Archive through June 22, 2001

The ClubHouse: Archive: Silly Facts That Everyone Doesn't Need To Know: Archive through June 22, 2001

Whit4you

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 09:57 am Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with

Whit4you

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 10:08 am Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Grooch

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 11:12 am Click here to edit this post
Willi, I really didn't need to know that.

Wink

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:10 pm Click here to edit this post
Yes you do Grooch. It's a good trivia question.

Spygirl

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:13 pm Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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?


Willi

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:32 pm Click here to edit this post
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Willi

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:34 pm Click here to edit this post
The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.

Grooch

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 12:35 pm Click here to edit this post
I may thank you, but I'm not sharing the money.

Willi

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 01:33 pm Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
I'll take a guess and say Dubya!

Jetticat

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 02:50 pm Click here to edit this post
Willi....that was on Millionaire!
That's how I already knew it!:)

Willi

Friday, June 08, 2001 - 03:31 pm Click here to edit this post
Really?

See Grooch...I share necessary information after all.

Wink

Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 10:30 am Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia :)

Whit4you

Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 11:25 pm Click here to edit this post
Vanna White claps over 28,000 times a year on Wheel of fortune.

Whit4you

Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 11:28 pm Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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 Click here to edit this post
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."