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San Diego. Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means "a whale's vagina".
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Merry Christmas!
Heating up a rock in the microwave will cause the rock to explode
A cat can produce over 100 types of sounds but a dog can only do ten--shut up stupid cat
The world's youngest parents appeared in 1910, an 8-year old and a 9-year old, Chinese people.
An elephant can stand on its head.
Arab women can initiate a divorce if their husbands don't pour coffee for them
Only 30% of people can expand and contract their nostrils at will
Clams switch their gender a few times in their life
A dairy cow can produce more milk while listening to music
The meaning of the instrument, "hurdy gurdy" meant "shake your bottom"
You CAN lick your elbow with your tongue. My younger sister has. She can also stick her tongue up her nose.
The full name of the Barbie doll is Barabra Millicent Roberts
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
A person uses approximately 57 sheets of toilet paper each day
Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by 10 years
The word "gullible" is not in the dictionary
pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
The least common birth date in the U.S. is May 22nd. Anybody here with that birthday? Autograph please?
Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible and cats are not mentioned once. HA!
I wish I was as young as I look in the forum picture! But I'm not. :(
Casino Royale, the 21st movie in the James Bond 007 series, was the first Bond movie to show a scene in rainy weather.
Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
The Rolling Stones have a higher average age than the US Supreme Court.
5/11/24 Grizzly Peak Marathon, Berkeley, CA
7/20/24 Tahoe Rim Trail 56 miler, NV
9/21/24 Mountain Lakes 100, OR
You may be right
Rats have sex up to 20 times a day.
Don't believe everything you think.
and I have no cartliage at all in mine.
I don't either. I always thought I was just that person, you know?
On On
I call BS.
I would place money on the fact the least common date is Feb. 29th.
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an amazing likeness
For the first few weeks...then the magic fades.
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
I call BS. I would place money on the fact the least common date is Feb. 29th.
The following table shows every day of the year, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, along with a ranking based on how many babies were born in the United States on that date between 1973 and 1999.
Then they lead secret lives as distance runners.
There was a point in my life when I ran. Now, I just run.
We are always running for the thrill of it
Always pushing up the hill, searching for the thrill of it
Once upon a time, there was a baseball team known as The California Angels. Then they became the Anaheim Angels. Then they decided to become "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim".
Anyone with a bit of Spanish might chuckle at this name. In English, it is "The The Angels Angels of Anaheim".
A Saucy Wench
Once upon a time, there was a baseball team known as The California Angels. Then they became the Anaheim Angels. Then they decided to become "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim". Anyone with a bit of Spanish might chuckle at this name. In English, it is "The The Angels Angels of Anaheim".
Anyone with a bit of Sense might chuckle at this name
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
How Common Is Your Birthday? The following table shows every day of the year, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, along with a ranking based on how many babies were born in the United States on that date between 1973 and 1999.
I wonder if you separated out naturally timed births vs. scheduled (c or induced) how this chart would change.
I looked up my birthday - June 13th and was kind of surprised that it ranked so much lower than either the 12th or the 14th. Would people avoid "lucky number 13" deliberately? So I looked at all the months. In every month the 13th ranked lower in births than the 12th or 14th. Sometimes significantly lower (higher number is lower number of births. )
When you are watching
Charlie Brown
Say, A Charlie Brown Christmas
The reason why
Their delivery pauses in weird spots
Is because....
They used actual kids for recording the dialog. Apparently, some of the younger kids couldn't really read yet. And some of the slightly older ones read outloud exactly like most 2nd graders. SO.... they'd feed them their dialog one chunk at a time and record the kid restating it. Then they spliced the pieces together. Being the 1960s, there was just so much recording magic they could do to smooth this all out.
It is interesting to me that some of the dialog is a lot more choppy than other parts. Some kids were better at it than others. Linus' big speech in the Christmas episode is a lot smoother, for example, than anything Charlie Brown says.