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wheelsofcheese
Knowflake Posts: 1561
From: UK
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted December 10, 2008 08:57 AM
 
That the word "carrot" in Welsh is "moron".
 Tell us something we didn't know. Good luck to you on this because I truly know it all.  IP: Logged |
Eleanore
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From: Japan
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posted December 10, 2008 09:24 AM
Joseph F. Glidden of Illinois invented barbed wire (patented 1874).Ah, the ever useful facts remembered from HS. IP: Logged |
blue moon
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posted December 10, 2008 09:27 AM
Bet you didn't know that I knew the Welsh word for carrots because my mother has tablemats with Welsh words translated into English. Something to read when the conversation gets slack. Did you know the most children born to one woman was 69? my FIL loved this quirky little fact, and laughed even harder when his wife wanted to know why it was so amusing. IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
Knowflake Posts: 1561
From: UK
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posted December 10, 2008 09:43 AM
How do you explain the fact that Mr BM gets a placemat with "arsehole" on it then BM? That's not Welsh for "cabbage" you know.IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
Knowflake Posts: 1561
From: UK
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted December 10, 2008 09:45 AM
*is cracking self up*No I did not know that about barbed wire Eleanore.  Did you know that you should never eat a polar bear's liver? Too much Vitamin A. *was avid reader of the SAS Survival Handbook as a child* IP: Logged |
Node
Knowflake Posts: 1181
From: Crowded House
Registered: Nov 2005
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posted December 10, 2008 10:08 AM
random....A rat can last longer without water than a camel. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who
discovered this??) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in
the USA." (questionable wiki says different) The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 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. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from public libraries. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave! animals do the strangest things, who knew bats were left winged?
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wheelsofcheese
Knowflake Posts: 1561
From: UK
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted December 10, 2008 10:20 AM
Node, I feel sorry for the lady ferrets man!  IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
Knowflake Posts: 1561
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posted December 10, 2008 10:27 AM
I bet you didn't know that my nasal hair seems to be making a break for freedom across my own face. I bet you didn't know that. Neither did I til today. It was a shock. IP: Logged |
LEXX
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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted December 10, 2008 01:24 PM
Cool thread!  quote:
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver
I beg to differ!
It is a common myth that nothing rhymes with the above words. However, each has a least one rhyme:orange
rhymes with Blorenge, a hill in Wales, and Gorringe (a family name), and "sporange" (a term in microbiology).
Also the phrase word "door hinge". purple
rhymes with curple (the hindquarters of a horse) and hirple (to walk with a limp) silver
rhymes with chilver, a female lamb, and the given name Wilver.
Also cilver, Filver, and Hilver.(place names and or archaisms) ------------------
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain. IP: Logged |
zenwarner
Knowflake Posts: 559
From: tx, usa
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted December 10, 2008 04:55 PM
Wheelsofcheese,
you crack me up.IP: Logged |
AcousticGod
Knowflake Posts: 13962
From: CA, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted December 10, 2008 06:21 PM
According to Ricky Gervais (on the Daily Show awhile back) a cow can walk upstairs but not downstairs.IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
Knowflake Posts: 1561
From: UK
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted December 11, 2008 08:00 AM
I bet you didn't know Lexx, that my one and only attempt to buy a house was one located next to the Blorenge. I paid nearly £400 to have a full survey which told me that it was built over a mineshaft and would likely be at the bottom of it sometime soon! Ahhh..Zenwarner, so do you! IP: Logged |
Eleanore
Moderator Posts: 2944
From: Japan
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posted December 11, 2008 08:15 AM
Did you know that no matter which direction Mickey Mouse is facing (in a cartoon), his ears always point forward (to the viewer)?IP: Logged |
zenwarner
Knowflake Posts: 559
From: tx, usa
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted December 11, 2008 08:23 AM
santas with real beards can make up to 120 dollars an hourIP: Logged |
deuxantares
Knowflake Posts: 1231
From: Meet Me in Sofia
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted December 11, 2008 08:50 AM
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.) Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life.... quality over quantity!) IP: Logged |
fieryscales
Moderator Posts: 1150
From: My own private world
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted December 11, 2008 09:16 AM
An orgasm for 30 minutes? WOW! Why can't people born in the Year of the Pig orgasm for 30 minutes? LOL...IP: Logged |
Node
Knowflake Posts: 1181
From: Crowded House
Registered: Nov 2005
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posted December 11, 2008 09:35 AM
things to do tonight....- buy bottle of champagne
- check raisins
- rent a copy of Babe - piggy inspiration?
- do a comb over nasal hairs
- respect myself in the morning.
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ghanima81
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From: MAINE! :)
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted December 11, 2008 09:44 AM
Thank you for saving my day, Wheels! Laughter is the best medicine... Oh, and those nose hairs do seem to creep up on ya. One day, normal cute nose... Next day, Davey Jones' tentacles trying to make love to your lips.. I don't think I know anything that somebody else doesn't know, so I will have to look into it.. Thanks LL, for making me smile for the first time today!  IP: Logged |
bunnies
Knowflake Posts: 615
From: U.K
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted December 11, 2008 11:49 AM
Whilst walking in the hills of Blorenge
I sat down for a rest and an orange
When through a faint mist of purple and silver
I saw what is commonly known as a chilverGrazing next to a horse with a most painful hirple
Cos he was sporting a bloody great boil on his curple. Anon No words that rhyme? Have you not heard of that great poem "The Purple Hills of Blorenge"?
A literary masterpiece. IP: Logged |
LEXX
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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
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posted December 11, 2008 10:01 PM
bunnies!
Your poem is fabulous! wheelsofcheese!
Thanks for verifying Blorenge is a real place! deuxantares! True and too funny! ------------------
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LEXX
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posted December 11, 2008 10:06 PM
bunnies!
Your poem is fabulous! Did you write it? wheelsofcheese!
Thanks for verifying Blorenge is a real place! deuxantares! True and too funny! ------------------
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bunnies
Knowflake Posts: 615
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Registered: Mar 2007
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posted December 12, 2008 03:24 AM
Of course I wrote it LEXX....it took three minutes (could you not see the complete lack of.....of.....anything!) and will no doubt be consigned to the literary dumpster where it belongs!!!But thank you for your kind words!
Wouldn't it be funny if it turned up in a poetry book 100 years hence!
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LEXX
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posted December 12, 2008 07:22 AM
I still find your poem really funny! and clever too!
Thanks for posting it! quote:
Wouldn't it be funny if it turned up in a poetry book 100 years hence!
OK...if you do not mind me using it, it could show up in a book sooner, as I am working on a word play chapter in a book I am working on.  ------------------
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bunnies
Knowflake Posts: 615
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Registered: Mar 2007
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posted December 12, 2008 08:20 AM
Well LEXX to add to my comprehensive repertoire of "Skills that are absolutely of no use in the real world" is my ability to make a poem up about anything at all in 5 mins flat.
So any time!!!IP: Logged |
LEXX
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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
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posted December 12, 2008 03:44 PM
bunnies
It all depends on what you deem absolutely useless in the real world.
Making up silly poems was a thing my siblings and I did for amusement as we did not have television or a telephone.
Like Dr.Seuss, silly word play can be fun for children and adults!
And it does take talent as not everyone is able to easily bounce out quickly a poem/rhyme of any kind.
Yours was silly but it actually made sense!
I could actually picture you sitting and resting on a hill in Blorenge, watching a female lamb gambol and seeing a lame old horse limping about.
And whilst you were peeling and munching on an orange to boot! ------------------
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