Thursday, July 27, 2006

A Quickie (Nah not what you think).

Can you guess which of the following are true or false


1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking
you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth
every 10 years.


4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from
being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your
heart!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites
every minute.


8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear
until they are 2-6 years old.

9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years
waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any
other time of day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the
sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves
without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in
"An Officerand a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina
State anthem.

21. Most television commercials advertising milk, a
mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place
of the milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the
same airplane,just in case there is a crash.

23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used
a tomato can for a carburetor.

24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical
cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein
transplant surgery.

25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.
They were 7th cousins.

26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be
green.

ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE TRUE!

(Now go back and think about No. 16!)

5 comments:

Crazedmomof4 said...

As long as they are BBQ spiders.

Merle said...

Thanks Warren ~~ Didn't need to know about No 16 and spiders. Yuk !!
Take care, Merle.

Peter said...

Number 8 ain't true, babies are born with knee caps but they are cartilage, they calcify between the age of 2 and 6.
Is it true that spiders taste like chicken?

wazza said...

Yep, they sure do taste like chicken although you weren't aware of this last time you had dinner down here. LOL (one of your favourite ditties the ole' LOL)

HORIZON said...

spiders- yuck! :) ThanX for that.
Just popped by from Merle's blog. Liked this post-interesting.
My younger Sis lives near Brisbane and loves it.
Bests,