Fascinating Facts

[Anon.]

[s]bramble wrote on 18:11, 2nd Mar 2005:
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

Maybe something to do with it having a spiral todger?

[exnihilo]

[s]Scully wrote on 20:13, 2nd Mar 2005:
Apparently, according to the Herald's 7 wonders of the world poster, the Great Wall of China and Stone Henge are not on the list because those that compiled it never visited China or Ancient Britain.

Indeed, Philo of Byzantium made up the list, and - unsurprisingly - it was confined to wonders near to the Mediterranean Sea.


Incidentally, yes, it is a complete myth that the Great Wall can be seen from space, or that any man made object can (other than lights of cities etc at night) but what always made me doubt it even as a child is that it was never specified from where or how far out in space it was alleged to be visible.

[Manic23]

[s]papercutheart wrote on 18:32, 2nd Mar 2005:
what the fuck is a black light....


A Light that is black

[tintin]

70% of Land Rovers ever made are still on the roads.

[theflirt]

[s]papercutheart wrote on 18:32, 2nd Mar 2005:
what the fuck is a black light....


Its the kind of lights u get in clubs where anything that is white (materials, teeth etc) glow white, but the light emits a kinda purpley colour and u cant c it, hence 'black light'. its only white things that glow! can b very annoying!


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"I have nothing to declare but my own genius" - Oscar Wilde

[kas48]

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached
to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off
("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")





Sounds like a good idea...

[kas48]

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached
to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off
("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")





Sounds like a good idea...

[johness]

cows can go upstairs, but not down them.

two out of every three people bitten by snakes in the U.S. have tattoos.

[hr][s]and i will worry about it, when i find out what it really is. don't be scared about next tuesday cause tuesday hasn't happened yet. CLARITY![/s]

[Guest]

[s]bramble wrote on 19:01, 2nd Mar 2005:
The asides are mine and my sisters - we made them up together


hmmmmmm. did you also post them here then?

http://www.snowboard.com/humor/jokes/vi ... 1&Server=1
http://www.siliconhell.com/humour/stuff.htm
http://www.umt.edu/chemistry/Becky'spages/fun.html
http://www.jadbury.com/blog/?postid=374

funny nevertheless. I thank you for rescueing me from the boredom that is quantum mechanics

[Bitterandtwisted]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

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Help! Monarchists!!

[Wong]

Thnaks.

(As for the first post - They're reasonably entertaining whether they're copy and pasted or not, I just don't see any point in trying to deny that they are.)

[hr]No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves

[Haunted]

[s]Wong wrote on 13:01, 8th Mar 2005:
they're copy and pasted...


Been alot of that going on recently

[novium]

[s]Duggeh wrote on 18:56, 2nd Mar 2005:
A
How many of these facts are accurate now? Probably none.


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I imagine the 7 wonders of the ancient world haven't changed.

Also, I'd bet the same for the things about the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the size of Australia, etc.

[LonelyPilgrim]

[s]Bitterandtwisted wrote on 11:36, 8th Mar 2005:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.



Surely though, this only applies to familiar words. I mean if I typed
adstsiirsbhilainsirntataemem you'd have no clue what it was, without seriously working it out.

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I sing of arms, and the man...

[Bitterandtwisted]

antidisestablishmentarianism? recognised it instantly

[hr]

Help! Monarchists!!

[Haunted]

yeah seconded, guess the original theory is sound

[LonelyPilgrim]

I'm shocked, I don't recognize it, and I wrote it.

Still, the cynic in me must wonder if you saw it's length and thought "hmmmm... I bet he used the longest English word".

Let me find something shorter, and unusual...

otgaernacain

[hr]I sing of arms, and the man...

[Smith]

I think you have to know the word first LP...

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1/i = -i

[Insight]

[s]LonelyPilgrim wrote on 15:58, 8th Mar 2005:
otgaernacain


Octogenarian? Except I or you may have mis-spelt it?

[LonelyPilgrim]

[s]Insight wrote on 16:10, 8th Mar 2005:
[s]LonelyPilgrim wrote on 15:58, 8th Mar 2005:[i]
otgaernacain


Octogenarian? Except I or you may have mis-spelt it?
[/i]

Yeah, one of us has. I don't know which though. Hmmmm... maybe foreign words. Or maybe I should just give up and accept the evidence... as I am lazy, that is what I will do.

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I sing of arms, and the man...