[QUOTE=Scheherazade;73282010. Urban great tits sing louder than their country cousins.
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Urban great tits? I think I've heard a few of those singing at some strip clubs. :lol:
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[QUOTE=Scheherazade;73282010. Urban great tits sing louder than their country cousins.
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Urban great tits? I think I've heard a few of those singing at some strip clubs. :lol:
lol Then I guess you don't like my avator. But look at his cute little determined eye and his adorable stick! I bet you'd think differently about penguins if you saw one on Sidney Crosby's chest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
I'll remember that...
1. Gay people in China used to be prosecuted under "hooliganism" laws.
2. Canada used to border Zimbabwe.
3. Carly Simon had a stutter.
4. Sir Alan Sugar donates his salary from The Apprentice to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
5. Setanta started in an Irish dance hall in west London in 1990.
6. A new word in the English language is created every 98 minutes.
7. You're seven times more likely to be a millionaire if you're called Patel than if you're called Smith.
8. More than half of all Patels in the UK are married to people born Patel.
9. Only eight Britons who fought in the Spanish Civil War are known to be still alive.
10. Britney's father monitors her mobile phone use.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/
that means learning never stopsQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
that is not fear!!Quote:
7. You're seven times more likely to be a millionaire if you're called Patel than if you're called Smith.
I bet he does! should I say: poor girl? :lol:Quote:
10. Britney's father monitors her mobile phone use.
Kind of leads to some strange images in my mind of football hooligans. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Oh that explains the Canadian lions. :)Quote:
2. Canada used to border Zimbabwe.
Yes, and her big song, "You're So Vain" was first was called "You're Fffor Pppain."Quote:
3. Carly Simon had a stutter.
Did they forget the Scottish dance hall in east London in 1989? That's when the kilt lifted and people noticed he forgot to wear underwear that day. I bet he's trying to forget that one. :DQuote:
5. Setanta started in an Irish dance hall in west London in 1990.
Lajehfroieh. There I just created one. Does that count?Quote:
6. A new word in the English language is created every 98 minutes.
I ain't called either. I've got zero chance. ;)Quote:
7. You're seven times more likely to be a millionaire if you're called Patel than if you're called Smith.
If you were a millionaire, who else would you marry but another miliionaire. Got to keep it in the family.Quote:
8. More than half of all Patels in the UK are married to people born Patel.
Ah, when men were men. God bless those who faught against fascism. :thumbs_upQuote:
9. Only eight Britons who fought in the Spanish Civil War are known to be still alive.
And what the father doesn't know is that she contacts all her boy friends using the house land line. He never suspects a thing. :DQuote:
10. Britney's father monitors her mobile phone use.
mmm no really, it has to be used at least 25,oo0 times on the webQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
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there you go...there are the first 10 :D
1. There are 2,500 year old bird nests still in continuous use.
2. The Fred Perry sportswear logo was almost a pipe - Perry was a keen smoker - but his business partner thought this would put off women customers.
3. As a cold-blooded insect, flies are slower in the early morning and evening when the air is cooler, and speed up in the heat of the day.
4. C, the single-letter codename for the head of MI6, dates from when the first boss, Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, signed himself "C" for Cumming.
5. Streetlights cause problems for bats.
6. The pilot and co-pilot on a passenger plane are not allowed to have the same meal in case they both get food poisoning.
7. The Queen has an allotment.
8. Scotland has the lowest age for criminal responsibility in Europe.
9. Hitachi makes trains.
10. Pak Do-ik, the North Korean footballer, is still known as "the dentist" among Italian football fans for causing them pain by scoring the goal that saw them beaten 1-0 in the 1966 World Cup.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...his_t_17.shtml
This is because we have one of the largest population of useless kids in europeQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
1. Camels travel by train.
2. Buddhist monks sleep upright.
3. Four-legged animals need to avoid doing "wheelies".
4. Seagulls attack whales.
5. If you use a tool for a while, your brain can mentally incorporate it into your body.
6. The UK has the ability to launch "cyber attacks".
7. British-style black cabs are now driven in China.
8. Every film in which actress Dame Judi Dench swears results in complaints to the BBFC.
9. There is a long tradition of "medals of dishonour".
10. Chilli can be used as a weapon in crowd control.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...his_t_18.shtml
that made me laugh lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I've seen quite a few people on the NYC subway trains that could be classified as camels. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
You know, my wife hates the way I shift around in bed. She would love it if I could learn to sleep this way. :)Quote:
2. Buddhist monks sleep upright.
Not quite sure what that's saying, but I've never seen any four legged animals with wheels on their feet.Quote:
3. Four-legged animals need to avoid doing "wheelies".
Yeah I've seen a seagull pick up a grey whale, fly it over a hundred feet in the air, drop it on the beach, and then start ravaging it by sinking it's beak into the whale's throat. :alien::alien:Quote:
4. Seagulls attack whales.
So if I maodel a saw in my brain does that mean that my hand will develop a cutting edge? :idea:Quote:
5. If you use a tool for a while, your brain can mentally incorporate it into your body.
I think every geeky thirteen year old has the ability to launch a cyber attack? Is this really something so special? James Bond where have you gone? ;)Quote:
6. The UK has the ability to launch "cyber attacks".
Well, with all the Chinese restaurants in London they had to trade something. :DQuote:
7. British-style black cabs are now driven in China.
Judi, Judi, Judi. Shame shame. :p Holy smoke. The rules on this in Britain sound more byzantine that those in the US.Quote:
8. Every film in which actress Dame Judi Dench swears results in complaints to the BBFC.
Yeah and you ought to see the ones I've gotten here on lit net. Just ask Scher. :D :DQuote:
9. There is a long tradition of "medals of dishonour".
My first thought was how do they get the crowd to eat all those chillis, but then I realized it's the cops that eat the chillis and then let out some flatulance for crowd control. Very inovative. :DQuote:
10. Chilli can be used as a weapon in crowd control.
1. Fred Perry was also table tennis world champion.
2. Mrs Slocombe's first name was Betty.
3. The UK is developing a quarter of the world's wave technologies.
4. Press-ups come in many guises, such as the "seal", "frog" and "donkey-kick".
5. The keffiyeh, a chequered scarf worn mostly by Arab men, and made famous by Yasser Arafat, is now mostly made in China.
6. Vegetarians are generally less likely than meat eaters to develop cancer.
7. The Duke of Kent requested that players no longer bow to the royal box at Wimbledon, in 2003.
8. Richard and Judy did not pick the books that featured in their book club.
9. Michael Jackson patented one item - the special shoes he used in the stage version of Smooth Criminal.
10. Saddam Hussein once hired the James Bond director, Terence Young, to make a promotional Iraqi film.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...ast_w_96.shtml
Did Young take Hussein up on his offer?
1. Heavy metal in Morocco is regarded as devil-worship.
2. Monkeys notice bad grammar.
3. Trousers used to be called unmentionables.
4. Neil Armstrong took Dvorak's New World Symphony and theremin music to the moon.
5. The best place to put a wind turbine is in Orkney Islands.
6. Dinosaurs were couch potatoes.
7. Ice fallen from the sky is due to leaking plane ventilation systems.
8. Clothes could take photos.
9. Ringo Starr's mum wanted him to work in a bank.
10. Sir Jimmy Savile once saved the day by directing traffic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...ast_w_97.shtml