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Archive for 2007/06


Trivia for 6/23/2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!* Koala is Aboriginal for “no drink”.
* The average elephant produces 50 pounds of dung each day.
That reminds me of a picture I saw at work one day. This girl is holding a trash bag underneath the back end of […]

Games kids play…

The two older girls have each told me about a game that they heard about and I thought I’d share.
From the Arkansas School for Math Science and the Arts (where the smartest 1% of the kids in the state attend - that makes this downright frightening):
The game:
To think of The Game is to play The […]

Trivia for 6/22/2007

* Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
* When reflected from bright lights (head lights) deer’s eyes are orange, whereas cats and dogs are green. Rabbits eyes remain black.
* The heaviest dog on record is an Old English Mastiff named Zorba, who weighed 343 pounds and measured 8 […]

Would you pay $55 Million for a condo?

I know real estate prices are high in New York, but $55 Million for a condo?
PUH LEEZE!

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Did you ever have one of those days?

Did you ever have one of those days? I had about 5 of them all at once today. It started out with my oldest daughter and my wife having “words” when I woke up. Turns out that the oldest daughter has an ex-boyfriend who’s been calling her daily and being all buddy-buddy until last night […]

Trivia for 6/21/2007

* A large kangaroo would make a great long-distance jumper, covering more than thirty feet with a single jump.
* Lobsters are scared of octopuses. The sight of one makes a lobster freeze.
All you lobster fishermen in Maine who read this, remember that. Carry a live octopus with you and your job will be SOOO much […]

Naked Couple Falls From Rooftop

Don’t you wonder what this couple was doing naked on the top of a building? No, wait. On second thought, I can probably guess. It does make one wonder how they managed to go over the side of the building, though.

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TEE results

The test on my heart yesterday wasn’t as bad as I anticipated. I explained to the nurse handling the anestetic what happened the last time I had that test done and she said she’d go really easy on the medication - which she did. She had told me several times that, while I wouldn’t lose […]

Trivia for 6/20/2007

* Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
And you thought it hurt giving birth to a HUMAN!
* The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
* The snapping turtle eats carrion and is used by police to find […]

Trivia for 6/19/2007

* Greyhound dogs can see better than any other breed of dog.
* Snakes don’t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.
* The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can’t fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, […]