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Strange but true!!

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:00 pm
by odin2
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

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

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.


The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!


Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.


Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.


Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.


To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.


In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".


A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded


The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.


Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.


Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.



People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.


It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.



The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.


If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.



111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321


American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.


The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.






Yep, I have no life.... :(



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Re: Strange but true!!

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:05 pm
by JJ Burke
odin2 wrote:A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
what a terrible thing to be completely amused by. i am wretched

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:15 pm
by odin2
Hey, I said I have no life...

Re: Strange but true!!

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:19 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
JJ Burke wrote:what a terrible thing to be completely amused by. i am wretched
It's particularly admired by those of us who are married.

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:10 pm
by Eternities End
odin2 wrote:Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
Fucking Gross! :oops:
odin2 wrote:Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
That happened to me once...Life in the Horsehead Nebula my ass!

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:09 pm
by Jesus Prime
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
So do "My faxed joke won a pager in the cable TV quiz show" and "Back in June we delivered oxygen equipment of the same size". It's called a pangram.

Also, I found this interesting. Looks up Euhler's identity while you're at it.

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:59 pm
by Aleister
Interesting stuff :)

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:21 am
by decadence

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:24 am
by Eternities End
Since Christopher Daniel Gay...
Pfffftt...What kind of name is that

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:31 am
by Jesus Prime
My guess is that it's Gay.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:50 pm
by Eternities End
No...just unrealistic

Re: Strange but true!!

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:40 am
by Yog-Sothoth
Allow me to correct you, Odin, my boy:
odin2 wrote:Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
True.

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
Bull, more like 1

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
True

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
No

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
Not True

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
True

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
Bull

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
Tried it once, Didnt work, now i have a PVC leg.

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
Actually, its "Good Finger Licks"


A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
True

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
True

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
More time than that


Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
True


People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
Bull Shit

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Bull, ive seen Pigs look up to the sky.


The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Thats an opinion

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
No.


111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
3/0=

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Bull

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Not true




Yep, I have no life.... :(
You're damn right.



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Re: Strange but true!!

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:47 am
by JJ Burke
odin2 wrote:jj burke is awesome
Yog-Sothoth wrote:i agree
Jesus Prime wrote:you're both right. when you're a moderator, you have to know these things

Re: Strange but true!!

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:14 am
by Jesus Prime
JJ Burke wrote:
odin2 wrote:jj burke is awesome
Yog-Sothoth wrote:i agree
Jesus Prime wrote:you're both right. when you're a moderator, you have to know these things
Having looked through all of my past posts, I can safely say I didn't say that. :P

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:30 am
by Eternities End
Bullshit you didn't why would JJ lie?