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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 7 2007, 02:58 AM (1,341 Views) | |
| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 02:58 AM Post #1 |
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Did you know dept. is officially open for business. State your useless info for us....it must be factual. OK, here we go....Alice Kramden, before she married Ralph, was known as Alice Gibson.
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| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 03:03 AM Post #2 |
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Tuesday Weld was born on Friday. |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 03:11 AM Post #3 |
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Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:13 AM Post #4 |
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Interesting topic BEATNUT
I'll give it a go:According to Japanese legend, a sick person will recover if they fold 1,000 origami Cranes.
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| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 03:16 AM Post #5 |
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Thank you Icarus... Did you know Australia is the only country without an active volcano? |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 03:17 AM Post #6 |
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A chicken is the ONLY animal eaten before it is born and after it is dead.
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:20 AM Post #7 |
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Ok ... now don't get intimidated by this one, but: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. :lol: :lol: |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:23 AM Post #8 |
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To stay in the long and the ludicrous end of things the movie with the longest title is this: Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D (1991) Don't ask me how it was ... I haven't a clue but it had to have been better than Part 1 doncha think?? |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 03:25 AM Post #9 |
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A snake can hear with it's tongue. (talk about whispering sweet nothings huh?)
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| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 03:27 AM Post #10 |
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Weatherman Willard Scott was the 'original' Ronald McDonald |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:28 AM Post #11 |
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In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant. (seems practical doesn't it?) |
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| ogoble | Feb 7 2007, 03:32 AM Post #12 |
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on Breed's Hill. :hmm: |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:34 AM Post #13 |
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Here's another movie one: Some of the chariot racers in the version of 'Ben Hur' with Charlton Heston are wearing wristwatches.
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:36 AM Post #14 |
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It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. (when this became a problem I know not )
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| Bill | Feb 7 2007, 03:38 AM Post #15 |
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I don't know what this says about me, but I knew that. |
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| ogoble | Feb 7 2007, 03:39 AM Post #16 |
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In Alabama, it is against the law to operate a motorized vehicle while blindfolded.
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| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 03:40 AM Post #17 |
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Bela Lugosi is buried in his Dracula cape. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:42 AM Post #18 |
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Hmmm ... then you probably know about them top 10 most venomous snakes being right on your continent too. Okay, fair enough how 'bout this one: The great pyramids of Egypt now stand a full 3 miles south of the spot where they were originally built. That's how much the earth's surface has shifted in the last 4500 years. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:44 AM Post #19 |
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Olen can you confirm this one by chance? In Alabama it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket, because it may be used as a weapon. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:46 AM Post #20 |
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Back to the alligators: President John Quincy Adams owned a pet alligator which he kept in the East Room of the White House. Wonder what his name was?? |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 03:48 AM Post #21 |
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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. |
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| ogoble | Feb 7 2007, 03:49 AM Post #22 |
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Sad to say, but Yes. It happened after a 13 year old boy was killed when someone stabbed him with one.
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:55 AM Post #23 |
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That reminds me of the SNL skit for the First Citiwide Bank "Bank of Change:" (I advise opening it with Internet Explorer, by the way)... Bank of Change |
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| Bill | Feb 7 2007, 03:56 AM Post #24 |
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There are crimes on the books in Egland for which the penalty is still transportation to Australia. So if you're ever stuck without your fair home, just deface a bridge in the right town. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:59 AM Post #25 |
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It was recently discovered that dogs DO see in color, just not as vivid as the color that humans see. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 04:01 AM Post #26 |
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It is illegal to sell an ET doll in France. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces. (hmm ... wonder if that's an old law or what??) |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 04:05 AM Post #27 |
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In 1910, magician Harry Houdini was the first solo pilot to fly a plane in Australia. He taught himself to drive an automobile just so he could drive out to the airfield- and he never drove again. |
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| ogoble | Feb 7 2007, 04:07 AM Post #28 |
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A polar bear's skin is black. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 04:08 AM Post #29 |
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of a computer keyboard. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 04:09 AM Post #30 |
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More in that vain
...The longest word that can be typed only with the left hand is 'Stewardesses'. |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Feb 7 2007, 07:15 AM Post #31 |
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It is against the law to eat watermelon in a cemetary in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. |
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You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' ! I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN | |
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| JanaW | Feb 7 2007, 07:34 AM Post #32 |
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Adolph Hitler's horse Nordlicht (North Light) died in 1968 and is buried at St. Rose Louisiana. |
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| AllMyLoving | Feb 7 2007, 07:57 AM Post #33 |
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At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa. Most toilets flush in E flat According to Beatles producer George Martin, Neal Hefti's catchy composition of the 1960's "Batman" Emmy-winning theme song inspired George Harrison to write the hit song "Taxman." No one knows where Mozart is buried. Jim Morrison found the name "The Doors" for his rock band in the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception", which extolls the use of hallucinogenic drugs. The Beatles played the Las Vegas Convention Center in 1964. Some 8,500 fans paid just $4 each for tickets The Beatles song 'A day in the life' ends with a note sustained for 40 seconds EMI stands for ' Electrical and Musical Instruments' Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet) In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot. The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was a symbolic character for the hat makers in towns of the late 1800's. The large felt hats of the day had supports made out of lead. The lead caused an organic form of psychosis (brain damage) to develop in the hat makers causing them to be declared crazy. Females have 500 more genes than males, and because of this are protected from things like color blindness and hemophilia. Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition too rapidly after death Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete |
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| doris mendlovitz | Feb 7 2007, 09:53 AM Post #34 |
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You know that if you smile at a gorilla or chimpanzee you are showing in body language a sign of aggression especially if you show teeth. love doris. |
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| Colin | Feb 7 2007, 11:35 AM Post #35 |
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Light travels at 186,282.397 miles per second. |
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There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the earth http://www.myspace.com/colin_o_m http://www.flickr.com/photos/27864525@N08/ | |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Feb 7 2007, 12:25 PM Post #36 |
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John Lennon wrote one of the sketches that appeared in the stage production of Oh Calcutta. Four in Hand A newcomer to a masturbation game can't seem to think of anything to masturbate to. (Incidentally, and strangely enough, the first draft of this sketch was penned by John Lennon.) |
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You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' ! I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN | |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 01:05 PM Post #37 |
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i think you mean continent |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 7 2007, 01:49 PM Post #38 |
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I think you're right. Imogene was the name of Dorothy's cow in the Wizard of OZ. |
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| fab4fan | Feb 7 2007, 03:02 PM Post #39 |
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I thought it was both a country and a continent. |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Feb 7 2007, 03:11 PM Post #40 |
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Australia is both. However it is not the only country without an active volcano, but it is the only continent without one. |
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You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' ! I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN | |
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| Deleted User | Feb 7 2007, 03:46 PM Post #41 |
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Yeah ... I think I was trying to rephrase something and just ended up throwing it in without correcting something (didn't wanna edit like mad either).
Thanks for the correction ... and it did make ya'll think now didn't it?In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be lifted by the law if the driver is deemed either 'poorly dressed' or 'unbathed'. |
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| vlivantje | Feb 7 2007, 06:41 PM Post #42 |
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Country? Or continent...because as far as I know...Belgium doesn't have any active volcanoes....hell...it doesn't have volcanoes at ALL!
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| vlivantje | Feb 7 2007, 06:49 PM Post #43 |
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Whoops I better read before I react. :rolleyes:
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| Bill | Feb 7 2007, 10:23 PM Post #44 |
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The wrong kind of pizza could render the point moot anyway! :lol: |
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| iscreamer1 | Feb 7 2007, 11:22 PM Post #45 |
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| kink | Feb 8 2007, 12:11 AM Post #46 |
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on again, off again
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that's a load of bull...
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Strawberry Fields: We put the FUN in dysfunctional. -BeatleBarb, 2007 | |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 12:13 AM Post #47 |
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OK, in Athens, Greece they seperate the men from the boys with a crow bar.
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| kink | Feb 8 2007, 12:23 AM Post #48 |
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and we also have drunken orgies in the acropolis when the moon is full, dressed as dionysian followers that actually sounds pretty good |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 01:00 AM Post #50 |
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Now ya got me hungry, get me a Gyro!
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 01:02 AM Post #51 |
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Ida May Fuller of Vermont was the first person ever to receive a social security check in 1940. |
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| mozart8mytoe | Feb 8 2007, 02:35 AM Post #52 |
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Did you know that 87% of people believe anything they read online and that 68% of all statistics are made up. |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Feb 8 2007, 02:36 AM Post #53 |
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I don`t believe you. :lol:
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You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' ! I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN | |
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OK maybe that's Italy then. :lol: |
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| fab4fan | Feb 8 2007, 05:17 AM Post #55 |
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Hey, I don't know what's worse. Beat's crow bar reference or you confusing us with EYE-talians.
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Hey now wait a second there , I actually remember that remark (oops) ... I mean resemble that remark.Actually I favor the Irish end of the scale, but I got plenty of Italian going on too.
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| doris mendlovitz | Feb 8 2007, 06:00 AM Post #57 |
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You know if you actually watch the Old Tarzan movies for a man in the jungle with no modern convience he manages to stay clean shaven.Also in the old Lone ranger movies the lone ranger rolls around in the dirt and comes out with clean white shirt. Also if you are watching the old sparticus movie one of the roman soldiers is wearing addidas and a Timex love doris. |
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Yeah I noticed the watch ... missed the sneakers though, sneaky little things. |
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Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias. Any takers?? |
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Sigourney Weaver's given name is Susan Weaver ... she picked out her unusual new name from a character in the novel, The Great Gatsby. (that's a pretty darn good novel, by the way). |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 01:11 PM Post #61 |
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Hershey, Pennsylvania used to be known as Derry Church, Pennsylvania. |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Feb 8 2007, 01:32 PM Post #62 |
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Do they have a Hershey highway there?
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You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' ! I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN | |
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Oh for shame Betsy. Hoo haa!
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 05:34 PM Post #64 |
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Yeah, but I heard they drive like NUTS on that road.
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 07:48 PM Post #65 |
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Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 08:01 PM Post #66 |
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The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 08:03 PM Post #67 |
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At 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground. |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Feb 8 2007, 08:15 PM Post #68 |
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I heard that the number represented the number of sauce recipes they tried until they came up with the one they finally chose to put in that bottle. Very interesting. |
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You say you want to save humanity but it`s people that you just can`t stand John came to me in a dream and this is what he said. "I had a vision of a man on a flaming pie, and he told me that Betsy with a B not Lisa with a L is the biggest fan of mine". John trumps 'the boss' ! I WAS ROBBED BY THAT DEVIL WOMAN | |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 08:27 PM Post #69 |
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Well Betsy, looks like you heard wrong now doesn't it? :lol: |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 08:30 PM Post #70 |
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Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 08:37 PM Post #71 |
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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. ( I wonder why they call it a Pigskin then) :wacko: |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Feb 8 2007, 08:39 PM Post #72 |
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Speaking of pigskin, reminds me of Sheepskin diplomas. I have my Great Grandfathers diploma when he graduated from medical school at John Hopkins and it is on a real sheepskin. |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 08:51 PM Post #73 |
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Is that a fact? |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 08:52 PM Post #74 |
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The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 08:56 PM Post #75 |
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Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. |
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| theonlyfab4fan | Feb 8 2007, 08:59 PM Post #76 |
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That is a fact Jack, or rather BEAT, but jack rhymes and BEAT doesn`t. :lol: However according to Wickipedia Buddy Hollys airplane was not named the American Pie. That is supposedly a myth but I am not sure how it got started. So it may or may not be true. I once knew a woman that swore that her older sister was the fiance of the pilot of that particular airplane and I was always a bit skeptical but had no real reason to call her a liar. But with the advent of the internet was able to discover that the pilot was married at the time of the crash. Me thinks she was busted then :lol: Omg, I am starting to ramble.... Lord I was born a rambling man!!! (woman) |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 09:04 PM Post #77 |
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John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 8 2007, 09:11 PM Post #78 |
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Right you are Betsy..so we will correct it, READ ON: Claim: The airplane that carried Buddy Holly to his death was named 'American Pie.' Status: False. Origins: DonMcLean's recollection of the day (as a paperboy) he cut open a stack of newspapers to find that Buddy Holly had died led him to coin the term "the day the music died" to describe 3 February 1959: the date on which a plane crash took the lives of Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (the "Big Bopper"). The phrase became a part of popular culture when McLean used it in his hit song "American Pie," a cryptic song featuring ambiguous imagery and a coded history of rock 'n' roll. The song's varied interpretations have been widely debated for decades now -- McLean himself has so far declined to provide any answers, saying, "If I told people what I meant, they'd just say, 'No you didn't.'" The starting point of most analyses of the song is its title: "American Pie." What does "American Pie" refer to? We could makes some guesses, but this article is about what American Pie is not: it is not, as widely reported on various lists of trivia that circulate on the Internet, the name of the airplane on which Buddy Holly was a passenger when he died. In an attempt to gain some extra rest time (and avoid travelling on buses prone to mechnical breakdowns and faulty heating), during a grueling and cold "Winter Dance Party" tour in early 1959, Holly chartered a private plane to fly himself and two band members to Fargo, North Dakota immediately after their February 2 performance in Clear Lake, Iowa. (The next day's show was in Moorhead, Minnesota, but Moorhead had no airport; the closest facility was in Fargo, ten miles away.) The plane, a red-and-white single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza, took off in the cold, windy, early morning hours of February 3 amidst light snow flurries. The plane never reached Fargo. The next morning searchers discovered that it had crashed on a snow-covered field shortly after takeoff, skidding over 500 feet before coming to rest against a wire fence and killing everyone on board. The airplane, chartered through Dwyer's Flying Service in Clear Lake, Iowa, had no name. Its only designation was its wing registration number, N3794N. How the rumor that its name was American Pie (thus providing Don McLean the title for his song) started circulating is unknown, but it is undeniably false. As Don McLean himself said in 1999: The growing urban legend that "American Pie" was the name of Buddy Holly’s plane the night it crashed, killing him, Ritchie Valens and the Big Boppper, is equally untrue. I created the term. (Another rumor regarding the title, that it was chosen because McLean once dated a Miss America contestant, appears to be equally spurious.) Addendum: Over the years, the list of people who "gave up a seat" on this ill-fated flight has grown to rival the list of persons claiming to have been invited to Sharon Tate's "quiet evening at home" the night the Manson family struck. Although Buddy Holly initially may have asked around to find other tour members willing to share the cost of chartering a plane (as Dion DiMucci claims), the only persons who committed to fly on it with Holly were his two fellow band members, Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings. J.P. Richardson, who was coming down with the flu, managed to talk Jennings into giving up his seat so that he could arrive at the next tour stop early and have a little extra time to visit a doctor. Ritchie Valens spent the evening trying to convince Allsup to give up his seat on the plane, but Allsup, who needed to pick up a registered letter waiting for him in Fargo, demurred. Finally, just as Allsup was about to leave the Surf City ballroom for the airport, he gave in and agreed to flip a coin with Valens for a spot on the airplane. (Unlike the way this scene is depicted in the Ritchie Valens film biography La Bamba, Holly did not charter a plane for "headliners only" or arrange the last-minute coin toss between Valens and Allsup, nor did that coin toss take place outside in a snowfall just as the plane was boarding.) Valens won the coin toss, and Allsup stayed behind to ride the bus to the next destination. Thus Waylon Jennings and Tommy Allsup were the only two persons who truly "gave up a seat" on Buddy Holly's final flight. |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 9 2007, 03:13 AM Post #79 |
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Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. |
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| bluemeanie | Feb 9 2007, 03:31 AM Post #80 |
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is now a happily married woman x
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The actual City of London is only 1 square mile |
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Jayne x is loving life and is so happy xxx | |
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| bluemeanie | Feb 9 2007, 03:39 AM Post #81 |
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is now a happily married woman x
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In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it's smiling.) |
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Jayne x is loving life and is so happy xxx | |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 9 2007, 03:46 AM Post #82 |
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. |
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| fab4fan | Feb 9 2007, 05:14 AM Post #83 |
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That dogs are man's best friend. No pun intended. (look below)
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| FamousGroupie | Feb 9 2007, 07:57 AM Post #84 |
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The smallest country in the world is Vatican City. |
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| Bill | Feb 9 2007, 01:35 PM Post #85 |
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There has never been a famine in a democracy. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 9 2007, 10:52 PM Post #86 |
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Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head . Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln . Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln , was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters. Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.' Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford.' Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater. Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe , Maryland A week before Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe. (ok that one is a joke) |
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| Jacaranda | Feb 10 2007, 01:53 AM Post #87 |
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Okay, I looked up some things about this because I remembered that my dad used to tell me about the problems with this list when I was a kid, because he worked as a National Park Service historian giving talks about Lincoln and Booth at Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was assassinated. I've also been a Kennedy buff for more than 20 years. I have also been fascinated with John Wilkes Booth since my dad worked at Ford's Theater (and the house where Lincoln died, which is across the street). Okay I've got some weird fascinations, I'll admit it. First, Lincoln never had a secretary named Kennedy. His secretaries' names were John J. Nicolay and John M. Hay. John Wilkes Booth was born in 1838, not 1839. All assassins are known by three names -- after their crimes were committed, like most assassins or notorious killers. Both Booth and Oswald were not known by three names before the crimes. Booth was actually shot in a tobacco barn, not a warehouse. Booth was a Southern sympathizer, but not a Southerner. He was born in Maryland, and Maryland was part of the Union and is still considered part of the northeastern U.S. And even though it was a joke, there is no Monroe, Maryland and poor Marilyn Monroe died Aug. 5, 1962 more than a year before JFK's assassination. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 10 2007, 01:56 AM Post #88 |
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That's wrong.
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| Deleted User | Feb 10 2007, 02:02 AM Post #89 |
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Too bad most of those things didn't turn out to be true, it looked fascinating! Still, I know a lot of these 'amazing facts' are really just myths. <_< |
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| BEATNUT | Feb 10 2007, 02:04 AM Post #90 |
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At 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground. |
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| Jacaranda | Feb 10 2007, 02:08 AM Post #91 |
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Uh, didn't you say that before? Or was it so good you had to say it twice? :lol: |
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| Deleted User | Feb 10 2007, 02:08 AM Post #92 |
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And if you breathe in your lungs will freeze and you will fall to the ground!
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| Jacaranda | Feb 10 2007, 02:09 AM Post #93 |
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...and then you will die. :lol: :lol: |
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| Deleted User | Feb 10 2007, 02:12 AM Post #94 |
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Yes... Quite.
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| Deleted User | Feb 10 2007, 02:16 AM Post #95 |
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Did you know I got that one from my email today, oh well it sounded good.
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| Bill | Feb 10 2007, 03:13 AM Post #96 |
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Nicely done Lisa. I guess when things like that occur, people like to push it too far. I thought the three names thing was a bit of a stretch too. But still, one more coincidence that I've heard about is that both Kennedy and Lincoln were advised by their private secretaries not to go. Can't confirm that, that's just in fuzzy memory. |
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| fab4fan | Feb 10 2007, 03:27 AM Post #97 |
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If memory serves me right Kennedy was advised by Adlai Stevenson, who was I believe UN ambassador at the time, not to go to Dallas because the week prior when he gave a speech in Dallas he had been pelted with eggs.
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| Bill | Feb 10 2007, 03:31 AM Post #98 |
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Like I said, fuzzy memory.
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| scottycatt | Feb 10 2007, 04:22 AM Post #99 |
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I've been bothered by Bill's avatar for awhile now. I couldn't figure out what it was that was nagging at me, but now I know. If you put a straw cowboy hat on his head and make his glasses dark, he looks amazingly like Bono!!
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| Deleted User | Feb 10 2007, 04:39 AM Post #100 |
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That's a trippy concept ... I think my mind might have just been blown. Nah, nevermind it was just gas. :lol: I'm gonna regret that ...
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