[mcbarker]

The heading says it all... Post your strange facts, stories, or urban legends here:



1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
5. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
6. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
7. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
8. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
9. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .
10. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
13. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
14. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
15. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
16. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
17. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
18. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
19. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.
20. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

[Adama]

Hi McB,

I have to admit, some of those "facts" are strange indeed! :0

[Number3124]

Point 14's off a little.
"14. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple."

"Liver" rhymes with "silver" and "carpel" with purple.

[mcbarker]

Number3124 said:

Point 14's off a little.

"14. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple."


"Liver" rhymes with "silver" and "carpel" with purple.

No... not truly. That's stretching it a little bit. !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[piyushsingh]

hi [~6677]

I must say you have loads of amazing smileys. btw I was rofl after reading the 18 th one.

[Adama]

I know what rhymes with purple ~ BURPLE. !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[mcbarker]

BURPLE? Is a burple anything like this... !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[mcbarker]

Weird Laws:



1: It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.

2: It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

3: In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.

4: In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.

5: In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.

6: In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum.

7: In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.

8: In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.

9: In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples.

10: The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time

[Number3124]

I live in Va. and I know the 7th one is wrong.

P.S. Even if I'm wrong it's imposible to inforce.

[mcbarker]

It's probably one of those old laws that, for some strange reason, made sense several hundred years ago, but is unenforceable and irrelevant today, but it was never revoked. Every State, or country for that matter, has these old laws which are still legally enforceable, but anyone trying to do so would be laughed out of court. For example, in my homeland (Scotland), we still have a law which states that it's illegal to be drunk, and in possession of a cow; or in Hereford, England, you may not shoot a Welsh person on Sunday with a longbow in the Cathedral Close; or In Liverpool, England, it is illegal for a woman to be topless in public unless they are a clerk in a tropical fish store. These laws have never been revoked, so technically, anyone not abiding by them can be arrested, but there isn't a cop around who would arrest someone who broke one of them. Do some research, and I'm sure that you'll find that in Virginia, number 7 is indeed still on the law books, along with several other silly laws.

[Adama]

Ewwww, that's gross!

[AuroraDizon]

http://www.crazylaws.com/

http://www.dumblaws.com/

[jumbocruiser]

So are you saying it would be laughed out of court if you got done for killing a Welshman with a longbow in the Cathedral Close at Hereford on a Sunday ?

I must try it some time.

[JimH443]

8: In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.

This is true for most people no matter where they are! Unless you want to quibble over the definition of "is" :D

[mcbarker]

JimH443 said:

8: In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.

This is true for most people no matter where they are! Unless you want to quibble over the definition of "is" :D

Yeah, but to be so specific about it, like it would be legal to carry a concealed weapon which was 5'11" in length... !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[mcbarker]

jumbocruiser said:

So are you saying it would be laughed out of court if you got done for killing a Welshman with a longbow in the Cathedral Close at Hereford on a Sunday ?

I must try it some time.

I don't write these silly laws... I just quote them. !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[mcbarker]

Adama said:

Ewwww, that's gross!

I knew you'd like that, Adama...

[JimH443]

Actually... the way it's written... it would be legal to carry a concealed weapon that is precisely 6'0" in length. That extra inch can make all the difference. :)

[MAcUser21]

In canada, there is law...

You may not pay for a fifty-cent item with only pennies.

I saw one man did break this law to pay bus fare in pennies, it was worth $2

[unclew]

Ooh, right down my alley; I love strange facts and trivia. People have been sending me stuff for years. Here's a sample:

Subject: Cool trivia

1.The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

2."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

3.Almonds are members of the peach family.

4.The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

5.The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

6.Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

7.The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

8."Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

9.There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

10.The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

11.The longest place-name still in use is:

12.Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitn atahu, a New Zealand hill.

13.Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

14.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

15.Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

16.Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

17.Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

18.Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

19.The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

20.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

21.There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

22.Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

23.John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

24.A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

25.It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

26.Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

27.The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

28.'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

29.The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

30.The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

31.Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

32.Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

33.Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

34.The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

35.The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.