Leonardo Posted September 13, 2013 #76 Share Posted September 13, 2013 In the town of Oxford (Ohio), it's illegal for a woman to get undressed in front of a man's photograph. What if it's a photograph of the man's back? What is the 'front' of the photo in that case? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffSplitkins Posted September 13, 2013 #77 Share Posted September 13, 2013 A bunghole or bungehole is a hole bored in a liquid-tight barrel to remove contents. The hole is capped with a large cork-like object called a bung. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted September 13, 2013 #78 Share Posted September 13, 2013 3 "Square" meals per day comes from Nelson's Navy ,where all hands ate from Square pieces of polished wood. Round plates of china were only used by the Aristocracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVeryFirstDinosaur Posted September 13, 2013 #79 Share Posted September 13, 2013 All women are secretly members of an ancient alien reptilian species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffSplitkins Posted September 13, 2013 #80 Share Posted September 13, 2013 With any sound system other than headphones, speakers should be at least 6 feet apart to experience 'true stereo'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie Posted September 14, 2013 #81 Share Posted September 14, 2013 (edited) All women are secretly members of an ancient alien reptilian species. And we don't pass on our reptilian genest to our sons making them reptilian too? Edit: I forgot a LOL Edited September 14, 2013 by Aggie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+susieice Posted September 15, 2013 #82 Share Posted September 15, 2013 No word in the English language rhymes with the words orange, month, silver or purple. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Star Posted September 15, 2013 #83 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Hold on a mo…..Doesn't Lozenge rhymes with orange?….. I can go on but with the rest but …well…... is it just me? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+susieice Posted September 15, 2013 #84 Share Posted September 15, 2013 (edited) orange...lozenge...don't think so but the longest one-syllable word in English is screeched...I think. Where's Eald? He knows everything!! Edited September 15, 2013 by susieice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightly Posted September 15, 2013 #85 Share Posted September 15, 2013 ya, but not a lotta people know that 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted September 15, 2013 #86 Share Posted September 15, 2013 The Queen never ,ever carries Money on her person or in her handbag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecowboy342 Posted September 16, 2013 #87 Share Posted September 16, 2013 If all the asteroids in the asteroid belt were compressed together the resulting dwarf planet would be smaller than the moon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted September 16, 2013 #88 Share Posted September 16, 2013 You cannot pressurise water...until it turns into steam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted September 16, 2013 #89 Share Posted September 16, 2013 orange...lozenge...don't think so but the longest one-syllable word in English is screeched...I think. Where's Eald? He knows everything!! Mississippi ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealdwita Posted September 16, 2013 Author #90 Share Posted September 16, 2013 (edited) orange...lozenge...don't think so but the longest one-syllable word in English is screeched...I think. Where's Eald? He knows everything!! The Oxford Rhyming Dictionary gives lozenge as a 'half-rhyme' for orange.....similarly salver for silver. Ealdwita snippet alert.... 1. A full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, while a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver has obvious differences between the vowels in certain syllables. The technical term for a half-rhyme is 'pararhyme'. 2. Other candidates for the longest single syllable English word.... scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters). The Oxford English Dictionary also has scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched. It includes, too, a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote. ............................................................................................................................. Today's offering...... Tory MP, Sir George Gardiner held the dubious honour of being the ugliest Member of Parliament....In 1979 he took the unprecedented step of writing to his constituency in Surrey to plead with them not to vote against him because he was ugly. It worked and he won handsomely. (No pun intended!) Edited September 16, 2013 by ealdwita 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealdwita Posted September 16, 2013 Author #91 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Where's Eald? He knows everything!! Thanks for that susie, but no - he's just got a direct phone line to the BS factory! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted September 16, 2013 #92 Share Posted September 16, 2013 A bat that dies while roosting will continue to hang upside until something shakes it loose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+susieice Posted September 16, 2013 #93 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Thanks Eald. I knew you'd know. No BS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted September 16, 2013 #94 Share Posted September 16, 2013 orange...lozenge...don't think so but the longest one-syllable word in English is screeched...I think. Where's Eald? He knows everything!! The longest word in the English Language is Smiles, there's miles after the first syllable, Aaaaaarrrggghhh don't hit me..hee hee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted September 16, 2013 #95 Share Posted September 16, 2013 A bat that dies while roosting will continue to hang upside until something shakes it loose. A cave in Borneo is more than 3 feet deep in Bat Poo and its seething with worms, cockroaches, and other crawlies (D.Attenborough,extract from Blue Planet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Star Posted September 16, 2013 #96 Share Posted September 16, 2013 (edited) That not all the…..'Notta lotta people know that', comments are either….. little known or necessarily facts at all. E.g. Purple…Turtle. Month….Bumf…. Bumf is a lovely word particularly when used for facts that are not facts at all. Edited September 16, 2013 by Blue Star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonardo Posted September 16, 2013 #97 Share Posted September 16, 2013 The tin can was invented in 1810, and the tin can opener in 1858. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie Posted September 17, 2013 #98 Share Posted September 17, 2013 The tin can was invented in 1810, and the tin can opener in 1858. 48 years accumulating cans waiting to be opened... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted September 17, 2013 #99 Share Posted September 17, 2013 The most polluted spot on earth is Lake Karachay, Russia. It was used for decades as a dumping site for nuclear waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libstaK Posted September 17, 2013 #100 Share Posted September 17, 2013 You share your birthday with approx 9 million other people on the planet. Earnest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word novel without any word containing the letter "e". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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