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(Message started by: ClusterChuck on Apr 29th, 2007, 6:43am)
Title: DO you know everything?
Post by ClusterChuck on Apr 29th, 2007, 6:43am
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?


"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.   (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".  (Are you doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.    (You're not doubting this, are you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say . a e i o u)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is)

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.! )

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you are closer to knowing everything!
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Apr 29th, 2007, 7:38am
Things that make ya go 'hmmmmmm'


Carol
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by BB on Apr 29th, 2007, 8:01am

on 04/29/07 at 06:43:46, ClusterChuck wrote:
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?


Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.



That explains a lot! Thanks,  I have always wondered why JeffB looks like that !  8)



on 04/29/07 at 06:43:46, ClusterChuck wrote:
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.



Husbands?



on 04/29/07 at 06:43:46, ClusterChuck wrote:
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that)



The washing machine was invented by his wife after he kept doing it. ( Good thing she did that ).



on 04/29/07 at 06:43:46, ClusterChuck wrote:
There are more chickens than people in the world.



There are more people in the world who are chickens than the chickens of the world.


8) ;) ;;D


Annette
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by zwibbs/Scott on Apr 29th, 2007, 9:48am
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Where's the letter "H"
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by BarbaraD on Apr 29th, 2007, 12:12pm
Try the word "the"  

gotcha... ;;D

Hugs BD


P. S. See Chuck does KNOW everything... :-/
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by chewy on Apr 29th, 2007, 12:16pm

Quote:
Where's the letter "H"


Between the "T" and the "E" in the very first word.

Nap time?
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by zwibbs/Scott on Apr 29th, 2007, 1:14pm
It's nap time for me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P :P
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by davyp on Apr 29th, 2007, 2:15pm

on 04/29/07 at 06:43:46, ClusterChuck wrote:
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?


NO but i know a few women who think they do  ;;D

Dape  ;;D
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by sandie99 on Apr 30th, 2007, 2:35am
I believe that I know everything I need to know at the time and then I'll learn some more. ;)

Sanna
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by deltadarlin on Apr 30th, 2007, 9:11am
OF course, I know everything, I'm a mother (fwiw, should for some unseen reason, I don't know something, it's irrelevant to life anyway  ::) ).
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by aprilbee on Apr 30th, 2007, 9:40am
Cool.... :D

being a wife and a mother, I must admit I already know all that stuff!! along with everything else of course!  ;;D
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by JeffB on Apr 30th, 2007, 12:42pm
There were no ponies in the pony express.

Constipation kills more fruit flies than anyother ailment

It takes 3,300 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs

Thirty-five percent of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter was "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

Disturbing Fact: More than 2.2 million people play the accordian.

"Pigmy" refers to "any human group whose males are less than 4'11" in average height."

Worldwide, there are 8,500 chapters of the Barbie Dan Club. Oops, sorry Chewy....8,501. ;;D

Mahatma Gandhi is burried in California.

The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the U.S.

I learned these fact and many more while taking craps. ;;D

The Hundred year war last 116 years.

There are 364 gifts in "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific. ( I think Helen has something to do with that one!
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by LeLimey on Apr 30th, 2007, 12:45pm
Jeff you are quite right, I am responsible for the Atlantic being saltier than the Pacific and its because of you....





Everyone knows salt stops slugs in their tracks - I'm keeping England safe  :P (love ya really!)
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by JeffB on Apr 30th, 2007, 12:56pm
I thought it was because you spit instead of swallow! ;)
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by LeLimey on Apr 30th, 2007, 12:58pm
Wouldn't you like to know?!  ;)
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by Melissa on Apr 30th, 2007, 1:08pm

on 04/30/07 at 12:42:55, JeffB wrote:
Constipation kills more fruit flies than anyother ailment

I didn't know fruit flies get constipated!
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by JeffB on Apr 30th, 2007, 1:08pm
[smiley=mellow.gif], I tried callin, your number was no good. What up woman??

We'll coordintae something later??? I gotta take a nap, been at Duke Hospital since this a.m.
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by JeffB on Apr 30th, 2007, 1:10pm

on 04/30/07 at 13:08:06, Melissa wrote:
I didn't know fruit flies get constipated!



Neither did I, Melly.

Me and the fly must be eating the same shit! [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by Rosybabe on Apr 30th, 2007, 1:11pm

on 04/30/07 at 13:08:06, Melissa wrote:
I didn't know fruit flies get constipated!


[smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by Rosybabe on Apr 30th, 2007, 1:12pm

on 04/30/07 at 13:10:48, JeffB wrote:
Neither did I, Melly.

Me and the fly must be eating the same shit! [smiley=laugh.gif]


[smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]
and then some more...
[smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by Kevin_M on Apr 30th, 2007, 6:47pm

on 04/29/07 at 06:43:46, ClusterChuck wrote:
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.   (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)


Left hand: stewardesses, along with desegregated and reverberated.

Right hand: lollipop, eight letters is not the longest.  Homophony, pollinium, and polyphony are nine letters.




Quote:
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)


Not correct, but not a common word, rupturewort is eleven letters.

Umbelliferone can be used as a fluorescence indicator for metal ions such as copper and calcium. It acts as a pH indicator in the range 6.5-8.9.  methylumbelliferone (7-methoxycoumarin) occurs in the leaves of water hemp (Eupatorium ayapana) and rupturewort.

rupturewort, a plant believed to cure hernia.


(best I could find using only the middle row was alfalfa)





Quote:
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.    (You're not doubting this, are you?)


Just going through the letter "A", these can be found too.

arthropodous: adj. of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda

apodous:  (ap'u-dus), adj. apodal, having no distinct feet or footlike members.

three more, but noted to be outdated.

anarthropodous: Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda. (outdated)

amphipodous: Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda. (outdated)

annelidous:  Of the nature of an annelid. (outdated)




Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by Paul98 on Apr 30th, 2007, 7:01pm
What does a fruit fly take when constipated?  Rough situation to be in.  LOL

-P.
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by alienspacebabe on Apr 30th, 2007, 7:16pm
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH is the longest placename in the world - a town in North Wales meaning "St. Mary's Church.

There are only two four-letter alphabetical sequences found in English:  RSTI (overstuff, understuff, understudy....) and MNOP (gymnoplast, cremnophobia....)

The longest word with the five vowels in alphabetical order is phragelliorhynchus (scientific term - a protozoan)
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by Rosybabe on Apr 30th, 2007, 8:07pm

on 04/30/07 at 19:01:22, Paul98 wrote:
What does a fruit fly take when constipated?  Rough situation to be in.  LOL

-P.



PRUNES????
Title: Re: DO you know everything?
Post by JeffB on Apr 30th, 2007, 9:02pm

on 04/30/07 at 18:47:14, Kevin_M wrote:
Left hand: stewardesses, along with desegregated and reverberated.

Right hand: lollipop, eight letters is not the longest.  Homophony, pollinium, and polyphony are nine letters.




Not correct, but not a common word, rupturewort is eleven letters.

Umbelliferone can be used as a fluorescence indicator for metal ions such as copper and calcium. It acts as a pH indicator in the range 6.5-8.9.  methylumbelliferone (7-methoxycoumarin) occurs in the leaves of water hemp (Eupatorium ayapana) and rupturewort.

rupturewort, a plant believed to cure hernia.


(best I could find using only the middle row was alfalfa)





Just going through the letter "A", these can be found too.

arthropodous: adj. of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda

apodous:  (ap'u-dus), adj. apodal, having no distinct feet or footlike members.

three more, but noted to be outdated.

anarthropodous: Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda. (outdated)

amphipodous: Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda. (outdated)

annelidous:  Of the nature of an annelid. (outdated)





Mental note to self: Buy Kevin a friggin Playboy!


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