Strange but interesting facts

Sykk · 02-02-2011 03:46PM #1

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

Okay mine may not be THAT interesting, anyone else got some?

Adam · 02-02-2011 03:48PM

nothing rhymes with silver either!

orourkeda · 02-02-2011 03:49PM

Sykk wrote: »

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

Okay mine may not be THAT interesting, anyone else got some?

A corange line is a line on a map that joins areas of equal tide range.

Corange\Orange: Anyone spot the similarity?

Duggy747 · 02-02-2011 03:49PM

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

I know what rhymes with month :pac:

ballsymchugh · 02-02-2011 03:50PM

orange schmorange

Vicxas · 02-02-2011 03:50PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

I know what rhymes with month :pac:

Punt?!

david75 · 02-02-2011 03:50PM

silver...builder

purple..nurple

orange..blemange (ok thats a reach)

titsmahgee · 02-02-2011 03:51PM

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Month - C*nt?
Guess thats not in the dictionary though:p

The_Kew_Tour · 02-02-2011 03:51PM

17 days since WW2 has there not been war in any country throughout the world.

We live in world full of wars.

Sparks43 · 02-02-2011 03:51PM

Every 1.73 minutes a gob****e posts a useless thread on AH

AlmightyCushion · 02-02-2011 03:51PM

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Someone doesn't watch QI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes#Words_with_obscure_perfect_rhymes

orourkeda · 02-02-2011 03:52PM

In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.

El Guapo! · 02-02-2011 03:52PM

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Not true. I got a purple nurple once. It hurt.

o1s1n · 02-02-2011 03:52PM

Adam wrote: »

nothing rhymes with silver either!

Chilver!

orourkeda · 02-02-2011 03:52PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Someone doesn't watch QI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes#Words_with_obscure_perfect_rhymes

Precisely. The auld corange

_feedback_ · 02-02-2011 03:53PM

63.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

leakyboots · 02-02-2011 03:53PM

http://slices-of-life.com/2007/09/05/top-53-words-that-rhyme-with-orange/

The Waltzing Consumer · 02-02-2011 03:54PM

They are not interesting. They are not even facts.

Orange-sporange
Month-punt-grunt-shunt
Purple-curple-slurple-nurple

Sykk · 02-02-2011 03:54PM

Sparks43 wrote: »

Every 1.73 minutes a gob****e posts a useless thread on AH

Every 0.5 of a minute, a worse dickhead makes a useless response :pac:

orourkeda · 02-02-2011 03:54PM

Sparks43 wrote: »

Every 1.73 minutes a gob****e posts a useless thread on AH

1.73 seconds

Sykk · 02-02-2011 03:55PM

leakyboots wrote: »

http://slices-of-life.com/2007/09/05/top-53-words-that-rhyme-with-orange/

The words that rhyme according to that page...

Amaze

Arrange

Baggage

Blamange?

Brains

Bunge

Challenge

Duggy747 · 02-02-2011 03:55PM

As for what rhymes with Orange, say "aren't" in a thick Norn Iron accent. :P

Look at the zipper on your fly, see the letters YKK? That stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha

You've now realised how odd you looked searching for the letters on your fly

Sparks43 · 02-02-2011 03:55PM

Sykk wrote: »

Every 0.5 of a minute, a worse dickhead makes a useless response :pac:

Useless response ^:D

orourkeda · 02-02-2011 03:56PM

titsmahgee wrote: »

Month - C*nt?
Guess thats not in the dictionary though:p

It is.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/****

castletownman · 02-02-2011 03:57PM

No glass was made in China between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. As Europeans were drinkers of wine and the Chinese weren't the invention of glass by Europeans to store wine, led to the invention of the telescope, reading glasses, which extended writers' and scientists' reading life by 10-15 years, and scientific beakers all of which weren't introduced to China until the nineteenth century. So it can be said that the invention of the tea-cup changed the course of Chinese history

FreudianSlippers · 02-02-2011 03:59PM

titsmahgee wrote: »

Month - C*nt?
Guess thats not in the dictionary though:p

Only if you're a culchie who pronounces Month as "munt"

pickarooney · 02-02-2011 03:59PM

Some interesting tidbits on there:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heighth
So the last H did once exist

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/width
Who knew the D was pronounced?

What does 'Refractory one-syllable rhymes' mean? I can't follow that section.

titsmahgee · 02-02-2011 03:59PM

orourkeda wrote: »

It is.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/****

well thats a strange but interesting fact

prinz · 02-02-2011 04:00PM

Vicxas wrote: »

Punt?!

titsmahgee wrote: »

Month - C*nt?
Guess thats not in the dictionary though:p

Month is not pronounced 'munt'. Edit: Beaten to it.

clived2 · 02-02-2011 04:01PM

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month

Oh so it thats time of the month
I will show this cunt
Oh! nobody can rhyme with orange
I will smash your head in a door hinge
Leaving your head purple
Pursued by a purple nurple

FreudianSlippers · 02-02-2011 04:01PM

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Only if you're a culchie who pronounces Month as "munt"

Albert Einstein's nurse was the only one in the room with him when he died and she told friends/family that he said something to her before he died.
People were sure that it was something very important to do with his work, but we'll never know...

his nurse didn't speak German.

:mad:

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