I found this old email...

Ivan

I was cleaning out my hotmail account today and I happened to come across this email saved in one of my folders there... Its over 6 years old so I've no idea how accurate it is and since it originated on the internet I've no idea how accurate it was in the first place but anyway... made me smile

Some Interesting Facts

1. Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.

2. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

3. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

4. A shrimp's heart is in their head.

5. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.

6. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).

7. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

8. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

9. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.

10. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.

11. On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

12. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

13. Rats and horses can't vomit.

14. The ''sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

15. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.

16. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

17. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

18. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented
on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

19. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

20. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

21. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
22. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

23. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by
people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

24. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while
sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

25. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

26. Cat's urine glows under a black light.

27. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is
different.


Once again I'm reminded of the age old "97% of all statistics are made up on the spot"

I make no claim that these are true, so feel free to discredit them on snopes or whatever

Bacchus

Have to disagree with point 2. I can lick my own elbow quite easiy.

And what is BLACK light???

hynesie

Light in the near ultraviolet range, just short of visible light is known as Black Light. Fluorescent penetrants absorb this ultraviolet radiation and emit light in the visible region. The darker the surroundings the brighter this emitted light appears to be.

It is supposed to be medically impossible to lick your elbow, could you please post some proof of this claim.

quarryman

Originally posted by Bacchus

And what is BLACK light???

UV. ultraviolet.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).

i find it hard to believe that a study was carried out for 80 years to find out if they stuck their heads in the sand.

22. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

i like that one. next time i meet a duck in a cave i'm gonna test it out.

15. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.

i'm allergic to ducks. it could get messy in there.

Bacchus

As smart a move as it would be to post a picture of me licking my own elbow on the web (yeah, that'll never come back and bite me in the but) I can only give you my word that I honestly can lick my own elbow. Whether or not you believe me doesn't really bother me.

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by Bacchus
And what is BLACK light???

It's UV, I think.

quarryman

look we could black out your eyes, make it anonymous.

imagine, it'd be on the front of all the papers. all over the news. instant fame. instant wealth. fast cars. fast women.

of course you'd miss out on this as your eyes would be blacked out.

your call.

DamienH

I know a fella who can sneeze with his eyes open. Does it all the time he does

Sarky

Duck quacks echo. It's been proven. And I heard it just last night anyway by the canal.

Crash

Human pee glows under a blacklight as well. it glows green *snigger*

quarryman

Originally posted by DamienH
I know a fella who can sneeze with his eyes open. Does it all the time he does

lies! you saw the 6 year old, questionably unreliable statistic above. his eyes would pop out!

that's just wreckless.

Ivan

Originally posted by Bacchus
Have to disagree with point 2. I can lick my own elbow quite easiy.

And what is BLACK light???

Maybe I should rephrase it to : Its impossible for Normal people to lick their own elbow.

quarryman

Originally posted by Sarky
Duck quacks echo. It's been proven. And I heard it just last night anyway by the canal.

more lies! i think everyone who went to primary school knows that ducks sleep at night. if you can produce evidence that ducks can "sleepquack" then we'll believe you ....... grrr

hynesie

Since were making up stuff that we can do, and Bacchus has taken the elbow licking one, I'm going to say that I can lick my ear.
Anybody else want to make up some stuff that they can do?

quarryman

i can stick my head in the sand and then sneeze with my eyes open (the sand gets up my nose) and then....

......i can lick a duck.

PrecariousNuts

Maths stands for:

Mathematical
Anti
Telharsic
Harfatum
Septomin

sceptre

Originally posted by Ivan
5. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.

Apparently undetermined. I've always heard the soul escaping from the body version.

9. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.

Very false

22. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

Trevor Cox managed to demonstrate quite successfully that it does


Maybe we should add

28. After reading this list you will try to lick your elbow

PrecariousNuts

The heart stopping one is false. The heart beats regardless of what else the body is doing. If removed completely from the body and put it a nutrient solution it will continue to beat. The brain can regulate the rate but a sneeze will not stop it.

whosurpaddy

Originally posted by Ivan
19. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

what does this one mean?

UnrealQueen

Originally posted by Ivan


26. Cat's urine glows under a black light.

/me goes off to test this one.

sceptre

Originally posted by whosurpaddy
what does this one mean?

Every Seinfeld episode has some reference to Superman. Where there isn't a visual or spoken reference to the Man of Steel there's always at least one shot in Jerry's apartment with a Superman model sitting on the shelf. It never really adds anything, it's just there.

Supercell

Intrepid investigation shows that there are many of these mails on the interweb http://mail.shreve.net/pipermail/shreve-chat/2000-December/001201.html

> DISTURBING FACTS
>
> If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you
> try to suppress a
> sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or
> neck and die.
>
> Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased
> in the US is
> contaminated with bacteria.
>
> Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats
> could have over 1
> million descendents.
>
> You are more likely to be struck by lightning that to
> be eaten by a shark.
> You are more likely to be infected by flesh-eating
> bacteria than you are to
> be struck by lightning.
>
> If you urinate when swimming in a South American
> river, you may encounter
> the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known
> to follow a stream of
> urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare
> its barbed fins. It
> will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until
> surgically removed.
>
> When a pilot light in a gas barbecue fails to ignite
> the gas jets properly,
> it is easy for you to inhale gas accidentally while
> trying to light it by
> hand. If this has happened, when the match does
> light, sometimes a trail of
> flame will blaze from the jet onto your mouth,
> filling your lungs with
> fire. Oddly enough, you would suffocate before
> burning to death as the
> flame would consume the oxygen in every breath you
> would take.
>
> The soft plastic headphones used on airplanes create a
> warm, moist
> environment in the ear canal that is ideal for
> breeding bacteria. Wearing
> headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria
> in your ear by 700
> times.
>
> On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the
> incoming flight had serious
> gas, then you are sitting on a cushion full of
> disease-causing microbes.
>
> Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on
> average, than
> good-looking criminals.
>
> Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of
> the Atlantic Ocean. One,
> a Russian sub resting in deep water off of Bermuda,
> holds 16 live nuclear
> warheads. Scientists and oceanographers are unsure
> what the impact of the
> escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion
> could create the
> proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear
> chain reaction.
>
> In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a
> nearby cellular telephone
> captivated a power wheelchair at a scenic vista in
> Colorado, sending the
> passenger over a cliff.
>
> If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why
> does Title 14,
> Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations,
> implemented on July 16,
> 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any
> contact with
> extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
>
> More people working in advertising died on the job in
> 1996 than died while
> working in petroleum refining.

Ivan

Wow, corroborating evidence, it must be true!

smoke.me.a.kipper

Originally posted by Ivan
2. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

my friend kevin can do it. but he can do wierd stuff with his arms. like move them in the wrong direction and such.

Originally posted by Ivan

18. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented
on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

this i believe to be true.

Originally posted by Ivan

22. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

this was proved wrong. saw it on the news recently.

Rabies

13. Rats and horses can't vomit.

Horses can't vomit. I saw a vet put a tube down a horses mouth to drain the contents of its stomach because it ate too much of the wrong feed. That will teach him to break in to the feed store again