OT Humourous Trivia

These were sent to me and I am not about to quibble over the accuracy - they are just for amusement lol

it's TRIVIA TIME:

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (Are you doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say . a e i o u.)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out.)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is)

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this, too.)

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age .

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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. (Good thing he did that.)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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Now you know almost everything!

Do you know which animal has four knees (as opposed to two elbow joints and two knee joints)?

And there's only one that has four elbows - do you know that one?

(No, I am not going to tell you now - think about it for a while rofl)

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recarlos

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jiffy

The term jiffy refers to a brief, usually unspecified, interval of time . In scientific and lay applications, it can refer to any of several specific time spans. The most common interpretation is 0.01 second.

In computer engineering, the length of time between successive microprocessor clock cycle s is sometimes called a jiffy. This interval gets shorter as clock speeds increase. In a computer with a 2-gigahertz microprocessor, the jiffy is 0.5 nanosecond or 5 x 10-10 second. In a machine with a 3-gigahertz microprocessor, the jiffy is 0.333 nanosecond (3.33 x 10-10 second).

In some circles, the length of time required for one alternating-current (AC ) utility power cycle is called a jiffy. In the United States and Canada, this is 1/60 second. In many other countries, it is 1/50 second.

In some publications, the term jiffy refers to 0.001 second. In others, it corresponds to the length of time required for a beam of light to travel one foot in free space; this is approximately 1 nanosecond. In still others, it refers to 3.3357 times 10-11 seconds, which is the length of time it takes a ray of light to travel 1 centimeter in free space. Perhaps the most interesting interpretation is the one suggested by Richard Tolman early in the 20th century. He considered a jiffy to be the length of time it takes a photon (light particle) to travel from one side of a nucleon (neutron or proton) to the other. A nucleon has a diameter of about 10-15 meter; a jiffy in this context is a paltry 3.3357 x 10-24 second.

The orig>These were sent to me and I am not about to quibble over the

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klh in VA

Other fun facts....

All of the continents end with the same letter they start with. (America -- not north/south)

No word rhymes with the word DEPTH either.

Hungry and Angry are two words that end in -gry.

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

Spoonfeed, nine letters long, is the longest word whose letters are arranged in reverse alphabetical order.

Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgomery Wards department stores.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (So why am I not thinner??

SPOILER (4 knee'd animal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4 Knees -- the mighty ELEPHANT

4 Elbows -- I don't know!

Kate in MI

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Kate G.

My response is at the bottom of this msg....... Laurie

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Could it be a CAMEL?

Laurie G.

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Laurie G.

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Pat in Virginia

But, but, but, Pat, I'd rather have my Jiffy on bread or Ritz Crackers. Can't say I ever had it On Topic before. Wonder what that is made of.....

Butterfly (Butterfly For President)

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Butterflywings

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Pat in Virginia

Laurie, I guessed camel too, but that is not the answer. (I do not know the answer.)

About camels: http://t>>4 Knees -- the mighty ELEPHANT

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Pat in Virginia

I would have to say that the dog is the one with four elbows....

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Sue DiNapoli

But, but, but, Pat, the Subject line said very distinctly:

OFF TOPIC

Anyways, that how I interpreted the OT to mean.

Butterfly (Who has been known to be cornfuddled before)

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Butterflywings

One slice of crispy apple+a nice glop of peanut butter+a nice hunk of dark chocolate squished down to sammich glop between slice of apple =YUM. If you eat this while standing in the kitchen there is no calorie count whatsoever.

This treat was discovered years ago while *somebody's mom* was rifling through a Halloween treat bag while the *mom's child* was taking a nap......Hershey's dark chocolate bite sized bar seemed to work best in the initial test..........I only read about this,honest! MOI would certainly not lower herself to such sneaky practices.........~snert!~

Val

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Val

Dogs AND cats........I just called my vet friend LOL

Val

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Val

Ahhh-------but what is the only animal with 4 knees??

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Pat in Arkansas

Okay- I believe this about the dogs and cats having four elbows... after watching how my furbabies legs work. But now I'm getting mad all over again! My precious Barney dog had "knee" surgery on his hind leg to rebuild his damaged "knee". Was the vet just calling it a "knee" for us "dumb owners" benefit or was it a rip-off??? This is the same dog diagnosed with terminal bone cancer growing just 2 inches below the "rebuilt knee" only two weeks after the "knee" surgery. Yep, we've changed vets since that fiasco. grrrrrrr!!!

Leslie & The Furbabies > >I would have to say that the dog is the one with four elbows.... > >

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Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

i thought the difference was that elbows were on my arms and knees the legs. then do dogs and cats have four arms? duh

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Leslie & The Furbabies >Okay- I believe this about the dogs and cats having four elbows...

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klh in VA

Dog: front leg has elbow, hind leg has elbow and knee......google a dog skeleton and you'll see how that works.

dog & cat trivia: Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year and it doesn't cost them a cent. Cats have 5 toes on their forefeet and 4 toes on their hind feet proving that there are some people who have a lot of time on their hands. Scientists still do not know how cats purr. Neither do cats. The first commercial dog food on the market was Spratt's Patent Meal Fibrine Dog Cakes, introduced in Great Britain in 1870. Today it is sold as Spam.

Val

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Val

Well, darn!

Laurie

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Laurie G.

Elephants, they are also the only mammal that can't jump........don't confuse can't with won't......as in: I can but I *won't*, no matter what the ads say about support bras. After a certain age well endowed and/or zaftig women shouldn't be jumping anyway so as to avoid serious jaw and neck injuries when certain stuff is still on the up swing as the rest of the body has met gravity and lost the battle on the down plunge. It's also most disheartening when feet are finally planted on terra firma and the all encompassing sub-dermal not-so-firma undulations can go on longer than we care to think about.........sorry, my brain is rambling around again, must be time for some chocolate to coax it back into it's cage.

Val

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Val

I have asked Sugar Puff how she makes her lovely purry noise. She just looked at me in an enigmatic fashion, like she knows but isn't telling...

Spam was CAT food until they discovered tuna... ;)

We used to get this meal when I was at the convent school... Minced spam under a layer of soggy powdered mash with an evil sort of processed cheddar in it. A nasty, greasy mess it was... Purgatory on a plate. We worked out that all the good Catholic kids got a year off pergatory for every mouthful, but us lapsed Presbyterians who didn't believe in such things didn't have to eat it at all, unless we LIKED feeling ill. First time she came across this awful mess, my Little Sis (like the rest of her family, never one to mince words) declared: This is CAT MEAT pie and it DISGUSTING! The nuns said she could always have dry bread instead. Yes please! She answered! It appeared on the menu somewhat less often after that.

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Kate XXXXXX

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