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Do you ever wonder who sits down and compiles all this stuff that fills up your mail-box?And you know that somebody thinks it's pretty cool because you can see that they have forwarded it to 10 or 15 people...At least!
So I scan it quickly, and OH NO, my eye hits on a word and I have to read that one.
Let's take the first one , about the dime.
I read it and yell into the other room, "Hey did you know there are 118 ridges around a dime."
Can you guess what happens next? Yep, someone gets out a dime and tries to count them.
Do you know how long that takes!!! You lose count and have to start allllll over again!!!
What a quality way to spend our time. Thanks e-mail friend, this has just taken up 30 minutes of my "Majong" time. Oh, the utter disappointment of time lost...or was it?
I did get to spend a few lovely minutes with my family counting ridges around a dime. :~O
This is only about half of this particular one. (you might say the cream of the crop)
Now I know you don't get this type of nonsence so I thought I'd share one of mine with you.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, 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.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world. (there has to be for all of us who visit The Colonel)
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. (this one makes me sad)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. (this is one I really needed to know)
Jan
posted by We Three Spences @ 5:55 PM
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