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You tried , didn't you?
Kathy
02/17/03 at 12:08:36
Butterflies taste with their feet.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of  the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for  dating are already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years..

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

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



The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left-handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.  She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.



A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.




You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?
02/17/03 at 16:11:02
Kathy
Re: You tried , didn't you?
Sparrow
02/17/03 at 14:57:57
LOL!  I confess, I *did*!

Peace and stay warm to those of us who are SNOWBOUND!!

Sparrow
Re: You tried , didn't you?
Abu_Atheek
02/18/03 at 01:31:40
[quote]Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.[/quote]

Not yours truly :-/
Re: You tried , didn't you?
Halima
02/18/03 at 02:49:10
{Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.}

In Kenya we say: "Only Elephants should wear Ivory".  This was due to the excessive trade in ivory which almost made the species in East Africa extinct.

But boy, don't you always find something interesting that tickles your funny bone on this board???  And Kathy you really know how to put a smile on someone's face.

Shukran.

Halima
Re: You tried , didn't you?
sister2sister
02/18/03 at 08:04:27
lick my elbow....eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww :P
Not I said the cat ;)

YSII :-)
Re: You tried , didn't you?
panjul
02/19/03 at 00:39:48
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LOL  :D  I tried to lick my elbow!!

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.  

I came close to becoming a statistic in the 7th grade. It was in English class.  :o  That was scary.  You bet I *never* chewed on my pen again.
02/19/03 at 00:40:28
panjul
Re: You tried , didn't you?
Gulubulu
02/22/03 at 16:07:24
i admit i tried to lick my elbow lol ;D :D


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