Silly Smiles

[Markinsa]

[moose 57]

 

h.a.n.d.

[RodandStaff]

4 hours ago, moose 57 said:

 

h.a.n.d.

Oh that’s just udderly  wrong!!! 

[nstoolman1]

That is stretching things a bit. 

Edited April 24, 2018 by nstoolman1

[moose 57]

 

h.a.n.d.

[moose 57]

 

h.a.n.d.

[RodandStaff]

Not a fan of Mr. West...but this is too true!!! 

[RodandStaff]

Amazin'!!!! 

[RodandStaff]

Giving away my age again!!! 

[RodandStaff]

I'm sure some younger parents can relate to this one!!! 

[RodandStaff]

I'm glad they cleared that one up!!! 

[RodandStaff]

[RodandStaff]

[RodandStaff]

[RodandStaff]

The Zombie Apocalypse is here!!! 

[RodandStaff]

[moose 57]

 

h.a.n.d.

[Muleslayer]

We have only enough blood for one head at a time!        ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

Edited April 29, 2018 by Muleslayer
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[moose 57]

 

h.a.n.d.

[Markinsa]

33 minutes ago, moose 57 said:

 

h.a.n.d.

 

1,000's of Uni Corns

[RodandStaff]

5 hours ago, Markinsa said:

 

1,000's of Uni Corns

I believe that would be a team of or herd of Unicorns...but I’m not sure, as no one has seen that many in a long, long time!  🦄

Edited April 29, 2018 by RodandStaff

[Muleslayer]

I believe a group of unicorns is referenced to as a “blessing”

‘go figure!

it MUST be true! I read it on the internet!

Ms Google says so!

http://www.totallyuselessknowledge.com/natural.php

 

[Markinsa]

1 hour ago, Muleslayer said:

I believe a group of unicorns is referenced to as a “blessing”

‘go figure!

it MUST be true! I read it on the internet!

Ms Google says so!

http://www.totallyuselessknowledge.com/natural.php

 

 

Let's look at that list. 

 

Have you ever looked at an animal and said, "How in the world does that thing do that?" Well, here are a few answers to those kinds of questions.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. Once a bull has impregnated a cow, it will never impregnate that same cow again. So once a bull has had his way with your herd, he is useless. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike. Mountain goats can walk almost straight up a cliff due to a supple pad on each cloven hoof. These pads have extremely soft centers. When the animal puts its foot down, each pad works like a powerful suction cup, enabling the wild goat to appear to defy gravity. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth. The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. Camel's milk does not curdle. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. If NASA sent birds into space (inside a space capsule, that is), they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. [Who figured this out?!] Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly. Reindeer like to eat bananas. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament. No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular All porcupines float in water. The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average. You can tell a girl crab from a boy crab by their stomachs. A girl has a beehive and a boy has a lighthouse. The pH of cow's milk is 6. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny. The Dalmatian is the only dog that gets gout. You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked. The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet. Kiwi birds are the only birds with their nostrils at the end of their beak rather than the top. All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone. Giraffes have no vocal chords. A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse. When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract it's claws. Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene. Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. Polar bears are left-handed. You can hold the mouth of an alligator shut with two fingers, but if you put a clenched fist in its mouth when it bites down it will break every bone in your hand. The platapus and the Echidna are the only mammals that don't give live birth. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

[Markinsa]

Weird History Stuff
These are facts of events that happened in the past that have caused us to do certain things without even knowing why we do them. There are also some random things about the history of certain people. (like you couldn't figure that out)
Abraham Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate white snakeroot and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk. The city of St. Petersburg, Russia, was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, hence the name, St. Petersburg. But it wasn't always that simple. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Russian leaders felt that Petersburg was too German-sounding. So they changed the name of the city to Petrograd -- to make it more Russian-sounding. Then, in 1924, the country's Soviet Communist leaders wanted to honor the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir I. Lenin. The city of Petrograd became Leningrad and was known as Leningrad until 1991 when the new Russian legislators -- no longer Soviet Communists -- wanted the city to reflect their change of government, so they changed the name back to St. Petersburg. While she never lived further west than Ohio, Annie Oakley enjoyed much earned fame as an expert shotgun and rifle marksman in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In times before the use of indoor plumbing, large segments of the population were illiterate, so the words "Men" or "Women" on an outhouse door to differentiate between the two was pointless. Therefore, simple commonly recognized symbols, the half-moon and the star, came to represent male and female outhouses, respectively. For some reason, the half or crescent moon remains the traditional decorative symbol of outhouse doors. The Ancient Egyptians regarded the dung beetle as sacred, and many would wear figures of these insects as charms April Fools Day started in France after the adoption of a reformed calender by Charles IX in 1564. Up till that time, New Year celebration began March 21 and ended April 1. When New Year's was changed, some people still celebrated on April 1. These people became known as "April Fools." John Dillinger once broke out of a federal prison by making a fake gun out of soap. He carved the gun with a plastic spoon he stole from the cafeteria and used shoe polish to paint it black. The guard, thinking that the soap gun was real, gave Dillinger his own gun which he knew was loaded. Dillinger was then escorted by this guard out of the prison. The army's jeep was not always called that. Instead it was called a general purpose vehicle. It was then shortened to GP (jeep), and the car company just started to manufacture the general purposes vehicles under the name "Jeep." The custom of offering up a salutation before drinking came from the ancient Roman practice of dropping a small square of toast into an alcoholic beverage to soak up any remaining sediments before drinking. The salutation was given while the bread did its work. Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 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." Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England used the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y". Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott". The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute. The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him. Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out. Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1. The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation. Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius). The word "zzzzzzzzz" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead". Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died. Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortened to Sheriff. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight. "Testify" comes from the the Roman practice of affirming the truth of a statement made in court by swearing on one's testicles. Coca-Cola was once packaged in green bottles, but was never actually tinted green. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

[Muleslayer]

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

 

reminds me of a story my father told me about me going to the dance with dad and went home with mom!

hmm