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I heard that it's legal to shoot a welshman with a longbow in the grounds of shrewsbury castle on sunday.Shoggoth2588 said:
Also, when the first person to have a stuffed platypus, people thought it was a hoax.
Have you been reading the loo book?
Jellyfish sometimes evaporate.
Uma thurman is a buddhist.
Mark twain has something to say about everything...
Jellyfish sometimes evaporate.
Uma thurman is a buddhist.
Mark twain has something to say about everything...
Heh, my name is Niko and it's a form of Nickolas...Nannernade said:Santa Claus (St. Nickolas) is the patron saint of prostitutes.
Umm...It's possible to get the same effects with different sounds and frequencies(sp?) as with drugs like heroin.
Coca-Cola is actually green without the brown/black coloring things in there.
And a lame one to finish:
If you mix orange juice with Smarties, it turns green. I've tried it.
Kind sir, as you progress out of adolescence, you will come to realize that knowledge, wisdom and intelligence are not tantamount.CloakedOne said:
In New York state, at the turn of the century, any 'horseless carriage operated by a woman must be preceded by 50', by a man waving an orange flag and ringing a bell'. At least, that's what the law said while it was legally enforceable, although I'm not sure if it's still on the books.
There's also a southern state where it's illegal to shoot an elephant from a boat; it has some to do with a train wreck involving the Barnum & Bailey Circus, where the elephants got lose, and a couple of really hillbilly locals freaked out, fled onto a lake in a rowboat, and started shooting the 'monsters' from there. All that accomplished was to aggravate the elephants, which then wrecked a bunch of stuff, and more were difficult to recapture.
There's also a few southern states where oral sex is illegal and punishable by jail-time, several where sodomy is illegal, and at least one (although I'm drawing a blank on the name) where sex in any position but missionary was at some time illegal. I'd say that watching your neighbours have sex without their consent or knowledge should be at least as illegal as them engaging in oral sex, to say nothing of calling the police about it.
On a more positive note, it was at one time legal to herd sheep across the major bridge that crosses the river in my city, provided you gave the local police notice. At one point, the bulk of the city was on the south side of the N. Saskatchewan River, and when automobiles became more popular, there were still farmers that lived north of the river, and had to transport their livestock to the market on the south side. I think they repealed this one after some university students did it, though.
There's also a southern state where it's illegal to shoot an elephant from a boat; it has some to do with a train wreck involving the Barnum & Bailey Circus, where the elephants got lose, and a couple of really hillbilly locals freaked out, fled onto a lake in a rowboat, and started shooting the 'monsters' from there. All that accomplished was to aggravate the elephants, which then wrecked a bunch of stuff, and more were difficult to recapture.
There's also a few southern states where oral sex is illegal and punishable by jail-time, several where sodomy is illegal, and at least one (although I'm drawing a blank on the name) where sex in any position but missionary was at some time illegal. I'd say that watching your neighbours have sex without their consent or knowledge should be at least as illegal as them engaging in oral sex, to say nothing of calling the police about it.
On a more positive note, it was at one time legal to herd sheep across the major bridge that crosses the river in my city, provided you gave the local police notice. At one point, the bulk of the city was on the south side of the N. Saskatchewan River, and when automobiles became more popular, there were still farmers that lived north of the river, and had to transport their livestock to the market on the south side. I think they repealed this one after some university students did it, though.
If I had known being wrong was going to hurt you that much, I wouldn't have said anything. My apologies.funguy2121 said:
Baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. I don't follow soccer, and thus didn't know that those teams existed.Zildjin81 said:
The Gauls would charge into battle wearing a torque, which amounts to a specialized choker, and nothing else.
The Spinx was carved using stone hammers and copper chisels. Copper is a VERY soft metal, so the chisels would lose their point and shape in about 20-30 strikes, and would then be resharpened and sent back to the carvers. Still, it's calculated that it would have taken 100 carvers 3 years to complete it, which isn't that bad all things considered.
In wheel thrown ceramics, the moldier the clay the better. The stuff that mold likes to eat is what makes it good to throw on a potter's wheel.
The idea that talking to plants helps them grow actually does have merit, but it doesn't matter what you say. In fact, plants that 'listen' to heavy metal do better than those with classical.
Hindu belief (in some sects) states that there are four genders: men, women, gay men, and gay women.
Reincarnation ideas in general hold that talent and deja vu are a result of retaining memory of a past life. So if someone's an amazing pianist after two lessons then they were a professional pianist in a past life.
If I could be a superhero I would be Trivia Girl.
The Spinx was carved using stone hammers and copper chisels. Copper is a VERY soft metal, so the chisels would lose their point and shape in about 20-30 strikes, and would then be resharpened and sent back to the carvers. Still, it's calculated that it would have taken 100 carvers 3 years to complete it, which isn't that bad all things considered.
In wheel thrown ceramics, the moldier the clay the better. The stuff that mold likes to eat is what makes it good to throw on a potter's wheel.
The idea that talking to plants helps them grow actually does have merit, but it doesn't matter what you say. In fact, plants that 'listen' to heavy metal do better than those with classical.
Hindu belief (in some sects) states that there are four genders: men, women, gay men, and gay women.
Reincarnation ideas in general hold that talent and deja vu are a result of retaining memory of a past life. So if someone's an amazing pianist after two lessons then they were a professional pianist in a past life.
If I could be a superhero I would be Trivia Girl.
Yurtle the Turtle started his life with a Nazi uniform and a Hitler mustache.LordNue said:
Seuss was part of a documentary film making unit during the war. He was at the Battle of the Bulge. He also made a documentary with the point that we can't forget what happened or it will happen again. It was very intense.
Yeeches also started with political cartoons as the target of Hitler's anti-Jewish racism.
Seuss's father worked at a brewery, and the day he was promoted to president Prohibition was declared, so he started designing parks and running the Zoo.
The Butter Battle Book is about the Cold War, and for this reason it was once banned. The reasoning was that he was scaring children but honestly, two groups raging war over which side they butter their bread, coming to the point of two guys on a wall with their Itsy Bitsy Big Boy Boomaroo bombs poised to be dropped with the question of who's going to be the one to drop it? They just didn't want kids seeing how stupid the whole thing was.
The Lorax began when he and his wife took a trip to Africa and he saw strange looking trees, which reminded him of his drawings, being clear cut.
His name is Ted Geisel. When he was in college he was the editor of the school paper the Jack-O-Lantern. However, one day he had a few students and a pint of gin in his dormroom and was caught by the cheif of police. Because it's still Prohibition he was stripped of his position. However he continued submitting cartoons under his mother's maiden name, Seuss. Later he did scientific satires and so he signed them Dr. Seuss, and that's where the name comes from.
The Cat in the Hat was a challenge from someone else in the community. It was intended to replace Dick, Jane, and Spot, along with other really boring classroom primers for reading. Sadly, it was too much fun and made school boards nervous, and so Dick went on.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Also something that seems like it is very strange that someone would test is that an ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Also something that seems like it is very strange that someone would test is that an ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
