wit of Byron Marshall of Pineville, LA forwarded
Michael Eisenstadt
michaele@ando.pair.com
Fri, 03 Jan 2003 14:52:44 -0600
TRUE OR FALSE : an amazing compedium of questions
Aram passes along the following nettijoke. (Aram
is Byron's friend otherwise unknown)
My answers...
you supply YOUR OWN!
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Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you
up in the morning.
Not true
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
Course he did
People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from
being indoors a lot more.
Nonsense
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even
your heart!
No way
Only 7% of the population are lefties.
Actually, a majority of the population is leftie.
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every
minute.
That's every second.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear
until they are two to six years old.
Only if they are mafiosi.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 yrs
waiting in lines.
A vast understatement.
The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
And was forgotten about in 1499. Not remembered until
1919.
Cf."The Great Toothbrush Forgetting", by Daniel L.
Zorg
The average housefly lives for 1 month.
for work, and five months for pleasure.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each yr.
I'll say
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
and 66 inches when bent.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
The average non-computer user blinks 44 times a
minute.
Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of
the day.
and even bigger in the evening and the dark.
Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
and more than once, too.
The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand
is to search for water.
and they have been trained to stick their heads in the
sand to search for oil, and for truffles.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without
turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
well, what about the guppy?
John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An
Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
Also Indiana Jones and E.T.
Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina
State anthem.
Yaaaaas! Go, 'bro!
In most television commercials advertising milk, a
mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in
place of milk.
In ALL.
Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the
same airplane just in case there is a crash.
however there are other things they do together. Being
brothers.
The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903
used a tomato can for a carburetor.
And don't I know it!
Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical
cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused
in vein transplant surgery.
Other uses too, but that's another story.
OK, they're recycled.
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They
were seventh cousins.
And kissing cousins, too.
If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be
green.
you're darned right!