Useless Trivia

[Newenglandman]

I have decided, since I need to get some more posts to make my 150 that I would become a pain in the neck and start a thread on one of my favorite topics.... Useless Trivia. Hopefully you will laugh, smile and maybe share some of yours!

A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

[Zifnab]

The dome on Monticello conceals a billiards room (billiards were illegal in Virginia).

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Sputnik was launched on October 4, 1957, the same day that "Leave it to Beaver" debuted.

[Newenglandman]

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it.

[Zifnab]

The day after October 4, 1582 was October 15, 1582.

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The two lions in front of the New York Public Library are currently named Patience and Fortitude.

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The letter "J" does not yet appear anywhere within the periodic table of the elements.

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At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail the entire way around the world.

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The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.


Come on NEman! not keeping up!! How can I help you reach your posts???? WORK WITH ME HERE!!!!:lmao

[Zifnab]

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the full stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

[G...G]

Damn where do you come up with this? LOL

[Zifnab]

You expend more calories eating and digesting celery than there are in the celery itself.

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Michael Jordan shaves his head on Tuesdays and Fridays.

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Powdered non-dairy creamer is flammable (trust me on this).

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Isaac Asimov is the only author to have written a book in all 10 Dewey-decimal categories.

[G...G]

AND may I ask "how do you know this"?:D



Powdered non-dairy creamer is flammable (trust me on this).

[Zifnab]

trial by fire dear!:lmao

[G...G]

trial by fire dear!:lmao


I can only imagine that!!!:55

[Zifnab]

this one is for MWM:
The tip of a whip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The "crack" of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

[Zifnab]

Starting with the number one, you would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A".

[Trev]

The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States was a Baptist preacher, in 1789

[Zifnab]

Mr. (Fred) Rogers was an ordained minister.

[Zifnab]

Hey Tiger.... TAKE NOTES!!!!!:
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

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All polar bears are left-handed.

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Raindrops are not tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.

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The purpose of the indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to strengthen the structure of the bottle and to trap the sediments in the wine.

[sweetgapeach]

46% of all money has Fectal matter on it

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A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

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The human brain stops growing at age 18, and is 80% water. Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain. The storage capacity of the human brain is about 4 terabytes (4,000 gigabytes).

[Zifnab]

"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (a lung disease) is the longest English word according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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

[Zifnab]

The word "checkmate" comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," meaning "the king is dead".

[Zifnab]

The word "pound" is abbreviated "lb." from the Latin "libra pondo", meaning weight or balance, where the constellation got its name.

[spare_change]

Clearly, Zif -- as a practioner of sesquipedalianism, you are without peer.

[Zifnab]

From Latin sesquipedalis, a foot and a half long, or, in metaphorical use, of an unnatural length, huge, big, from sesqui, one and a half times as great + pedalis foot.
From Latin sesquipedalis,
sesquipedalianism


The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writting.

Thanks!:wa:

[Zifnab]

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

[Zifnab]

"Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr," which means "lord of the sea".

[Zifnab]

Thomas Crapper is credited with inventing the modern-day toilet, and Otto Titsling with inventing the brassiere. Major General Joseph Hooker allegedly paid prostitutes to accompany his soldiers in the Civil War.

[spare_change]

St. Simeon the Younger lived from 521to 597 AD in Antioch, Syria. He spent his last 45 years sitting on top of a stone pillar.

[G...G]

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
I want to be a pig in my next life!!:55

[spare_change]

If you were to gather 100 "average" people, you would have:

51 female, 49 male

57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas, and 8 Africans

70 non-white, 30 white

70 non-Christian, 30 Christian

50% of the wealthin the hands of 6 people -- all in the US

80 living in substandard housing

70 who were illiterate

50 suffering from malnutrition

1 person near death, 1 near birth

1 with a college education

None who owned a computer

[Zifnab]

Six people died in Oregon during WWII as a result of a Japanese balloon bomb.

[spare_change]

Copper Harbor, AK was held by the Japanese during WWII.

The US Army drove them out - they retreated to the Aleutian Islands of Adak and Attu. The US Army pushed them off Adak in 31 days, rested for 6 days, and then began a push on Attu. It took 9 days, and cost 32 lives -- and there were NO Japanese on the island.

[Zifnab]

Roulette, an invention by the mathematician Blaise Pascal, was a by-product of his experiments with perpetual motion.

[Zifnab]

Spiral staircases in medieval castles turn right as they ascend. This was so that (right-handed) knights defending the castle could more easily combat invading foes who were climbing the stairs.

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Dashing horses kicking up mud (among other things), splashing the passengers riding behind them, led to the invention of the dashboard, a term which survives today.

[Zifnab]

Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

[spare_change]

The Thousand Islands of New York and Ontario actually number about 1500.

[Zifnab]

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper

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The odds of someone winning the lottery twice in four months is about 1 in 17 trillion, but Evelyn Marie Adams won the New Jersey lottery in both 1985 and 1986

[spare_change]

The first newspaper headline appeared on the October 27, 1777 edition of the New York Gazette.

[spare_change]

Technical term for goosebumps: horripilation

[Zifnab]

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps, so theirs are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. (And the glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher).

[Zifnab]

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned TV Channel 1 to mobile services, but did not re-number the other channel assignments.

[spare_change]

There are no "mountains" in England higher than 5000 feet.

[Zifnab]

When George Washington was elected President, there was a King in France, a Tsarina in Russia, an Emperor in China, and a Shogun in Japan.

[spare_change]

Buenos Aires has more psychoanalysts per capita than any other city in the world.

[Zifnab]

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.

[Zifnab]

In 1935, Jesse Owens set six track and field world records in less than one hour.

[spare_change]

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.


Damn -- I think I married her! I know I get my head ripped off every time I suggest it.

[Zifnab]

The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set in a lunar rover.

[Zifnab]

Damn -- I think I married her!necrophilia!

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The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So if there was a bathtub large enough to hold it (which would be pretty weird to begin with), Saturn would float.

[Zifnab]

Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.

[spare_change]

Mickey Mouse was a Scorpio -- born November 18, 1928

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The Mayflower was dismantled by the Pilgrims and turned into a barn.

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Mae West NEVER kissed her leading men on screen.

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The Fedhoff Ohlsdorf in Hamburg, Germany, covers 990 acres, making it the world's largest cemetery.

[spare_change]

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 US states.

[Zifnab]

The toes of mummies are wrapped individually.

[Zifnab]

A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.

[Zifnab]

Every major league baseball team in the U.S. buys about eighteen thousand baseballs each season.

[Zifnab]

Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

and I thought my wife took forever with lipstck!!!

[spare_change]

In Arabic countries, Sesame Street is known as Iftah Ya Simsim.

[spare_change]

The Library of Congress has 327 miles of bookshelves.

[spare_change]

A regulation tennis ball must weigh between 2 and 2 1/16 ounces.

[spare_change]

Great white sharks can hear sounds from over a mile away.

[spare_change]

Hostess Twinkies are 68% air.



(I think the other 32% is nuclear waste!)

[Zifnab]

efore 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.

[Zifnab]

Rennin, the enzyme obtained from the fourth stomach of a calf and used chiefly in the manufacture of cheese, is capable of coagulating more than 25,000 times its weight of fresh milk.

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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

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The kerosene fungus can live in jet fuel tanks. If there is a minute amount of water in the tank, the fungus can use the fuel as food.

[Zifnab]

Each day is 0.00000002 seconds longer than the one before because the Earth is gradually slowing down.

[Zifnab]

Fingernails have a life span of three to six months. That's how long it takes them to grow from base to tip, progressing at the pace of 1.5 inches a year -- or 0.000000047 inches a second.

[spare_change]

In Oklahoma, you can be fined for making funny faces at dogs.

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Britain's Imperial Crown has 1783 diamonds, 227 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, and 5 rubies, and weighs about 7 pounds.

[spare_change]

Egg whites will turn pink when left overnight in a copper bowl.

[Zifnab]

Britain's Imperial Crown has 1783 diamonds, 227 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, and 5 rubies, and weighs about 7 pounds.isn't this fun???:lmao

[spare_change]

The first leap year was in 46 BC

[Zifnab]

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

[spare_change]

There are 8 time zones in North America

[Zifnab]

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

[Zifnab]

Between the time of death and the onset of rigor mortis in a human body, the contraction of the muscles can cause the body to turn over on its side.

[spare_change]

And, then: Beavers sometimes get crushed by the trees they gnaw down.

[Zifnab]

A prehistoric horse called Eohippus was approximately the size of a house cat.

[spare_change]

First coast-to-coast highway in US: Lincoln Highway (NY - SF) opened in 1913.

[Zifnab]

The surface area of the lungs in an adult human is 90 square yards. By comparison, the surface area of the skin is only about one square yard.

[spare_change]

Worldwide, about 20% of all married couples are first cousins.

[Zifnab]

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

[spare_change]

Thomas Edison proposed to his second wife by Morse Code.

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Every 24 hours a leaking water faucet with an opening the size of a pin will waste 170 gallons.

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A silicon chip a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.

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If the population of the Earth continued to increase at its present rate indefinitely, by 3530 A.D. the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth. By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe.

[Zifnab]

The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved swallowed iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks.

[spare_change]

Finland has mmore islands than any other country: 179,584

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Gold is so ductile that a single ounce can be drawn into a fine wire 50 miles long.

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The total amount of skin covering the human body weighs six pounds. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

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The albatross can glide on air currents for several days and can even sleep while in flight.

[spare_change]

The ears of an African elephant can weigh up to 110 pounds each

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Just twenty seconds' worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

[spare_change]

The automobile was invented in 1886; the used car lot (17 cars) was invented in 1897.

[Zifnab]

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

[Zifnab]

If the normal one hundred thousand hairs on a head were woven into a rope, it could support a weight of more than twelve tons

[spare_change]

Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar; saccharin is 500 times sweeter.

[Zifnab]

In South America a fish known as the payara has saber teeth that are two inches long. A common bait used to catch these freshwater fish is a small piranha

[Zifnab]

If you could drive to the sun -- at 55 miles per hour -- it would take about 193 years

[spare_change]

The average American driver, over their lifetime, spends 14 days waiting at traffic lights.

[Zifnab]

While humans have 639 muscles, caterpillars have over four thousand

[Zifnab]

A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.

[Zifnab]

Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

[spare_change]

Mozambique has an AK-47 assault rifle on its flag.

[spare_change]

Animal Crackers has 18 different "species" represented.

[Zifnab]

Mozambique has an AK-47 assault rifle on its flag. I saw that one too! had to look up the flag!:lmao

[Zifnab]

Lightning strikes the earth somewhere more than seventeen million times every day, or about two hundred times every second

[Zifnab]

Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin

[Zifnab]

The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert

[spare_change]

The Venus flytrap only grows wild in one place: a 100 miles stretch of Carolina swampland.

[spare_change]

Foggiest place on the US West Coast: Cape Disappointment, WA (107 days per year).

[spare_change]

The ocean sunfish produces up to 30 million eggs at a single spawning.

[spare_change]

At last count, 1013 US buildings have a sign that reads "Goerge Washington slept here."

[spare_change]

Farting contests were held in ancient Japan. Prizes were awarded for loudness and duration.

[Zifnab]

Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.

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Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.

[Zifnab]

The average human produces a quart of saliva a day -- about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime

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The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born

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Each square inch of human skin contains seventy-two feet of nerves

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The Chinese lettered goldfish is covered with Chinese characters, achieved through thousands of years of crossbreeding

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A typical double-bed mattress contains as many as two million house dust mites (Demodex folliculorom)

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Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.

[Sandy]

spare zif, where do you guys find all this info at? and are you guys having fun ?:D

[Zifnab]

Americans pay over $30,500 in federal, state, and local taxes every second

[Zifnab]

The amount of gold dissolved in the oceans is nearly ten million tons, which is about 180 times the total amount of gold dug in mines in the entire history of humanity

[Zifnab]

Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United States. In the 1830s it was sold as Dr. Miles's Compound Extract of Tomato

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Because it has no backbone, a seventy-pound octopus can squeeze through a hole the size of a silver dollar

[Zifnab]

If each count were one second long, it would take about twelve days to count to a million and thirty-two years to count to a billion

[Zifnab]

A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England

[Zifnab]

Proportionally speaking, the earth is smoother than a billiard ball

[Zifnab]

Soccer players who head the ball 10 or more times per game have an average IQ of 103. Those who head the ball once or less have an average IQ of 112

[Zifnab]

Traveling at the speed of the fastest elevator in the Empire State Building, it would take 30 minutes to reach the bottom of the Marianas Trench

[Zifnab]

In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday is an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named H.M.S. Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again

[Zifnab]

The food making up a single bite for a Tyrannosaurus rex, it was speculated, would feed a human family of four for an entire month

[Zifnab]

If space debris already circling the globe continues to increase at its current rate, the chance that a space shuttle will collide with debris will increase to 1-in-10 flights by the year 2000

[Zifnab]

Blue whales can produce sounds of more than 185 decibels, which is nearly twice as loud as a jumbo jet at takeoff

[Zifnab]

While living in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1866-67, Thomas Edison developed a device to electrocute cockroaches

[Zifnab]

Potholes in American roads cost Americans over $100 million in repairs every day!

[Zifnab]

On any given day in the United States, over 100 convenience stores are robbed.

[Zifnab]

Don't know why, but people living in mountain states eat 30% more cookies than other people.

[Zifnab]

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

[Wet Beaver]

spare zif, where do you guys find all this info at? and are you guys having fun ?:D

no,they just have way to much time on there hands....

[Zifnab]

One in five of the world's 2.5 million medical doctors are Russian.

[Zifnab]

no,they just have way to much time on there hands....have not heard anything better to do with my time.....

[Zifnab]

Americans consumed approximately 45 million turkeys this past Thanksgiving.

[Zifnab]

"Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed.

[Zifnab]

Six percent of all American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend - or wife who caught them with their girlfriend.

[G...G]

Six percent of all American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend - or wife who caught them with their girlfriend.

I am a firm believer of that one:D :lmao

[Zifnab]

I am a firm believer of that one:D :lmaofirm..... nice word choice.....

[Sandy]

what about .......... work.??????????????????:lmao








have not heard anything better to do with my time.....

[Zifnab]

what about .......... work.??????????????????:lmaoas I said....
have not heard anything better to do with my time.....:lmao

[Wet Beaver]

as I said....
have not heard anything better to do with my time.....:lmao

you get those headphone off your head....and you might.....be able to hear something......

[Zifnab]

you get those headphone off your head....and you might.....be able to hear something......and thats why THEY ARE ON!!!!!:lmao

[Newenglandman]

Did you know that Pringles Potato chips are also very flammable....

[Newenglandman]

Firehouses have circular stairways because the engines were at a time pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor, and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

[Newenglandman]

Now here is one that is right up someone's alley......
The Greek word "gymnasium" means "to exercise naked". In Ancient Greece, gymnasts wore no clothes.

[Newenglandman]

"Stewardesses", "reverberated", and "lollipop" are the longest words that can be typed using only one hand on a keyboard. "Skepticisms" is the longest word that alternates hands, while the longest word that can be typed using the top row only is "typewriter".

This must have been written before cybersex was invented!! :lmao

[Newenglandman]

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.

Hmmmm..... I am not even sure how to make a smart ass comment out of this one!!

[Newenglandman]

An elephant can be pregnant for two years.

And women complain!!!! :sex4:

[tiger50]

An elephant can be pregnant for two years.

And women complain!!!! :sex4:

yeh, specially if they afta give birth to an elephant.... :lmao :lmao

[Jy]

..and who's alley would that be New? Hmm?Now here is one that is right up someone's alley......
The Greek word "gymnasium" means "to exercise naked". In Ancient Greece, gymnasts wore no clothes.

[spare_change]

..and who's alley would that be New? Hmm?


I dunno, but just in case, I'm signing up at your gym !!!

[Newenglandman]

Jazzy.... I'm shocked!!!! You don't know????? ;)

[Wet Beaver]

An elephant can be pregnant for two years.

And women complain!!!! :sex4:

honey...i ain't a elephant......now if you want to be pregnant for two year...i sure tiger will help ya out....:nu

[Sandy]

you got that right, if they ever did carry one, that would be all they carried. :D












honey...i ain't a elephant......now if you want to be pregnant for two year...i sure tiger will help ya out....:nu

[sex_kitten_4u]

the average penis weighs 8 ounces:D

[Sandy]

i didn't know that. :D








the average penis weighs 8 ounces:D

[Zifnab]

Ants do not sleep.

[spare_change]

the average penis weighs 8 ounces:D

Then, somebody has one that weighs about 14 ounces

[Zifnab]

In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

[Zifnab]

HEY TREV!!!

If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of his territory.

[Jy]

...neither do parents...Ants do not sleep.

[sex_kitten_4u]

Then, somebody has one that weighs about 14 ounces


you bragging again spare ?:kk

[spare_change]

you bragging again spare ?:kk


Not bragging -- but I did exaggerate, just a little.

[spare_change]

...neither do parents...

I love it!

[Zifnab]

During a 1976 doctors strike, the death rate in Los Angeles dropped 18 percent.

[Wet Beaver]

During a 1976 doctors strike, the death rate in Los Angeles dropped 18 percent.

i looked this up......i wouldn't call it useless.....doctors are killing people...


Whenever medical doctors go on strike, a most interesting phenomenon occurs - death rates go down! In 1976 in Bogota, Columbia medical doctors went on strike for 52 days, with only emergency care available. The death rate dropped by 35%. In 1976 in Los Angeles County a similar doctors' strike resulted in an 18% drop in mortality. As soon as the strike was over, the death rate went back to normal. A 50% decrease in mortality occurred in Israel in 1973 when there was a one month doctor's strike!



http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/updates/47.asp

[Sandy]

damn i knew there was a reason why i didn't like going to the doctors, beside the bill that is. :D

[Zifnab]

i looked this up......i wouldn't call it useless.....doctors are killing people...


Whenever medical doctors go on strike, a most interesting phenomenon occurs - death rates go down! In 1976 in Bogota, Columbia medical doctors went on strike for 52 days, with only emergency care available. The death rate dropped by 35%. In 1976 in Los Angeles County a similar doctors' strike resulted in an 18% drop in mortality. As soon as the strike was over, the death rate went back to normal. A 50% decrease in mortality occurred in Israel in 1973 when there was a one month doctor's strike!



http://www.pacifichealthcenter.com/updates/47.asp


So shall we start a for your information thread and post these kinds of items in it?

[Wet Beaver]

So shall we start a for your information thread and post these kinds of items in it?

why not......that fact is scary......

[Sandy]

yes it is very scary.

[Zifnab]

why not......that fact is scary......you starting it or shall I?

[Newenglandman]

An actual personal ad:
"Bill Clinton look-a-like seeking a woman who doesn't think Monica did anything really bad for discreet fun."

Oh my word..... and people wonder why they need help!!!! :whee:

[Newenglandman]

Or how about....
"You: As young as Ashton Kutcher. Me: As old as Demi Moore, but not as hot or rich. Nor is my ex as cool as Bruce Willis. Still, I'm not bad."

[Frank_2525]

In 90% of all traffic fatalities Coca Cola was consumed in one form or another withing 1 hour of the accident.
Logic is that drinking Coca Cola causes accidents.

[Norfolkdave]

How to Give Your Cat A Pill
1. Grasp cat firmly in your arms. Cradle its head on your elbow, just as if you were giving baby a bottle. Coo confidently, "That's a nice kitty." Drop pill into its mouth.

2. Retrieve cat from top of lamp and pill from under sofa.

3. Follow same procedure as in 1, but hold cat's front paws down with left hand and back paws down with elbow of right arm. Poke pill into its mouth with right forefinger.

4. Retrieve cat from under bed. Get new pill from bottle. (Resist impulse to get new cat.)

5. Again proceed as in 1, except when you have cat firmly cradled in bottle-feeding position, sit down on edge of chair, fold your torso over cat, bring your right hand over your left elbow, open cat's mouth by lifting the upper jaw and pop the pill in - quickly. Since your head is down by your knees, you won't be able to see what you're doing. That's just as well.

6. Leave cat hanging on drapes. Leave pill in your hair.

7. If you're a woman, have a good cry. If you're a man, have a good cry.

8. Now pull yourself together. Who's the boss here anyway? Retrieve cat and pill. Assuming position 1, say sternly, "Who's the boss here, anyway?" Open cat's mouth, take pill and...Oooops!

9. This isn't working, is it? Collapse and think. Aha! Those flashing claws are causing the chaos.

10. Crawl to linen closet. Drag back large beach towel. Spread towel on floor.

11. Retrieve cat from kitchen counter and pill from potted plant.

12. Spread cat on towel near one end with its head over long edge.

13. Flatten cat's front and back legs over its stomach. (Resist impulse to flatten cat.)

14. Roll cat in towel. Work fast; time and tabbies wait for no man -or woman.

15. Resume position 1. Rotate your left hand to cat's head. Press its mouth at the jaw hinges like opening the petals of a snapdragon.

16. Drop pill into cat's mouth and poke gently. Voila! It's done.

17. Vacuum up loose fur (cat's). Apply bandages to wounds (yours).

18. Take two aspirin and lie down.

[dartgirl]

I like that, it is so true.

HOW TO TALK TO A MAN WITH A SHORT ATTENTION SPAN. (Is there another kind)

1) Announce you have something important to say so he'll make more of an effort to listen.

2) Keep it short.

3) Do something that illustrates your point-- for example, demonstrating how to hang up a wet towel instead of leaving it on the floor.

4) If it's an emotional issue, talk while driving or walking--men often have an easier time communicating if they're engaged in another activity.

5) Sit next to him--a direct stare can whip a guy's inner caveman into a panic.

[Frank_2525]

Mouse Trick for those over 50 or not gifted with 20-20
This is for everyone over 50 whose eyesight isn't what it was or those with less
than 20-20.

I just found out about this. Thought I'd pass this on. It's very useful when
trying to read small e-mail print (especially in the early hours). If you
hold down the Ctrl key on your key board and turn the small wheel in the
middle of your mouse, the print size will change - it will either get larger
or smaller - depending on which way you turn the wheel.

[Annie]

Mouse Trick for those over 50 or not gifted with 20-20
This is for everyone over 50 whose eyesight isn't what it was or those with less
than 20-20.

I just found out about this. Thought I'd pass this on. It's very useful when
trying to read small e-mail print (especially in the early hours). If you
hold down the Ctrl key on your key board and turn the small wheel in the
middle of your mouse, the print size will change - it will either get larger
or smaller - depending on which way you turn the wheel.

Doesn't work on my puter... :( so I guess it really was "Useless Trivia" for me!

[Frank_2525]

It works for me, but here it only effects the signature line.

[Wet Beaver]

Mouse Trick for those over 50 or not gifted with 20-20
This is for everyone over 50 whose eyesight isn't what it was or those with less
than 20-20.

I just found out about this. Thought I'd pass this on. It's very useful when
trying to read small e-mail print (especially in the early hours). If you
hold down the Ctrl key on your key board and turn the small wheel in the
middle of your mouse, the print size will change - it will either get larger
or smaller - depending on which way you turn the wheel.

there suppose to be a wheel on the mouse?? dang what else will they think of next???

[Annie]

Doesn't work on my puter... :( so I guess it really was "Useless Trivia" for me!

Uh Oh! My puter connection went down tonight and when I re-started the modem my homepage font was the size of the small print on the attorney's contract I just signed or perhaps the ingrediant list on a Twinkey! Yes that little wheel and Ctrl button thingy actually does works... on what you won't know till ya re-start?

[Cotties]

The U.S B2 bomber costs 2 billion dollars a plane.

[Annie]

The U.S B2 bomber costs 2 billion dollars a plane.

I'll take two please?

[Cotties]

Is that cash or someones elses credit?I'll take two please?

[Zifnab]

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland

[UltimateNaneki]

Zifnab will tell you something even when you already know it!

[UltimateNaneki]

Ultimate Naneki just loves to flirt!!

[Alonelyboy4u]

Thats not trivia nan That is common knowledge.

Who sings the song my dingaling?
thats trivia.

[Newenglandman]

Who sings the song my dingaling?
thats trivia.

Chuck Berry!!!! ;)

[UltimateNaneki]

Chuck Berry!!!! ;)

Nope I believe it was Dr Hook!:sc

[Newenglandman]

Nope I believe it was Dr Hook!:sc

Nope, sorry.... It was Chuck Berry in 1972 and was his only US number 1 single on the pop charts. Dr. Hook hmmmm.... I will reserve comment on them...