1. Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons.
they shoulda looked on ebay for the new weapons VHS certification system for $24.99
4. Crows apparently like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades.
this is more a reflection on British food...
7. The heat generated by a laptop, and the knees-together pose needed to balance it, can damage a man's fertility.
now we know what to do with all those old laptops...
8. Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam.
but how much spam is in portugese?
12. Ronald Reagan started planning his own funeral the year he entered the White House almost quarter of a century ago. He died in June.
he knew better than to delegate that one to Alexander Haig...
24. Germany has an 18-year-old MP - Julia Bonk, a member of the Saxony legislature. Her name is not funny in German.
is anything ever funny to those people?
29. The remains of thousands of mammoths have been found by fishermen in the North Sea.
and your worried about dolphins in yer tuna...
31. Herrings break wind to communicate and keep the school together.
and keeps them out of tuna nets!
33. Bob Dylan originally planned to use his first two given names, Robert Allen, as his stage name, because it sounded like the name of a Scottish king. After he saw some Dylan Thomas poems, he chose Dylan as his new surname instead.
lucky he was into poetry and not German politics... Bob Bonk?
38. Yoda was based on Albert Einstein.
not gandhi?
41. Twenty years ago , seven out of every 10 pints drunk in the UK were ale. Now, thanks to the rise of lager, stout and cider, the number is just three.
now we know why brits are such sissy-boys, see other thread on affects of beer on men.
45. There is a world record for being able to squirt liquids out of a human eye. The existing record is 8.7 feet (2.65m), but a Turkish man claims to have broken the record with a 9.2 feet (2.8m) squirt.
one of the 12 reasons for the fall of the ottoman empire
47. A "jiffy" is 10 milliseconds in computer science terms
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5 miliseconds quicker than lickety split.
48. Margaret Roberts (later Thatcher) helped invent the chemical process that produces Mr Whippy ice cream.
no wonder she got along so well with Ronald Reagan... Bonzo meets Mr Whippy
50. A tribe living in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has no words for numbers beyond two. The Piraha use "one" to mean one or roughly one, two means two, while any larger number is just "many".
and these are the people we beleive to receive the most spam (#8)... who can tell ("we received "many" spam today")
56. The Shining is the "perfect scary movie", according to researchers, who have come up with a scientific formula for such things. They identified the isolated setting, escalating music and chase scenes as some of the key elements in its success.
the formula is flawed...it would have been perfect only it it starred Halle Berry
59. Britons throw away enough rubbish every hour to fill the Royal Albert Hall.
don;t ya just hate the way they call it rubbish? its like they think their garbage is better than ours.
60. The bookmakers William Hill loses 80,000 little pens a day - the sort used to fill out betting slips.
but makes up for it by taking sweet and lows from the diner
61. Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, has got solar panels fitted on the roof of his Cricklewood home.
like teats on a bull... whne is the sun ever out in london?
63. Just one in a hundred workers goes to the pub for their lunch, according to a study. The same proportion spend lunch having sex.
no time for both
66. An American girl aged between three and 11 has, on average, 10 Barbie dolls in her toy box.
and 19 barbie shoes in the vaccuum
68. Bill Clinton revealed in his autobiography that he didn't learn to ride a bike properly until he was 22.
who's garage did he park it in?
73. Ducks have regional accents. London ducks shout out a rough quack to be heard above the urban din; those in the West Country make a quieter, softer sound.
we won't even mention Cockney ducks...
76. More than one billion birds crash into buildings in the US every year. Mirrored office blocks are a particular hazard.
didn't one crash int Fabio?
78. Defeated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says he once flew upside-down over Israel. It was, he says, the "perfect way" to see the Middle East.
and i would not feel so all alone....
81 . When people are in love, weird things happen. Men get more female hormones, and women get more male. Scientist Donatella Marazziti says it's as if nature wants to eliminate what can be different in men and women, perhaps to help the mating process.
love is like beer... that thread is making more and more sense
93. One in 12 of the country's workforce is a cleaner, according to the British Cleaning Council.
that leaves plenty of room for joiners, tinkers, and other assorted rude mechanicals
100. Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails while he was president.
and who got the other one?
pete.
