Whit4you | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 09:57 am   There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous" (can you name them?) |
Whit4you | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 10:01 am   There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half-caused cancer in rats. |
Whit4you | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 10:06 am   The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with |
Whit4you | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 10:08 am   No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times (I remember using this as a party joke years ago...) |
Whit4you | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 10:08 am   No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times (I remember using this as a party joke years ago...) |
Willi | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 10:43 am   Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. |
Grooch | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 11:12 am   Willi, I really didn't need to know that.  |
Wink | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:10 pm   Yes you do Grooch. It's a good trivia question. |
Spygirl | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:13 pm   The blue reflectors (in the middle of streets) are signals to firemen about the locations of fire hydrants. |
Willi | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:28 pm   Grooch...You'll thank me someday when you're on "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" & the $64,000 question is: "Which former head of state was born in a ladies room?
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Willi | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:32 pm   Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. |
Willi | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:34 pm   The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen. |
Grooch | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:35 pm   I may thank you, but I'm not sharing the money.  |
Willi | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 01:33 pm   LOL. Maybe it was actually a mens room, er, perhaps the basement of a dance hall... These trivial things are oh-so hard to remember. |
Twiggyish | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 02:37 pm   I'll take a guess and say Dubya! |
Jetticat | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 02:50 pm   Willi....that was on Millionaire! That's how I already knew it! |
Willi | Friday, June 08, 2001 - 03:31 pm   Really? See Grooch...I share necessary information after all.
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Wink | Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 10:30 am   It was also on the TVCH Smackdown trivia game, proving once again that we can run with the big guys here. |
Whit4you | Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 11:21 pm   On behalf of my Aussie friends - thought you might be interested to know that there are over 2,600 synonyms for the condition known here as "inebriated" or beter known to you as "pissed" |
Whit4you | Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 11:22 pm   There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia |
Whit4you | Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 11:25 pm   Vanna White claps over 28,000 times a year on Wheel of fortune. |
Whit4you | Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 11:28 pm   Speaking of gum wrapper chains (we were in the "Do you remember when...." thread The longest gum wrapper chain is over 7,000 feet in length |
Schoolmarm | Sunday, June 10, 2001 - 03:50 am   There is STILL a town named 86 in Pennsylvania. It's spelled out on the map, but the locals use the numbers. |
Nancy | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 12:08 pm   In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? |
Nancy | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 12:09 pm   The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts -Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." |