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re:cursive



Joined: 04 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Swiss James wrote:
SPINOZA wrote:


scientists haven't got a clue why a duck's "quack" doesn't echo.



I expected better of you

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm



Ha ha. I've heard this one so many times.

Absolutely false.

Always makes me wonder how many of these other apparent facts are false as well.

Quack quack.
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semphoon



Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Where Nowon is

PostPosted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

snowy32 wrote:


Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6years of age.


I think this is wrong (and I dont mean like the "Koreans dont have any tear ducts" post I made on the first page).

How is it possible to bend a leg without a kneecap? 2 - 6 years old? Thats a pretty wide gap. I dont think I have ever seen a 6 year old walking with straight legs due to a lack of kneecaps. Only 'cause the kid pissed itself.
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yodanole



Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quite possibly I learned more about some of the people who post here, than any thing else.
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semphoon



Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Where Nowon is

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:50 am    Post subject: Korean S1ut. Reply with quote



If you google "Korean s1ut" this is the forth image you get (use an "l" instead of the "1"). This is the fictional baddie from "He-Man."

Be hold SKELETOR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletor (no mention of him working at the hill in Itaewon).
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sillywilly



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Canada.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its actually more hygenic to sneeze without covering your mouth with your hand. most colds are contracted through surface-contact. If you have to cover your mouth, its healthiest for other people to sneexe of cough into your inner-elbow.
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ajgeddes



Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sillywilly wrote:
Its actually more hygenic to sneeze without covering your mouth with your hand. most colds are contracted through surface-contact. If you have to cover your mouth, its healthiest for other people to sneexe of cough into your inner-elbow.


EEEWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwww!
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a little known fact that the song 'Roxanne' by the Police is a tango (a dance and musical style popularised in the bordellos of Buenos Aires). Ewan McGregor sang a version of the song that was a little less influenced by raggae in Moulin Rouge.
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i_teach_esl



Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan

PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

quinella's Cymothoa exigua
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i_teach_esl



Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan

PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

khyber wrote:
<can anyone find more of his paintings? The few I've seen were only of one clown...innocent but weird...and a bunch of the 7 dwarves..

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/gacyart.htm
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Satori



Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all

PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joni Mitchel recorded with Charles Mingus and also had an affair with Steven Stills from CSN&Y, and one with James Taylor...
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waltjocketty



Joined: 09 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Approximately 3 of every 1000 adult males are capable of auto-fellatio. With a bit of training, I hope to one day be one of those 3.
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Sleepy in Seoul



Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ

PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert Clary, the Frenchman who played the part of Corporal Louis LeBeau in Hogan's Heroes, was actually a survivor of the Holocaust, having been imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp from 1942.

Edit: spelling
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyanide gas smells like almonds.

By the way, bitter almonds and some other peach pits are poisonous because they contain a chemical that turns into cyanide in your stomach.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-bitteralmond.html
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cbclark4



Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan

PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sneezing will cure Hicoughs (Hiccups).

cbc
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khyber



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction

PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I heard in my organic chem class that eating 2 lbs of almonds in a sitting will poison you too.
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