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1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

5. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

6. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

7. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

8. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

9. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .

10. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

13. Reindeer like to eat bananas.

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

15. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

16. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

17. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

18. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

19. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.

20. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
 
14....No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple....

In Roger Miller's song "Dang Me"(from 1964)

"Roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple surple"

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/miller-roger/dang-me-1166.html

:lol :lol
 
I have no clue where these come from. Sound like something from Dr. Seuss... (See what you started Ralphie? :lol)

Chilver rhymes with silver

"'The Oxford English Dictionary lists chilver as an Old English noun meaning a ewe [female] lamb, often referred to as a 'chilver lamb'. They specify that it is still in use in 'southern dialects' (by which I assume they mean dialects in southern England, as it is certainly not known in the Australian dialect) The Oxford cites instances between 1000AD and 1883AD."

And... dicky dilver rhymes with silver. "Dicky dilver is a local British nickname for the periwinkle flower"

http://www.one-name.org/profiles/chilvers.html
http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm

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"Orange rhymes with sporange. British botanists stress the last syllable; Americans stress the first syllable, making it a perfect rhyme for orange. Yes, it is a rare word. Its more common father is sporangium, the little capsule or receptacle that holds spores in certain species of fungi, molds, and ferns.

Also rhyming with orange are related words in botany: hypnosporange, macrosporange, and megasporange."

http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm

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Purple? Other than "surple", :biggrin here are a few more!

"A curple is a Scottish dialect word for a crupper or a croup, the part of the leather saddle restraint that goes under a horse’s tail. It helps prevent the saddle from slipping forward. I hate to add this old barnyard joke, but, after all, I am shameless. After one has defined croup in a stable, one always adds, “But any horse’s ass would know that.”

To hirple is to walk with a limp or in any halting manner. The verb is still in use in northern England and in Scotland.

To turple was said of animals. It meant to fall down and die, probably a dialectical variant of topple.

To besperple is cited only once in the Oxford English Dictionary, in a sixteenth-century tale of King Arthur and his knights where the author wrote “ The grounde…was all besperpled wyth blode.” In other words there was loser-knight blood splattered all over the English daisies."

http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm

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And last but certainly not least...

"Month rhymes with hunth, an official, in-the-dictionary abbreviation, spoken and written, for a hundred thousand. Let us use it in an exemplary sentence: A hunth of morons braying that something is true, when I know it is not, shall never keep me silent.

Month also rhymes with uneath, pronounced ‘unth.’ Uneath is archaic English and now rare, but there it is in the work of the great English poet Edmund Spenser “who he was, uneath was to descry.” Uneath means difficult, not easy."

http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm
 
I have no clue where these come from. Sound like something from Dr. Seuss... (See what you started Ralphie? :lol)

Chilver rhymes with silver

"'The Oxford English Dictionary lists chilver as an Old English noun meaning a ewe [female] lamb, often referred to as a 'chilver lamb'. They specify that it is still in use in 'southern dialects' (by which I assume they mean dialects in southern England, as it is certainly not known in the Australian dialect) The Oxford cites instances between 1000AD and 1883AD."

And... dicky dilver rhymes with silver. "Dicky dilver is a local British nickname for the periwinkle flower"

http://www.one-name.org/profiles/chilvers.html
http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm

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"Orange rhymes with sporange. British botanists stress the last syllable; Americans stress the first syllable, making it a perfect rhyme for orange. Yes, it is a rare word. Its more common father is sporangium, the little capsule or receptacle that holds spores in certain species of fungi, molds, and ferns.

Also rhyming with orange are related words in botany: hypnosporange, macrosporange, and megasporange."

http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm

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Purple? Other than "surple", :biggrin here are a few more!

"A curple is a Scottish dialect word for a crupper or a croup, the part of the leather saddle restraint that goes under a horse’s tail. It helps prevent the saddle from slipping forward. I hate to add this old barnyard joke, but, after all, I am shameless. After one has defined croup in a stable, one always adds, “But any horse’s ass would know that.”

To hirple is to walk with a limp or in any halting manner. The verb is still in use in northern England and in Scotland.

To turple was said of animals. It meant to fall down and die, probably a dialectical variant of topple.

To besperple is cited only once in the Oxford English Dictionary, in a sixteenth-century tale of King Arthur and his knights where the author wrote “ The grounde…was all besperpled wyth blode.” In other words there was loser-knight blood splattered all over the English daisies."

http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm

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And last but certainly not least...

"Month rhymes with hunth, an official, in-the-dictionary abbreviation, spoken and written, for a hundred thousand. Let us use it in an exemplary sentence: A hunth of morons braying that something is true, when I know it is not, shall never keep me silent.

Month also rhymes with uneath, pronounced ‘unth.’ Uneath is archaic English and now rare, but there it is in the work of the great English poet Edmund Spenser “who he was, uneath was to descry.” Uneath means difficult, not easy."

http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm

You have way too much time on your hands!:willy
 
You have way too much time on your hands!:willy


I elected to post my comment to her via e-mail! :rofl:rofl:rofl
 
i am guessing sliver does not rhyme with silver?:confused
 
I elected to post my comment to her via e-mail! :rofl:rofl:rofl

Yes you did! :lol And in the same email, you proceeded to respond for me by calling yourself animal names. :rofl Naturally, I still had to hit the lovely "Reply" button, and I'm betting no one on this forum has ever used the word I used in that email to you before today. Am I right? :biggrin
 
Yes you did! :lol And in the same email, you proceeded to respond for me by calling yourself animal names. :rofl Naturally, I still had to hit the lovely "Reply" button, and I'm betting no one on this forum has ever used the word I used in that email to you before today. Am I right? :biggrin


Nooooooooooooooooooo comment... There's just NO WAY dis could ever turn out well at all were it pursued...:willy:willy:willy