Virgil, you are such a smarta** and I find you quite funny :P
Which bird would you be?Originally Posted by Virgil
I claim I can dance too but no one else seems to agree.2. Birds can dance.
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The cuckoo bird.Which bird would you be?
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1. There is a real place called Hicksville.
2. Britain once sent an envoy with a quadruple-barrelled name to Moscow - Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurley Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
3. Sikhs do not have to wear motorcycle crash helmets.
4. Napoleon wrote chick-lit.
5. John Prescott's toilet seat broke twice.
6. Tom Hanks watches "Loose Women".
7. Youth hostelling was invented in Germany in 1912.
8. The use of the word "rat" as an insult in English goes back at least until the 16th Century.
9. Two main muscles are used for smiling - the zygomatic muscle turns the corner of the lips up and the orbicularis oculi crinkles the corners of the eyes.
10. Birds are actually really rather clever.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...his_t_15.shtml
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All birds? I would beg to differ... Chickens are considered birds, but they are really not clever. Would turkeys be birds as well? Because I hear they're some of the dumbest animals....
Crows are really clever though.
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That may be directly linked to the intensity of your complexion...I claim I can dance too but no one else seems to agree.
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
That may be directly linked to the intensity of your complexion...
Oooh, I've actually driven by it. But I never ventured to meet the hicks.
2. Britain once sent an envoy with a quadruple-barrelled name to Moscow - Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurley Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
That is not wise. You crash on a motorcycle there are some serious ramifications.3. Sikhs do not have to wear motorcycle crash helmets.
4. Napoleon wrote chick-lit.Well, he had to do soimething betweeen the pillaging and warfare. This was his sensitive side.
Don't know who Prescott is but I bet he's got a fat a$$.5. John Prescott's toilet seat broke twice.
Don't all men? Just check out the Bloke thread here on lit net.6. Tom Hanks watches "Loose Women".
A precurser to WWI. That's what happens when you get all these youths together in one place.7. Youth hostelling was invented in Germany in 1912.
And before that they were considered lovable little creatures?8. The use of the word "rat" as an insult in English goes back at least until the 16th Century.
9. Two main muscles are used for smiling - the zygomatic muscle turns the corner of the lips up and the orbicularis oculi crinkles the corners of the eyes.That sounds downright sexy.
Actually very true. They are among the smartest of animals. Yes Poetic, especially crows. Though you're right chickens don't seem too bright.10. Birds are actually really rather clever.
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Actually there is at least one documented case of crows being able to imitate human speech.
Birds from the family Corvis I think it is are supposedly the smartest birds of the lot and probably smarter than most apes ( are chimps apes?)
I can see the page I read this off in my mind word for word I just can't rember where it was I read it, it will come to me though.
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Crows imitating human speech?
Impossible!
If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
I read about crows imitating human speech in a magazine that I found in a doctor's waiting room when I was like, eleven. It stuck with me because of how cool it is. I think some hikers somewhere discovered them.
I'm pretty sure chimps are classified as apes, and so are their promiscuous cousins the bonobos (which I think are sweet).
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What do you mean its humans who have been imitating crows all these years?
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1. Sending nude images via a mobile phone is called "sexting".
2. Miss Universe must remain single for a year.
3. The Odeon cinema chains are named after their British founder Oscar Deutsch, and the acronym stands for Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation.
4. Use of the word "carbuncle" to describe a building was first made in the 19th Century to describe Buckingham Palace.
5. We are born violent.
6. And a tribe in Bolivia has a festival of violence to settle disputes.
7. Joanna Lumley was sounded out by Labour to run as London Mayor in 2000.
8. Plants can water themselves.
9. Emotionally intelligent women orgasm more.
10. Some petals have velcro-like surfaces.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...ast_w_93.shtml
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And posting nude photos of your pets is called pexting.
But she can get pregnant.2. Miss Universe must remain single for a year.
Well I guess no one could bring themselves in naming them the deutsch chains.3. The Odeon cinema chains are named after their British founder Oscar Deutsch, and the acronym stands for Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation.
That sounds like a disease.4. Use of the word "carbuncle" to describe a building was first made in the 19th Century to describe Buckingham Palace.
Well, if the little angel comes out of the womb wearing a mask, holding a stick up gun, and a note asking for your money, I think you would begin to be suspicious.5. We are born violent.
Oh my God, do you realize the ratings that would get on television? It's a gold mine.6. And a tribe in Bolivia has a festival of violence to settle disputes.
Sounded out? Wasn't it more like shouted out?7. Joanna Lumley was sounded out by Labour to run as London Mayor in 2000.
In humans we call it urination.8. Plants can water themselves.
9. Emotionally intelligent women orgasm more.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
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haha i love this thread!
and enjoy very much of virgil responses to them. lol
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2. Miss Universe must remain single for a year.
"But she can get pregnant. "
that is so true ha
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1. Franco had one testicle.
2. That condition is called monorchism.
3. Only 26 people used Yangyang International airport in South Korea last year.
4. Excessive cola-drinking can cause paralysis.
5. 29% of women have never used the internet, but only 20% of men.
6. Seven Speakers of the House of Commons were beheaded prior to 1560.
7. Britain had animal welfare laws before it had child welfare laws.
8. Child protection used to be enforced by uniformed NSPCC inspectors, known as "cruelty men".
9. Pringles are not potato crisps.
10. The man who was the voice of Mickey Mouse was married to the woman who did Minnie's.
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