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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:06 PM
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Tell me something I don't know!
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:08 PM
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1. Carravagio's works are extremely homo-erotic!
The art thread got me thinking.
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kitkatrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:08 PM
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2. Okay
The human body generally carries around ten pounds of feces at all times. Fun biology fact for the day. I love AP Bio.
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:09 PM
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3. If you...
Turn around from where you start on the first level of the first board of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter and jump in the lake and swim to the bottom, you will find a secret rocket launcher. On the island, just beyond that lake, there is a secret phone booth that you can use and Sam will make a witty jab at Duke Nukem.

Didya know that?
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:09 PM
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4. I'm constructed entirely out of liverwurst.
And my memory chips have been cut from the purest dolomite.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:09 PM
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5. I have two cats named after presidents
Edited on Mon Dec-01-03 09:11 PM by Bertha Venation
Bonus points if you can guess the presidents (hint - check my home page - see profile)

And an all-expenses paid day trip to Cucamonga if you can guess why I named them after those presidents
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:10 PM
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7. How old are the cats--tell me and then I'll guess!
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:12 PM
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8. nine-year-old littermates . . .
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:12 PM
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9. My guess..
Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.

Why? I bet the one named Senior pukes everywhere and you named junior because he ate your list of friends and pooped it out. :D
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:22 PM
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14. clever but wrong, and . . . gross!
;)
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:16 PM
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11. Harry S. Truman and Richard Nixon--I cheated!
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:23 PM
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16. well done! now, the question is . . .
why? Forget the trip to Cucamonga, this is for $5,000* and the rest of your clothes!

* To be paid one penny at a time throughout your life, as you find pennies wherever they might be.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:26 PM
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18. And the answer is "Why not??"
Anyway, my littermates are female, so I named them Scarlet and Melanie, after my favorite movie. How did I decided which was which--well, Scarlet was quite the loud one as a kitten, and Melanie never amde a peep.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:59 PM
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23. Good answer.
:D
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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:10 PM
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6. The Marianas Trench
off of the coast of Guam is the deepest part in the world. It is 10,924 m, or almost 11 km (7 miles deep)
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:35 PM
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21. Sorry, I knew that.
;-)
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:12 PM
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10. Static guard spray
...has an expiration date.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:19 PM
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12. Alexander the Great may have died from the West Nile Virus.
Just saw that on Discovery.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:25 PM
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17. Really? read a book that theorized acute alcoholism
He loved his wine.
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Leftist78 Donating Member (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:20 PM
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13. got one
the odor eliminator in Febreze is derived from corn.
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toddzilla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:23 PM
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15. too close of a lobe separation and you will lose vacuum at idle
Edited on Mon Dec-01-03 09:24 PM by toddzilla
but you will gain top-end power!!

:silly:
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:27 PM
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19. SoHo
learned on city confidential today:
soho section of the city comes from 'south of houston street'

i did not know that.
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UCLA02 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:17 PM
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27. ...and Tribeca
is "Triangle Below Canal"
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:41 PM
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30. big grin
i did not know THAT. sometimes this msg board is just plain fun.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:29 PM
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20. I am not really Grumpy at all...
;)
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 09:46 PM
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22. It seems that I have had a relative in every American War
all the way back to the Indian Wars of 1648 which were fought in the wilderness now known as The Bronx.
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populistmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:02 PM
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24. People who are breastfed have higher IQs
Sources:

Horwood and Fergusson, "Breastfeeding and Later Cognitive and Acadenic Outcomes", Jan 1998 Pediatrics Lucas, A., "Breast Milk and Subsequent Intelligence Quotient in Children Born Preterm." Lancet, 1992; 339:261-262Vol. 101, No. 1

Morrow-Tlucak M, Haude RH, Ernhart CB. "Breastfeeding and cognitive development in the first 2 years of life". Soc Sci Med. 1988:26;635-639
Lucas A., "Breast Milk and Subsequent Intelligence Quotient in Children Born Preterm". Lancet 1992;339:261-62

Wang YS, Wu SY. "The effect of exclusive breastfeeding on development and incidence of infection in infants." J Hum Lactation. 1996; 12:27-30
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EV1Ltimm Donating Member (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:11 PM
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25. paintball is safter than bowling.
... just so long as you're wearing goggles :)
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UCLA02 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:14 PM
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26. Hahn's beer is really sour...
especially when you're drinking it and it says "Packaged on 9/11/02"

(Since it's Australian, wondering if that means "Sept. 11" or "November 9." Either way it's over a year old. Gotta tell Trader Joes to rotate it's stock better.)
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:18 PM
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28. Necrophiliac enema nurses rule Nebraska

Betcha didn't know that, huh?
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populistmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:20 PM
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29. My mom went to nursing school in Nebraska
Guess that explains why she's so damned strange. :crazy:
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:50 PM
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31. LUNCHABLES
Are packed by oompa loompas
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