From drinking little bottles of...?) (Did the govt. pay for this research??)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish don't have brains.
(I know some people like that too)

And, the best for last..... Turtles can breathe through their butts.
(Do you think they have bad breath?)


Edited: (RT)

[BassBoneShep]

Elephants can't jump
TTFN :roll:

[leisa]

The most played song on American radio during the twentieth century was You've Lost That Loving Feeling which was written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector, and Cynthia Weil. Although recorded by different artists, the song is the only one in history to be played over 8 million times on the radio. That amounts to about 45 years if the song was played back to back! Three songs were played 7 million times: Never My Love, Yesterday, and Stand By Me (in that order).

There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.

The lightning that we see actually goes from the ground to the sky in what is known as the "return stroke" at 1/3 the speed of light. We can't see the initial "stepped leader" that passes from the sky to the ground.

From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada

:)

[BigHorn]

Frederick the Great, ruler of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 was annoyed that his soldiers wiped blood and sweat from their face with their uniform sleeves, making them look dirty. So he ordered buttons to be sewed on all uniform sleeves to stop them doing it.
This caught on around Europe and is why modern suits and blazers have buttons on the sleeves that have no practical purpose.

[Fishsta]

In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be lifted by the law if the driver is deemed either 'poorly dressed' or 'unbathed'.

On the island of Jersey it's against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.

In Alabama it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket, because it may be used as a weapon. This comes after a 13 year old boy was killed when he was stabbed with a comb.

In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.

It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma.

In Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal for a moose to walk on the side walk. This dates back to the early days if the town when the owner of the bar had a pet moose that he used to get drunk. The moose would then stumble around the town drunk. The only way the law makers could prevent this from happining was to create the law so the moose could not cross the sidewalk and get into the bar.

In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour from butter. This law is the result of Quebec dairy lobbyists' pressure to ''protect'' their dairy business. They claimed margarine was beginning to resemble butter, as to be mistaken for real butter. Make margarine unattractive, and consumers would stick to butter. The Quebec government caved in, and tried to impose a dark vermilion-coloured margarine, which was disgusting. The colour, finally, at the other extreme, is a pallid almost-white-colourless margarine.

According to a british law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

It is illegal to sell an ET doll in France. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces.

Salt Lake City, Utah, has a law against carrying an unwrapped ukulele on the street.

All English men over 14 are meant to carry out two hours of longbow
practice per week (supervised by the local clergy).

London Hackney Carriages (taxis/cabs) must carry a bale of hay or a sack
of oats for their horse (if they've got one).

It is illegal to be drunk on Licensed Premises (ie: a pub or bar).

It is illegal for two adult men to have sex in the same house as a third
person.

It is illegal to impersonate a Chelsea Pensioner.

It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates on a public conveyance.

It is illegal for a Member of Parliament to enter the House of Commons
wearing a full suit of armour.



Strange Individual City Laws

Chester
You are allowed to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow caught inside
the city walls and after midnight.

Hereford
You can shoot a Welsh person all day Sunday, with a Longbow, in
Cathedral Close.

London
You are considered a freeman if you can drive your geese down Cheapside.

York
Upon sight of a Scotsman, it is still legal to shoot him with a bow and
arrow, except on Sundays.

[Euph-Bari]

York
Upon sight of a Scotsman, it is still legal to shoot him with a bow and
arrow, except on Sundays.

tMP day out to York? :lol: only kidding scotsmen :P

[leisa]

[quote="Fishsta"]



Strange Individual City Laws

Chester
You are allowed to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow caught inside
the city walls and after midnight. [quote]

wheres rutibal gone????? :wink: :lol:

[picju96]

On the island of Jersey it's against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.

Wuhoo! There's loads of strange laws in Jersey, there's a 6' by 4' rectangle in the Royal Square that it's illegal to arrest a man in, but as soon as he steps out of the rectangle its fine.

More american laws : http://www.dribbleglass.com/subpages/laws.htm
And again: http://www.dribbleglass.com/subpages/laws2.htm
Yet again: http://www.dribbleglass.com/subpages/laws3.htm
There's 6 pages of them.

Throughout the whole of England it is illegal to eat mince pies on the 25th of December.

It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.

[Pythagoras]

If you buy a lottery ticket more than 30 minutes before the draw, you have a higher chance of dying before the draw than you do of winning it.

[MoominDave]

-No word in the English language rhymes with orange

With the possible exception of the proper name "Gorringe".

[tewkeshorn]

You are allowed to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow caught inside
the city walls and after midnight.

Which day is it that it's legal in England to kill a Welshman on English soil with a longbow, heard that one today...

[Fishsta]

-No word in the English language rhymes with orange

With the possible exception of the proper name "Gorringe".

What about "Door-hinge"?

[tewkeshorn]

and lozenge... :P

[PeterBale]

-No word in the English language rhymes with orange

With the possible exception of the proper name "Gorringe".

What about "Door-hinge"?

Fishsta set this as a challenge a few months ago, and one of the suggestions, in the form of a limerick, included the suggestion of "porringe(r)".

[leisa]

You are allowed to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow caught inside
the city walls and after midnight.

Which day is it that it's legal in England to kill a Welshman on English soil with a longbow, heard that one today...

i don't know but i'm gonna find out!!!! :lol:

and pray for rutribal it's not on a monday or thursday!! :twisted:

[PeterBale]

You are allowed to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow caught inside
the city walls and after midnight.

Which day is it that it's legal in England to kill a Welshman on English soil with a longbow, heard that one today...

Christmas Day?

[beard_4b]

the correct statement is:

no word in the english language rhymes with MONTH!

[Cantonian]

You are allowed to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow caught inside
the city walls and after midnight.

Which day is it that it's legal in England to kill a Welshman on English soil with a longbow, heard that one today...

i don't know but i'm gonna find out!!!! :lol:

and pray for rutribal it's not on a monday or thursday!! :twisted:

Beard_4b keep your eyes peeled.

Imagine having your eyes peeled..........."beurgh"(quote)

[Jo Elson]

men are more likely to speak Russian than women because their tongues are 5mmbigger on average! :P

[BigHorn]

men are more likely to speak Russian than women because their tongues are 5mmbigger on average! :P

Which must give rise to another useless fact that there must be more mute women in russia than anywhere else :?

[Seedhouse]

Well this is a completely random thread isn't it! Must be why it's in the Random Chat and Off topic catergory! :lol:

[Morghoven]

Most toilets flush in E flat!

Does this mean that I can get a job making sure that toilets are in tune before they're sold?!

In his will, William Shakespeare left his wife his "second best bed". Makes you wonder who got the best one....

Dave

[Jo Elson]

Well this is a completely random thread isn't it! Must be why it's in the Random Chat and Off topic catergory!

Wow, u must be the quick one! - excuse the sarcasm! :bounce

[blondie]

The fear of Beards is known as 'Pergonophobia' and Dalmations are the only dogs that don't sweat!!!!!!

[bagpuss]

The dial tone of a standard UK phone is in the key of 'F'
A pigs orgasm can last up to 30 minutes
A seagull does not have the ability to burp or otherwise pass wind.
Babies lose the ability to swallow and breathe at the same time after the age of 6 months
The helicopter was invented by Leonardo da Vinci
Sharks lay eggs
(going back to the smoking thread) You take in less harmful chemicals by smoking 20 cigarettes than if you spend 10 mins stuck behind a bus in a traffic jam
There are more molecules in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the atlantic ocean (who the hell sat and worked that one out??)

And finally:

88.62% of all statistics are useless.

Puss

[Seedhouse]

Flockipowkinihilipilification (don't know if that's how you spell it)
means looking down upon someone as nothing but belly button fluff apparently!!!!!!! :?

[Straightmute]

You should store your dijeridoo in the wet mud at the bottom of a stream to stop it drying out. But remember where you left it...

Thinks: great excuse for missing band...

D

[geordiecolin]

I think I'll carry on keeping mine in its cloth case!

You can't be arrested in Durham Cathedral.
Northumberland is England's most sparsely populated county.
The Tyne Bridge was designed by the same designers and prior to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, but was completed afterwards.

[Jo Elson]

-Every swiss citizen is required to have a bomb shelter.
-The longest chapter of the bible is psalm 119
-Penguins have an organ on their head between their eyes

[super_sop]

-Penguins have an organ on their head between their eyes
How do they play it!!!! :lol: :lol:

[Jo Elson]

How do they play it!!!!
ahaaaa the humour. actually it de-somethings water. i can't remember the word though.

[floral_dance]

decalsify maybe!!!!! or desalt!!!!!!! or dedumdede :lol:

[Jo Elson]

Yeah one of those sounds good. I know it was about taking the salt out or something but the word wasn't salt. although it began with s.

[Pythagoras]

Yeah one of those sounds good. I know it was about taking the salt out or something but the word wasn't salt. although it began with s.

desalinate?

[lizi]

Someone told me the other day that its actually legal to have a
"Dwarf-throwing" competition in a night-club, so long as the dwarfs are willing participants!

i cant wait to ask next time im down manchester!
:lol:

[Jo Elson]

desalinate?

Yeah that was it. Thanks it had been bugging me every since I mentioned it. It's so annoying when you can't remember something.

-A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. So the next time you say i'll be back in a jiffy - just think about what you're saying!

[Dave Payn]

Someone told me the other day that its actually legal to have a
"Dwarf-throwing" competition in a night-club, so long as the dwarfs are willing participants!

i cant wait to ask next time im down manchester!
:lol:

Talking of which, a friend of mine in Fulham BB has speculated as to whether there should be a competition to determine the world's tallest dwarf. (Thank you Mr Powlson, I still laugh every time I think about that one!)

If your nose runs and your feet smell, you must have been born upside down.

As for the list I supply, please don't ask me to qualify any of them. I've just pasted them from my inbox!

1 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. (What about brass bands?)
2 Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3 There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5 A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6 There are more chickens than people in the world.
7 The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
8 On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
9 All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
10 No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. (I know, saw this one before!)
11 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
12 Almonds are a member of the peach family.
13 There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
14 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
15 An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (A bit like most politicians...)
16 Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
17 In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
18 Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. (Does that mean he was a furniture dealer who was frequently used, or a dealer in used furnture?...)
19 The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
20 A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
21 A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. (A bit like most politicians....)
22 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
23 The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
24 In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
25 The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
26 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
27 There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
28 The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
29 A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (I know, we've seen this one before as well!)
30 A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
31 Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
32 Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (But do his quacks echo?)
33 More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. (Combine the two, and hey presto! Friendly fire in the recent war on Iraq!)
34 Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
35 Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
36 Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
37 If you keep a goldfish in the dark room,it will eventually turn white.
38 Women blink nearly twice as much as men. (Probably out of dibelief that she married HIM!)
39 Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
40 The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
41 The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
42 TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
43 The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. So is Glenelg.
44 A snail can sleep for 3 years.
45 American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
46 The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
47 Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.>
48 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
49 No president of the United states was an only child. And last and definitely most important:
50 The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

[lynchie]

48 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

And "I do." is the longest!

[Dave Payn]

48 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

And "I do." is the longest!

Excellent! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Maestro]

48 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

And "I do." is the longest!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll:

[Dave Payn]

The French word for 'paperclip' is 'trombone'.

[lynchie]

Ah, that explains why they call it a posaune over there then. Suppose it would be a bit silly to tell people you were principal paper clip!

[aons'ghost]

Sorry just being an anorak
24 In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak

Although Dave is technically correct. The speaker of the house is allowed to speak but not in any of the debates, unless specifically asked to adjudicate on a point of procedure.
:dunno

[bagpuss]

41 The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.

But Noth America starts with an 'N' and ends in an 'A'!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

puss

[aons'ghost]

Bagpuss :oops: :arrow: :dunno . They are called the Americas'. North and South

[manx_yessir]

Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order

[lynchie]

sometimes you just stop and think wow....


:lol:

[Jo Elson]

sometimes you just stop and think wow....
Wow

[Paul McLaughlin]

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24 In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Small point of order but there's no such things an english parliament so as far as the speaker is concerned he's not in england but in britain (chances are I may not be in england too much longer now either!!)

[floral_dance]

"

:lol:


and definitely most important:
50 The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

mmmmmmm more protein :roll: yuck :shock:

[lynchie]

that must be why i never had a problem eating those chocolate covered grasshoppers...

[T-Horn]

Whats the only living thing on earth that digests bones?
Dingo's!
A very random comment but it can be useful if ur in Austrailia! :mrgreen:

[Jo Elson]

Random is always good!

-We share 99% of our D.N.A wiht a banana!-very bizarre

[Pythagoras]

When somebody jumps off a building they usually die from a heart attack on the way down rather than from hitting the ground at the bottom. This explains why there is less blood than you would expect.

[neiltwist]

I'm hungry, there's some useless info!


here's some more snippets,

(delta x) times (delta p) is equal to or greater than (h bar) over two!

I am lying in bed

I am bored

if they're not useless enough then I don't know what is!

[geordiecolin]

loser

[neiltwist]

loser

thankyou!

[Jo Elson]

loser

thankyou!

I was thinking the same. Didn't see the word 'boring' in the title! haha :D

[Hell's_Trombone]

A rat can live longer without water than a camel

Dreamt is the only English word which ends in MT

[DublinBass]

"Decimate" originally meant to kill one out of every ten (using the same metric prefix deci- as in decimal, decimeter, etc...)

[Will the Sec]

I took 8-59 on Saturday.

[PeterBale]

I took 8-59 on Saturday.
. . .and I took 5.07 this morning :wink: