Trivia Du Jour

[bearkat77]

How about a little piece of trivia each day to enlighten everyone's minds. We'll post a different trivia fact each day and see what happens from there. Here's the first:

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

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[This message has been edited by bearkat77 (edited April 14, 2001 at 09:00 AM).]

[mindgames]

Hmm. That's funny. I thought that the woman couldn't initiate a divorce under any circumstances in Muslim countries. I stand corrected. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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This week, the Beatles' greatest hits album, "1", is at number twenty-six on the USA album charts.

[HMVNipper]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
How about a little piece of trivia each day to enlighten everyone's minds. We'll post a different trivia fact each day and see what happens from there. Here's the first:

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

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[This message has been edited by bearkat77 (edited April 14, 2001 at 09:00 AM).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, but a Saudi Arabian woman can also get arrested if she tries to drive a car or wants to appear outside unveiled (and "veiled" means FULLY COVERED from head to foot)...don't know if that's much of a tradeoff...http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/rolling.gif


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[mindgames]

No thanks, I'd prefer to see what I'm lusting after. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

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Just to clarify... do we American women types get the same option??? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/joker.gif

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[SleepyHead]

No prob, mindgames, look away... there are literally kajillions of places to "look and lust" on the internet. So I've discovered anyway.

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[mindgames]

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/nono.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/sleep2.gif !

I DON'T dig the hardcore stuff online, I like soft core. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

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[mindgames]

Here's another piece of trivia for another day: The world's first sewer system was built in Byzantium (modern day Istanbul) in the 600s AD.

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[SleepyHead]

Are you bragging again, NWM?? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/monkey.gif

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At least I think they're on the moon... they sure went a long way out of bounds after I hit them... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bigeyes1.gif

[mindgames]

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There are 3 golfballs on the moon. And a lot of holes. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

[bearkat77]

Newest trivia:
The "corpse lily" holds the honor of being the largest flower in the world. Its putrid flowers can weigh as much as fifteen pounds each and measure up to three feet wide. Its petals are an inch thick.

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I read about that one in the Guinness Book of Records, apparenly it's the most vile smelling thing on earth, and flies are the only living thing game enough to go anywhere near it.

[bearkat77]

New trivia fact:
The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour.

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[mindgames]

New trivia fact:
Every US President has worn glasses, but some were too embarassed to wear them in public. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bigeyes2.gif

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Fact: During a life time the average person swallows seven spiders in their sleep.

[jami]

OOOOH WHAAAAT???? I am freaking out!!! Where in the hell did you get this information from?? Oh God! I'm going to tape my mouth shut from now on when I go to sleeep!

[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jami:
OOOOH WHAAAAT???? I am freaking out!!! Where in the hell did you get this information from?? Oh God! I'm going to tape my mouth shut from now on when I go to sleeep!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif Gives a whole new meaning to "Eight Arms To Hold You".

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[bearkat77]

New trivia:
When a colony of birds invades your territory chances are wet weather is approaching. Generally, birds tend to roost more during low-pressure weather systems than during high-pressure weather systems, and low-pressure is a sign that it will rain.

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[FPSHOT]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
Fact: During a life time the average person swallows seven spiders in their sleep. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf3.gifhttp://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf3.gif

OK, this is average. Do you also have the number of the Aussies only ?? Is it also known where in most cases the spiders just came from before entering the mouth ? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/scream1.gifhttp://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/scream1.gif

We in Europe
a) are not average persons http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wave.gif
b) sleep in houses most of the year /our life
c) clean them from time to time




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We're all Apple Scruffs.

[SleepyHead]

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[bearkat77]

And no for some more trivia:
Why are there 360 degrees in a circle? This is the brilliant creation
of the Egyptians. They chose 360 as it matched the number of days in
their solar year.
The sign for degree (that little circle) is actually an ancient symbol
for the sun. The degree was used to measure the distance through the
Zodiac that the sun traveled each day.

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[darkhorse]

Great one... But they didn't know the "0" (zero) as a number. The first ancient civilization to get the concept of zero and incorporate it to their numerical system were the aztecs.

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Love is long, love is long"

[Harbidge]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
Fact: During a life time the average person swallows seven spiders in their sleep. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Actually, it's not in your lifetime, it's an average spider eating year. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf2.gif


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[Harbidge]

Did you know that the common mayfly, only lives for around 24 hours, but in its brief lifespan it makes love approx. 126 times!


That's the mirror opposite of my life!

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[mindgames]

Mayfly's gettin' some, and Harb isn't.

Attaboy, Mayfly!

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[mindgames]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
Fact: During a life time the average person swallows seven spiders in their sleep. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Don't you just hate it when you wake up and you can tell when one has crawled in? Nasty.

Oh, yeah, on average, I swallow about 5 a month. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf1.gif


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[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Harbidge:
Did you know that the common mayfly, only lives for around 24 hours, but in its brief lifespan it makes love approx. 126 times!

That's the mirror opposite of my life!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

So, you've only got 24 chances in 126 years to get it right. I suggest you be pretty picky on whomever you decide on. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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[bearkat77]

In the 1950s, Australian authorities discovered that a strange disease, called by the natives "kuru" (meaning "shivering" or trembling"), was endemic to a particular tribe in the eastern mountain regions of New Guinea. Researchers attempted for years to find the cause of this Parkinson's-like illness, which caused trembling, impaired muscular coordination, and eventually death, but were unable to do so. An American investigator, D. C. Gajdusek, eventually won a Nobel Prize in medicine (in 1976) for isolating a slow-acting virus that infected the victim's brain and caused the disease. The virus was spread by the tribe's use of cannibalism in its burial rituals. Researchers discovered that organs, including the brain (where the virus resided), were cooked and eaten as part of a funeral meal. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf1.gif

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mindgames:
Mayfly's gettin' some, and Harb isn't.

Attaboy, Mayfly!
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Aw, be nice to Harb, maybe he's "saving himself" for that special girl. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

[SleepyHead]

Oh, jeez, I hope so, if it ain't gonna happen but 24 times!!! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bouncing.gif

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[mindgames]

Well, he'd better find that "special girl" in a hurry, it's not good to be 18 and inexperienced. He needs to practice for when he's married. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[SleepyHead]

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[Harbidge]

We're strayin off the topic somewhat here fellas. Less of my private life and more with the shocking facts please.

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

Ok, next shocking fact: Al Gore invented the internet!!!!!!

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[bearkat77]

Yea, right. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/rolleyes.gif And I'm the god of hell-fire. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/fire.gif Watch me burn.

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[bearkat77]

New trivia:
Visitors to Japan should know that August 13 through 16 is a Buddhist event called o-bon in Japan, one of the most important traditions for the Japanese people. It is the period of praying for the peace of the souls of ancestors. The Japanese believe that their ancestors' spirits come back to their homes to be reunited with their family during o-bon. People clean their houses and offer a variety of food such as vegetables and fruits to the spirits of ancestors in front of a butsudan (Buddhist families altar). The butsudan is decorated with flower and chouchin (paper lanterns). On the 13th, the chouchins are lit inside homes, and people go to their family's ohaka (graves) to call their ancestors' spirits back home.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mindgames:
Mayfly's gettin' some, and Harb isn't.

Attaboy, Mayfly!

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Speaking of getting some... Mulai Ismail, the final emperor of Morrocco (1646-1727), fathered at least 867 kids. "At least" because it's safe to assume they lost count after a while!

Another fact: The first time movie audiences were treated to a flushing toilet was in the release of Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho.

Related fact: Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button. It was missing following surgery.

[octopus's garden]

TRUE FACT: http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bouncing.gif
THE BEATLES ROCK!!!!! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/crosseyed2.gif
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[bearkat77]

Anyone hungry?

Christmas trees are edible. Many parts of pines, spruces, and firs can be eaten. The needles are a good source of vitamin C. Pine nuts, or pine cones, are also a good source of nutrition.

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[SleepyHead]

Hmmm, now there's a way to cut down on the cost of Christmas dinner...

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Looks like you'll be cutting down more than just the cost. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/alien1.gif

Fact: The world's three richest people have assets that exceed the combined wealth of the 48 least developed countries, according to a recent United Nations report on global inequality.

[Harbidge]

The toilet was invented by a Mr. Crapper. Can't remember his first name.

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[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Harbidge:
The toilet was invented by a Mr. Crapper. Can't remember his first name.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Believe it or not, his first name was John.

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

Brigham Young had 28 wives.

[Harbidge]

were they related?

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[mindgames]

If they were, I didn't know he was from Kentucky. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

Not sure if they were related but...that's Utah for ya.

[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Harbidge:
were they related?

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Only by marriage. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[bearkat77]

Speaking of being related:

The Barbie doll was named after Barbie Handler, daughter of Ruth Handler, who conceived of the doll. Ruth noticed that her daughter liked to play with adult paper dolls far more than she did her baby dolls. So she designed an adult doll for little girls to dress in different fashions. She based "Barbie" in part on an already-existing European doll named "Bild Lili." The Lili doll was itself based on a rather lewd 1952 Bild Lili cartoon in Germany. Later, Ruth Handler created a male doll to sell alongside Barbie and named it after her son, Ken. Barbie's full name, in case you're interested, is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

So in essence, Barbie and Ken are sister and brother. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

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[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
Speaking of being related:
... Barbie and Ken are sister and brother.

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/cat.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oooh, yucky! That puts a rather grotesque spin on the Barbie plays my sister and I used to have... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf2.gif

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[This message has been edited by SleepyHead (edited April 25, 2001 at 12:25 AM).]

[jami]

Heeehee!!! Yeah, same for me, Sleepy!

[Harbidge]

Now I've heard it all. Dolly incest!

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
Speaking of being related:
The Barbie doll was named after Barbie Handler, daughter of Ruth Handler, who conceived of the doll.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

What the hell?? I just learned the other day that the guy who invented Barbie was the husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor. Now I'm all dazed and confused!

[Eleanor_rigby]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
Speaking of being related:


So in essence, Barbie and Ken are sister and brother. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

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<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I knew it! I knew! When I was little I was never a Barbie fan! I knew something was wrong! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/braintumor.gif

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Gotta visit THE site!
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"Give us a Kiss"
"All you need is Love...Love is all you need."

[bearkat77]

Moving on:

I am NOT an animal expert.... so I am not 100% sure of these facts... just thought this was too cute not to pass on to others.

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, Male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid December. Female reindeer retain their antlers til after they give birth in the spring.
Therefore, according to every historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer, every single one of them, from Rudolf to Blitzen........had to be a girl.

We should've known that when they were able to find their way. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[mindgames]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 4thGenFan:
What the hell?? I just learned the other day that the guy who invented Barbie was the husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor. Now I'm all dazed and confused!

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Cheech? Is it you?


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[Eleanor_rigby]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:

We should've known that when they were able to find their way. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif
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Gotta visit THE site!
eleanor_rigby_97@hotmail.com

"Give us a Kiss"
"All you need is Love...Love is all you need."

[bearkat77]

Not too many of the younger members here will know whom I speak of, but it is still rather odd about this trivia.

Irving Berlin was prolific, writing more than 900 songs, 19 musicals, and the scores of 18 movies. Some of his songs that have become beloved classics include "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Easter Parade," and "White Christmas."
And even more amazing, Irving Berlin never learned to read music or to write it. He hummed or sang his songs to a secretary, who wrote them down in musical notation.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Harbidge:
The toilet was invented by a Mr. Crapper. Can't remember his first name.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
Believe it or not, his first name was John.

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<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Actually, his name was Thomas. Crapper was indeed a successful plumber in England from 1861 to 1904, and he was also a successful inventor. A total of nine patents were awarded him, four for improvements to drains, three for water closets, one for manhole covers, and the last for pipe joints. However, none of Crapper's patent applications ever had anything to do with the "flush toilet."

The "Silent Valveless Water Waste Preventer" was a symphonic discharge system that allowed a toilet to flush effectively when the cistern was only half full. It is true that this device revolutionised the "flush toilet" industry. However, British Patent 4990 for 1898 was issued to a Mr. Albert Giblin, not to Thomas Crapper.

The most likely scenario as to how Crapper became associated with the invention is that he bought the patent rights from Giblin and marketed the device himself.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

NWM, I can't decide if I'm totally impressed...or just really worried that you know so much about the toilet! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

[bearkat77]

He must spend a lot of time there. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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[mindgames]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
Not too many of the younger members here will know whom I speak of, but it is still rather odd about this trivia.

Irving Berlin was prolific, writing more than 900 songs, 19 musicals, and the scores of 18 movies. Some of his songs that have become beloved classics include "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Easter Parade," and "White Christmas."
And even more amazing, Irving Berlin never learned to read music or to write it. He hummed or sang his songs to a secretary, who wrote them down in musical notation.

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<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

O yea of little faith, I know exactly of whom you speak (or type). He's a great songwriter, up there with Ringo on the list. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif



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[bearkat77]

People who ran illegal dice games in England three centuries ago weren't taking any chance on going to jail. They employed a man whose sole job was to swallow the dice in the event of a raid. Maybe that's why they called playing dice "shooting cr***," uh, never mind.

The ancient Greeks made dice from the shoulder blades of sheep. Losers in crooked dice games might thus truly feel that they had been fleeced.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
He must spend a lot of time there. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif


<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hey, I know my sh*t. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

FACTS...

In the course of a lifetime, the average person will:

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>Live for 78 years and have 2 children and 4 grandchildren
<LI>Sleep for 26 years of that time http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/sleep1.gif
<LI>Work for 8 years http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/crosseyed4.gif
<LI>Spend 3 and a half years eating
<LI>Eat 7300 eggs and 159kg (351lbs) of chocolate
<LI>Breath enough air to inflate 3.5 million balloons by the age of 21
<LI>Grow 26m (85ft 4in) of fingernails and 724km (450 miles) of hair on their head http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afro.gif
<LI>Grow 2m (6ft 7in) of nasal hair and shed 19.5kg (43lbs) of dead skin
<LI>Kiss for 2 weeks http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/lips2.gif
<LI>Have sex more than 2500 times http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/eyebrows.gif
<LI>Have sex with 5 different people and fall in love twice http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/inlove2.gif
<LI>Be able to name 2000 people and call 150 of them friends
<LI>Talk for 12 years http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/scream2.gif
<LI>Talk on the phone for 2 and a half years
<LI>Spend more than 6 months on the toilet
<LI>Produce 200 billion new red blood cells every day
[/list]

[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
FACTS...

In the course of a lifetime, the average person will:

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>Spend more than 6 months on the toilet
[/list]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ummm, d'ye need some Kaopectate, dearie?? Or maybe some Ex-lax?? You seem to be rahther preoccupied with the "crapper", dahling! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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Oh you know me, either always engaged or full of ****.

[SleepyHead]

Mighta thunk it, wouldn'ta put quite that way! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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[Eleanor_rigby]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
FACTS...

In the course of a lifetime, the average person will:

<LI>Talk for 12 years http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/scream2.gif

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm not average there...I've probably talked more than that already!

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[This message has been edited by Eleanor_rigby (edited April 28, 2001 at 01:09 PM).]

[darkhorse]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
FACTS...
In the course of a lifetime, the average person will:
<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>Live for 78 years and have 2 children and 4 grandchildren
<LI>Sleep for 26 years of that time
<LI>Work for 8 years
<LI>Spend 3 and a half years eating
<LI>Eat 7300 eggs and 159kg (351lbs) of chocolate
<LI>Breath enough air to inflate 3.5 million balloons by the age of 21
<LI>Grow 26m (85ft 4in) of fingernails and 724km (450 miles) of hair on their head
<LI>Grow 2m (6ft 7in) of nasal hair and shed 19.5kg (43lbs) of dead skin
<LI>Kiss for 2 weeks
<LI>Have sex more than 2500 times
<LI>Have sex with 5 different people and fall in love twice
<LI>Be able to name 2000 people and call 150 of them friends
<LI>Talk for 12 years
<LI>Talk on the phone for 2 and a half years
<LI>Spend more than 6 months on the toilet
<LI>Produce 200 billion new red blood cells every day
[/list]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Just out of curiosity, that list comes from personal experience, doesn't it? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/confused.gif



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I can't answer personally as I haven't quite lived that long, though maybe some of the older members on this board can. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

[Eleanor_rigby]

eeewwwww, that wasn't nice. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif
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Gotta be cruel to be kind. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
FACTS...

In the course of a lifetime, the average person will:

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>Eat 7300 eggs and 159kg (351lbs) of chocolate
[/list]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, I think I've surpassed my amount of chocolate sometime back in 1974. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bouncing.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/psycho.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid1.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

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They say that chocolate, because of its similar ingredients, has the ability to get you as high as cocaine does... though to achieve the same effect you'd have to eat about 15kg (33lbs) of it in one sitting. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bouncing.gif

[mindgames]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
FACTS...
<LI>Have sex with 5 different people <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/shocked.gif I'm over halfway to my quota!!!!!!!



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[bearkat77]

Were there female gladiators? It looks like there were. The remains of what is believed to have been a female gladiator were recently uncovered in a Roman graveyard in London. The woman, who died while still in her twenties, was buried with ceramics, including a dish decorated with a fallen gladiator and other vessels adorned with symbols associated with gladiators. According to Jenny Hall, curator of early London history at the London museum, it is "70 percent probable" that the woman was a gladiator. There is other evidence supporting female gladiators as well. An inscription in Pompeii refers to women in the arena and a second-century relief carving of two women fighting, soon to go on display at the British Museum, bears an inscription identifying the combatants as "Amazonia" and "Achillea," a feminine form of the Greek hero Achilles. Emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled from A.D. 193 to 211, was said to have permitted combat by women.

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[SleepyHead]

So, are you into cat-fights, http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/cat.gif? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[Harbidge]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
They say that chocolate, because of its similar ingredients, has the ability to get you as high as cocaine does... though to achieve the same effect you'd have to eat about 15kg (33lbs) of it in one sitting. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bouncing.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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[darkhorse]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
I may be average, but I intend to stick to the one person. First time lucky for mine. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/inlove1.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You are the devil. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/devil1.gif You remember your girlfriend and then you're an angel http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/god.gif I really really admire you... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif



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Running on a dark race course"

[bearkat77]

Remember the children's rhyme about London Bridge falling down? Well, actually, the bridge was PULLED down. Back in 1014, when the Danes controlled London, their enemies the Saxons and the Norwegians rowed out to the wooden bridge, tied ropes around its pilings, and took off. The bridge was built again, of course. This time it was made of stone. London Bridge actually went through several incarnations. It was London's oldest bridge, first built by the Romans in 43 AD as a temporary pontoon bridge.
London Bridge is alive and well ... in Arizona. In 1962, London Bridge was (again!) falling down, this time on its own. It couldn't handle the increasing flow of traffic across the Thames. So the British government decided to put the bridge up for sale. Robert McCulloch, Founder of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, submitted the winning bid of $2,460,000.

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

You ever put money in your mouth while rummaging through your bag?

Just know that 42% of paper money is contaminated with fecal matter.

And have a nice day.http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

[SleepyHead]

I've been handling money for over 25 years, and I never put it in my mouth... you simply do not know where that money has been, nor where the hands have been that gave it to you!

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[FPSHOT]

I give someone else the honour of making a remark about the post above mine.

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[Eleanor_rigby]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SleepyHead:
I've been handling money for over 25 years, and I never put it in my mouth... you simply do not know where that money has been, nor where the hands have been that gave it to you!

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I haven't been handling it for 25...more like 5....but I agree....my hands smell wierd at the end of the day....no matter how many times I sanitize them. EEEEWWWWWW.
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[darkhorse]

Made a mistake, sorry... Read the following post... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/shocked.gif

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Running on a dark race course"

[This message has been edited by darkhorse (edited April 30, 2001 at 07:08 PM).]

[darkhorse]

Nice pics, everyone. Eleanor you were such a pretty baby!!! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

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"I'm a dark horse
Running on a dark race course"

[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SleepyHead:
and I never put it in my mouth... you simply do not know where that money has been, nor where the hands have been that gave it to you!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Nor who's nose it "touched"! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf2.gif

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[bearkat77]

Someone mentioned about these in another topic. So here's how they got their start:

Roller coasters originated in Russia in the early 16th century. At the
time, some clever folks built ice slides where a patron would climb to
the top of a 70 foot tower and zip down a wood ramp of about 600 feet.
Then they would head over to a second tower and repeat the process,
ending up at the ground level starting point.
It is said that Catherine the Great was the originator of the idea of
using sleds with wheels--freeing the joys of coasting for all seasons.
The roller coaster phenomenon then traveled to France where coasters
were called les montagnes Russes or Russian mountains (which they are
still called today).

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[Eleanor_rigby]

That's cool to know.....I'm not so sure how eager I would be to participate in the early ice ages of coasters.
But the way they are now they are the only thing that interests me at amusement parks!
The scarier the better.....http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid1.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif
The rides that only go round and round they don't thrill me in fact they make me wanna....http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf1.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf2.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf3.gif
Roller Coasters Rule!

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[bearkat77]

There are approximately 1,750 O's in every can of SpaghettiOs.

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[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
There are approximately 1,750 O's in every can of SpaghettiOs.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hon, I know SpaghettiO's isn't exactly your fave meal, but I never noticed you were so bored as to actually count them!! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/nono.gif Mustn't play with your food!


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[Eleanor_rigby]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SleepyHead:
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/nono.gif Mustn't play with your food!

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

But isn't it ok to play for the furtherance of trivia? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif


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[SleepyHead]

*pouting* But it's such a bad example for the girls... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/frown.gif

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[Eleanor_rigby]

Double poster strikes yet once again. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/cry.gif

[This message has been edited by Eleanor_rigby (edited May 02, 2001 at 01:15 PM).]

[Eleanor_rigby]

He did it in front of the girls?
Now see that's a http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/nono.gif!
By the way, How old are your girls?

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[SleepyHead]

No, he didn't really, just a bit'o'leg-pullin'... he's never even eaten SpaghettiO's that I'm aware of, let alone counted 'em http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif The girls are 10, 9, and six... all going on 25! Dang, they grow up too quickly!

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[mindgames]

All three of them are just below my minimum age requirement of 12. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/frown.gif

Just kidding http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/sleep2.gif ! Don't call the law!

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[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mindgames:
All three of them are just below my minimum age requirement of 12. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/frown.gif

Just kidding http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/sleep2.gif ! Don't call the law!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

BTW, mindgames, the place where I work sells shotguns! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/devious.gif

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[bearkat77]

Next time you go to the supermarket take a look at Morton's salt. The
logo has a girl under an umbrella holding a box of Morton's salt. The
phrase "when it rains, it pours" is underneath. Curious as to why?
Well, the problem with ordinary table salt is that it contains trace
amounts of magnesium chloride, which causes it to become damp and
clump during periods of wet weather. This problem was solved by adding
small amounts of sodium silicoaluminate to the salt, which Morton's
did.
The result? When it rains, the salt still pours.

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Italian mathematician Geronimo Cardano published the laws of chance governing card & dice games. But he became most famous for his accurate horoscope predictions. He even predicted his own death in 1576 - even down to the exact hour. When the time came he was still healthy, so he killed himself rather than being proved wrong.

[Rellevart]

Gosh, there's nothing I hate more than to be proven wrong, but I don't think I'd be THAT extreme about it!! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

How bout the guy who invented the guillotine... he needed to prove to French authorities that it worked, so he tested it on himself for all to see. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[Eleanor_rigby]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SleepyHead:
The girls are 10, 9, and six... all going on 25! Dang, they grow up too quickly!
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Do they get along? I always wondered what it would be like to have a sister....my brother and I have a unique frindship.



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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Eleanor_rigby:
my brother and I have a unique friendship.

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Too much info.



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[mindgames]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
BTW, mindgames, the place where I work sells shotguns! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/devious.gif

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/shocked.gif Please, I was led astray!



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[jami]

Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
Too much info.



Haaaahaaa!!! Funny, funny, funny!



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[bearkat77]

Electrophorus electrcus, the electric eel, is nature's own EE battery. You would only want to meet it in the abstract, in print, rather than in its native habitat, the Amazon River Basin in South America. That's because it can deliver up to 600 volts of electricity when disturbed.
This fish is not really an eel, a technicality that would mean little to you if you made contact with it. The electric eel generates its charge by the difference in electrical potential between the solutions inside and outside the nerve cells in its tail, which makes up 4/5 of its length. That charge is applied to thousands of tiny cells at its nerve endings along the tail. The creature controls the strength of the charge by timing its nerve impulses.

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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Great Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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[Eleanor_rigby]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
Too much info.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/rolleyes.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/rolleyes.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif
disregard my missing you comment I made a little earlier...I forgot about your evil humor.
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[bearkat77]

The seven-day week originated in Mesopotamia and was added to the Roman calendar in A.D. 321.

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[mindgames]

The New Madrid Earthquakes, in 1811-1812, occurred in New Madrid, Missouri. The most powerful earthquake, an 8.1 on the Richter scale, shook the dishes in the White House. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/shocked.gif

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Too bad it didn't shake anything else. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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In 1994 Los Angeles police arrested a man for dressing as the Grim Reaper - complete with scythe - and standing outside the windows of old people's homes, staring in. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/skull.gif

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[mindgames]

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Oh, that's horrible.

But funny!

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[bearkat77]

Now I know why I don't trust doctor.

Number of physicians in the US = 700,000
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000
Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171
(as per US Dept. of Health & Human Services)

Number of gun owners in the US = 80,000,000
Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) = 1500
Accidental deaths per gun owner = 0.0000188
(US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms)

Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

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[Harbidge]

There was this haunted wax-works museum where people would hear groans and footsteps, but nothing too serious. One night, a worker had to stay behind to brush a few wigs, when he heard a voice say "Stay here after dark and we kill you." Needless to say the worker quickly exited.

A couple of weeks later, a local news reporter got wind of the event, and asked the manager whether he could stay the night there to see if he could get anything on film. The managers reluctancy wore thin as the reporter kept pleading, and eventually the manager gave in.

The next morning, the manager walked in to find the reporter dead on the floor. He had been stranged. Just as he was staring at the body he heard a light shuffling sound. He looked up to it's direction to see a wax-works dummy that was out of place. Shock turned quickly to horror however when he saw that the fingers of it's hands were all deformed and bent like they had been put under pressure.

There'll be no surprise when I say that the dummy in question was melted down and thrown into the sea.


True story that.

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[Harbidge]

The Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich...
Samual Morse invented the morse code...

so therefore....

Plato invented the plate. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh1.gif

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[jami]

Originally posted by Harbidge:

True story that.


How scary! I just got the chills when I read that, Harb!



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[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Harbidge:
The Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich...
Samual Morse invented the morse code...

so therefore....

Plato invented the plate. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh1.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sounds logical. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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[mindgames]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Harbidge:
True story that.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid1.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid2.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid3.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bigeyes1.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/shocked.gif I'm never going to a wax museum again!


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Winston Churchill was not only a great speech maker, his wit was also legendary. In the House of Commons Nancy Astor MP, angry with Churchill, said 'If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee'. Churchill replied 'Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it'. Another female MP, Bessie Braddock when seeing Churchill intoxicated, said 'Winston you're drunk' to which Churchill replied 'Bessie you're ugly. And tomorrow I shall be sober'. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif


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The world's youngest documented grandmother was, get ready for it, 17! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/shocked.gif She was the bride of an African prince and was pregnant with her first daughter at age 9. That daughter had a son by her father at age 8!

Even worse than Kentucky!

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[Harbidge]

The 'Bell Witch Demon' is the only ghost known to have purposely killed the person it was haunting.

It started with scratching around the outside of the house like something was trying to get into the house. A week later it succeeded. Howls, moans and screams were heard all around the house along with slamming doors and footsteps.

About a montn later the poltergeist began t speak. Firstly it was a husky whisper, but turned into an evil growl. Sometimes it would mutter nonsense, then diminish into obscene blasfamies. But one thing was for sure. It hated John nd wanted him dead.

Then the enivitable happened. John had a nervous breakdown ahd began having seizures. The local doctor percribed a medicene for him.

One day, John started having a seizure, so his son went to get the potion. Inside the bottle however was a murky, black liquid. They gave it to John anyway, and just afterwards the ghost shouted "I've got old John this time!I gave him a huge dose of it."

John died shortly afterwards. The potion was tested on a cat, and it died.

During the funeral, all that could be heard was the demons hideous laughter.

Afterwards, the demon said it would be back in 7 years, and right on cue 7 years later, the demon started up again, but this time nobody minded, and all the children had grown up and were happily married.

Annoyed, the demon said it would return in 107 years, but, alas, it didn't.

And that's true!

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[octopus's garden]

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif where do you get these stories Harbidge???http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid2.gif


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Harbidge:
The 'Bell Witch Demon' is the only ghost known to have purposely killed the person it was haunting.

It started with scratching around the outside of the house like something was trying to get into the house. A week later it succeeded. Howls, moans and screams were heard all around the house along with slamming doors and footsteps.

About a montn later the poltergeist began t speak. Firstly it was a husky whisper, but turned into an evil growl. Sometimes it would mutter nonsense, then diminish into obscene blasfamies. But one thing was for sure. It hated John nd wanted him dead.

Then the enivitable happened. John had a nervous breakdown ahd began having seizures. The local doctor percribed a medicene for him.

One day, John started having a seizure, so his son went to get the potion. Inside the bottle however was a murky, black liquid. They gave it to John anyway, and just afterwards the ghost shouted "I've got old John this time!I gave him a huge dose of it."

John died shortly afterwards. The potion was tested on a cat, and it died.

During the funeral, all that could be heard was the demons hideous laughter.

Afterwards, the demon said it would be back in 7 years, and right on cue 7 years later, the demon started up again, but this time nobody minded, and all the children had grown up and were happily married.

Annoyed, the demon said it would return in 107 years, but, alas, it didn't.

And that's true!

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Haha, I wasn't sure whether to laugh or be scared for life after reading that one. I guess I laughed. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif



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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mindgames:
The world's youngest documented grandmother was, get ready for it, 17! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/shocked.gif She was the bride of an African prince and was pregnant with her first daughter at age 9. That daughter had a son by her father at age 8!

Even worse than Kentucky!

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Just think of all the undocumented ones! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
Strange Laws

True? I don't know...

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>* Los Angeles law forbids hunting moths under a street light.
(Damn, now what can a guy do on Saturday night?)
* In South Dakota no horses are allowed into Fountain Inn unless they
are wearing pants.
(What about a tie?)
* In Tennessee hollow logs may not be sold.
(Another business idea down the tubes)
* Also in Tennessee driving is not to be done while asleep.
(This is a big problem?)
* In Utah when a person reaches the age of 50, he/she can then marry
their cousin.
(Look at that, Arkansas)
* In Utah it is illegal NOT to drink milk.
(Tough state...)[/list]

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Here's a few for the Louisiana people on this board:

<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>It is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol.

<LI>Biting someone with your natural teeth is "simple assault," while biting someone with your false teeth is "aggravated assault."

<LI>It is illegal to gargle in public places.

- New Orleans

<LI>You may not tie an alligator to a fire hydrant.

<LI>It illegal for a woman to drive a car unless her husband is waving a flag in front of it.

There's a ton of other funny ones, including all the other states and a few other countries, that can be found at:
http://www.dumblaws.com/states/

Maybe someone would like to start a "dumb laws" topic. This one has got to be one of my favourites, courtesy of Saudi Arabia:

<LI>Male doctors may not examine women
<LI>Women doctors may not examine men
<LI>Women may not become doctors
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[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
Here's a few for the Louisiana people on this board:<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>Biting someone with your natural teeth is "simple assault," while biting someone with your false teeth is "aggravated assault." [/list]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Don't make any sense whatsoever... I can promise I used to bite harder with my what was left of my "real" teeth than I'll ever be able to with my "false" teeth... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/grin.gif



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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SleepyHead:
Don't make any sense whatsoever...


<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I guess it fits nicely with all the others then. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[jami]

Here we go, my sweet baby doll from Australia http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif Here are a few of the National laws for Australia .......


A life sentence is 25 years.

It is illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of a cat burgular.

Taxi cabs are required to carry a bale of hay in the trunk.

Bars are required to stable, water and feed the horses of their patrons.

The legal age for straight sex is 16, unless the person is in the care/custody of the older person, in which case it is 18.




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You forgot to mention, in Tasmania's case, that it's legal to own an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle (before the Port Arthur massacre anyway), yet illegal to be gay. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[jami]

Heeehe! Yes, I saw that one! Craziness!

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[bearkat77]

Strange Laws

True? I don't know...

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>* Los Angeles law forbids hunting moths under a street light.
(Damn, now what can a guy do on Saturday night?)
* In South Dakota no horses are allowed into Fountain Inn unless they
are wearing pants.
(What about a tie?)
* In Tennessee hollow logs may not be sold.
(Another business idea down the tubes)
* Also in Tennessee driving is not to be done while asleep.
(This is a big problem?)
* In Utah when a person reaches the age of 50, he/she can then marry
their cousin.
(Look at that, Arkansas)
* In Utah it is illegal NOT to drink milk.
(Tough state...)[/list]

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[mindgames]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Harbidge:
The 'Bell Witch Demon' is the only ghost known to have purposely killed the person it was haunting.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ah, this occured about 115 miles away from here in Adams, Tennessee. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid1.gif


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[mindgames]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
Strange Laws

* In Tennessee hollow logs may not be sold.
(Another business idea down the tubes)
* Also in Tennessee driving is not to be done while asleep.
(This is a big problem?)
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

In Memphis, it's illegal for frogs to croak after 11pm.

In Sparta ( http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/thumbsup.gif ) it's illegal to drive a car through town without announcing your intention first.

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/rolleyes.gif


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[This message has been edited by mindgames (edited May 07, 2001 at 03:24 PM).]

[mindgames]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
<LI>Male doctors may not examine women
<LI>Women doctors may not examine men
<LI>Women may not become doctors
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh3.gif

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

How can a woman doctor examine a man if there are no women doctors? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/thinker.gif


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[bearkat77]

Four hours before the Titanic hit history's most famous iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, the ship's wireless room received a message from another ship, the Mesaba, warning that in the great liner's path was "much heavy pack ice and great number of large icebergs..." The captain never saw it because the message was missing the special prefix that told wireless operators to hand it directly to the captain.

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:

* In Utah when a person reaches the age of 50, he/she can then marry
their cousin.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Uh, I can tell you right now that you don't have to be 50 to marry your cousin here!

*sigh* Only three more years of this godforsaken state and then Marissa goes http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wave1.gif!

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[bearkat77]

Most people know that the Vice-President is next in line to succeed the President. If the vice president cannot serve, the second in the line of succession is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, followed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury. Others down the line? See Susannah's comments below.
6. Secretary of Defense
7. Attorney General
8. Secretary of the Interior
9. Secretary of Agriculture
10.Secretary of Commerce
Of course, there are others after that--but if we ever got that far down the list before we found a viable candidate, we'd be in pretty deep kimchee! It does give one pause to realize that Newt Gingrich was that close, doesn't it? Now, here's my question (and I've always wondered this, but never found out): If the President of the US must be an American-born citizen, what would have happened had Henry Kissinger been called on to be President? Would he have been passed over, or would he have served anyway?

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[bearkat77]

The brain is surrounded by a membrane laced with nerves that transmit sensations to the organ. However, the brain itself has no feeling; if it is cut into, the person feels no pain.

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A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/eyebrows.gif... or so I hear. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[bearkat77]

Married Catholics continue to be sexually active as they age: 50 percent of them have sex at least once a week when they are 55 years old or older, compared with 40 percent for other faiths.

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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. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf2.gif



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[SleepyHead]

In China, you must be intelligent in order to go to college. (duh, really?)

In Denmark, no one may start a car while someone is underneath
the vehicle. (guess suicide by asphyxiation is out then huh?)

In France, no pig may be addressed as Napoleon by its owner. (This one makes NO sense to me - wasn't Napoleon a pig anyway?)

In Israel, picking your nose is illegal. (I wish it were here too!)

In Norway, you may not spay your female dog or cat. However,
you may neuter the males of the species. (can we get this passed in the US for all animals - us included?)

In Scotland, it is illegal to be drunk and in possession of a
cow. (Come again?!?)

In Sweden, while prostitution is legal, it is illegal for any-
one to use the services of a prostitute. (oh joy!)

In Thailand, it is illegal to leave your house if you are not
wearing underwear. (I wanna know - who checks?)

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[jami]

Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
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. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf2.gif


Good Lord, NWM!!! That is so disgusting! I surely didn't want to picture my cute little foggies doing such a thing. Ewwwwww!!!!



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[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jami:
Good Lord, NWM!!! That is so disgusting! I surely didn't want to picture my cute little foggies doing such a thing. Ewwwwww!!!!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

***ribit*** http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/barf2.gif ***ribit***

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[bearkat77]

On average, something big hits the atmosphere and possibly the Earth's surface every 100 years. The last big event was in 1908, when an asteroid about 300 feet in diameter flattened millions of trees in an airborne explosion above Siberia. Now the big question: Are we in any danger now? The skywatchers with the International Astronomical Union say one of the many objects circling the Sun may hit the Earth in 30 years. Or maybe not. The IAU posted its warning on its webpage last Friday, having gotten confirmation from observers in Italy and Finland that object SG344 could indeed ram into Earth at high speed in September 2030. It's pegged the odds at 1 in 500. Teams that took the
coordinates and helped compute the object's track included NASA's Near-Earth Object Program office in Pasadena, Calif., where interest is especially high since the object could be a spent Saturn rocket booster -- one of five Apollo mission booster stages believed to be somewhere in similar orbits. The new warning program has given SG344 a danger rating of "1" -- the lowest possible yet subject to "careful monitoring" -- because no one yet knows how big or dense it is. A rocket booster casing would probably burn up in the atmosphere and never strike Earth. But if the object is instead a house-sized piece of solid rock, it could unleash the force of a two-megaton nuclear blast upon contact.

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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 realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

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[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
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 realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Are you insinuating something here? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/thinker.gif

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I always land on my feet. Sometimes after my head, but I end up on my feet in the end. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nowhere Man:
Yeah, if you and Sleepy book a holiday hotel room, make sure it's at least 9 floors up. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/devious.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Not if I have to walk all the way down for a cup of coffee!!!


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SleepyHead:
Not if I have to walk all the way down for a cup of coffee!!!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Wegottahaveourjava.Wegottahaveourjava.Wegottahaveo urjava.
Wegottahaveourjava.Wegottahaveourjava.Wegottahaveo urjava. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid1.gif

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If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/devious.gif She would stand 7' 2" tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SleepyHead:
Not if I have to walk all the way down for a cup of coffee!!!
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

That's what you have Kat for. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/eyebrows.gif

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[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
Wegottahaveourjava.Wegottahaveourjava.Wegottahaveo urjava.
Wegottahaveourjava.Wegottahaveourjava.Wegottahaveo urjava. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid1.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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[octopus's garden]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/devious.gif She would stand 7' 2" tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

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http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bouncing2.gifi never knew barbie was so bighttp://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/bouncing3.gif


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[bearkat77]

Since this has been Mother's Day, I'd like to let you know how it started.

Mother's Day was first suggested by Julia Ward Howe, a women's suffrage leader and author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," in 1872. She envisioned it as a day to celebrate peace and wanted it to be June 2. In 1907, West Virginian Anna Jarvis began serious campaigning for a "Mother's Day" to be held the second Sunday in May. Woodrow Wilson approved it as a national holiday in 1915.

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Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.

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[Harbidge]

The winner of the 2000 presidential election will have a remarkable opportunity to take advantage of Americans’ fascination with milestones. The turn of the millennium could provide the impetus for an extraordinary effort to improve race relations or a radical approach to health care reform, the type of revolutionary changes that build presidential legacies. But our next chief executive will also tempt fate. The president elected every twentieth year from 1840 through 1960 has died in office. Ronald Reagan appears to have broken the so-called "20-Year Jinx," but only time will tell if The Jinx has run its course or if the Gipper cheated destiny when he survived an assassination attempt in 1981.

This remarkable string of presidential bad luck spanning seven generations began with the 1840 election when WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON succumbed to pneumonia after only one month in office. Old Tippecanoe gave luck a push, though, delivering his inaugural address on a snowy day in March, 1841 without the benefit of an overcoat. The 68-year-old president stood outside for the entire proceeding, greeted crowds of well-wishers at the White House later that day, and attended several celebrations that evening. Harrison was succeeded by John Tyler.

ZACHARY TAYLOR, a career soldier, was the second U.S. president to die in office and the only one to do so outside the purview of the 20-Year Jinx. "Old Rough and Ready" was elected in 1848 and ran the government with an iron fist, threatening to personally lead the federal army against Southern secessionists if they followed through on their threats to split the Union over the issue of slavery. In an unusual twist, the 65-year old former general was felled by a bowl of cherries, and civil war was delayed eleven years. Taylor spent July 4, 1850, eating cherries and milk at a ceremony at the Washington Monument on a blistering day. He got sick from the heat and died five days later. Millard Fillmore was Taylor’s vice president.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN was the first president to die by the hand of an assassin (or so it is told by recorded history). Lincoln was first elected in 1860, but was murdered by the actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865, early in his second term. He was 56 years old at the time of his death. Andrew Johnson succeeded Lincoln and supervised the post-war Reconstruction.

JAMES GARFIELD was elected president in 1880, but on July 2, 1881, one Charles J. Guiteau, an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post, shot the 50-year old president in a Washington railroad station. Garfield lay mortally wounded in the White House for weeks. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried unsuccessfully to find the bullet with an induction-balance electrical device which he had designed. Garfield was moved to the New Jersey seaside in early September and seemed to be recuperating, but he died on September 19, 1881, from an infection and internal hemorrhage. Chester Arthur completed the balance of Garfield’s term.

WILLIAM McKINLEY’s second term as president ended tragically when the 58-year old chief executive was shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, a deranged anarchist, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, in September 1901. Theodore Roosevelt completed McKinley’s term and one more of his own.

WARREN G. HARDING’s scandal-ridden presidency came to an untimely end when he succumbed to a heart attack in San Francisco on July 29, 1923 after a grueling cross-country journey to Alaska during which the 58-year old leader of the free world made 85 speeches. After his death, rumors circulated that Harding had been poisoned, either by his own hand or by that of his wife. Questions were raised about the extent of Harding's knowledge of the corruption in his administration and allegations concerning his marital fidelity were made. No autopsy was performed. Harding was succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT was elected to a record four terms as president, but the crippled head of state died on April 12, 1945, early in his fourth term. History tells us that FDR, 63, was stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage while vacationing in Warm Springs, Georgia. Harry Truman filled out his fourth term.

JOHN F. KENNEDY was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. At 46, JFK was the youngest president to die in office (and the youngest to be elected). Conspiracy theories have abounded in the aftermath of Kennedy’s death, yet none has ever been proven. Lyndon Johnson completed Kennedy’s term.

RONALD REAGAN was elected president in 1980. Only 69 days after he was sworn in, he was felled by a would-be assassin’s bullet. Reagan survived the attack by young John Hinckley, Jr., and he completed two terms in office. George Bush was Reagan’s vice president.


Eight presidential elections—1840, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960 and 1980—produced seven dead presidents and one near-miss. Only one U.S. president, Zachary Taylor, has died in office outside this 20-year pattern. Yet no serious historian has ever questioned that this bizarre footnote to American history is anything more than coincidence. There are no apparent connections among the dead presidents, their vice presidents, or the known assassins.

Source (http://www.redfieldjinx.com/20-year_jinx.htm)

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[Harbidge]

The winner of the 2000 presidential election will have a remarkable opportunity to take advantage of Americans’ fascination with milestones. The turn of the millennium could provide the impetus for an extraordinary effort to improve race relations or a radical approach to health care reform, the type of revolutionary changes that build presidential legacies. But our next chief executive will also tempt fate. The president elected every twentieth year from 1840 through 1960 has died in office. Ronald Reagan appears to have broken the so-called "20-Year Jinx," but only time will tell if The Jinx has run its course or if the Gipper cheated destiny when he survived an assassination attempt in 1981.

This remarkable string of presidential bad luck spanning seven generations began with the 1840 election when WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON succumbed to pneumonia after only one month in office. Old Tippecanoe gave luck a push, though, delivering his inaugural address on a snowy day in March, 1841 without the benefit of an overcoat. The 68-year-old president stood outside for the entire proceeding, greeted crowds of well-wishers at the White House later that day, and attended several celebrations that evening. Harrison was succeeded by John Tyler.

ZACHARY TAYLOR, a career soldier, was the second U.S. president to die in office and the only one to do so outside the purview of the 20-Year Jinx. "Old Rough and Ready" was elected in 1848 and ran the government with an iron fist, threatening to personally lead the federal army against Southern secessionists if they followed through on their threats to split the Union over the issue of slavery. In an unusual twist, the 65-year old former general was felled by a bowl of cherries, and civil war was delayed eleven years. Taylor spent July 4, 1850, eating cherries and milk at a ceremony at the Washington Monument on a blistering day. He got sick from the heat and died five days later. Millard Fillmore was Taylor’s vice president.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN was the first president to die by the hand of an assassin (or so it is told by recorded history). Lincoln was first elected in 1860, but was murdered by the actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865, early in his second term. He was 56 years old at the time of his death. Andrew Johnson succeeded Lincoln and supervised the post-war Reconstruction.

JAMES GARFIELD was elected president in 1880, but on July 2, 1881, one Charles J. Guiteau, an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post, shot the 50-year old president in a Washington railroad station. Garfield lay mortally wounded in the White House for weeks. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried unsuccessfully to find the bullet with an induction-balance electrical device which he had designed. Garfield was moved to the New Jersey seaside in early September and seemed to be recuperating, but he died on September 19, 1881, from an infection and internal hemorrhage. Chester Arthur completed the balance of Garfield’s term.

WILLIAM McKINLEY’s second term as president ended tragically when the 58-year old chief executive was shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, a deranged anarchist, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, in September 1901. Theodore Roosevelt completed McKinley’s term and one more of his own.

WARREN G. HARDING’s scandal-ridden presidency came to an untimely end when he succumbed to a heart attack in San Francisco on July 29, 1923 after a grueling cross-country journey to Alaska during which the 58-year old leader of the free world made 85 speeches. After his death, rumors circulated that Harding had been poisoned, either by his own hand or by that of his wife. Questions were raised about the extent of Harding's knowledge of the corruption in his administration and allegations concerning his marital fidelity were made. No autopsy was performed. Harding was succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT was elected to a record four terms as president, but the crippled head of state died on April 12, 1945, early in his fourth term. History tells us that FDR, 63, was stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage while vacationing in Warm Springs, Georgia. Harry Truman filled out his fourth term.

JOHN F. KENNEDY was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. At 46, JFK was the youngest president to die in office (and the youngest to be elected). Conspiracy theories have abounded in the aftermath of Kennedy’s death, yet none has ever been proven. Lyndon Johnson completed Kennedy’s term.

RONALD REAGAN was elected president in 1980. Only 69 days after he was sworn in, he was felled by a would-be assassin’s bullet. Reagan survived the attack by young John Hinckley, Jr., and he completed two terms in office. George Bush was Reagan’s vice president.


Eight presidential elections—1840, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960 and 1980—produced seven dead presidents and one near-miss. Only one U.S. president, Zachary Taylor, has died in office outside this 20-year pattern. Yet no serious historian has ever questioned that this bizarre footnote to American history is anything more than coincidence. There are no apparent connections among the dead presidents, their vice presidents, or the known assassins.

Source (http://www.redfieldjinx.com/20-year_jinx.htm)

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That's twice as scary. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

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[Harbidge]

sorry for the double post.

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Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on.

When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this sentence, I end it?

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[bearkat77]

Switzerland's constitution makes it unlawful for the country to make war, except in self-defense. Switzerland (which does not belong to the United Nations) is also forbidden to enter into political alliances with other countries. Switzerland's stance on neutrality has a long history, dating back to the fifteenth century when Niklaus von Flue (or "Bruder Klaus"), often called the "Father of Swiss neutrality," worried that the aftermath of the Burgundy wars would split the country apart. He understood that the Swiss confederation of cantons of his time had no central leadership and was not equipped for conflict with outside
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/tongue4.gif

[SleepyHead]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bearkat77:
Switzerland (which does not belong to the United Nations) is also forbidden to enter into political alliances with other countries. Switzerland's stance on neutrality has a long history, dating back to the fifteenth century when Niklaus von Flue (or "Bruder Klaus"), often called the "Father of Swiss neutrality," worried that the aftermath of the Burgundy wars would split the country apart. He understood that the Swiss confederation of cantons of his time had no central leadership and was not equipped for conflict with outside
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Switzerland itself may not enter political alliances, but that didn't stop Swiss bankers, merchants, and other right-wing Swiss nationals from supporting Nazi Germany in a variety of ways...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Another most unusual feature of the Swiss extreme-right was that the vast majority of its leaders were not the semi-literate rabble-rousing, brown-shirt-type found in the Third Reich and Austria, but educated men, university graduates, and at least fourteen of the leaders discussed in this report held doctorates -- mostly in law -- or the equivalent. Others were fairly senior army officers. Frequently these individuals came from wealthy, even distinguished Swiss families, such as von Sprecher, Rolf Henne, Eugen Bircher and his brother-in-law, Hans Oehler, Ernst Hofmann, Robert Tobler and Georges Oltramare. In several instances, their leaders included respected university professors, or sons of professors, such as Dr. Gonzague de Reynold (romance languages, Universities of Bern and Fribourg), Arthur Fonjallaz (military history, the Technical University of Zürich), Dr. Max Huber (law, University of Zurich) and Dr. Jakob Lorenz (sociology, University of Fribourg), and Professor Walter Wili (University of Bern).

The numerous publications of the right-wing press associated with these organizations, occupied a central place in their development and were frequently supported, financially and politically, by leaders of Swiss finance, industry and politics. Every member of the ruling Federal Council supported one or more of such societies if only quietly from the sidelines or through an affiliated political party. As noted earlier, Berlin, too, through the auspices of Himmler, Ribbentrop and Goebbels, intervened directly to fund various Swiss fascist enterprises and their bulletins and newspapers. Others were backed whole-heartedly, almost with the religious fervour of the "true believer," by Swiss nationalists, including perhaps the largest of them, Heimatwehr. And there were many such periodicals, some very short-lived, others in existence for years, including Der Angriff, Das Aufgebot, Eidgenössische Zeitung fur Volk und Heimat, Der Eiserne Besen, Die Front, Die Grenzbote, Die Heimatwehr, Nationale Hefte, Schweizer Faschist, Schweizerische Monatshefte and the Volksbund, to name a few. All of the newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books written, published and distributed by extreme-right associations, reaching a most extensive audience, blatantly aimed at segregating the Jews socially from the rest of humanity, and focused unrelenting abusive attacks on them daily in every region of the Swiss Confederation.

A Survey of Nazi and Pro-Nazi Groups in Switzerland: 1930 - 1945 (http://www.wiesenthal.com/swiss/survey/noframes/index.html)
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Americans consume 4,848 cups of coffee per second, 24 hours a day. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif

Also in the US, a car is stolen every 30 seconds.

And there is one birth every 8 seconds and one death every 14 seconds.

[Rellevart]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/tongue4.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ah, so THAT'S why I gain weight over the holidays....from sending out all those Christmas cards.... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif


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Hey, don't you know that I'm....always going back in time....

[darkhorse]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
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"I'm a dark horse
Running on a dark race course"

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By darkhorse:
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No arguments there. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

[KatMan]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
Americans consume 4,848 cups of coffee per second, 24 hours a day. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

And I consume half of that myself. Coffee has been good to me. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid1.gif

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[darkhorse]

Had to put this post in here because I couldn't read Bearkat's reply. Keeps happening to me all the time... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/mad.gif

[This Message Has Been Edited By darkhorse On May 17, 2001 10:22 AM]

King Mithridates VI ruled in Asia Minor in the first century BC. He was so afraid of assassination by poisoning, he came up with a novel idea. He gave himself small doses of poison each day in the hope that he would naturally build up a resistance to poisons. It was so successful that when the Romans invaded in 63 BC, instead of being captured he tried to commit suicide, but the poison he took had no effect on him. Eventually the King ordered a slave to kill him with his sword.

[bearkat77]

It's too bad they are all gone now. The Passenger Pigeon (also called the Migrating Dove). A little more than a century ago, the Passenger Pigeon was the most numerous species of bird on the entire planet. They numbered in the BILLIONS in the Eastern United States - more than ALL other species of North American birds combined (it's estimated that four out of every ten birds in North America at the time of its discovery was a Passenger Pigeon). Passenger Pigeons flew in enormous flocks that could take days to pass by and could actually block out the sun and make it seem as though an eclipse was occurring. In 1870 (when their numbers had already been
considerably diminished), a flock flew over Cincinnati that was a mile wide and 320 miles long. It is estimated to have contained over two billion birds! Flocks of Passenger Pigeons were reported to have sounded like thunder. Their nesting sites covered hundreds of square miles of forest, each tree holding numerous birds and up to a hundred nests (with branches frequently snapping under the weight of the birds). Passenger Pigeons were fast (they were estimated to fly about a mile a minute) and graceful. They were larger and more colorful than the domestic pigeons you now see on street corners, with pinkish-red breasts and blue-gray heads. In shape, they most resembled the Mourning
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
They were larger and more colorful than the domestic pigeons you now see on street corners, with pinkish-red breasts and blue-gray heads.
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Don't sound too different from the birds you see on street corners today. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/eyebrows.gif

[bearkat77]

Berengaria, wife of Richard I, the Lion-Heart, never lived in England or even visited there. The daughter of the King of Navvare, Berengaria married Richard I in Cypress, which Richard had invaded. Her husband, who reigned from 1189-1199, spent a total of only six months in England. He spent his early life in France, as duke of Aquitaine, ruling the land of his mother, Eleanor. Then he was busy with the Third Crusade and spent some time imprisoned by his mortal enemy - Leopold, Duke of Austria, who had the help of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. He was released in 1194 only after paying a heavy ransom.

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[bearkat77]

Queen Victoria of England was crowned when she was barely eighteen. Her first act was to move out of her domineering mother's room. While she continued to treat her mother, the Duchess of Kent, with deference in public, Victoria was said to shun her at home. Often, in reply to the Duchess's request to see her daughter, Victoria would send a note with the one word "Busy."

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[This Message Has Been Edited By bearkat77 On May 18, 2001 05:45 PM]

[mindgames]

Shoot, I'd get a whippin' if I told my mom "busy". http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/shocked.gif

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This week, the Beatles greatest hits album, "1", is at number thirty-eight on the USA album charts

You'd probably get one if you were "busy" or not. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

After being killed during the celebrated Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Horatio Nelson was put into a large barrel of brandy to preserve his body during the voyage back to England. When the ship arrived back home Lord Nelson was removed from the barrel and the crew celebrated his achievements by drinking the remaining brandy.

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[bearkat77]

Ever wonder which part of the body signals that it needs more water?
Thirst has to do with the amount of salt in the bloodstream. Our blood
prefers to keep a fixed percentage of salt in it and is not interested
in changing this mix. The body has a mechanism that signals the kidneys
to absorb any excess salt. In absorbing the excess salt, much water is
taken away from the body tissues. This causes the body to crave more water to replace the water that was absorbed.

The sense of thirst is caused by stimulation of cells in the pharynx
(the tube that connects the mouth and nasal passage with the esophagus)
caused by the loss of water from the cells with which nerve endings are in contact. The decrease in the concentration of water in the blood causes a drying of the lining of the pharynx because of a decreased salivary secretion. This causes the urge to drink.

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[bearkat77]

A young lady named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess.

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[This Message Has Been Edited By bearkat77 On May 18, 2001 09:58 PM]

[bearkat77]

Ants benefit from a pretty handy nerve structure. Instead of suffering along with a spinal cord, ants have what is called ganglia. Ganglia are little knots of nerves that are connected to paired nerve cords at the underside of their bodies.

Each of these ganglion controls a certain activity and is often capable of functioning by itself. Because of this, an ant can survive if you remove its head. The other ganglia go along without the ganglia in the head. Scientists have been able to keep an ant alive for over a month without its head.

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[This Message Has Been Edited By bearkat77 On May 18, 2001 10:01 PM]

[bearkat77]

After all that editing, I think I've done a first here. A TRIPLE post! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/grin.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
an ant can survive if you remove its head
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Just like a cockroach, which will survive a couple of weeks untill it starves to death.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Here's something that may interest you~ A Knight's Tale was the worst movie I've ever seen!!!!!!!! (but Heath Ledger's still hothttp://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif)

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By 4thGenFan:
(but Heath Ledger's still hothttp://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif)

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Must be an Aussie thing. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

[**DONOTDELETE**]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
Must be an Aussie thing. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif
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Hey, you know what's funny about that? NOTHING! No really, the funny thing is that I was really going to add something about Australians being hot (cuz I gotta admit they are!), but I just KNEW you were lurking about on this message board and once you saw it, you'd say something! And you did!

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Please, you know any further boost to my ego is always welcome.

[bearkat77]

The muscle fiber that makes up your heart is distinctly different from your skeletal muscle. One of its major features is its abundance of mitochondria. These are the little engines within a cell that convert food to energy. In a cardiac muscle, these mitochondria make up about 30 to 35 percent of the volume of the cells in the heart muscle. In a skeletal muscle, they make up only 1 or 2 percent of the volume. The
result is that your heart doesn't get tired as quickly.

Another factor to consider is the ontraction of the heart. The heart muscle contracts slowly in a less frantic motion than do the other muscles in your body. It is designed to repeat a process over and over and can thus be designed in a way that allows for great efficiencies. Your other muscles have to be prepared to do what ever you can think of to ask them to do. This designed flexibility forces their design to be less efficient.

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[This Message Has Been Edited By bearkat77 On May 19, 2001 06:59 PM]

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
Please, you know any further boost to my ego is always welcome. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Because you SURELY need it...



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Hey, you can never have too much of a good thing. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

FACT: If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.

(I assume someone's lived long enough to test this).

[bearkat77]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
FACT: If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.

(I assume someone's lived long enough to test this).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/wave2.gif

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[bearkat77]

The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.

Why did the English people build them like that? Because the first raillines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Okay! Why did the wagons use that odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagons would break on some of the old, long distance roads, because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts.

So who built these old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts? The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. Specs. and Bureaucracies live forever. So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what Horse's Behind came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>Now the twist to the story:[/list]

There's an interesting extension of the story about railroad gauge and horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah.

The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line to the factory runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined by the width of a horse's rear end!

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
FACT: If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.

(I assume someone's lived long enough to test this).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Seriously, people have WAY too much time on their hands...

I can just imagine some doofus sitting in his parents basement thinking, "Alrighty then, I'll start counting and see how long it takes me to reach 100. I'll then times that number by hours in a day, days in a week, weeks in a year, divide the hypotenuse of the triangle, minus 4, add 9, times the ratio of the denominator..."

Ok, *I* have way too much time on my hands!!


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By 4thGenFan:
"Alrighty then, I'll start counting and see how long it takes me to reach 100. I'll then times that number by hours in a day, days in a week, weeks in a year, divide the hypotenuse of the triangle, minus 4, add 9, times the ratio of the denominator..."<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

But that's the equation for the speed of light. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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Then I AM a genius. Told ya so. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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Indeed you are. Soon you'll be smart enough to work out how to use the 'quote' function. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
Indeed you are. Soon you'll be smart enough to work out how to use the 'quote' function. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


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Told ya it wouldn't take long. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/thumbsup.gif

[bearkat77]

It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah,
It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah,
It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Til she can quote like us.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah,
It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah,
It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Til she can quote like us.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Hey! I can quote with the best of them!


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By George, I think she's got it! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/party.gif

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Next time you indulge in a croissant with your coffee, consider this: It's not French--it originated in Austria. The croissant would never have been invented had it not been for some serious bloodshed. It commemorated the 1863 defense of Vienna against invading Turkish troops. What's more, you are committing a kind of oral aggression when you eat it because the crescent shape stands for the similar symbol on the Turkish flag. In the act of eating you are thus devouring someone's enemy.

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

[mindgames]

Paul would definately say http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/nono.gif

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This week, the Beatles greatest hits album, "1", is at number twenty-four on the USA album charts. "Wingspan: Hits and History" by Paul McCartney is at number two.

Maybe they could use snakeskin instead, now that'd provide a pretty mean grip.

[Harbidge]

They could use the head of Victor Lewis-Smith. I'm sure it's thick, and nobody would mind if it went missing (or even care for that matter)

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This week, 'Wingspan' is at No. 13 in the UK Album charts.

[Harbidge]

The longest word in the world ever is a 182-letter word translated from a 170-letter greek word. It is:

Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhh
ypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokic
hlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekepha
lliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.

This word is the name of a food made of 17 sweet and sour ingredients, including brains, honey, mullet, vinegar, pickles and the Greek liqueur Ouzo.

Just imagine this being offered in a Greek restaurant. Think of how many waiters will die shouting the orders to the chef!

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This week, 'Wingspan' is at No. 13 in the UK Album charts.

[This Message Has Been Edited By Harbidge On May 21, 2001 09:45 AM]

[FPSHOT]

the probably had some of the Ouzo before they gave the food that name.

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George on Free as a bird, nov. 1995 ; 'I hope someone does this to all my crap demo's when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

I always thought "smiles" was the longest word ever, since there's a mile between the first letter and the last. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

Actually, the longest 'official' word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C1289 H2051 N343 O375 S8:

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleuc ylphenyl-
alanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginylly syglutamyl-
gycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvaly lthreonyl-
leucylglycylaspartylprolylglycyllisoleucylglutamyl glutaminyl-
serylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucyliso leucyl-
glutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglut amylleucyl-
glycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprol ylleucyl-
alanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutami nylasparaginyl-
alanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalany lalanyl-
glycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinyl phenylalanyl-
glutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginy lglutaminyl-
lysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucy lglycylleucyl-
leucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalyl phenylalanyl-
asparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphe nylalanyl-
tyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalyl glycylvalyl-
aspartylsrylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylpro lylvalyl-
glutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarg inylglutaminyl-
alanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalyla lanyl-
prolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylproly lprolylaspartyl-
alanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylg lutaminyl-
isoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyro sylthreonyl-
tyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylth reonylglycyl-
alanylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucyl leucyllysyl-
glutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolyl leucylglutaminyl-
glycylphenylalanylglysylisoleucylserylalanylprolyl aspartylglutaminyl-
valyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycy lalanylalanyl-
glycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleuc ylvalyllysylisoleucyl-
isoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisol eucylglutamyl-
prolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleuc yllysylvalylphenyl-
alanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylala nylthreonylarginy-
lserine.

You better believe it. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

[Harbidge]

did you type all that in yourself?

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Containing EVERY clue ever found about this conspiracy, Paul is Dead - The Conclusive Evidence (http://www.paulisdead.net) will change your mind about this bizarre coverup.

This week, 'Wingspan' is at No. 13 in the UK Album charts.

Letter by letter. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

[mindgames]

The legislature of the State of Mississippi voted in 1995 to ban slavery. Progressive, aren't they?

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This week, the Beatles greatest hits album, "1", is at number twenty-four on the USA album charts. "Wingspan: Hits and History" by Paul McCartney is at number two.

http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/afraid4.gif Better late than never, I guess.

[FPSHOT]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By mindgames:
The legislature of the State of Mississippi voted in 1995 to ban slavery. Progressive, aren't they?

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Do they still stick to that ???


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George on Free as a bird, nov. 1995 ; 'I hope someone does this to all my crap demo's when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

[mindgames]

No, now they call it, umm, unpaid workers.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
Actually, the longest 'official' word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C1289 H2051 N343 O375 S8:

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleuc ylphenyl-
alanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginylly syglutamyl-
gycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvaly lthreonyl-
leucylglycylaspartylprolylglycyllisoleucylglutamyl glutaminyl-
serylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucyliso leucyl-
glutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglut amylleucyl-
glycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprol ylleucyl-
alanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutami nylasparaginyl-
alanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalany lalanyl-
glycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinyl phenylalanyl-
glutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginy lglutaminyl-
lysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucy lglycylleucyl-
leucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalyl phenylalanyl-
asparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphe nylalanyl-
tyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalyl glycylvalyl-
aspartylsrylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylpro lylvalyl-
glutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarg inylglutaminyl-
alanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalyla lanyl-
prolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylproly lprolylaspartyl-
alanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylg lutaminyl-
isoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyro sylthreonyl-
tyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylth reonylglycyl-
alanylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucyl leucyllysyl-
glutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolyl leucylglutaminyl-
glycylphenylalanylglysylisoleucylserylalanylprolyl aspartylglutaminyl-
valyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycy lalanylalanyl-
glycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleuc ylvalyllysylisoleucyl-
isoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisol eucylglutamyl-
prolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleuc yllysylvalylphenyl-
alanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylala nylthreonylarginy-
lserine.

You better believe it. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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Which I don't.



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[Tim]

I had forgotten about that with the croissant http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/cat.gif.

Here's one I have always known being into flags http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

The only flag NEVER flown half-staffed is the British Royal Standard,because when the monarch dies,the heir becomes Soverign immediately,and as therefore the Soverign never dies,it is never appropriate for the flag to be half-staffed.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By 4thGenFan:
Which I don't.

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I don't believe you.

[bearkat77]

Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprints. So if you are planning on committing a crime, be sure not to lick anything. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/tongue3.gif

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The human body has 45 miles of nerves. That may explain why so many people tend to get on mine. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/electric.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprints. So if you are planning on committing a crime, be sure not to lick anything. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/tongue3.gif

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What if you're an ice cream thief? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/eyebrows.gif

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
The human body has 45 miles of nerves. That may explain why so many people tend to get on mine. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/electric.gif

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Don't blame your nerves, blame overpopulation!

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By Nowhere Man:
I don't believe you.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yer mom.



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Heeeeheee!!!! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/laugh2.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By 4thGenFan:
Yer mom.

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That's mum to you.

[Tim]

"Big Ben" is not the name of the tower with the clock in London's Houses of Parliament.

The proper name for that tower is St. Stephen's Tower.

The bell in the clock is the actual Big Ben,named for Sir Benjamin Hall,Commisioner of Works at the time the clock and bell were installed in 1856.


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[bearkat77]

So, why are cats said to have nine lives? Maybe it all started with the words of the Egyptian cat god Atum-Ra taken from a religious text of the 22nd Bubastite Dynasty (945-715 BC):

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>"I am one who becomes two, I am two who becomes four, I am four who
becomes eight, and I am one more besides."[/list]

But there are more interesting things to know about cats! Such as the fact that they were revered by Greek and Roman women as a symbol of fertility and a guardian of health. Also, the average cat has a successful pounce rate of 1,100 a year. Indeed, this ability to keep the rodent population at bay helped propel cats into many of the world's classical religious beliefs.

Christianity, however, turned against cats because they were revered by pagan religions. During the Great Cat Massacre (ordered by Pope Gregory IX in 1233), millions of cats perished. Further, women with suspicious connections to cats were also put to death. But, what comes around goes around: The systematic elimination of the cat from western Europe allowed the rat population to soar, which in turn led to the
Black Death of 1346-1351, where as many as 20 million people perished.

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Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reportedly kept the heart of her drowned husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley on her desk.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By bearkat77:
Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reportedly kept the heart of her drowned husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley on her desk.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

That's true. She kept it wrapped in silk.

10,000 birds are killed each year from flying into windows. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/crosseyed4.gif http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/dead1.gif

[bearkat77]

We've become so used to it that it's hard to imagine life without the Internet! While many of us started surfing the Web only in the past few years, the Internet has actually been around since 1969. It was created by the Department of Defense as a decentralized communications system in the event of nuclear attack. It was also used to coordinate military research projects, and was expanded to help universities doing
defense-related research. However, it was different system than used today without web browswers, banner ads, and lots of graphical bells and whistles. HTML and web pages are a fairly new face put on on an existing infrastructure.

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Could WWI have been stopped? Some say, "Yes!"
In 1889, Annie Oakley was performing her famous sharpshooter act for a large crowd in Berlin. During the show, a prominent local citizen stepped out of the crowd and asked Annie to shoot off the tip of his cigar.

Unfortunately for the world, Annie succeeded in shooting the tip off the cigar. If only she had been a bit nervous or anxious and
missed.... She would have shot Kaiser Wilhelm, the cigar's holder, instead.

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[bearkat77]

Centuries ago, people believed that a person's image in a mirror was actually a reflection of the person's soul (much like the way Native Americans felt that a photograph stole part of their soul and why they resisted being photographed). Further, this is why vampires can't see themselves in the mirror--they have no soul.

Anyway, believing that their soul was in the mirror, breaking a mirror meant that a part of the soul would not be able to reunite with the body. Obviously, without a portion of the soul, a person would be in for some bad luck.

The seven years thing comes from the Romans. They believed that a person's health and fortune changed every seven years.

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