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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Hammon who wrote (13117)	1/21/2000 12:26:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62549

AS YOU LOOK BACK ON THE 20th CENTURY, YOU WILL > >WONDER HOW YOU EVER GOT ALONG WITHOUT > >KNOWING THE FOLLOWING TID-BITS: > > > >Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. > > > >Pearls melt in vinegar. > > > >It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough > >leather for a > >year's supply of footballs. > > > >Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads > >for dating > >are already married. > > > >The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, > >Coca-Cola, > >and Budweiser, in that order. > > > >It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not > >downstairs. > > > >Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment > >in the palms > >of their hands. > > > >Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes > >from the > >sale of vodka. > > > >The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy > >dog." uses > >every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western > >Union to test > >communications) > > > >The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without > >repeating a > >letter is uncopyrightable. > > > >Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with > >only the left > >hand. > > > >No word in the English language rhymes with month, > >orange, > >silver, and purple. > > > >"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the > >English language. > > > >Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 > >pitches. > > > >A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. > > > >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." > > > >Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence > >on July > >4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the > >rest signed > >on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until > >5 years later. > > > >Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine > >that makes > >them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. > > > >An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. > > > >The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen > >seconds. > > > >The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the > >army for the > >"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. > > > >The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the > >lowest point in > >Colorado. > > > >Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected > >intravenously. > > > >If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four > >pennies, you have > >$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in > >coins without > >being able to make change for a dollar. > > > >No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed > >stadium has > >ever won a Superbowl. > > > >The only two days of the year in which there are no > >professional > >sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day > >before and > >the day after the Major League All-Star Game. > > > >Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or > >older. > > > >The mask used by Michael Myers in the original > >"Halloween" was > >actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. > > > >If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will > >keep floating to > >the top and sinking to the bottom. > > > >Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating > > > >Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were > >freshman > >roommates at Harvard > > > >The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually > >indistinguishable from > >those of humans, so much so that they could be > >confused at a crime > >scene. > > > >Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a > >"Friday the > >13th." > > > >James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott > >on > >Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his > >right hand. > > > >The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one > >mile in every > >five must be straight. These straight sections are > >usable as airstrips > >in times of war or other emergencies. > > > >There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. > > > >All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are > >stuck on 4:20. > > > > > > > >