SO YOU DO?

What About these things.......apologies if you've heard them before :)

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
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, I KNOW you're going to check 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).
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:
"abstemious" and "facetious."
(Yes, admit it, you're saying ...... 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 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. (but who really cares?)
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
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 could do this too.)
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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.

Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
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.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
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 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

THERE!....Now you DO know everything!

Bl**dy Hell, I've never classed myself as A KNOW IT ALL, But now I can honestly say I was thick, But not any more thanks to Missie.

Why do I feel the need to check some of these? Such as :

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

I found this site, where it states categorically "Sharks don't blink. They have upper and lower eyelids, but these lids don't move and don't close over the eye."
Now I'm confused! :o

Ooooh I loooove this!!! :D thanks for posting it :D
Its going to bug me all day but Im sure I can find something to rhyme with purple!!

eeey,you have to get up pretty early to catch JG out!..in fact you have to stay up all night! ;)
well done!

>>Its going to bug me all day but Im sure I can find something to rhyme with purple!!<<

Turtle???

No, 'turtle' would rhyme with 'purtle', not 'purple'.

Nictitating membrane
A thin, tough membrane, or inner eyelid present in the eyes of many sharks. It can be drawn across the eye to protect if it from damage.

Maybe it doesn't actually blink, like we do, but possibly the only fish to have the ability to 'close' both eyes with an inner eyelid?  There and I've just learnt something else :)

Most fish don't have any eyelids at all, so I guess it's a start!

I love research - you learn so much other stuff along the way! :D

:P and me JG, and I'm just waiting to find out what wurple means :D

There are some extraordinary uses of wurple when you google!

oooooh Im off to 'google' now *giggles naughtily* do I need to switch parental controls on?

Did it!!!!!! :D :D
Found something that rhymes with Purple:
The Wurzles sang a song Wurple-diddle-i-do!!! :D
anyone frm Somerset way clarify its colloqueal (sp!) meaning??
there's also a wurple dot com, can that count?

Wurple?? :P :P

Wurple Haven't you heard of Wurple the purple bear who used to be Rob's, that lives on a shelf under the television ? :D :D

http://amanda.dd.com.au/stories/roarelka/tedfiles/profiles/wurple.html

:rolleyes: Oh yes of course.

never heard of him

:P :P

ROFL :D @ google 'Purple wurple'
I must start using Google now,I just use my A.O.hell search as Google always scared me with its 'Feeling lucky' button..Im never lucky..and never dared press it :rolleyes:

I just found that one :P :P

What is the feeling lucky button for??

>What is the feeling lucky button for??

It takes you to the first site that come up on a search ;)

aaaaah!! I might dare to try it now I know :D
I thought a big poof of smoke would come out of the pc and a message would say "sorry you were unlucky" then the screen would go blank!!! :D :rolleyes:

LOL! :D :D :D

AWWW I was enjoying that until these

"A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is)"

ER - a dragon fly can live for a few months and most of them live for at least a few weeks look
HERE  :D :D

A Goldfish has much more memory than a few seconds
RESEARCH HERE and pleasurable things like feeding favourite foods can be remembered for much longer ;) :) with the Goldfish I kept, they would get excited when they saw the yellow box of bloodworm (their favourite treat) even tho they only saw it at most once a week ;)  I would put the box of food in front of the tank and walk away so they weren't then expecting me to feed them ;) but they'd still hang by the box and keep rushing to check the water surface, just in case some bloodworm jumped in :D :D (well, I didn't say they were geniuses now did I ? LOL :D :D :D )

Indeed it does and for some added fun try doing a 'feeling lucky' on "french military victories" :D (I think someone may have already posted this on here)

Steve

>   >What is the feeling lucky button for??

>It takes you to the first site that come up on a search ;-)

Indeed it does and for some added fun try doing a 'feeling lucky' on "french military victories" :D (I think someone may have already posted this on here)

Steve

Google's great! I must admit I was surprised at the result of googling March 20th ...

ROFL!!!!!

Blimey :D :D :D

LMAO :P :D

psst...don't let hubby see that one

Already in OH's diary :rolleyes: :D

Won't be marking that one on the kitchen calendar