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McChill's blog: "Common Sense"

created on 05/10/2007  |  http://fubar.com/common-sense/b81454

*&%^ It

im not going to stress over you anymore it isnt worth it i tried to work something out but you just ignore it im not trying to say i dont want you because i definitely do all im saying is im done chasing after you

religion and God

Why do some people think in order to believe in God I have to be part of a religion? and when i show them this, and tell them this is how i feel about it, they get all bent out of shape about it. Off of CSI FATHER POWELL: I celebrate mass every Thursday night, 7:00. GRISSOM: Thank you ... but ... (he shakes his head) ... no. FATHER POWELL: You don't believe? GRISSOM: In religion? I believe in God, in science ... in Sunday supper. I don't believe in rules that tell me how I should live. FATHER POWELL: Even if they're handed down by God? GRISSOM: How many crusades were fought in the name of God? How many people died because of someone's religion? FATHER POWELL: Fanaticism. Not religion. GRISSOM: Semantics. They're still dead. FATHER POWELL: You still suffer like a catholic. FATHER POWELL: Light bulb goes out other people fix it, get a new one. Light bulb goes out for the Catholic he stands in the dark says, "What did I do wrong?" GRISSOM: That guilt's not in me anymore.
1. More fun to complain about them to your friends. 2.Guys who actually like you just aren't challenging or exciting. 3.When you do date nice guys, they turn into jerks anyway, so why not save time and go for the jerk in the first place? 4.You won't get as emotionally attached to a jerk. 5.All the other women want them, so they must be worth having. 6.Affection means more when it comes from a jerk who doesn't normally give it. 7.Guaranteed to cheat on you so someone else can endure his lack of lovemaking skills most of the time. 8.No need to feel guilty for abusing or deceiving them. 9.Jerks will actually tell you when thy don't like what you're doing instead of getting mad about it six months later. 10.Looking for someone you can't trust, and won't care about too much - or who will abuse you mentally and financially

dumb facts

There are more collect calls on father's Day than any other day of the year. There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200. The estimated value of services provided by the global ecosystem (water, food, materials etc.) runs between $16 and $54 trillion per year. Japanese lead the world in vending machines, selling $100 Armani ties, $30 bottles of whiskey, and $5 glasses of beer, right next to soft drink machines. It is possible because of low vandalism and petty theft. In 1995, Toys R Us sold more than $9 billion of goods in the U.S. alone. The average one-dollar bill wears out in less than two years. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court! The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. It takes 3,000 folds to wear out a dollar bill. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. If you yelled for over 8 and a half years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Top Six reasons for being late for work: 1) traffic. 2) oversleeping. 3) procrastination. 4) Chores. 5) Car Trouble. 6) Having Sex. If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute. Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S! An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second. National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59. (3/14 1:59) The billionth digit of pi is 9. The odds of a mother having twins are 90 to 1. Right now, this very second, 70% of the people driving on U.S. highways are speeding. There are 74 lobbyists for every one senator in Washington D.C. If you counted for 24 hours a day, it would take over 31,000 years to reach one trillion. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons. A one degree rise in temperature equals a 2% increase in peak electricity consumption. The Mayan calender, the most accurate in the world, ends in the year 2012. A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per second. There's 31,622,400 seconds in a leap year. America once issued a 5-cent bill! Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States! In the U.S. the average bride is 21 years old, the average groom is 23. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons! Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours! During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants! 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem! 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem! The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television! A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove! Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times! The word electricity derives from the Greek word "elektron" meaning amber The Greeks noted that rubbing amber produced a static charge. Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin. Scientists have identified and described about 1.4 million species of an estimated ten to 100 million on earth. Scientists estimate up to 20 percent of the world's plant and animal species may be extinct by the year 2000. Quebec is the world's leading exporter of asbestos. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight. Each day, 14,000 tons of garbage are dumped into Fresh Kills, NY, the largest landfill in the world. Astronaut Shannon Lucis spent 188 days in a row in space. That's the American record. The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television, 3,000 times in a row. The tallest man in the world was 8'11? Robert Wadlow. He was just 22 when he died in 1949 from an infection caused by leg braces he needed to keep him on his feet. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow! The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old! There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. The seven spikes atop the Statue of Liberty's head represent the seven seas and seven continents of the world. In 1885 the Home Insurance Company of Chicago was the tallest building in the world. It was only 9 stories tall. The World Trade Center towers in New York City had two zip codes, 10047 and 10048, one for each building. The inscription on the tablet held by the Statue of Liberty reads "July 4, 1776? in Roman numerals. There's 1,860 steps to the top of the Empire State Building. Termites can't digest wood, the protozoa in their stomach (they eat them when they are younger) actually are the devourers of the wood. The world's biggest clam weighs almost 500 pounds. Sharks have no air bladders, so they must swim constantly or they'll sink. Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean. A lobster can lay up to 150,000 eggs at one time. More than 20,000,000 seahorses are harvested each year for folk medicinal purposes. The world seahorse population has dropped 70% in the past 10 years. Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each leg. The eyes of a giant squid can be up to 15 inches across - the biggest in the world. More types of fish swim in Brazil's Amazon River than in the entire Alantic Ocean. Tuna swim an average of 9 mph constantly. They never stop moving. The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for an animal having the most taste buds. A shrimp's heart is located in it's head. Starfish have no brain. A jellyfish is 95 percent water! Most lipstick contains fish scales! Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. Only male turkeys (Toms) gobble, females make a clicking noise. Turkeys will peck to death members of the flock that are physically inferior or different. Unlike humans, canaries can regenerate their brain cells. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows. A hummingbird's heart beats 1,260 times per minute. Flamingos lay their eggs on top of volcano-shaped nests made of mud. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air. California condors can fly 10 miles without flapping their wings. The ostrich yolk is the largest single cell in the world. In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific. The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. The pouch under a pelican's bill holds up to 25 pounds of fish and water. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but cannot fly. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein. Six people can feast on one ostrich egg for breakfast. The peacock male is called a male and the female, a peahen. Flamingo's can only eat with their head upside down. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. A parrot's vocabulary is generally no more than 20 words. How many times can a woodpecker peck? 20 Times a second. 5,865,696,000,000 - The amount of miles in a light year. More than 20 million meteroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day. Most are no bigger than a speck of dust. The largest painting on earth is a 72437 square foot smiley face. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years. The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane. The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons! A diamond is the hardest natural substance. Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water. The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years. The sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth. There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks. Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system. Hydrogen can be a metal, but it is only in a solid state under extreme conditions such as being in the core of Jupiter! Rain falls at an average speed of 22 mph. There is a canyon on Mars that would stretch from New York to San Francisco In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption. Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system. All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakesperean charcters. The largest iceberg ever found was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide. That's bigger than Massachusetts. Everything weighs one percent less at the equator. Most stars shine for at least 10 billion years. White dwarf stars can be as small as 1,000 miles across. Footprints astronauts make on the moon will remain for millions of years due to the fact that there's no wind to blow them away. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star. The clouds on Venus are made of deadly sulfuric acid. The Galileo spacecraft traveled to Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 mph; fast enough to cross the U.S. in 85 seconds. The rings of Saturn are made of ice chunks; some as small as an ice cube and some are as big as a house. Scientists think the universe is 15 billion years old. Saturn isn't the only planet with rings: Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have them, too. It takes light 8 minutes to travel from the sun. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet. The Sun shrinks in diameter by 5 feet every hour. Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more heat. At 90' below zero your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground. The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,896 miles. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women! In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow! By some estimates, there are about a million earthquakes a day, although most are too small to be felt by even the most sensitive. Slugs have 4 noses. A dragonfly's first six months of life are spent underwater. After this time, it comes out of the water, sheds its outer skin, and starts flying, but if it falls in the water after it has shed its skin, it drowns. A leech can drink up to eight time its weight in blood at one sitting. If you weighed all the earthworms in the US, they'd be about 55 times heavier than the combined weight of all Americans. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. Some dragonflies can fly at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. Cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 15 minutes. Since the successful launch of space shuttle Columbia on mission STS-90 there have been more crickets in space than humans. The average caterpillar has 2000 muscles. The average human has 700. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! Only the female mosquito bites, the male does not. Mosquitos have teeth. Female mosquitoes flap their wings nearly 500 times per second. If you take one pound of cob webs and spread them out in one straight line, it will go around the earth 2 times. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a by a poisonous spider? A cockroach will live nine days without it's head before it starves to death. Butterflies use their feet to taste things. The female preying mantis initiates sex by ripping the males head off. Earthworms have 5 hearts. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food. The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like human jumping the length of about 7 football fields. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1! The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs! The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"! The average caterpillar has 16 legs. A flies taste buds are on its feet. Bee's flap their wings 300 times a second. Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes! A camel has a straight spine, despite its hump! A newborn kangaroo is small enough to fit into a teaspoon. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants. For the first time, the number of pet cats in the US now outnumbers the number of dogs, 60 million vs. 50 million. The acid in a person's stomach is corrosive enough to melt iron. A female african elephant can be pregnant for almost 2 years. A cow can give 100 quarts of milk per week. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. The lips of a hippopotamus are nearly two feet wide. Cats can make over 1,000 different vocal sounds, and dogs can make only about 10. An anteater sticks its tongue in and out 100 times per minute to slurp up its food. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray. Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans: seven. Some yaks' milk is pink. An elephant's trunk can hold two gallons of water. Giraffes have no vocal chords. The tongue of a blue whale weighs more than most elephants. Dogs sweat through their paw pads. Cows can smell odors six miles away. Given sufficient amounts of chocolate candies, pigs can master video game skills, and perform far better than dogs. Horses can sleep standing up. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. Good news for skunk lovers- an Illinois company is now manufacturing "Eau de Pew" a perfume created from diluted skunk scent. It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them. Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever; Dumbest dog: Afghan Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. A dog can understand between 35 to 40 commands. After bananas, a zoo gorilla's favorite food is celery. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because cow's knees can't bend properly to walk back down. When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. Cats can hear ultrasound. A pig's orgasm lasts for thirty minutes. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. A full grown bear can run as fast as a horse. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. Genghis Khan's cavalry rode female horses so soldiers could drink their milk. Gorillas stick their tongues out when angry. The heaviest dog on record was a St. Bernard weighing 310 lbs. According to Playboy Magazine, 99% of all cat and dog owners talk to their pets. 3000 of every 3001 calico kittens are female. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed… or is that pawed?! Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use finger prints! Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is — be it red or neon yellow! When baby giraffes are born, they drop six feet to the ground and land on their heads. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. The most popular name for a male cat is "Tiger" a female "Samantha". Kangaroos can't walk backwards. There are ten times as many sheep as people in Australia. Polar bears are left handed. Dogs can hear sounds that you cant. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night. A dog's heart beats 40 times a minute faster than yours. The only domestic animal that wasn't mentioned in the bible is a cat. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. The elephant is the only animal with four knees. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice. An Elephant is not afraid of a mouse. Did you know that African Elephants stay on their feet for 30 to 40 year? There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses! A U.S. backed government study found that pigs can become alcoholics. A cows sweat glands are in it's nose. Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year! A squirrel lives about 9 years. A cat has a normal body temperature of 101.5. A dog's is 101. The sloth moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur! The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! Cat's urine glows under a black-light! Porcupines float in water! The average person has 100,000 hairs on their head. There are about 10,000 taste buds on the average human tongue. In a 1-life-time average person will spend 24 years sleeping. In a life time, your heart will pump about 50,000,000 gallons. That's enough to fill 2,500 rail road cars - 21 miles long. Your brain is capable of storing more than 100 billion bits of information. A person could grow 600 complete eyelashes in a life time. The hurricane plant has holes in its leaves, which keep it from being destroyed by wind. The canopy of a rainforest is so thick, only one percent of sunlight reaches the ground. A living tree never stops growing. 40% of prescripition drugs dispensed in the U.S. have active ingredients derived from plants, animals or microorganisms, many of them from forests. A banana is about 75 percent water. The world's fastest-growing plant is the giant water lily, which grows almost a foot a day. Researchers recently sprouted a lotus seed known to be 1,288 years old, making it the oldest seed ever germinated. The Venus flytrap takes less than half a second to slam shut on an insect. A single large tree can release up to 400 gallons of water into the atmosphere each day. Rafflesia flowers attract pollinating flies by looking and smelling like rotten meat. One acre of trees absorbs enough carbon dioxide per year to match that emitted by driving a car 26,000 miles. The world's largest flower is the Rafflesia arnoldi. It can grow to the size of an umbrella. The saguaro cactus of the Arizona Desert grows less than one inch in it's first 10 years. In the 1800's an Eggplant was known as a "mad apple" and believed to be poisonous. One cord of wood can make 7 and a half million toothpicks. One acre of trees produces enough oxygen for 18 people every day. One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in Dynamite. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of ''Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom." When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator in feet. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung used by ancient Egyptians in 2000 BC. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. An alligator can supposedly wolf down an eight pound chicken in one gulp. The average adult male shaves off 1 lb of beard per year. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there though! Men get hiccups more often than women do. 54% of Americans fold toilet paper neatly. 35% wad it. What about the other 11%? Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers. A person would die if all of the toxic ingredients of one cigarette were directly injected into the bloodstream. 55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex. On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming. In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair. The average American makes six trips to the bathroom every day; that's about 2 1/2 years of your life down the drain. The average American spends six months at red lights throughout his or her life. By the age of 75, the average American has created about 110,000 pounds of garbage. An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. According to the World Heath Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. On average, humans have 9,000 taste buds in their mouths, tongues, and throats. The average person will swallow 295 times while eating. In your lifetime your body will produce more thatn 25,000 quarts of saliva. Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life. On male shirts the buttons are on the right side, on female shirts the left side. This is due to wealthy women using slaves many years ago to dress them. The buttons were on the right side to the slaves who buttoned up the shirts… Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. The average person laughs 13 times a day. In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivilant of three times around the world. In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! Most people take an average of seven minutes to fall asleep. Official studies have found that right handed people tend to scratch with their left hand and visa-versa. When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red. The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year! More than 1,800 medals are awarded at the Olympics. Track athletes are most likely to break records later in the day, when their body temperatures are highest. A chinese checkerboard has 121 holes. In a deck of cards, all four Kings have beards, but only three of them also have mustaches. The one without a mustache is the King of Hearts. A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall down. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. There are 225 squares on a scrabble board. Five-Card Poker has 2,598,960 possible hands. The SEC leads the NCAA in total major violations of rules since recording began in 1953 with 42 violations. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world! A soccer ball has 32 panels. Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour. A hockey puck weighs .38 lb. Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches. A forfeited game in baseball is recorded as 9-0. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year. The actual playing time in a Major League Baseball game which lasts two and a half hours has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55 seconds. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings! There more than 350 dimples on a golf ball. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2. People began surfing in Hawaii before Columbus sailed to America. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada is the slurpee capitol of the world! Residents of the city, despite the cold weather, drink more slurpees per capita than any other city! On an average day 102 people visit the Dr. Pepper museum in Waco, TX. There are two places on earth where men outlive women: southern Asia and Iran. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. The Tokyo Zoo, located in Japan, closes down for two months every year to give the animals a little break from the people. Theres only one mobile U.S. national monument: the cable cars in San Fransisco. The US city with the most lightning strikes per capita is Clearwater, Florida. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong. Hong Kong has just overtaken Tokyo as the world's most expensive city. US cities don't even make the list till number 21 (New York). Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Over 10 million Indonesians are boy scouts. Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4. Some kids in Texas have the longest school bus ride in the US., a 179 miles round trip. In Australia, a hurricane is called a willy-willy. More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world. Over 98 percent of Japanese are cremated after they die. In China, the bride wears red. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the US Greenland is the largest island in the world. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year. The state of Florida is bigger than England. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year. The only U.S. city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu, Hawaii. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee. Alaska's coastline is longer than all the U.S. states coasts combined. In Bangladesh, people as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. There is a city called Rome on every Continent. America once issued a 5-cent bill. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. The Chinese only celebrate birthdays every ten years. Theres no single word to say "yes" or "no" in Japanese. We don't know if there's a Heaven on earth, but there is a Hell, it's a town in Norway. Also, there is a Hell in Michigan, and to exit the area you must go through Angel's Pass to get to Monk's Road. Yet another Hell is in the Grand Cayman Islands. Iceland is warmer than Chicago, Illinois in the winter. The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish. Dutch, and Portuguese. The national anthem of Greece is 158 verses. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones! Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people! The first couple seen in bed together was Mary Kay & Johnny Steen Charles Dickens slept facing North. He thought it improved his writing. A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used. The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand. There was a person that paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot. The first American to have indoor plumbing was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1840. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement." Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it rhymed with "rejoice." Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate roasted turkey from foil packets as their first meal on the moon. Pamela Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada's independence. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley. Mary Todd Lincoln claimed she was haunted during her life, and sewed money into clothes to foil the invisible thieves. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992. Samuel Colt, the famous gun maker, paid the equivalent of $400,000 in today's money for his wife's wedding dress and accessories. David Prouse (the man inside the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars) spoke all of his lines in the first movie. He did not know that his voice was being dubbed over with that of James Earl Jones until he saw the finished movie. Vincent Van Gogh once sliced off his ear and another time swallowed his own paint. You must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. and a citizen for at least 14 years and be 35 years of age before you can run for President. In 1841, the 8th 9th and 10th presidents served in office all in one year. They were Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler. Calvin Coolidge is the only president born on July 4th, in 1872. Macaroni was the name of the pony that Caroline Kennedy used to ride on the grounds of the White House. One of the main fundraisers for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal was Joseph Pulitzer, the same man for whom the literary prize is named after. The only man to ever be President and Vice-President but never be elected to either was Gerald Ford. George Washington's salary as President was $25,000 a year. On July 4, 1826, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson passed away. Abraham Lincoln had no middle name. The only two US presidents to receive the Nobel Peace Prize were Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Elvis Presley had a reading chair in his bathroom. M&M's stands for the names of Forrest Mars, Sr., the candymaker and his associate Bruce Murrie. "Dixie" which was a popular song among the Confederates during the Civil War, was written by a Northerner named Dam Emmett. The first person to be born in the U.S. and become president was Martin Van Buren. The only president to hold a Ph.D. was Woodrow Wilson. George Custer was the youngest man to ever become a general in the U.S. Army. He was 23 years old. Julius Caeser's autograph is worth 2 million dollars, but one has not been found yet. George Washington wore a size 13 shoe. The only person who's birthday is a legal holiday all across the U.S. is George Washington. After Custer's Last Stand, Sioux Indian leader Chief Sitting Bull became an entertainer and toured the country with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. John Wayne had an 18 inch neck. Englands Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all 17 of her children. Mozart never went to school. Smokey The Bear's original name was Hotfoot Teddy. Queen Elizabeth was an 18 year old mechanic in the English military. 53310761 was Elvis Presleys dog tag number. In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete. A lefthanded pitcher, Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club. The white powder on chewing gum is actually sweetened marble dust. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. Gum on postage stamps have from two to eight calories. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants. Americans eat about 700 million pounds of peanut butter and 2 billion pounds of chocolate a year. It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats. The average American eats about seven pounds of potato chips a year. When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! Russia's best selling candy bar: Snickers. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year. On average, each American ate 4.4 pounds of jelly last year. Pound for pound (kilo for kilo), hamburgers cost more than new cars. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze. It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey's Kiss. Americans eat close to 10 billion donuts every year Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. They have square watermelons in Japan … they stack better. Each day, about 40 million Americans eat peanut butter. Coca-cola was originally green. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings. Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime. Spokane, WA, is the top soup-eating town in the U.S. On average, each household eats about 25 cans per year. The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy! Wow! A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate! Americans eat 75 acres of pizza a day. 80% of people eat their corn on-the-cob in circles rather than side to side. If you took all the hen's eggs laid in America for 1 year and laid them end to end, they'd circle the earth 100 times. By the age of 70, the average American will have eaten 14 cattle, 23 pigs, and 12 sheep. In most advertisements the time displayed on an analog watch is 10:10. Only 1/3 of all "Gilligan's Island" episodes are about getting off the island. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. The Pentium II chip can make more than half-a-billion calculations per second. Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. The first company to use the modern-day aluminum can was Coors brewery, in 1959. The can the used however, was only 7 ounces! The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum! There is enough graphite in the average pencil to draw a line 35 miles long, that's 45,000 words. It would take half the people in the United States between the ages of 18 and 45 to run the nation's telephone system if it were not computerized Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards. Kermit the frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck. Pluto (the dog from Disney) was originally called "Rover". Wilma Flinstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker. If Barbie (the doll) was life size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. Barbie?s (the doll) full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. The comic known as Peanuts was originally known as Li'lfolks. The dog featured on a box of Cracker Jacks name is Bingo, the little boy is Jack. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"! The first TV couple to sleep in the same bed was Fred and Wilma Flintstone On average, a secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing. The words ''stewardesses'' and ''reverberated'' are the longest words (12 letters) typed with only the left hand. The longest words that can be typed using only the right hand in proper typing form are ''lollipop" and "monopoly". Check this out, look at your keyboard, the only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters is "typewriter". Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing. The first novel ever written on a typewriter was "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo". It's estimated that more than 6 billion copies of The Bible have been printed. The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the United States. The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am." The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used! Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language. Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple letter. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! The sentence "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" uses every letter of the alphabet and uses the least letters to do so! There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the U.S. More than 50% of time spent in U.S courtrooms is over automobile cases. The world's longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg). In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. The longest word in the English language is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust. "Jack" is the most common name in nursery rhymes. In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e's), Indivisibility (six i's), and nonannouncement (six n's). The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u's is vacuum, residuum, and continuum. The very first dictionary "The American" took Noah Webster 20 years to put together. The word "alphabet" is derived from the first two letters in the Greek alphabet: "alpha" and "beta". The only word in the English language that has 4 sets of double letters in a row is balloonneer. A moment is defined as zero seconds long. The only words with all the vowels listed in order are facetiously and abstemiously. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable". The only word with all the vowels in reverse order is subcontinental. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States! Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E! Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions! Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed. 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. In ancient Egypt, people used to shave their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats. In ancient China doctors would only receive fees if the patient stayed in good health. Sometimes if the patients health became to bad, the doctor had to pay them. Married women could not view the Olympic Games in ancient Greece under penalty of death. Glasses have been worn for about 700 years. About 300 years ago, people used toothbrushes made from hog bristles. During the Middle Ages, people used spider webs to try to cure warts. Rockets were first made by the Chinese more than 750 years ago. The 100 years war lasted 116 years. During Martin Luther's Reformation, he claimed the Catholic Church to be the anti-christ, and in response, they claimed he was the anti-christ. The common people, assuming one must be the anti-christ, believed that the acopalypse was coming. It never did. The first sound recording ever made: "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1877. In 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours because of an ice jam blocking the Niagara River. In Victorian times, estate gardeners never planted grape vines without first burying a dead donkey underneath the plot. In the 1800's anyone in England who unsucessfully attempted suicide faced the death penalty. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word. "Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be excellent riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages are $25.00 a week." This is a mid 1800's help wanted sign for the Pony Express. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000. In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to 55,000. In 1921 76 inches of snow fell over Silver Lake, Colorodo, the heaviest snowfall ever recorded. The first minimum wage to be established in America was 25 cents an hour, it was in 1938. In 1980 the yellow pages listed a funeral Home under "frozen foods". In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lasted for six months and caused schools to be closed. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. Sunglasses became popular in the 1920's when movie stars began wearing them to cut the camera's bright lights. Bubonic plague killed millions of people throughout Europe in the Dark Ages, and in 1996, five cases of plague were reported in the U.S. Talk is cheap compared to what it used to be; in 1915 a telephone call from New York to San Francisco cost $20.70 for the first three minutes. Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S. but technically it's number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the union. Seventy percent of the soldiers who served on U-boats for Germany in World War II lost their lives during the war. The Spanish - American War was started when an American vessel, the Maine, sunk in Havana harbor. Contrary to popular belief, an internal fire that spread to the ammo storage caused the initial explosion, not a sea mine. Nearly 3000 merchant vessels were sunk by U-boats in World War II During 2002, two hundred thousand dollars were approved to be spent in Georgia to build a "group shelter" at Jefferson Davis Historic Site. In the Amended Georgia FY 2002 Budget, 8.7 million dollars was alotted to the Georgia Technology Authority for "portal development". The H-4, more commonly known as the "Spruce Goose", was the largest airplane ever to be built, and first lifted off on November 2,1947. The unexpected flight lasted for approximately a minute and stunned onlookers who had never seen a plane so massive (the Spruce Goose's wingspan was 320 feet). Designed, constructed, and flown by Howard Hughes at the first trial run, the plane would never fly again. Final cost: 22 million dollars paid by the federal government and 18 million dollars paid by Hughes personally (numbers not adjusted for inflation). In 2002, three and a half million dollars were approved to be spent in Georgia for the construction of a "fishing area" in Ocmulgee Wildlife Management Area. The Amended Georgia FY 2002 Budget gives 4.7 million dollars to the department of human resources for postage alone! In the Amended Georgia FY 2002 Budget, $65,000 was spent to buy a new cooler for the Georgia School for the Deaf. Chartered on January 27, 1785, the University of Georgia is the oldest state-chartered University in the United States. Gene Simmons, of the shock-rock group Kiss, earned a B.A. in education and speaks four languages. The New York Board of Education barred the whipping of children in its schools on March 4, 1908. During the Stalin era, education in Russia was stressed. As a result, a majority of Russian women and men are very intelligent and hold degrees. In fact, Russia's literacy rate is about 98 percent. If all retired US ships that now serve as memorials were used to form a new navy, it would rank as the third largest in the world. Samuel Colt's first gun manufacturing factory went bankrupt. During the Manhatten Project, 18 people were injected with plutonium to test the effects of nuclear weapons on humans, which caused numerous health problems, and most were not even aware it had occurred. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (It was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.) The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. The Eisenhower (or U.S.) interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. Emus cannot walk backwards. The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Most American's car horns beep in the key of "F". Camel's milk does not curdle.
When someone tells you your butt is on fire, you should take them at their word. There is no such thing as a bad doughnut. Kids are like monkeys, only louder. If you want results, press the red button. The rest are useless. There are many different religions in this world, but if you look at them carefully, you'll see that they all have one thing in common: They were invented by a giant, superintelligent slug named Dennis. You should just name your third kid Baby. Trust me -- it'll save you a lot of hassle. You can have many different jobs and still be lazy. I enjoy the great taste of Duff. Yes, Duff is the only beer for me. Smooth, creamy Duff . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzz. You can get free stuff if you mention a product in a magazine interview. Like Chips Ahoy! cookies. You may think it's easier to de-ice your windshield with a flamethrower, but there are repercussions. Serious repercussions. There are some things that just aren't meant to be eaten. The intelligent man wins his battles with pointed words. I'm sorry -- I meant sticks. Pointed sticks. There are way too many numbers. The world would be a better place if we lost half of them -- starting with 8. I've always hated 8. If I had a dollar for every time I heard "My God! He's covered in some sort of goo," I'd be a rich man. Be generous in the bedroom -- share your sandwich. I've climbed the highest mountains . . . fallen down the deepest valleys . . . I've been to Japan and Africa . . . and I've even gone into space. But I'd trade it all for a piece of candy right now. Every creature on God's earth has a right to exist. Except for that damn ruby-throated South American warbler. I don't need a surgeon telling me how to operate on myself. Sometimes I think there's no reason to get out of bed . . . then I feel wet, and I realize there is. Let me just say, Winnie the Pooh getting his head caught in a honey pot? It's not funny. It can really happen. Even though it is awesome and powerful, I don't take no guff from the ocean. I never ate an animal I didn't like. A fool and his money are soon parted. I would pay anyone a lot of money to explain that to me. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll get a hook caught on his eyelid or something. I made a deal with myself ten years ago . . . and got ripped off. Never leave your car keys in a reactor core. Always trust your first instinct -- unless it tells you to use your life savings to develop a Destructo Ray. When you borrow something from your neighbor, always do it under the cover of darkness. If a spaceship landed and aliens took me back to their planet and made me their leader, and I got to spend the rest of my life eating doughnuts and watching alien dancing girls and ruling with a swift and merciless hand? That would be sweet. I may not be the richest man on earth. Or the smartest. Or the handsomest. Never throw a butcher knife in anger. The office is no place for off-color remarks or offensive jokes. That's why I never go there. My favorite color is chocolate. Always feel with your heart, although it's better with your hands. The hardest thing I've had to face as a father was burying my own child. He climbed back out, but it still hurts. If doctors are so right, why am I still alive? I'm not afraid to say the word racism, or the words doormat and bee stinger. Always have plenty of clean white shirts and blue pants. When that guy turned water into wine, he obviously wasn't thinking of us Duff drinkers. I love natural disasters because we're allowed to get out of work. When I'm dead, I'm going to sleep. Oh, man, am I going to sleep. What kind of fool would leave a pie on a windowsill, anyway?

Common Sense

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; Why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and Maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6 -year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or a band-aid to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 3 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing
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