1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and

down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

(That explains a few mysteries....)

10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't

wear pants.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

14. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.

15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book

most often stolen from public libraries.

31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space

because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

Wow Keith. That was very informative. :classic: I spent a few minutes trying to prove #13 wrong

Cheers

Add the word Month to #13

for #13 Purple and Turtle???? does anyone think they rhyme?

Actually, I read someone with nothing better to do and a government grant disproved the duck quack one. The Quack masks the echo so you don't hear it.

It took some solid research to discover though.:stupid:

It's early and my coffee hasn't kicked in but,If the quack mask the echo so you can't hear it isn't that the same as no echo--kinda?.Isn't not hearing an echo the same as no echo ?-kinda?- Oh well I said it's early.---:stupid: For #13 how about silver/bewilder. Thats coffee's workin' now huh?

If a man alone in the woods speaks, and his wife cannot hear him, is he still wrong?

Originally posted by hmsports

If a man alone in the woods speaks, and his wife cannot hear him, is he still wrong?

Yes because a woman somewhere would have heard him and you know how they like to gossip so it'll get back to his wife eventually.

the moon smiles on the river,

turning water into molten Silver,

So much for #13

where 2manyZ's gets all this stuff from

ZMe, you should know by now that I get them from e-mailed jokes from friends that are even more strange than I am.. ain't that right old buddy, old pal?

WELL !!!!!

I most certainly ain't gonna try to disprove #23.

George,

I've always maintained that if you had a room full of men and ONE woman walked in, those poor bloody men would be outnumbered.

Rick.