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Spidey 
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Posted on: Mar. 23 2004,12:47 am |
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =12,345,678,987,654,321
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5 bill.
Grape jelly does not melt in hot tea.
If you open a curad Band-Aid in the dark that has the two adhesive strips on the sides of the wrapper the two adhesive strips will glow blue!
More people are killed by donkeys than plane crashes.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
On the new five dollar bills, they cut down on the number of states on the back. Mississippi did not make the cut.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
Termites eat wood twice as fast if you play loud music.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tub and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The original color of coca-cola was green.
The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
There are 336 dimples on a golf ball
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
To proliferate the species, aphids produce by virgin birth for three generations!
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Mamma
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Posted on: Mar. 23 2004,7:19 am |
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No matter what hits the fan, it is never distributed evenly.
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A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
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Clovis
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Posted on: Apr. 12 2004,8:18 am |
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| Quote | | Grape jelly does not melt in hot tea. |
GROSS! Who tried this... and why?
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. --Antoine de St-Exupéry
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irisheyes
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Posted on: Apr. 12 2004,8:45 am |
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| Quote (Clovis @ April 12 2004,8:18:am) | | Quote | | Grape jelly does not melt in hot tea. |
GROSS! Who tried this... and why? |
Oh Common Clovis, haven't you ever been drinking a hot cup of tea while eating a jelly sandwich and asked yourself, "isn't there a better way"? Hot cocoa and peanut butter don't mix either, just incase you're wondering. 
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You know it's going to be a bad day when you cross thread the cap on the toothpaste.
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LisaMarie
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Posted on: Apr. 12 2004,11:43 am |
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Snapple Fact #109: Smelling bananas and/or apples can help you lose weight.
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Bush & Son - Sending America to war since 1990
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Clovis
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Posted on: Apr. 12 2004,3:01 pm |
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| Quote | | haven't you ever been drinking a hot cup of tea while eating a jelly sandwich and asked yourself, "isn't there a better way"? Hot cocoa and peanut butter don't mix either, just incase you're wondering. |
LOL.... uh... noooooo, can't say I have. And I'm quite disappointed in the apparent incompability of hot chocolate and peanut butter - someone get Swiss Miss, Nestle, and Ghirardelli on this ASAP!
...And to keep adding to the trivia thread, the old mix of M&M colors was as follows: 60% dark brown, 30% yellow, and 10% the other colors. (I was rather fond of the tan M&Ms...)
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. --Antoine de St-Exupéry
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MADDOG
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Posted on: Apr. 12 2004,5:08 pm |
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal."
The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
And, the best for last...
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
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Clovis
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Posted on: Apr. 12 2004,9:15 pm |
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| Quote | | you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights |
Unless you live in a good-sized college town and have a nasty habit of making it to a main intersection at 20 minutes before the hour. Then you will spend an average of 3 years sitting at red lights.
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. --Antoine de St-Exupéry
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Lil Pimp
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2004,12:59 pm |
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| Quote (Clovis @ April 12 2004,9:15:pm) | | Quote | | you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights |
Unless you live in a good-sized college town and have a nasty habit of making it to a main intersection at 20 minutes before the hour. Then you will spend an average of 3 years sitting at red lights. |
You sound like you are talking about Stadium Road, Monks Avenue, Warren Street or Balcerzak Drive Clovis.
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Clovis
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Posted on: Apr. 14 2004,8:40 pm |
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Hehe. Don't know where any of those are, as it's been 3 years since I was enrolled in a MN college... but I think it's the same no matter what college town you live in!
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