this week - information to slip into conversation, be it over cocktails or the negotiations table.
1. Trivial Pursuit...
Can you guess which of the following are true and which are false? Sharpen your pencils...
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19 John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
Now, click on Comments for the answers...
2. totally useless information...
- At 300 pounds, William Howard Taft was the only US President to get stuck in the White House bathtub
- Taft also had a special re-enforced steel dinning chair.
- Hrand Araklein, a Brinks's car guard, was killed when $50,000 worth of quarters crushed phim.
- Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella
- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Goofy had a wife, Mrs. Goofy, and one son, Goofy jr.
- Superman is in every Seinfeld episode (it's on a shelf in Jerry's apartment)
- The guy in the Darth Vader suit didn't know that James Earl Jones was doing the woice until the screenplay.
- Queen Elizabeth I had anthophobia -- the fear of roses
- Malcom Lowry had pnigophobia -- the fear of choking on fish bones
- Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died 13 minutes before midnight on Friday the 13th.
- Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
- Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
- Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
- Elvis was once appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
- There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death.
- When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks
- Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
- The average American has $104 in their wallet
- Mozart wrote the nusery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five.
- The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named the American Pie.
- Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
- The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'Its A Wonderful Life.'
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
- Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of 'Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.'
- Charles de Gaulle's final words were, 'It hurts.'
- Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired ppilot show. His first name was Willy.
- The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
- Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'
- Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant 'plenty of excrement'
- Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool. ( He changed it every two innings)
- The only real person to ever to appear on a pez dispenser was Betsey Ross.
- Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
- A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
- Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time (think about that one!)
- Mike Neismith's (the guitarist of The Monkeys) mom invented White Out.
- Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the JAWS movies.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
and finally
- The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
3. IEDILF - Omnificient English Dictionary in Limerick Form...
A Mexican chef named Miguel
Loves to hear when his customers yell,
And the louder those screams,
Then the wider he beams;
His chipotles are hotter than hell.
The IEDILF is looking for help in providing entries to the dictionary. They're only up to the c's!
4. scary thought...
Hokey Pokey
really
IS
what it's
all about?
Now, don't you feel smarter? Great pick-up lines in there also...
1 comment:
the answers to the first part are ALL TRUE. honest. even the one about alfred hitchcock. I didn't want to believe that one, but he had abdominal surgery and they removed his belly button!
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