04 February 2010

Thursday Trivia

Good morning. It's 2 degrees and a bit frosty. The gurus at AccuHunch continue to guess we'll have some snow tomorrow; that's okay with us.

No treatise on the news today - I have an appointment with an oral surgeon. Oh, happy day.

Trivia:

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.

h/t AJDshootist


And finally, a Texas BBQ:






h/t MOBro

3 comments:

Teresa said...

It takes me nearly an hour or more to fall asleep... does that mean I'm above average???

Hope the oral surgeon stuff goes well.

deedee said...

Oral Surgeon :( hope all goes well. Looks like you can shoot it and eat it, all-in-one when you bbq in Texas - lol

joated said...

re #4 Good thing they came out with the self stick kind then.

re #12 That's assuming you still have both arms. (Two eyes need two thumbs)

re #13 So, are they infavor of global warming then?

re #17 Was this included because of your trip to the dentist/oral surgeon?