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[Iron Duke]

Where's the crossbow pertinent fun fact here?  Mind your P's & Q's  

In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.

Hence, we have 'the rule of thumb.'

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Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented.  It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only --- Ladies Forbidden.'

And thus, the word GOLF entered into the English language.  

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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was:

Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.

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Men can read smaller print than women can;

women can hear better.

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Coca-Cola was originally green.

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It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work:

Alaska

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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness:

28% (now get this...)  

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The percentage of North America that is wilderness:

38%

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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:

$ 16,400  

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The average number of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour:

61,000

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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

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The first novel ever written on a typewriter:

Tom Sawyer.

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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades - King David

Hearts - Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great

Diamonds - Julius Caesar

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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =

12,345,678,987, 654,321

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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
  
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died because of wounds received in battle.
  
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

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Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?  


A. Their birthplace

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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat
name requested?

A. Obsession

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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter 'A'?


A. One thousand

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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers have in common?

A. All were invented by women.

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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?

A. Honey

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Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year?

A. Father's Day

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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.

Hence the phrase 'Goodnight , sleep tight'

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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
  
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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts ...  So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.’

It's where we get the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's'
  
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Many years ago in England , pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service.

'Wet your whistle' is the phrase inspired by this practice.

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At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!

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Don't delete the following paragraph just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it:

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

[Moon]

Cen ytu cune hwlp me stnce ywu hpve nohtong to du?????

I'm going to be as busy as a one armed paper hanger through the next few nonths.

[Ranger]

I must have a lot of zinc and copper in my hair.  

[Tommy]

"Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury"

I bet that is no longer true!!

[maad]

My son knows a girl that can lick her elbow.

[j.w.g.]

where's that baby at

[Iron Duke]

Moon said:

Cen ytu cune hwlp me stnce ywu hpve nohtong to du?????

I'm going to be as busy as a one armed paper hanger through the next few nonths.

What are you doing to be so busy?

I'm running around like a three legged dog in a butcher shop myself!  

[huntingal]

Iron, that was pretty good stuff, I didn't know but one or two. And Ranger, you are copper and zinc.
Is it time to take down the Christmas decorations?

[ryno]

Siltl trinyg to lcik my eblow.

[cal45]

Not exactly sure of the steps but something a woman can do that a man can't is step up to a wall and touch your forehead. Take one step back, put your arms at your side. A woman can stand up straight but a man can't. Something to do with the way the pelvis is shaped or something like that. I know I can't do it but sometimes I need the wall to hold me up.

[Guide Girl]

"Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair."

So THAT explains why I want to bleach my hair when my workload gets bad.
If I strip out the copper and zinc, I appear blonde and people quit asking me smart and complicated questions! Now I know. Where's that bleach at?  
I only want to answer stupid questions.
That was a new one for me. I'll have fun with it now.

[Old Longhair]

Iron Duke said:

Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers have in common?

A. All were invented by women.

I wonder if women invented bullet proof vests out of a feeling of necessity?

cal45 said:

Not exactly sure of the steps but something a woman can do that a man can't is step up to a wall and touch your forehead. Take one step back, put your arms at your side. A woman can stand up straight but a man can't. Something to do with the way the pelvis is shaped or something like that. I know I can't do it but sometimes I need the wall to hold me up.

It's COG. A man's COG is in his shoulders, and a womans is in her hips.

[Iron Duke]

KILROY WAS HERE!

In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the REAL Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article.

Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts had evidence of his identity. Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war. He worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet.

Kilroy would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark. Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.

One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then that he realized what had been going on.

The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his checkmark on each job he inspected, but added KILROY WAS HERE in king-sized letters next to
the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message. Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks.

Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced. His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific.

Before the war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long haul to Berlin and Tokyo .To the unfortunate troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that some jerk named Kilroy had "been there first." As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it issaid to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue ofLiberty, the underside of the Arch De Triumphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon.)  And as the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for the coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI's there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo! In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference.  The first person inside was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?" ....To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the
shipyard and some of the riveters.

He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse inthe Kilroy front yard in Halifax, Massachusetts .


So now You Know!

[BlackBoarDown]

Iron Duke said:

I'm running around like a three legged dog in a butcher shop myself!  

There was once a dog that use to hang out at the airport that had three legs. We called him "Tripod" . One day he was chasing a plane and got into the propeller. Scattered the mut all over the place. Was a mess to clean up the airplane.

[Undertaker]

I am afraid it would be a little too disturbing if I were to share.


....but if you like stuff to read.

A man died leaving his girl friend and three children and a sister and a brother. Family feud, all the way around. Big fight at the cemetery involving knives and such. Ugly stuff. The kids hated the GF something fierce.

Well a few weeks later the girl friend comes by to visit with me, and she says that the children burned down their Daddy's house the other day. I said that's terrible. She said no insurance. I said that's terrible, She said- "Oh. I don't know. I only told the kids that he had given me the house so that I would have time to get my stuff out."

That's right. They burned down the house, their house.

So with this in mind, don't complain about your family. Get on your knees and kiss their feet, cause I can sure introduce you to some folks that you don't want.

That wasn't so bad- was it ?

[Buck Buster]

And now i need physiotherapy, because i tryed licking my elbow. Thanks for that:D