8. Deer win respect by breaking up fights.
Hehe I love the idea of this.
“Now come on lads what’s this all about? Seriously Prongs your misses would never go off with him, No offence Pokey, but you’re just not as statuesque as Prongs ‘ere. Now lets all go down to the watering hole and get us a drink. They have a lovely new barmaid.”
"You are so right Deer, I always respected you."
1. New York taxis used to be red and green, but in 1907 were all repainted yellow to be visible from a distance.
2. Philtrum is the name of the groove on your top lip that lies just beneath your nose.
3. The perfect nap lasts 26 minutes.
4. Kate Bush writes songs more easily with a bag of bone meal - yes, the garden fertiliser - on her piano.
5. Marlon Brando, Liz Taylor and Michael Jackson shared a hire car on 9/11.
6. A "Spanish plume" is a weather system that sucks warm - and perhaps thundery - air up from Spain and North Africa.
7. European brands that succeed in the US tend to be at the luxury end of the market - as Tesco is finding to its cost.
8. Delilah became the anthem of Stoke City FC fans after police officers asked them not to sing any songs with swear words. Next up on the pub jukebox was the Tom Jones hit...
9. Left-handed people are more fearful than right-handers.
10. Kate Middleton - the Duchess of Cambridge - has never been to the United States
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_183.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. French time used to be nine minutes ahead of GMT, based on the time in Paris.
2. Sugar level in strawberries is calculated on the Brix scale.
3. The first known use of the word "slut" in printed English was from 1402.
4. The hemlines of school skirts in South Korea have risen 10-15cm (4-6in) in the last decade.
5. The first British Tupperware was held in Weybridge, Surrey in 1960.
6. A Christian doomsday group in the US is warning that the end of the world - or the Rapture - will occur on Saturday 21 May.
7. It costs $60,000 to train a Navy Seal dog - like the one that accompanied US special forces on the Bin Laden operation.
8. Goats are able to recognise the voices of their very young kids, and differentiate them from other animals' offspring
9. Humans are naturally predisposed to believe in gods and life after death.
10. The government's wine cellar contains about £2m worth of wine and spirits
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...now_this.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Number 4 seems like good news!Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I don't buy #9, though. Humans may very well have lived on this earth for 800,000 years without believing in God or life after death (of course we don't know for sure). Surely if anything about humans is "culturally consitituted" rather than "naturally perdisposed", it is their religious beliefs.
1. Watermelons can explode.
2. The Queen is apparently not a Guinness drinker. Or at least not in the morning.
3. The hardiest animal on Earth is known as a "water bear".
4. Humans stare longer at people with bad reputations.
5. Parrots are good at teamwork.
6. "Highly cheerful" people die younger.
7. A good sense of smell helps mammals' brains get bigger.
8. The internet craze of planking started in the UK and in Australia.
9. Tarantulas shoot silk from their feet.
10. There are only two beret factories left in France.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...w_this_1.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. Fifa is a charity.
2. Vultures are better than sniffer dogs at searching large, overgrown areas for dead bodies.
3. A Devon cream tea has scones with cream first then jam on top, while a Cornish cream tea has scones with jam first then cream on top.
4. You can see the shockwaves from a trombone. On video.
5. Shale gas drilling can cause earthquakes.
6. Heart disease is less common among religious people.
7. Among certain early humans, the women left home and the men stayed behind.
8. Penguins do a Mexican wave to stay warm.
9. An intense fear of dying can make a heart attack worse.
10. It's possible for a horse to paint.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_184.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I believe you can, starting at about 4:15:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIQq1...eature=related
They’re just now realizing this? Have they not heard of Edouard Manet, aka “Mr. Ed”?
For the sake of the uneducated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsuohepbVk
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1. The Rotary club is an enemy of Palestine, according to Hamas.
2. Spiders use their webs to breathe underwater.
3. Michael Caine was nearly sacked from the film Zulu for standing like Prince Philip.
4. The Wombles have had four gold albums.
5. Cow hooves are used to make the foam in fire extinguishers.
6. Wearing high heels could increase the risk of arthritis.
7. Chimps can outperform eight-year-olds in tasks.
8. The odds of scoring two holes-in-one in the same round of golf are 67 million-to-one .
9. Elephants can flirt.
10. Zebras can do showjumping.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...w_this_2.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. The yellow brick road leads to a car park.
2. Iron age man was into home brewing.
3. Astronauts get travel sick.
4. Women don't see Porsche drivers as marriage material.
5. Magpies can scold humans.
6. Men are the first to say 'I love you' in a new relationship.
7. There is no music chart in India.
8. Britain's most stolen vehicle is white-van-man's Ford Transit.
9. Tinkering with certain proteins could stop hair going grey.
10. Britain's youngest undertaker is 16 years old.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_185.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Makes sense, the Emerald City probably became a big tourist attraction (and expensive--they want all your green) after the movie. What, you didn't know it was a documentary?
I had two thoughts when I saw this:
* Who's the first to mean it?
* Does that mean gay men say it simultaneously? And gay women never do?
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
and they still are in the backwoods of the deep south, only they refer to it as "moonshine"
How can that be since, according to at least one Forum member, they never left God's green earth?
Let me guess...his name is Oliver.
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1. Vincent Van Gogh looked a lot like his brother Theo.
2. Urban pigeons remember who will feed them and who will chase them away.
3. Women have gaydar.
4. There are ants that carry a friend so they can deal with big bits of food.
5. It's very difficult to urinate in a treated water reservoir in the UK.
6. Half of Britons are, in fact, Germans.
7. Sonic the Hedgehog's shoes are based on Michael Jackson's footwear in the Bad video.
8. British taxpayers own 200,000 paintings - including multi-million pound works by the likes of Titan, Monet and Picasso.
9. A female tennis player's grunts can reach 95 decibels.
10. Chocolate milkshake is the ideal post-workout recovery drink.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_186.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. Makes sense
2. Birds have brains
3. But which do they prefer?
4. The more the merrier
5. Huh?
6. This I find interesting - the word Briton comes from some Latin word meaning 'those of the design' referring to their painted faces, while the word Pict comes from the Latin for 'those with painted faces'. The Angles and Saxons didn't just migrate, they were invited by the Brits (who later became the Welsh) and paid in land to help defend against the Norse (or so I've been told)
7. What were Michael Jackson's shoes based on?
8. I wonder how many they own privately - it'd have to be in the billions...
9. Unless you're Maria Sharapova who can reach decibels that interfere with the measuring equipment - I have to turn the sound completely OFF when she's playing
10. Chocolate milkshake is yummy, and also the ideal pre-workout and no-workout recovery elixir - I might have one right now...
1. The ideal slice of toast should be cooked for exactly 216 seconds.
2. Stick insects can go without sex for one million years.
3. The key to a happy marriage is based on the wife remaining slimmer than the husband.
4. People working out in a gym can cause tremors in buildings.
5. Lions will most likely attack humans just after a full moon.
6. Tall people are at greater risk of cancer.
7. Jalfrezi is now Britain's favourite curry.
8. Diamonds are not forever, they evaporate under exposure to light.
9. Mount Everest is getting higher.
10. The Speaking Clock still receives 30 million calls each year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_189.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1.Venus apparently is supposed to resemble Hell
2.Jupiter has storms in its atmosphere, and perhaps life on Europa
3.Along with the Great Red Spot, there are also the Great White Spot and the Great Dark Spot
4.It's pretty much a drug once you begin writing angst stories, especially when people are on the edge of their seats wanting more
5.My sister can actually be pleasant when she's not around her friends (even though she's only 8)
6.There are 400 active volcanoes on one of Jupiter's moons, Io
7.Ryan Higa (nighahiga on youtube) is actually becoming so big that he's going on TV shows...I love him
8.Kim Kardashian had psoriasis
9.That I can actually write comedic pieces, even though I suck at humor
10.Mercury has no atmosphere, just an exosphere
...I've been having fun and researching the planets.
"I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking."
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