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Sep 22, 2006 3:23 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
ICKLE
ICKLEICKLEwarrington, Cheshire, England UK50 Threads 905 Posts
"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.

"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.

"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

"Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.

"Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.

"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.

"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.

"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.

""Kemo Sabe, meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows."

The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.

"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
Sep 22, 2006 3:28 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
ICKLE
ICKLEICKLEwarrington, Cheshire, England UK50 Threads 905 Posts
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.

"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil."

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.

"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

"Teh" means "cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").

"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

1 in every 3 people in the country of Israel use a cell phone.

1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
Sep 22, 2006 3:33 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
porsha69
porsha69porsha69Birmingham, UK4 Threads 1,422 Posts
Ickle, where do you get all this knowledge from?

I think you are brilliant!hug cheers
Sep 22, 2006 3:35 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
ICKLE
ICKLEICKLEwarrington, Cheshire, England UK50 Threads 905 Posts
thanks im full of usless informationblushing
Sep 22, 2006 3:44 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
porsha69
porsha69porsha69Birmingham, UK4 Threads 1,422 Posts
I think you are full of life and laughter, and every bit of information will always come in useful oneway or another!!! In fact I am going to copy what you have wrote and print it so I can pretend to my kids that I am really brainy!!!!!!!! LOL LOL
Sep 22, 2006 3:46 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
ICKLE
ICKLEICKLEwarrington, Cheshire, England UK50 Threads 905 Posts
to quote from "married with children"

I got a question right now all my friends think I am a genierolling on the floor laughing
Sep 22, 2006 3:50 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
porsha69
porsha69porsha69Birmingham, UK4 Threads 1,422 Posts
I am laghing so much!rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Sep 22, 2006 3:50 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
porsha69
porsha69porsha69Birmingham, UK4 Threads 1,422 Posts
Is that the married with children programme with; Al bundy?
Sep 22, 2006 3:56 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
ICKLE
ICKLEICKLEwarrington, Cheshire, England UK50 Threads 905 Posts
yes rolling on the floor laughing
Sep 22, 2006 3:57 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
porsha69
porsha69porsha69Birmingham, UK4 Threads 1,422 Posts
The poor shoe shop sales man, and having peggy as his wife!!!!!!!!!!! I used to love that show
Sep 22, 2006 3:59 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
ICKLE
ICKLEICKLEwarrington, Cheshire, England UK50 Threads 905 Posts
it is so funny i often quote things the dippy daughter says rolling on the floor laughing
Sep 22, 2006 4:02 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
ICKLE
ICKLEICKLEwarrington, Cheshire, England UK50 Threads 905 Posts
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria

11% of the world is left-handed.

111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321

1200 equals 1 pound (72 rupees).

123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.

166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.

1959's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.

2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

25% of a human's bones are in its feet.

259200 people die every day.

27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."

3% of all mammals are monogamous

315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.

4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
Sep 22, 2006 4:02 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
porsha69
porsha69porsha69Birmingham, UK4 Threads 1,422 Posts
I remember Kelly the daughter (bit of a tart!!) But not the son's name!!
Sep 22, 2006 6:05 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
YamiYami
YamiYamiYamiYamiNorthWest, England UK30 Threads 1,252 Posts
laugh Genie of the Lamp or The Bottle ? Quite a sizable one of course to provide for the basic essential + just a bit of extravagance

Could you grant wishes ?
Sep 22, 2006 6:06 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
porsha69
porsha69porsha69Birmingham, UK4 Threads 1,422 Posts
I certainly can! wink rolling on the floor laughing
Sep 22, 2006 6:27 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
YamiYami
YamiYamiYamiYamiNorthWest, England UK30 Threads 1,252 Posts
Hi there , nice to see you smile
Sep 22, 2006 6:31 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
YamiYami
YamiYamiYamiYamiNorthWest, England UK30 Threads 1,252 Posts
I have only one wish .. oh please grant me that one wish .. I love to see an end sadness for ever and ever and ever .. .. Oh plese could you make everyone happy even when they are sad ..
Sep 22, 2006 6:37 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
scouser
scouserscouserlondon, UK17 Threads 1,346 Posts
the argos book, is the most read book in the uk.. utterley useless fact, but true
Sep 22, 2006 6:41 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
porsha69
porsha69porsha69Birmingham, UK4 Threads 1,422 Posts
A miracle I can perform. The impossible I can't!!!!!!!!! LOL
Sep 22, 2006 6:59 PM CST useless but very interesting .................not!
YamiYami
YamiYamiYamiYamiNorthWest, England UK30 Threads 1,252 Posts
It was good enough for me .. For a moment I forgat how old I was .. Thanks ..
I can see miracles everywhere ..
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