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*HmS*STEDENKO
Thu Sep 20 2007
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Location: Newcastle, England
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i remember an old e-mail that floated round BT for ages when i worked there called truisms, i cant remember them all at the mo but heres a few.

1 You never forget the day a dog ran into your school!

2 You never know were to look when eating an apple.

3 Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you feel really manly.

4 Theres nothing more embarrasing that calling your teacher mam. (or mom)

5 You always feel a bit scared when stroking a horse.

6 Old people with mobile phones look wrong.

ill add more as i remember. true though eh?

Chris

[ Edited Sun Sep 23 2007 ]
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*HmS*Proteus
Thu Sep 20 2007
Registered Member #1341
Joined: Sat Jul 29 2006
Location: Chesterfield, England
Posts: 487
hows about these
grated cheese always tastes better
triangular sandwiches taste better than square cut
if you dial a wrong number somebody ALWAYS answers
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speedskater
Fri Sep 21 2007
speedskater
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Location: ohio
Posts: 363
how about its funny if somebody else gets hurt
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Griffin
Sun Sep 23 2007
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Location: Glasgow Scotland
Posts: 87
*HmS*grunt wrote ...

You English are WEIRD!!!!

But still not as weird as SCOTS!!!


your Canadian have you lot desided what language you officially speak yet
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heppari
Sun Sep 23 2007
mmm yeah
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Joined: Mon Mar 20 2006
Location: Tampere, Finland
Posts: 351
hmm.. if i undertand this right, i got one..

when are thursty, you fill your mug with water and start to drink, why do always have to hold on of that tap? is it going somewhere? or do you fall down?

most ppl hold from tap when drinking :D (at least i do, do you?)
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*HmS*Proteus
Sun Sep 23 2007
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Joined: Sat Jul 29 2006
Location: Chesterfield, England
Posts: 487
heppari wrote ...

hmm.. if i undertand this right, i got one..

when are thursty, you fill your mug with water and start to drink, why do always have to hold on of that tap? is it going somewhere? or do you fall down?

most ppl hold from tap when drinking :D (at least i do, do you?)

you got it spot on heppari and yes, I do too.
here's another;
when you do something REALLY cool, like throw a ball of paper into the bin from 20m over the shoulder is there never anyone watching?
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Griffin
Wed Sep 26 2007
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Location: Glasgow Scotland
Posts: 87
never drink orange juice after brushing your teeth
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*HmS*Tiger
Fri Sep 28 2007
The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.
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Location: Baton Rouge, LA USA
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Some old & some new facts. I did NOT verify the veracity of these)

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?


"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand ...

And "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)



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



"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".? (Are you doubting this?)





Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our noseand ears never stop growing.



The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)





The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)



There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)



There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)


TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)



A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.





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



A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.





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




A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.!)


Almonds are a member of the peach family.




An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.






Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.




February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.




In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.





If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.






Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors .






Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!





Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.


The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.




The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.



The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that.)




The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.



There are more chickens than people in the world.



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



Women blink nearly twice as much as men.





Now you know more than you did before!
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*HmS*Ole Fart
Fri Sep 28 2007
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Tiger you spend way too much time on line searching out all that dribble lol you and ranger could compare notes lol
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Griffin
Fri Sep 28 2007
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Location: Glasgow Scotland
Posts: 87
the goldfish one is made up
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*HmS*Proteus
Fri Sep 28 2007
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Joined: Sat Jul 29 2006
Location: Chesterfield, England
Posts: 487
*HmS*Tiger wrote ...



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


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



the goldfish one has been proven wrong on "mythbusters"
and a fibershark never blinks (unless you throw a flash at him)
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*HmS*Ranger Six
Sat Sep 29 2007
*HmS*Ranger Six
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Location: griffin, ga, usa
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*HmS*Ole Fart wrote ...

Tiger you spend way too much time on line searching out all that dribble lol you and ranger could compare notes lol


or wait three months to come up with a snappy line like that....lol
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SIR BRUTAL p4f
Sat Sep 29 2007
TRUE VIKINGS DIE IN COMBAT, AND GOES STRAIGHT TO VALHALLA
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Location: Home of true VIKINGS
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Griffin wrote ...

*HmS*grunt wrote ...

You English are WEIRD!!!!

But still not as weird as SCOTS!!!


your Canadian have you lot desided what language you officially speak yet

Do U speak English, LOL i have 2 hear that MC.underwearNON,,,,
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