Some Uninteresting But Totally Useless Information #2

[moose 57]

1. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

2. Pearls melt in vinegar

3. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's
supply of footballs.

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

5. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: MARLBORO, COCA-COLA,
and BUDWEISER, in that order

6. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs. . .but not downstairs.

7. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of
their hands.

8. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of
vodka.

9. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. uses every
letter in the alphabet. ( Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two
communications)

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

11. Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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

13. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

14. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

15. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why

16. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore
when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the
ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

17. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." ( thus the
name of the Don McLean song)

18. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

19. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

20. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "To get
fired."

 

 

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month
after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the
mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar
was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we
know today as the "honeymoon."
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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England,
when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their
own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind
your P's and Q's."

 

[umbertino]

Interesting. Grazie.

[puckster_guy]

I agree with Bert very interesting and not totally useless. These are the kind of posts I enjoy reading now.....Tired of what passes for "news" here. ty for the post.

[SnowGlobe7]

Keep em coming puckster!!!

[puckster_guy]

ty snowglobe you da best.

[eastcreek]

1. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

2. Pearls melt in vinegar

3. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's

supply of footballs.

4. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are

already married.

5. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: MARLBORO, COCA-COLA,

and BUDWEISER, in that order

6. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs. . .but not downstairs.

7. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of

their hands.

8. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of

vodka.

9. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. uses every

letter in the alphabet. ( Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two

communications)

10. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is

uncopyrightable.

11. Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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

and purple.

13. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

14. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

15. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why

16. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore

when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the

ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

17. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." ( thus the

name of the Don McLean song)

18. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

Spades - King David

Clubs - Alexander the Great

Hearts - Charlemagne

Diamonds - Julius Caesar

19. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

20. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without

killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "To get

fired."

 

 

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month

after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the

mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar

was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we

know today as the "honeymoon."*

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England,

when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their

own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind

your P's and Q's."

Hey moose, in reference to #12, you haven't listened to Lou Holtz speak, have you? :-)

[RONIN II]

Thanks moose...nice read.

[Wiljor]

Refreshing read Moose, much appreciated.

[Pablo404]

Best news of the day! Just the facts.

[The Machine]

good one ... keep them coming

[WorkerBee]

I typed stewardesses twice, just to make sure my right hand didn't slip in there.