Say what?Originally Posted by Scheherazade
not sure which suprises me more the goat getting married over the internet, or that Asda has gone and trademarked slapping money in your back pocket......
Say what?
My mission in life is to make YOU smile
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"The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:
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That is VERY true, People do not realise the power that music has on you. I listeten to music when I'm physically or mentally ill and I feel instantly better.
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution" - Hannah Arendt.
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance" - James Joyce
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Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath - Anne Stevenson
1. The British eat a third of the world’s cod.
2. Squirrels can peel bananas.
3. Pre-schoolers will watch a favourite DVD or video for an average of 17 times before getting bored.
4. Astronauts wear adult nappies on spacewalks and during launch. But Nasa likes to call them "Maximum Absorbency Garments".
5. Seventy-thousand teenagers failed to turn up to take a GCSE exam last year.
6. Tony Blair smoked his last cigarette 15 minutes before he got married.
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7. Widening the M1 will cost more than the annual economies of a third of the world’s nations.
8. Fewer than 3% of rewards offered for information about crimes are paid out each year in the UK.
9. Four ingredients have been added to bread by law since WW2 – niacin, thiamine, iron and calcium.
10. UK’s oldest working household appliance is a 50-year-old Prestcold Fridge in Norfolk.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a013222
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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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This is in a week isnt it?
My mission in life is to make YOU smile
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"The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:
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1. Hair loss in humans might be reversible.
2. Almost one-third of men are balding by the time they reach 30.
3. 14% of Rolls-Royce owners also own a private jet
4. Dirty Harry and The Exorcist III are based on a spate of unsolved murders in San Francisco in the late 1960s.
5. Jose Mourinho has a Yorkshire terrier called Gullit, named after the Dutch footballer Ruud Gullit.
6. Nearly half of pregnancies are unplanned.
7. The UK has the most post offices in Europe.
8. The insults "moron", "idiot", "imbecile" and "cretin" were once official medical diagnoses.
9. There were no sperm donors in Northern Ireland, until recently, and only 208 in the UK.
10. Cranes disappeared from the UK 400 years ago because the East Anglian fenland was drained. They recently returned.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...things_7.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. Pizza was known as “Italian Welsh rarebit” in 1950s Britain.
2. Using a gas-fired patio heater for just one hour can waste enough energy to make 400 cups of tea, according to Friends of the Earth.
3 Laurence Olivier and Tintin's creator Herge were born on the same day.
4. A swarm of bees can ground a Boeing 737.
5. On the first day of filming Star Wars in the deserts of Tunisia, the country experienced its first major rainstorm in 50 years and a rest day had to be called.
6. Sharks have virgin births.
7. Articles of 50,000 words - parliamentary reports in particular - were common in the Times in the early 1890s, just as the first tabloid newspapers came into being.
8. Japanese whalers in the 17th Century buried the foetuses of the pregnant whales they caught in a special graveyard facing out to sea.
9. One in four house sales fall through.
10. Captive elephants often don’t know how to look after their young because they don’t work on instinct – in the wild, calves are looked after by the herd and this is how young females learn mothering skills.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...ast_w_23.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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Shark gets pregnant on her own without mating with male shark. Baby female shark did not have a single strand of male genetic material.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1965
Okay realise that is only one thing...anyone else got anything?
"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy".
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god bless friends of the earth! They sent me a copy of An Inconvienient truth to say thank you for being a loyal donator! Now isnt that sweet!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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1. It's 1999 in Ethiopia.
2. The Spanish national anthem has no words.
3. There are 1,200 exhumations every year in the UK, but not all of those are part of criminal cases.
4. There are 14 different spellings of Mohammed in the top 3,000 baby boy names in the UK, propelling it to number two just behind Jack.
5. Nearly seven out of 10 (69%of adults are still in touch with at least one childhood friend.
6. Seb Coe is partially colour-blind.
7. Twenty-three billion jars and bottles have been recycled in the UK since the first bottle bank opened in 1977.
8. Unemployment is back up to 1979 levels.
9. Footage can be checked to see if it is harmful to people with epilepsy by a gadget called the Harding Flash and Pattern Analyser.
10. Tre Azam, fired this week from The Apprentice, had a near-fatal car crash 10 years ago. He still has steel plates in his back and pins in both legs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...this_t_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. Lewis Hamilton is named after US sprinter Carl Lewis.
2. Bolivian President Evo Morales sacrifices llamas for good luck.
3. Drinking aftershave (among other things) has been blamed for half of all deaths of Russian men of working age.
4. Pickpockets watch for those who react to signs warning of their presence, as many people will pat their wallet on reading the notice.
5. Eighteen percent of all new homes are built on residential land, up from 11% a decade ago.
6. As recently as the early 1980s, mortgages were rationed.
7. Only two judges have been fired since 1701's Act of Settlement gave the Lord Chancellor alone that power. The first was in in 1830, for stealing court funds; the second was in 1983, for smuggling whiskey and cigarettes into Britain on a private yacht.
8. Prince Philip came to be venerated as an island god because villagers in Vanuatu have for centuries believed that a pale-skinned son of a mountain spirit had ventured across the seas to look for a powerful woman to marry. The Duke of Edinburgh has been the focus of this legend since the 1960s.
9. Jail and prison are not the same thing in the United States - it depends on the size and governing body of the facility. Paris Hilton, for instance, is in jail, not prison.
10. Blood can turn a dark greenish-black - like a Vulcan's - if taking a certain type of migraine medication.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a014656
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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 would almost like to see this just to say I have. That is something strange that I never imagined.
1. Comedian Mike Reid was Roger Moore's stunt double in The Saint.
2. Office printers could be as harmful as cigarettes, emitting tiny particles of toner that can cause respiratory irritation to more chronic illnesses.
3. One joint of cannabis could be as harmful to the lungs as five cigarettes.
4. Being left-handed could be linked to genes.
5. Coffee could protect your skin.
6. Chris Langham used to write for the Muppet Show – and at one stage was the sole British writer.
7. One-hundred-and-forty-one people died from being struck by lightning in China in July.
8. Bottom-pinching is subject to a fixed-penalty fine.
9. Amstrad is an acronym of Alan Michael Sugar Trading.
10. Basking sharks have no teeth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...ast_w_27.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. Russian and American pilots exchange smiles when encroaching on each others terrirtories.
2. Mahjong can trigger epileptic seizures.
3. Dr Debby Reynolds, chief vet, is a vegetarian.
4. President George W Bush has fitness levels in the top 3% of the US population.
5. There are dogs with two noses.
6. There have been at least two children given the name "Superman" in the UK since 1984.
7. The world's tallest man is 8ft 5in Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk.
8. The clock faces on Big Ben/the Palace of Westminster clock tower are cleaned every five years by abseilers.
9. Bill Murray's sister Nancy is a nun who acts.
10. When bits of glaciers break off, it is know as "calving".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a016630
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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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Who would name their children superman?How stupid. I saw that tallest man on TV and wow. He's tall.
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First Anime now this. Asian entertainment is dangerous!
She's a real Sister Act ... I should be hung for such a pun.
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