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07-21-2006, 08:52 AM
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Did You Know...
DID YOU KNOW...? A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. A snail can sleep for three years. All polar bears are left-handed. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until he reaches two to six years of age. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Butterflies taste with their feet. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs have only about 10. A cat's urine glows under a black light. China has more English speakers than the United States. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet, 2 inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers. They saw it as competition. Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. Shakespeare coined the words "assassination" and "bump." Starfish do not have brains. The average human eats eight spiders in his lifetime at night. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only 6 inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The names of all of the continents end with the same letter they start with. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as are necessary. When it was built, in the 1940s, the State of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. The words racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. Women blink nearly twice as often as men. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 
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07-21-2006, 09:15 AM
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I'll drink your poison if you fill the cup. You make me crazy, baby, don't let up. Break Free, DMB 2006
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07-21-2006, 09:18 AM
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Mike sure is having a productive morning! Is your project at work done yet? Time for vacation? Or are you going off the deep end?
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07-21-2006, 09:34 AM
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My project is pretty much implemented, now it's I'm in the process of fixing the pieces that are not going according to plan. A couple of other managers are back from vacation so I might be able to break away for a couple of days. I'm so far off my cost plan, if I went on vacation now, I'd spend most of it on the phone talking with my operations. The real vacation is postponed until mid-August.
But we're going to an all day jazz concert on Saturday and to Disneyland either Tuesday or Wednesday so there is light at the end of the tunnel. If I could only squeeze a round of golf in, my disposition would improve... Thanks for asking, L. You're a sweetheart.
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07-22-2006, 03:30 AM
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Born Before 1945? You're a Survivor! Consider the changes we have witnessed: We were before television, before penicillin, before polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the Pill. We were before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and ball-point pens..before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes and ...before man walked on the moon! We got married first, then lived together. How quaint can you be? In our times, closets were for clothes, not "coming out of". Bunnies were small rabbits, and rabbits were not Volkswagens. Designer jeans were scheming girls named Jean or Jeanne, and having a meaningful relationship meant getting along well with our cousins. We were before house husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers and commuter marriages. We were before day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes. We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, word processors, yougurt and guys wearing earrings. For us, time-sharing meant togetherness.... not computers or condominiums. A chip was a piece of wood; hardware meant...hardware and software, well it wasn't even a word. In 1940 Japan meant junk, and "making out" referred to how you did on your exam. Pizza, McDonalds and instant coffee were unheard of. We hit the scene when there were 5&10 stores where you bought things for five and ten cents. The corner drug store sold ice cream cones for a nickel or dime. For one nickel you would ride on a bus, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi or enough stamps to mail one letter and two post cards. You could buy a new Chevy coupe for $600, but who could afford it. A pity, too, because gasoline was 11 cents a gallon. In our day cigarette smoking was fashionable. Grass...we mowed. Coke was a drink and pot was something you cooked in. Rock music was a grandma's lullaby and aids were helpers in the principals office! We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered, but we were surely before the sex change--we made do with what we had. And, we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have a baby! No wonder we are so confused and there is such a generation gap. But, we survived!!! What better reason to celebrate???
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07-22-2006, 04:39 AM
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I can relate - I was there. But IMHO, there was no better decade than the 70's. The change from the 60's to the 70's in style, beliefs, morals, and lifestyle was so radical, it was truly amazing. I think I "survived" through all the other years, but I would have to say I really "lived" in the 70's.
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07-22-2006, 07:32 AM
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I am in fatoid heaven.
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