by free2beme 19 Replies latest jw friends
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
I would love to see the math on this.
Very very hard to believe.
As with most tidbits of trivia, I have to wonder if somebody sitting in an office with a sharpened pencil and a view of the river just makes these up over a cafe' latte'.
T.
Turtles can breathe through their butts. Turtles aren't the only ones. There are some men in Brooklyn who can do this. They have been successful at running a religion while having their heads firmly planted up their behinds most of the time.
I think all of the things were meant to be urban legends.
Hire a teenager while they still know everything.
I hate kids. They bug the crap out of me
A jiffy is a proper unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Elizabeth the First suffered from anthophobia ( a fear of flowers - in her case roses)
Names for Atlantic hurricanes can only be French, English, or Spanish.
A 'quidnunc' is a person who is eager to know the latest news & gossip.
The average woman says 3 times more words per day than the average man.
The word 'dude" is the name for an infected elephant butt hair.
A spermologer collects trivia.
Until 1969 it was illegal to speak English in Illinois because the official language was American.
Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.
A pied-billed grebe is called a peebeegeebee by birdwatchers.
What's funny is that I knew most of that crap....I know more about useless crap then something meaning full.
Trust me about the Turtles...sad but I knew that.
Here is a few more......
In your life time you will eat about 8 spiders.
Dolphins have sex for pleasure like humans.
Pigs can have 30 minute orgasms.
Brooke
"A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why." Get your dope straightened out here: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html OHM
A lot of these claims are difficult or impossible to test. Some corrections anyway for those that aren't:
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
No they don't. See http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/donkey.htm
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
A duck's quack echoes like any other sound, and just about everybody knows why.
A jiffy is a proper unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Not quite. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy
Names for Atlantic hurricanes can only be French, English, or Spanish.
Apparently not. Some names used that don't fit these criteria are Isaac, Ingrid, Omar, Otto, Olga. See http://www.fema.gov/kids/hunames3.htm
The word 'dude" is the name for an infected elephant butt hair.
I couldn't find anything to substantiate that. "Dude" had its origins in the 1870s, possibly as a corruption of "doodle".
A spermologer collects trivia.
He might do. I couldn't find the word in any dictionary. I saw an online reference though. The definition given allegedly appeared in Playboy in 1991, and it also means one who collects seeds. See http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/glossary.htm
I knew that.....
Do you spend a lot of time researching useless arguements or was I just special? If so, could you count the sand grains of the sea, and see if it really is outnumbered by the angels in heaven, I need the data.
