With no disrespect to Mr. Robinson, I think this day is a sham. I have nothing against blacks, I really don't care what color anyones skin is - which is why this day is a complete paradox - everyones promoting equality and diversity, while the main theme of the day was to point out that blacks and whites are so different, and how blacks are declining in the MLB. Who really cares what color of skin someone has, I definately don't need a day to remind me of it. I think it was heroic that Jackie broke the color barrier, but really...isn't the point of the day to celebrate equality - not be constantly told that blacks are somehow different than whites. The ESPN broadcast just said to me "It's time everyone stop being racist and be colorblind.....now this is how different blacks are!"
Does anyone else think that Jackie Robinson day is hypocritical?
Just another way for baseball to compete with the NBA/ NFL marketing. They mentioned on the national telecast last night about getting kids to the game, but no one is doing that.
OK, you have an African American kid who lives in the inner city and wants to go to the ball game. I will use a Yankee/ Mets game as an example:
1- Bleacher seat (450 ft. away from the action) $25
2- Concessions (Hot Dog %26amp; Soda) $15
3- Transportation (NYC Transit) $4
Ok, it would cost an inner city kid $50 to go to the game.
Little Leagues are non-existent, and I don't see Joe Morgan coming down into the inner city to promote baseball.
So yes, the fact that we had a big celebration to honor a man who played ball through a time when the color of your skin mattered seems insufficient. Does color still matter today.......unfortunately sometimes.
Why didn't the Dodgers fill the stadium with kids who can't afford or who have never been to a game.
MONEY is the biggest reason why you can't get these kids involved in baseball.
For example, when I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, there were many parks to play baseball in without being harrassed for a permit to use a field. Or the same parks now have closed gates because it is only for permit/ High School use.
To play football or basketball, all I need is a ball. to play baseball....well I won't go there. An inner city kid can't go to a store and buy a bat without spending at least $40.
I can go on and on with the problems of baseball in the inner city, but I don't have the time.
Oh yeah, and they tried to bash scouts for not going into the inner city to see kids. OK, if inner city kids aren't playing, then why go. They have the balls to say that and they never do it themselves, hmm.
Reply:Jackie Robinson wasn't even the first black player in the Majors. There were several that came before him, so he's mislabeled as the first. You're right though the idea is to not judge based on skin colour and this completely thwarts that idea. Report It
Reply:Well Paul, I can see that you ave not been paying attention to your history. Yes negroes played pro-baseball, but it was not recognized by the rest of th country.
Could you please show me some references/ proof to your statement...I am very interested. Report It
Reply:I think you nailed it right on the head.
I'm not racist or anything, but the whole day was pretty much pathetic and anyone who thought it was brilliant just got had.
All I hear from players is "Without Jackie Robinson, we wouldn't be playing today."
Um, do you really think that if Mr. Robinson had not played for the Dodgers, then an African American would not be in the majors today? Do you really think that after the 1960's Civil Rights movement, baseball would still have been integrated.
I heard plenty of stories today. All the bad times Robinson had, all the players who hated him, the Cardinals threatening to strike. I heard how Robinson made leeway for the players of today. I heard how it was a shame we didn't see Satchel Paige in his prime, and how a lot of the Negro league players would have given some of the other players a run for their money. But through all the praise and what not, one thing that disappointed me was the lack of credit given to Branch Rickey. If anyone really cared about equality, I can't see how his name wasn't brought up. The name represents (in my opinion) fairness and equality to the T. Rickey put all judgement aside and did his job: signed an awesome baseball player, regardless of skin color. So when's Branch Rickey day?
Reply:no it isnt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!well kinda.
Reply:I totally agree with the person who asked about Jackie Robinson day being hypocritical!!! I don't need a special day to remind me what a great person Jackie was!!! We need to start being COLOR BLIND in this country!!! It was the same thing during the last Superbowl!!! Tony Dungy's black....Lovie
Smith is black.....wow....how amazing!!! It wasn't amazing....they happened to coach the two best teams that year....that should be it!!! I love the kind of MEN that Dungy and Lovie Smith are......and THAT IS WHY I CHEER THEM!!!
Jackie Robinson was a great person too...and that is why I remember him!!! I would like these people if they were pink, green or purple too!!!
Can we PLEASE start honoring PEOPLE that deserve it and STOP talking about their shade of skin!!!
Reply:oh my god... we can't have a day to acknowledge an achievement of a black man?
The day wasn't to point out how different blacks and whites are, but to make sure that we don't forget such an important part of American history.
Separate but equal didn't work out, but it's ok to be different and equal.
If you really think that "the main theme of the day was to point out that blacks and whites are so different" then you missed the point completely.
The day wasn't hypocritical at all... if anything (that makes it a sham) it was a day of marketing to try and get more black americans into baseball, thereby getting more fans and getting more money.
I assume if you don't need a day to remind you of Mr. Robinson breaking the color barrier, it's because you're a baseball fan and can appreciate the historical importance of it, however, for the more casual fan, it's a day to market baseball as well as acknowledge an American icon.
Reply:The term is Afro-American. And if you don't care about color than stop using it to describe people.
That's what's wrong with this country today and your question.
There's a shortage of Eskimo players too. People are people. That's that.
Reply:Its played up too much. I think its the higher ups in major league baseball doing two things 1) Its to try to assuage the white guilt apparently felt by many in the baseball establishment, and 2) Its an attempt to get more black kids interested in playing baseball. Now, don't get me wrong; anyone who DOESN'T appreciate what Robinson had to deal with and how well he succeeded in spite of it all is not being honest with himself. And it was wonderful listening to the reminisces of Rachael Robinson(exceptional woman-shes got to be about 80, and shes in great shape and sharp as a tack); but its being made into a production like it is makes it obvious that ulterior motives were in play here; IMHO, probably to rekindle a love for baseball back into the black community, especially among the youth.
Reply:I ain't black, white, Afro, Indo, Chino, none of that crap. I'm American. And I love baseball. And I have no problem celebrating one of the great ones. I would honestly like to see this happen more often, the honoring of the great men who played the game and left their mark. I would love it if like every first baseman wore Gehrig's number for a day, or long into the future if every centerfielder wore Ricky Henderson's number. Race should not even be a factor in the AMERICAN pass time.
Reply:I sort of agree with you. I like the idea of the day, I think they just might have gone a little overboard. But I noticed how some people before talked about how if Jackie didn't come, that another black player would have eventually come and I think that's true. But the main point for the day and for Jackie Robinson's life is that he perservered all the pain that came with the chance. I think this should mostly be a chance to remember Jackie, not broadcast around the world how different blacks and whites are. I feel it's just a reminder saying, "Hey, rember Jackie and all that he has done for baseball and civil rights."
Reply:I don't think it was a bad thing to have the day but it was probably a little overdone.Jackie went through a lot to get here so he deserves to be honered but most of the game and during the day people were talking about Jackie not baseball.Jackies did many great things,opening the doors not only for balcks but for hispanics and everone else as well but it was a little overdone.
Reply:I agree that just having special days is not enough if that's all we are doing. However, Jackie Robinson coming into the MLB is/was an historic event that has to be recognized. Baseballl broke the colour barrier before schools, public places, armies, etc. Some might say he paved the way for it.
The fact is that the US has a very ugly history, not just for all the atrocities around the world, but also at home. I can understand if people do not wish to look back on it and just wish that earlier generations had been more enlightened. We are lucky that we live in times where segregation seems so foreign to us, but it was not that long ago that it was a part of daily life in the US and affected all aspects of one's day. To recognize and honour Jackie Robinson is not only great, but necessary. The only problem for me is that it does not go far enough in mainstream society. This man dealt with oppression and racism most of us cannot imagine. We have to remember that he played to hostile crowds wherever he went, other players were racist towards him, one even kicking him in the leg when finishing a ground-out.
We cannot escape the past, but it is definitely important to learn from it.
Reply:Nothing against Jackie Robinson personally but I gotta ask why doesn't Branch Rickey have a day ? It was Branch Rickey who showed true moral courage and had the most to lose when he and the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers decided to break the color line.
Reply:I don`t mind a Jackie Robinson day, but shouldn`t we then have a day celebrating the first Hispanic, or Asian, Australian, Russian, Greek, etc.............. If you set a group of people out in the spotlight %26amp; say " look how much they`re like us, we`re equal", You automatically give the impression of inequality. Treat every person in baseball according to one criteria, How Well You Play The Game, and then you have equality. If they want to celebrate this type of day, they should have a day set aside for each nationality in the game...
Reply:I think that it was a very good idea,
but I think that to many blacks tried
to use it to say that whites are all racists.
That is wrong. There always a few white
people who are racists, and a few black
people who are racists.But I do think it
was good to honor Jackie Robinson.
Reply:yes it is , black representatives bring this stuff up and if mlb said no , they would be attacked as being racist by guess who - jesse jackson + al sharpton - its a joke how they are okay with a "black miss america" for instance but if there was a "white miss america" all hell would break out. just play the games.
Friday, November 20, 2009
What's my problem?
I haven't kissed anyone sonce January. JANUARY.
Now without blowing my own trumpet, it's not cos im a minger, in fact i know it sounds so conceited but im kind of good looking... So whats with the celibacy in my life? Did anyone else ever go through this?
Like, you know you want some skin-on-skin action, but when you're out, you're too busy getting boozed %26amp; dancing with your mates. And people ask me out, but never anyone im interested in! ARGHHHHH!
Should i get a little drunker %26amp; let my standards go a little lower? Or hold out for Mr Perfect?
OR.... invest in a Rampant Rabbit ;)
What's my problem?
well you sound a minger
Reply:The Rabbit.
The Rabbit.
Reply:get the Rabbit :)
Reply:get your guy/girl friends together, go to a club, hook up with some girl, kiss her or make out with her, and your good.
Reply:YEA SLUTTTT IT OUT ALREADY
Reply:get yourself a rabbit. you WILL NOT regret it.
Reply:every gal needs a few fun toys for them dry times!!!
good luck
Reply:You've just hit a dry spell, is all.
Find some new places to go to meet new people.
Reply:It might not be your standards that are the problem, maybe it's just a wee slump here. I would hold out for a bit see what offers come up. If no good ones, then lower your standards a bit. They may not be too high, the problem might not be you. I'd suggest my idea.
Obviously.
Reply:If you want to "get some" you better lower you standards because if you are that good looking you should have some good looking guys go for you and obvioulsy that isn't happening. So lower the standards and get some already!
Reply:nothings wrong u just havent found ne one u wanna kiss just wait for mr perfect but its ur choice
Reply:Rampant Rabbit
Reply:show a picture,lets see if you are "good looking"
Reply:dont rush good things come to thoes thatwait
Reply:You need to get laid. Just go out, drink up, and go home with some random guy. You'll thank yourself for it.
Reply:invest in the rabbit
Reply:Get a little drunker!!
Works for me!!
Reply:You're having fun living your life and doing what you want. You just haven't met anyone that has caught your eye yet. Someday you will, in the meantime enjoy life, you only live it once.
Reply:Maybe your just fed up of meaningless sex and want something more than a quick grope with some drunk, a change of social sense maybe in order with a different type of people :)
Reply:rabbit
Reply:rabbit better than a man and that way you can hold out until you find mr perfect
Reply:the harder you look for mr right the longer it takes for him to come along,go out enjoy your night but dont go out with the intention to find a bloke,if you pull its a bonus and if all fails buy the rabbit its well worth the money lol
Reply:She will come along in time. If you really cant wait than theres nothing wrong with just a kiss. You dont have to go all out with this guy, just a simple kiss is nothing. Be a tease to them and when they are all over you dont give them really even the time of day till the end surprise them with a little kiss good bye. But thats it. Make them wonder......and they will! And theres your kissing problem over with. And in time you will find your next boyfriend he will find you first i am sure. You need to go to different clubs different places where theres more of a viarety. Just dont give out anything, the kisses are free but thats all! And do not look sluty by kissing every guy in the room thats after you. Go for the hottest one and remeber just a little peck. Till you find that man of yours.
Reply:Im sure that it will happen for you. Sometime when you look for love you dont find it, yet when you dont it happens. So just enjoy being single have some fun and Im sure that something will happen.
Dont lower your standards coz your worth more than that, besides you will attract the sort of ppl you dont want to,
I have a rabbit tho, invest in one they are great fun :o)
xxx
Reply:there is nothing wrong with you. just wait until you feel someone is worth of your goodies
Reply:try goin to a different nite club or some thing
Reply:You need to do better than what you doing you Need to get out and go get you a real woman and stop acting like you got problem.If you was retarded then maybe you need a rabbit.
Reply:I have been though this, don't let your standards go - u'll regret it later. Your probably just realising that you don't have to settle for second best and snogging just anybody is not as much fun as somebody you know....(at least a little...)
Reply:have fun live life to the full do anything and everything your mr perfect is out there you have to try before you by so to speak good luck hope you find him and if not have fun doing so lol leeg@mailvault.com let me know how you get on lee
Reply:If you have a standard stick with it. Like you said you are not ugly and someone will come along. Lowering your standards will only invite the ones that are wanted but not by you. Stop drinking to get boozed. Drink socialbly, you never know whose watching and waiting to meet you. There's nothing like the real thing but, While you're waiting investing in a Rabbit sounds good.
Reply:everyone`s been there....you`re obviously smart and independent and don`t need a man to live your life but would just like a bit of some now and again....some men may be threatened by this and your good looks but don`t worry men are like buses, after waiting for ages 2 or 3 normally arrive at the same time.
Now without blowing my own trumpet, it's not cos im a minger, in fact i know it sounds so conceited but im kind of good looking... So whats with the celibacy in my life? Did anyone else ever go through this?
Like, you know you want some skin-on-skin action, but when you're out, you're too busy getting boozed %26amp; dancing with your mates. And people ask me out, but never anyone im interested in! ARGHHHHH!
Should i get a little drunker %26amp; let my standards go a little lower? Or hold out for Mr Perfect?
OR.... invest in a Rampant Rabbit ;)
What's my problem?
well you sound a minger
Reply:The Rabbit.
The Rabbit.
Reply:get the Rabbit :)
Reply:get your guy/girl friends together, go to a club, hook up with some girl, kiss her or make out with her, and your good.
Reply:YEA SLUTTTT IT OUT ALREADY
Reply:get yourself a rabbit. you WILL NOT regret it.
Reply:every gal needs a few fun toys for them dry times!!!
good luck
Reply:You've just hit a dry spell, is all.
Find some new places to go to meet new people.
Reply:It might not be your standards that are the problem, maybe it's just a wee slump here. I would hold out for a bit see what offers come up. If no good ones, then lower your standards a bit. They may not be too high, the problem might not be you. I'd suggest my idea.
Obviously.
Reply:If you want to "get some" you better lower you standards because if you are that good looking you should have some good looking guys go for you and obvioulsy that isn't happening. So lower the standards and get some already!
Reply:nothings wrong u just havent found ne one u wanna kiss just wait for mr perfect but its ur choice
Reply:Rampant Rabbit
Reply:show a picture,lets see if you are "good looking"
Reply:dont rush good things come to thoes thatwait
Reply:You need to get laid. Just go out, drink up, and go home with some random guy. You'll thank yourself for it.
Reply:invest in the rabbit
Reply:Get a little drunker!!
Works for me!!
Reply:You're having fun living your life and doing what you want. You just haven't met anyone that has caught your eye yet. Someday you will, in the meantime enjoy life, you only live it once.
Reply:Maybe your just fed up of meaningless sex and want something more than a quick grope with some drunk, a change of social sense maybe in order with a different type of people :)
Reply:rabbit
Reply:rabbit better than a man and that way you can hold out until you find mr perfect
Reply:the harder you look for mr right the longer it takes for him to come along,go out enjoy your night but dont go out with the intention to find a bloke,if you pull its a bonus and if all fails buy the rabbit its well worth the money lol
Reply:She will come along in time. If you really cant wait than theres nothing wrong with just a kiss. You dont have to go all out with this guy, just a simple kiss is nothing. Be a tease to them and when they are all over you dont give them really even the time of day till the end surprise them with a little kiss good bye. But thats it. Make them wonder......and they will! And theres your kissing problem over with. And in time you will find your next boyfriend he will find you first i am sure. You need to go to different clubs different places where theres more of a viarety. Just dont give out anything, the kisses are free but thats all! And do not look sluty by kissing every guy in the room thats after you. Go for the hottest one and remeber just a little peck. Till you find that man of yours.
Reply:Im sure that it will happen for you. Sometime when you look for love you dont find it, yet when you dont it happens. So just enjoy being single have some fun and Im sure that something will happen.
Dont lower your standards coz your worth more than that, besides you will attract the sort of ppl you dont want to,
I have a rabbit tho, invest in one they are great fun :o)
xxx
Reply:there is nothing wrong with you. just wait until you feel someone is worth of your goodies
Reply:try goin to a different nite club or some thing
Reply:You need to do better than what you doing you Need to get out and go get you a real woman and stop acting like you got problem.If you was retarded then maybe you need a rabbit.
Reply:I have been though this, don't let your standards go - u'll regret it later. Your probably just realising that you don't have to settle for second best and snogging just anybody is not as much fun as somebody you know....(at least a little...)
Reply:have fun live life to the full do anything and everything your mr perfect is out there you have to try before you by so to speak good luck hope you find him and if not have fun doing so lol leeg@mailvault.com let me know how you get on lee
Reply:If you have a standard stick with it. Like you said you are not ugly and someone will come along. Lowering your standards will only invite the ones that are wanted but not by you. Stop drinking to get boozed. Drink socialbly, you never know whose watching and waiting to meet you. There's nothing like the real thing but, While you're waiting investing in a Rabbit sounds good.
Reply:everyone`s been there....you`re obviously smart and independent and don`t need a man to live your life but would just like a bit of some now and again....some men may be threatened by this and your good looks but don`t worry men are like buses, after waiting for ages 2 or 3 normally arrive at the same time.
Israel using chemical weapons?
Lebanese doctors suspect Israel is using chemical weapons. Killed by Israeli air raids, the Lebanese dead are charred in a way local doctors, who lived through years of civil war and Israeli occupation, say they have not seen before.
Mr. Bachir Cham, a Belgian Lebanese doctor at the Southern Medical Centre in Sidon, said the bodies of some victims were “black as shoes, so they are definitely using chemical weapons. They are all black but their hair and skin is intact so they are not really burnt. If you burnt someone with petrol their hair would burn and their skin would burn down to the bone. The Israel is 100 percent using chemical weapons.” Reuters
Israel using chemical weapons?
yzyz, we all know Israel is using chemical WMDs against the hezbollah. apparently, nobody gives a flying fcuk if allies are first-strikers with chem weapons, only if "TEH EVIL TOWELHEDS" use them. if hezbollah started using phosphorus in their rockets, you'd all be in an uproar about "evil terrorists using WMDs"..
Reply:better chemical than nuclear.
Reply:you read Hillary's book of lies, this book will prove how bad she detests the Military, along with B. Clinton and VP Al Gore was even worse than I ever thought, these people have no right to be in public office. They sold this country to the highest DNC payoffs. It's sickening to think they are building a memorial to Clinton, his "library of shame"! "The Library of LIES." I saw the book review and presentation by Mr. Patterson on TV, he was frank, honest, sincere and a true patriot to this nation. He went on to tell how the White House was in complete disarray for 8 years; impeachment in my mind was too good for these arrogant nepotists. Hope the populace of New York State and New York City can read this book before they vote; should be required reading for all Democrats and GOP before they vote
Reply:.
Reply:yeah I wouldn't be surprised. Israel isn't playing. They're not out to win "friendlist country" award. They're out to kill the Hezbollah soldiers. if Hezbollah gave those hostages back, this would be over tomorrow.......
Reply:Let's see... Terrorist are accusing the Israeli's of using chemical weapons.
I wonder if it is anything like the accusation of them killing a whole family on the beach that turned out to be totally false?
Reply:Yes, they are apparently using chemical weapons despite Humanitarian pacts and treaties on these matters on weapons of indiscriminant human suffering.
Reply:With all due respect, show me a western doctor who can confirm this. I've heard enough lies about Israel being behind 9/11 that I have become quite skeptical of claims like this.
ADDED: I still trust the western media. I would be even more convinced if this story appeared in an Israeli newspaper. You see, the less self serving the story is, the more likely it is to be true.
Reply:When Hezbolah bombed the Marines did they use jelly beans?
When sheets and suni murder each other in Iraq, including children, women, do they use...what? JellO?
All these people admittedly harbored militants, terrorists. They let mountains of missiles be hidden among their little huts. What did they expect? Maybe their God didn't hear their personal request to win all wars...
Reply:ok then................
creeping
Mr. Bachir Cham, a Belgian Lebanese doctor at the Southern Medical Centre in Sidon, said the bodies of some victims were “black as shoes, so they are definitely using chemical weapons. They are all black but their hair and skin is intact so they are not really burnt. If you burnt someone with petrol their hair would burn and their skin would burn down to the bone. The Israel is 100 percent using chemical weapons.” Reuters
Israel using chemical weapons?
yzyz, we all know Israel is using chemical WMDs against the hezbollah. apparently, nobody gives a flying fcuk if allies are first-strikers with chem weapons, only if "TEH EVIL TOWELHEDS" use them. if hezbollah started using phosphorus in their rockets, you'd all be in an uproar about "evil terrorists using WMDs"..
Reply:better chemical than nuclear.
Reply:you read Hillary's book of lies, this book will prove how bad she detests the Military, along with B. Clinton and VP Al Gore was even worse than I ever thought, these people have no right to be in public office. They sold this country to the highest DNC payoffs. It's sickening to think they are building a memorial to Clinton, his "library of shame"! "The Library of LIES." I saw the book review and presentation by Mr. Patterson on TV, he was frank, honest, sincere and a true patriot to this nation. He went on to tell how the White House was in complete disarray for 8 years; impeachment in my mind was too good for these arrogant nepotists. Hope the populace of New York State and New York City can read this book before they vote; should be required reading for all Democrats and GOP before they vote
Reply:.
Reply:yeah I wouldn't be surprised. Israel isn't playing. They're not out to win "friendlist country" award. They're out to kill the Hezbollah soldiers. if Hezbollah gave those hostages back, this would be over tomorrow.......
Reply:Let's see... Terrorist are accusing the Israeli's of using chemical weapons.
I wonder if it is anything like the accusation of them killing a whole family on the beach that turned out to be totally false?
Reply:Yes, they are apparently using chemical weapons despite Humanitarian pacts and treaties on these matters on weapons of indiscriminant human suffering.
Reply:With all due respect, show me a western doctor who can confirm this. I've heard enough lies about Israel being behind 9/11 that I have become quite skeptical of claims like this.
ADDED: I still trust the western media. I would be even more convinced if this story appeared in an Israeli newspaper. You see, the less self serving the story is, the more likely it is to be true.
Reply:When Hezbolah bombed the Marines did they use jelly beans?
When sheets and suni murder each other in Iraq, including children, women, do they use...what? JellO?
All these people admittedly harbored militants, terrorists. They let mountains of missiles be hidden among their little huts. What did they expect? Maybe their God didn't hear their personal request to win all wars...
Reply:ok then................
creeping
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Emus can't walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
12 or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".
Singapore only has one train station.
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
Popeye was 5'6".
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.
The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
A baby is born every 7 seconds.
10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.
On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.
The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.
The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb
The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd... His middle name is George James.
It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
India has 50 million monkeys.
By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.
The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.
The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
A squid has 10 tentacles.
A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".
The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.
The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.
The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.
A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.
Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.
Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.
28 percent of Africa is wilderness.
38 percent of America is wilderness.
A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.
It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.
Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.
70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.
Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
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 learned how to walk up standard staircases.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of 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.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
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.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
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.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca Cola was originally green.
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.
The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.
A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.
Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
The world's youngest parents were 8 %26amp; 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
In all these facts, how many do you know?*These are not typed by me. I just pasted it.?
It IS possible to sneeze with your eyes open but you have to be specifically trying or you will usually close your eyes.
Reply:there is no freekin way i am looking at all that
Reply:I'm not reading all of this, it's too early in the morning..... I was however aware of the very last one on the list...plus cat hair in my house! ha ha!
Reply:"By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television."
That's it?!?
Reply:useless jargon
Reply:Sorry too much to read I think i am smart already dont want to push all the usefull knowledge out
Reply:Dude!!
Reply:Whoa! You seriously think anyone is going to go through all of that? I'm guessing I know very few or even none of these things. Have a good day and post shorter questions in future.
Reply:too many facts, I think I've overloaded my brain , lol
Reply:A little 2 much time on our hands?
Reply:I actually read almost all of it...(about 3/4's)..I thought it was pretty interesting..a couple of them I had heard of, but most I hadn't. thanks for the info. : )
cancel that out...I just finished reading it all from the bottom up.
Reply:I read them all %26amp; did you know that there were repeats?
"CocaCola was originally green," %26amp;
"The youngest pope was 11," were both listed twice.
Oh, and "70% of Americans who visited Disneyword/Land.. " What? The sentence just ended. What happened to them?
(I used to be a proofreader.)
Thanks for the great read though. I knew quite a few, but there were some surprises.
Reply:It's a very strange world that we live in.
I did read them all ( some out loud for my partner !)
Reply:once at the zoo I took a photograph of a giraffe with it's neck fully extended,it's head tilted up and it's tongue fully extended while it was getting leaves off of the tall branches.
Very interesting.I read all of it.There were a few things that I knew.
Reply:Well, there were more than several repeats in here, but--believe it or not, I actually DO know most of these facts to be true. But--you're gonna have to wait a minute here while I get out a $5 to see if all 50 states are printed on the Memorial--never noticed this. Well, I'll be darned--they ARE there--you need a magnifying glass to see them, but they're there. Very interesting.
Reply:about 3/4 of them
Reply:I didn't read them all, but I can tell you right now that the one about the dragonfly is completely false. Not even close to being true. A dragonfly lives as a nymph underwater for about three years and then once it emerges as an adult it has a lifespan of several months. Not a day. If weather is optimal the fly can live for as long as six months, but if the weather is bad it may only live a few weeks.
I think whoever typed that "fact" was thinking of the mayfly.
So based on the fact that the "fact" about dragonflies was anything but I'm going to assume that a lot more of what's on that list is also false.
Reply:Oh wow.
K
The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Starfish have no brain.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
Bulls are color blind.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Lip stick contains fish scales.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884...
58209749445923078164062862089986280348...
Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!
A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Emus can't walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
12 or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".
Singapore only has one train station.
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
Popeye was 5'6".
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.
The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
A baby is born every 7 seconds.
10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.
On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.
The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.
The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb
The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd... His middle name is George James.
It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
India has 50 million monkeys.
By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.
The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.
The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
A squid has 10 tentacles.
A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".
The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.
The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.
The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.
A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.
Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.
Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.
28 percent of Africa is wilderness.
38 percent of America is wilderness.
A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.
It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.
Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.
70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.
Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
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 learned how to walk up standard staircases.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of 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.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
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.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
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.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca Cola was originally green.
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.
The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.
A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.
Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
The world's youngest parents were 8 %26amp; 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
In all these facts, how many do you know?*These are not typed by me. I just pasted it.?
It IS possible to sneeze with your eyes open but you have to be specifically trying or you will usually close your eyes.
Reply:there is no freekin way i am looking at all that
Reply:I'm not reading all of this, it's too early in the morning..... I was however aware of the very last one on the list...plus cat hair in my house! ha ha!
Reply:"By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television."
That's it?!?
Reply:useless jargon
Reply:Sorry too much to read I think i am smart already dont want to push all the usefull knowledge out
Reply:Dude!!
Reply:Whoa! You seriously think anyone is going to go through all of that? I'm guessing I know very few or even none of these things. Have a good day and post shorter questions in future.
Reply:too many facts, I think I've overloaded my brain , lol
Reply:A little 2 much time on our hands?
Reply:I actually read almost all of it...(about 3/4's)..I thought it was pretty interesting..a couple of them I had heard of, but most I hadn't. thanks for the info. : )
cancel that out...I just finished reading it all from the bottom up.
Reply:I read them all %26amp; did you know that there were repeats?
"CocaCola was originally green," %26amp;
"The youngest pope was 11," were both listed twice.
Oh, and "70% of Americans who visited Disneyword/Land.. " What? The sentence just ended. What happened to them?
(I used to be a proofreader.)
Thanks for the great read though. I knew quite a few, but there were some surprises.
Reply:It's a very strange world that we live in.
I did read them all ( some out loud for my partner !)
Reply:once at the zoo I took a photograph of a giraffe with it's neck fully extended,it's head tilted up and it's tongue fully extended while it was getting leaves off of the tall branches.
Very interesting.I read all of it.There were a few things that I knew.
Reply:Well, there were more than several repeats in here, but--believe it or not, I actually DO know most of these facts to be true. But--you're gonna have to wait a minute here while I get out a $5 to see if all 50 states are printed on the Memorial--never noticed this. Well, I'll be darned--they ARE there--you need a magnifying glass to see them, but they're there. Very interesting.
Reply:about 3/4 of them
Reply:I didn't read them all, but I can tell you right now that the one about the dragonfly is completely false. Not even close to being true. A dragonfly lives as a nymph underwater for about three years and then once it emerges as an adult it has a lifespan of several months. Not a day. If weather is optimal the fly can live for as long as six months, but if the weather is bad it may only live a few weeks.
I think whoever typed that "fact" was thinking of the mayfly.
So based on the fact that the "fact" about dragonflies was anything but I'm going to assume that a lot more of what's on that list is also false.
Reply:Oh wow.
K
Do you agree with Ron Pauls comments on Racism?
Government and Racism
April 16, 2007
The controversy surrounding remarks by talk show host Don Imus shows that the nation remains incredibly sensitive about matters of race, despite the outward progress of the last 40 years. A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.
The young women on the basketball team Mr. Imus insulted are over 18 and can speak for themselves. It’s disconcerting to see third parties become involved and presume to speak collectively for minority groups. It is precisely this collectivist mindset that is at the heart of racism.
It’s also disconcerting to hear the subtle or not-so-subtle threats against free speech. Since the FCC regulates airwaves and grants broadcast licenses, we’re told it’s proper for government to forbid certain kinds of insulting or offensive speech in the name of racial and social tolerance. Never mind the 1st Amendment, which states unequivocally that, “Congress shall make NO law.”
Let’s be perfectly clear: the federal government has no business regulating speech in any way. Furthermore, government as an institution is particularly ill suited to combating bigotry in our society. Bigotry at its essence is a sin of the heart, and we can’t change people’s hearts by passing more laws and regulations.
In fact it is the federal government more than anything else that divides us along race, class, religion, and gender lines. Government, through its taxes, restrictive regulations, corporate subsidies, racial set-asides, and welfare programs, plays far too large a role in determining who succeeds and who fails in our society. This government "benevolence" crowds out genuine goodwill between men by institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government loot. This leads to resentment and hostility between us.
The political left argues that stringent federal laws are needed to combat racism, even as they advocate incredibly divisive collectivist policies.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct our sins, we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty.
Do you agree with Ron Pauls comments on Racism?
Yes.
Reply:By your own logic, people have every right to express disgust when someone who uses the privilege of public airwaves abuses that privilege by spouting racist, bigoted, misogynistic crap. He has a right to say it, but people don't have to listen, and corporations don't have to support it monetarily. As individualism being the great ideal, that sounds like the position of a white male who has had every advantage and privilege.
Reply:That was eloquently put and very concise. Bonniebell... thank you for your answer. It is truthful. Everyone should have your character and own up to the truth. I appreciate all the answers.
April 16, 2007
The controversy surrounding remarks by talk show host Don Imus shows that the nation remains incredibly sensitive about matters of race, despite the outward progress of the last 40 years. A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.
The young women on the basketball team Mr. Imus insulted are over 18 and can speak for themselves. It’s disconcerting to see third parties become involved and presume to speak collectively for minority groups. It is precisely this collectivist mindset that is at the heart of racism.
It’s also disconcerting to hear the subtle or not-so-subtle threats against free speech. Since the FCC regulates airwaves and grants broadcast licenses, we’re told it’s proper for government to forbid certain kinds of insulting or offensive speech in the name of racial and social tolerance. Never mind the 1st Amendment, which states unequivocally that, “Congress shall make NO law.”
Let’s be perfectly clear: the federal government has no business regulating speech in any way. Furthermore, government as an institution is particularly ill suited to combating bigotry in our society. Bigotry at its essence is a sin of the heart, and we can’t change people’s hearts by passing more laws and regulations.
In fact it is the federal government more than anything else that divides us along race, class, religion, and gender lines. Government, through its taxes, restrictive regulations, corporate subsidies, racial set-asides, and welfare programs, plays far too large a role in determining who succeeds and who fails in our society. This government "benevolence" crowds out genuine goodwill between men by institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government loot. This leads to resentment and hostility between us.
The political left argues that stringent federal laws are needed to combat racism, even as they advocate incredibly divisive collectivist policies.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct our sins, we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty.
Do you agree with Ron Pauls comments on Racism?
Yes.
Reply:By your own logic, people have every right to express disgust when someone who uses the privilege of public airwaves abuses that privilege by spouting racist, bigoted, misogynistic crap. He has a right to say it, but people don't have to listen, and corporations don't have to support it monetarily. As individualism being the great ideal, that sounds like the position of a white male who has had every advantage and privilege.
Reply:That was eloquently put and very concise. Bonniebell... thank you for your answer. It is truthful. Everyone should have your character and own up to the truth. I appreciate all the answers.
Cats scared of clean drapes??
people said baths are bad for cats and will dry their skin out (i don't get why since the water would wet it down?), so i decided to listen to that and instead i tried to vacuum them clean. they kept running away and it took me a while to corner them with the vacuum cleaner, but i finally got them into the closet and used the rug attachment because their furs like shag carpeting. it worked real good, except that mr. snickers got his tail caught in it and he screeched real loud, but i pulled it out and most of the fur's still on it so he's okay.
anyway, my question is: later on i got the vacuum out again just to clean the drapes. i wasn't even paying no mind to mittens and mr. snickers but they started yowling and running around the house like crazy cats!!! why are they so afeared of the drapes being clean?
Cats scared of clean drapes??
Yeah that's it.
Reply:this sounds pretty sadistic to me if it's supposed to be a joke
Reply:That's crazy. Somebody should chase you around the house with a loud scary machine that you are unfamiliar with, corner you and try to pull all your hair out. Then you might know why they are scared. Grrr.
Reply:Yes, you got a big laugh out of me, we need more things to laugh at.
Reply:Cats are funny like that, my cat loves when we turn on the sink and anything to do with the sound of water. cb
Reply:You need to try to see things from your cats' viewpoint. Of course this would be a traumatizing experience. You can expect this every time you use the vacuum from now on. You might try shutting them in a separate room from where you are vacuuming so they will feel more secure.
An occasional cat bath is not so bad, especially if you give them olive oil occasionally or a can of sardines as a treat once a week. It's not so difficult to get them to accept baths if you are very gentle and make sure shampoo never gets in their eyes, and hte water is luke warm, not hot. Never use a hair dryer on them after what happened with the vacuum! Just wrap them in a lot of soft cottony towels then turn them loose in the house to dry. If you don't feel comfortable with this, you can always take them to a groomer.
From now on, if you have any questions about baths, litter boxes, vaccines, cats being ill or something, please feel free to ask here. People are quick to respond with helpful advice. Sometimes people here can opinionated, especially when it comes to issues near and dear to our hearts like declawing or neutering. We have your cats' best interests in mind, so don't be offended please by rude or bossy statements. We are all here for our animals and to help each other (except for some sick people who make incredibly cruel jokes.)
Reply:I have to agree with the sadistic comment. Touch of gross humor,too sadistic and a shame those ten minutes you took to post that are now gone forever. Such creativity should be spent in humor columns, not here where serious animal lovers come seeking answers and to help others.
Reply:The cats are scared of the vacuum cleaner. Leave the vacuum OFF and out in the room so they can investigate it. Don't turn it on when they are in the room.
Reply:their dna is in the vaccum perhaps
Reply:Oh, gimme a break! They are NOT afraid of the drapes being cleaned. You have already terrorized them with the dog-gone vacuum cleaner---and FYI: CATS HATE THE VACUUM CLEANER! It's the high-pitched sound that the vacuum puts out that is VERY sensitive to their ears.
Reply:u have got to be the dumbest most retarded person
anyway, my question is: later on i got the vacuum out again just to clean the drapes. i wasn't even paying no mind to mittens and mr. snickers but they started yowling and running around the house like crazy cats!!! why are they so afeared of the drapes being clean?
Cats scared of clean drapes??
Yeah that's it.
Reply:this sounds pretty sadistic to me if it's supposed to be a joke
Reply:That's crazy. Somebody should chase you around the house with a loud scary machine that you are unfamiliar with, corner you and try to pull all your hair out. Then you might know why they are scared. Grrr.
Reply:Yes, you got a big laugh out of me, we need more things to laugh at.
Reply:Cats are funny like that, my cat loves when we turn on the sink and anything to do with the sound of water. cb
Reply:You need to try to see things from your cats' viewpoint. Of course this would be a traumatizing experience. You can expect this every time you use the vacuum from now on. You might try shutting them in a separate room from where you are vacuuming so they will feel more secure.
An occasional cat bath is not so bad, especially if you give them olive oil occasionally or a can of sardines as a treat once a week. It's not so difficult to get them to accept baths if you are very gentle and make sure shampoo never gets in their eyes, and hte water is luke warm, not hot. Never use a hair dryer on them after what happened with the vacuum! Just wrap them in a lot of soft cottony towels then turn them loose in the house to dry. If you don't feel comfortable with this, you can always take them to a groomer.
From now on, if you have any questions about baths, litter boxes, vaccines, cats being ill or something, please feel free to ask here. People are quick to respond with helpful advice. Sometimes people here can opinionated, especially when it comes to issues near and dear to our hearts like declawing or neutering. We have your cats' best interests in mind, so don't be offended please by rude or bossy statements. We are all here for our animals and to help each other (except for some sick people who make incredibly cruel jokes.)
Reply:I have to agree with the sadistic comment. Touch of gross humor,too sadistic and a shame those ten minutes you took to post that are now gone forever. Such creativity should be spent in humor columns, not here where serious animal lovers come seeking answers and to help others.
Reply:The cats are scared of the vacuum cleaner. Leave the vacuum OFF and out in the room so they can investigate it. Don't turn it on when they are in the room.
Reply:their dna is in the vaccum perhaps
Reply:Oh, gimme a break! They are NOT afraid of the drapes being cleaned. You have already terrorized them with the dog-gone vacuum cleaner---and FYI: CATS HATE THE VACUUM CLEANER! It's the high-pitched sound that the vacuum puts out that is VERY sensitive to their ears.
Reply:u have got to be the dumbest most retarded person
What's the context of this?
This is an article about the Boston Massacre that I have to summarize. However there's one phrase that I dont know the meaning of.
leading Mr. Murray's barrack in which was a soldier brandishing a broad sword of an uncommon size against the walls, out of which he struck fire plentifully. A person of mean countenance. armed with a large cudgel bore him company. Edward Archbald admonished Mr. Merchant to take care of the sword, on which the soldier turned round and struck Archbald on the arm, then pushed at Merchant and pierced through his clothes inside the arm close to the armpit and grazed the skin.
What is meant by take care the sword? Did he mean for Merchant to steal the sword/take it away from the soldier?
What's the context of this?
It simply meant to beware of, be careful, be aware of, the sword. It was a warning that the soldier was going to use the sword.
Reply:Moo
Reply:Reads to me like he's telling him to put it away.
That's just me, though.
Reply:IArchbald is telling him to keep the soldier in line, or, kill him, depending on the rest of the passage. The "sword" is the name archbald gave to the soldier.
Reply:Yes, aidan402 (answerer 4) is right, and the others are wrong or being stupid.
Saying "take care of" in this old-fashioned sense is the same as saying "be careful of" nowadays.
bougainvillea
leading Mr. Murray's barrack in which was a soldier brandishing a broad sword of an uncommon size against the walls, out of which he struck fire plentifully. A person of mean countenance. armed with a large cudgel bore him company. Edward Archbald admonished Mr. Merchant to take care of the sword, on which the soldier turned round and struck Archbald on the arm, then pushed at Merchant and pierced through his clothes inside the arm close to the armpit and grazed the skin.
What is meant by take care the sword? Did he mean for Merchant to steal the sword/take it away from the soldier?
What's the context of this?
It simply meant to beware of, be careful, be aware of, the sword. It was a warning that the soldier was going to use the sword.
Reply:Moo
Reply:Reads to me like he's telling him to put it away.
That's just me, though.
Reply:IArchbald is telling him to keep the soldier in line, or, kill him, depending on the rest of the passage. The "sword" is the name archbald gave to the soldier.
Reply:Yes, aidan402 (answerer 4) is right, and the others are wrong or being stupid.
Saying "take care of" in this old-fashioned sense is the same as saying "be careful of" nowadays.
bougainvillea
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