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Originally posted by T'lainya
You'll be in trouble if you break the board :eek: :D


He'll be in worse trouble still if the universe shuts down, as a result.

...and considering the sluggish state of your synpases, I suspect you'd realize this fact roughly thirty minutes after it happened. :D
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@ Fable, and when I do I'll attempt to wake you up long enough to get your quadrifocals on :)
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Originally posted by T'lainya
@ Fable, and when I do I'll attempt to wake you up long enough to get your quadrifocals on :)


Tell it to your pals at Mt. Palomar, assuming you can remember how to speak by then. ;) :D
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At least I don't have to go searching for my dentures every morning :D
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Originally posted by T'lainya
At least I don't have to go searching for my dentures every morning :D


Never been able to get 'em off one end of those handcuffs the interns stuck with you, huh? :)
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Originally posted by fable
Never been able to get 'em off one end of those handcuffs the interns stuck with you, huh? :)

Now Fable, they normally keep me sedated, i don't approve of handcuffs except for "entertainment" purposes ;) :D
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Originally posted by T'lainya
Now Fable, they normally keep me sedated, i don't approve of handcuffs except for "entertainment" purposes ;) :D
Absolutely! Though silk scarves...that is, well, I mean... :eek:
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LIISTING FRENZY Pt.13 !!!

Some more Useless Facts:

The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octothorpe.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up
to 160 km/hr.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin
was a little Chinese boy."

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of
life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and
grass is living.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific
Ocean.

Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster
than the rest of us.

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is
because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding
the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed
knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham
fisted operators," a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code
(i.e., pounded their fist).

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These
license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.

Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.

Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.

Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child
in the world.

The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.

The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.

The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the
Earth's orbit around the sun.

The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-
whenuakitanatahu--a New Zealand hill.

Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Poriuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA."

Only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go
slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go the
speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon which is supposed to go
faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels
before you fire it.

When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's
the same length as a persons head.

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.

A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
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Re: LIISTING FRENZY Pt.13 !!!
Originally posted by Beldin
The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
Sorry to spoil your fun, mate, but the pedant within requires me to inform you that a # is actually called an "octothorpe" :p
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An octomorph would be an eight-armed creature that can turn itself into an economist.
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It is now many years since the last train stopped at the railway station with the longest name in Britain Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-Llantysilio-gogogoch in Anglesey. (in wales, IIRC)

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Richard Nixon was in Dallas the day JFK was killed.

Pound for pound, earthworms make up half of the animal kingdom.

A scallop has 35 eyes - all of them blue.

Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees.

Rats and Giraffes can live longer without water than camels.

Elvis is the most common name for King snakes. :D :D :D

90% of all animal species in the history of Earth are now extinct.

The scientific name of the Gorilla is, Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla.

Deer play tag.

Pigs killed off the Dodo bird. :eek:

Goldfish turn white if you put them in a dark room.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. .....[no comment]

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. Now that´d be awesome!

A coqroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. (hedgehogs, go home!)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. :eek: Even worse than the guineapig harem! :D

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Starfish don't have brains.
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Highlight for rather disgusting facts!
You HAVE been warned!! :D


A whale penis is called a dork. (I believe this is a well-known fact in SYM :D )

Male capuchin monkeys usually say hello by showing each other their erections.

The largest penis in the animal kingdom is that of the blue whale. Its average length is 11 feet (3.35 m)! Aaaaargh, run!!! :eek:
BTW, the height from the court floor to the rim of a basketball hoop is 10 feet (3.05m). :D

On a more modest scale, iguanas and koalas in order to increase the odds of getting it in each have two penises. It must probably help...

Some single cells have no fewer than eight different sexes.

Oysters change sex according to the temperature of the water around them. What the hell????

Lions as well as all other felines have a barbed penis. This means that when copulating they litterally get "hooked" to their partner. Rattlesnakes also have a hook on their penis.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.... Ouch!

The animals that copulate the most are the rodents.
The Shaw's jird (Meriones shawi shawi, a type of gerbil) has been observed to copulate 224 times in the space of 2 hours - that's an average of 32.14 seconds per copulation.

The record of the shortest coitus is probably that of the mosquito which mates on the wing and has sex for only 2 seconds.

If an aroused iguana doesn't climax, it will masturbate by rubbing against a tree or rock. Tough guys...

Female penguins trade rocks with males in exchange for sex. Now there's some well dressed gigolos. :D
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LISTING FRENZY Pt. 18 !!!

..ande here comes the list of politically correct terms to use when in contact with militant feminists... ;) :D

She does not get PMS,
she becomes hormonally homicidal.

She does not have a killer body,
she is terminally attractive.

She is not a bad cook,
she is microwave compatible.

She is not a bad driver,
she is automotively challenged.

She is not a Perfect 10,
she is numerically superior.

She is not easy,
she is horizontally accessible.

She does not hate sports on TV,
she is athletically biased.

She does not have sexy lips,
she is collagen dependent.

She does not get drunk,
she is accidentally over served or
she becomes verbally dyslexic.

You do not ask her to dance,
sou request a precoital rhythmic experience.

She is not a gossip,
she is a verbal terminator.

She does not work out too much,
she is an abdominal overachiever.

She does not have a great butt,
she is gluteus to the maximus.

She is not hooked on soap operas,
she is melodramatically fixated.

She is not cold or frigid,
she is thermally incompatible.

She does not wear too much makeup,
she is cosmetically oversaturated.

She does not have great cleavage or a great rack,
her breasts are centrally located.

She does not have big hooters,
her cups runneth over.

She will never gain weight,
she will become a metabolic underachiever.

She is not a screamer or a moaner,
she is vocally appreciative.

She does not shave her legs,
she experiences temporary stubble reduction.

She does not have a hard body,
she is anatomically inflexible.

She does not sun bathe,
she experiences solar enhancement.

Her breasts will never sag,
they will lose their vertical hold.

She does not shop too much,
she is overly susceptible to marketing ploys.

She does not cut you off,
she becomes horizontally inaccessible.

She does not have big hair,
she is overly aerosoled.

She does not snore,
she is nasally repetitive.

She is not too skinny,
she is skeletally prominent.

No worries,

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ROFLMAO! Great one Don Belly! :D
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*lol* @ E-Man !

Good one ;) .
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At the end of Simpson episode [2F06] "Homer Bad Man", in which Homer is accused of sexually assaulting his babysitter, a Hard Copy-esque current-affairs show, Rock Bottom, is forced to issue a formal apology to Homer for sensationalizing the accusations against him. They do so, by letting a list of corrections in miniature print roll off the screen. Here's the "Rock Bottom" corrections list (courtesy of the Simpsons Archive):
  • - "Peoples' Choice Awards" _is_ America's greatest honor.
  • - Styrofoam is not made from kittens.
  • - The UFO was a paper plate.
  • - The nerds on the Internet are not geeks.
  • - The word "cheese" is not funny in and of itself.
  • - The older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod.
  • - Lyndon Johnson did not provide the voice of Yosemite Sam.
  • - If you are reading this, you have no life.
  • - Roy Rogers was not buried in his horse.
  • - The other UFO was an upside down salad spinner.
  • - Our universities are not "hotbeds" of anything.
  • - Mr. Dershowitz did not literally have four eyes.
  • - Our viewers are not pathetic sexless food tubes.
  • - Audrey Hepburn never weighed 400 pounds.
  • - The "Cheers" gang is not a real gang.
  • - Salt water does not chase the thirsties away.
  • - Licking an electrical outlet will not turn you into a Mighty
    Morphin Power Ranger.
  • - Cats do not eventually turn into dogs.
  • - Bullets do not bounce off of fat guys.
  • - Recycling does not deplete the ozone.
  • - Everything is 10% fruit juice.
  • - The flesh eating virus does not hide in ice cream.
  • - Janet Reno is evil.
  • - V8 juice is not 1/8 gasoline.
  • - Ted Koppel is a robot.
  • - Women aren't from Venus and men aren't form Mars.
  • - Fleiss does floss.
  • - Quayle is familiar with common bathroom procedures.
  • - Bart is bad to the bone.
  • - Godfry Jones' wife is cheating on him.
  • - The Beatles haven't reunited to enter kick boxing competitions.
  • - The "Bug" on your TV screen can see into your home.
  • - Everyone on TV is better than you.
  • - The people who are writing this have no life.
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ROFL @ Eery w/ Garfield post and Simpons post

Ahhh...Garfield is great. I have every Garfield comic that Jim Davis put in a newspaper, dating back to the first one in June 19, 1977 (I believe the date was...), either from the books or from the day-to-day calender. :cool: Im amazed that he can write funny comics day in and day out for 25+ years.

And the Simpons...Ive always wondered about those fast lists at the end. Ive never caught it on tape, before. :D Theres that one, and there are a couple others I want to catch. :D
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Originally posted by Tybaltus
ROFL @ Eery w/ Garfield post and Simpons post
And the Simpons...Ive always wondered about those fast lists at the end. Ive never caught it on tape, before. :D Theres that one, and there are a couple others I want to catch. :D
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