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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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    You are still a realitive newbie, so you are forgive for using the words like, me and those things anywhere near each other.
    but yes the answer is very much a NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    on that score.
    They are trying to brain wash us and take over the galaxy!
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    You are still a realitive newbie, so you are forgive for using the words like, me and those things anywhere near each other.
    but yes the answer is very much a NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    on that score.
    They are trying to brain wash us and take over the galaxy!

    I'll remember that...
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    6. A new word in the English language is created every 98 minutes.
    that means learning never stops

    7. You're seven times more likely to be a millionaire if you're called Patel than if you're called Smith.
    that is not fear!!
    10. Britney's father monitors her mobile phone use.
    I bet he does! should I say: poor girl?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    1. Gay people in China used to be prosecuted under "hooliganism" laws.
    Kind of leads to some strange images in my mind of football hooligans.

    2. Canada used to border Zimbabwe.
    Oh that explains the Canadian lions.

    3. Carly Simon had a stutter.
    Yes, and her big song, "You're So Vain" was first was called "You're Fffor Pppain."

    5. Setanta started in an Irish dance hall in west London in 1990.
    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.

    6. A new word in the English language is created every 98 minutes.
    Lajehfroieh. There I just created one. Does that count?

    7. You're seven times more likely to be a millionaire if you're called Patel than if you're called Smith.
    I ain't called either. I've got zero chance.

    8. More than half of all Patels in the UK are married to people born Patel.
    If you were a millionaire, who else would you marry but another miliionaire. Got to keep it in the family.

    9. Only eight Britons who fought in the Spanish Civil War are known to be still alive.
    Ah, when men were men. God bless those who faught against fascism.

    10. Britney's father monitors her mobile phone use.
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    Lajehfroieh. There I just created one. Does that count?
    mmm no really, it has to be used at least 25,oo0 times on the web
    Lajehfroieh
    Lajehfroieh
    Lajehfroieh
    Lajehfroieh
    Lajehfroieh
    Lajehfroieh
    Lajehfroieh
    Lajehfroieh

    there you go...there are the first 10
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    8. Scotland has the lowest age for criminal responsibility in Europe.
    This is because we have one of the largest population of useless kids in europe
    There once was a scotsman named Drew
    Who put too much wine in his stew
    He felt a bit drunk
    And fell off his bunk
    And landed smack into his shoe
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post

    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 lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    1. Camels travel by train.
    I've seen quite a few people on the NYC subway trains that could be classified as camels.

    2. Buddhist monks sleep upright.
    You know, my wife hates the way I shift around in bed. She would love it if I could learn to sleep this way.

    3. Four-legged animals need to avoid doing "wheelies".
    Not quite sure what that's saying, but I've never seen any four legged animals with wheels on their feet.

    4. Seagulls attack whales.
    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.

    5. If you use a tool for a while, your brain can mentally incorporate it into your body.
    So if I maodel a saw in my brain does that mean that my hand will develop a cutting edge?

    6. The UK has the ability to launch "cyber attacks".
    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?

    7. British-style black cabs are now driven in China.
    Well, with all the Chinese restaurants in London they had to trade something.

    8. Every film in which actress Dame Judi Dench swears results in complaints to the BBFC.
    Judi, Judi, Judi. Shame shame. Holy smoke. The rules on this in Britain sound more byzantine that those in the US.

    9. There is a long tradition of "medals of dishonour".
    Yeah and you ought to see the ones I've gotten here on lit net. Just ask Scher.

    10. Chilli can be used as a weapon in crowd control.
    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.
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    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.

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    Did Young take Hussein up on his offer?

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    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.

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