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Old Jul 13, 2004 | 10:46 PM
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POST #39 I typed 'OK this is a family site........'THAT is a HINT

...ENOUGH...
 
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Old Jul 13, 2004 | 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Tim Lamkin
POST #39 I typed 'OK this is a family site........'THAT is a HINT

...ENOUGH...
YES SIR!!!!
 
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 01:18 AM
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here's one to add:

"Durchfall" is german for Failing and Diahrrea....

ItsReallyDarren,
I guess you found G503 .com right? Yes I am a jeep guy... jeep is supposedly derived from "Eugene the Jeep" a character on the early popeye cartoons...it was named that because "eugene" could go anywhere do anything at any time...

just to clarify...I'm a fan of FORD jeeps... really I am looks like ******, sounds like ****** but it's a Ford..
 
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 10:13 AM
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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year

In 2003, the total number of languages in the world was estimated to be 6,809

Over the last 500 years 4.5% of the world's described languages have disappeared completely. In North America, 52 of the 176 languages have become extinct since 1600. In Australia, 31 of the 235 languages have vanished

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male head off (remember that fellas )

Some lions mate over 50 times a day

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Starfishes haven't got brains

A lightning strike in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed all 11 members of one soccer team while leaving the opposing team in the match untouched

Four people every year in the UK die putting their trousers on

More people dies each year from donkey related accidents than in train crashes

More people are killed each year by coconuts than sharks.

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death

Aeschylus, the Greek poet and dramatist, was killed when an eagle flying overhead dropped a turtle on his head.

A poodle fell from a balcony in Buenos Aires in October 1988. It killed three people. One was struck on the head, the second run over by a bus while watching, the third witnessed the event and died from a heart attack.

Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Mrs. Lincoln drank the milk

Pluto, the astrological sign for death, was directly above Dallas, Texas when JFK was born.

Richard Nixon was in Dallas the day JFK was killed.

When Mark Twain was born on Nov 30, 1835, Halley's comet was visible over Florida, Missouri. Mark Twain predicted in 1909 that he would die when it returned. He was right. When he died on April 21, 1910, Halley's comet was once again visible in the sky

3 people die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue

1997 fourteen people were actually blown out of their skins when a propane cooking stove exploded at a camp site in Moose Nose, Saskatchewan

19 people have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate

A man in Portland, Oregon lost a bet and lay down on the ground and put his mouth around the exhaust pipe of his Plymouth Fury. As friends cheered him on he inhaled for slightly over 5 minutes until his head split wide open

In the last fifteen years over 500 teenage boys have blown themselves to pieces trying to imitate daredevil Wayne Nauga, who carefully blows himself up with reduced charge dynamite.

In 1933 a 19 year-old student, Kiyoko Matsumoto, committed suicide by jumping into the thousand foot crater of a volcano on the island of Oshima, Japan. This act started a bizarre fashion in Japan and in the ensuing months three hundred children did the same thing

13 people each year are killed by vending machines falling on them

Radon is estimated to cause about 14,000 deaths per year

In the 90s, 37 jet airplane mechanics servicing engines have accidentally been sucked into the engines and expelled from the rear in very small chunks.

12,000 people a year die from unnecessary surgery

There are 5 times as many deaths due to the negligence of doctors as there are deaths due to firearms

David Kennison was born in 1736 and participated in the Boston Tea Party. At the age of seventy-six, serving in the War of 1812, he lost a hand to a gunshot wound. Later, a tree fell on him, and fractured his skull. Some years later, while training soldiers in the use of a cannon, something went wrong and an explosion shattered his legs. Later, a horse damaged his face. He died peacefully in 1851 at the age of 115. If this guy can't make it, what chance to the rest of us have?

Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 on Good Friday and in 1995 Good Friday was also on April 14. When Booth shot Lincoln, some people thought it was part of the play.

In 1983, a Mrs. Carson of Lake Kushaqua, N.Y., was laid out in her coffin, presumed dead of heart disease. As mourners watched, she suddenly sat up. Her daughter dropped dead of fright; killed by a heart attack.

The world's worst lifeguard has to be Lorenzo Trippi of Ravenna, Italy. In 1995, three people on three separate occasions wound up dead thanks to Lorenzo's efforts to save them. In each case, he hit all three of them on the head with his life preserver, causing them to black out and drown.

In Aizuwakamatsu Japan, after a car accident injured a woman and her daughter, they returned to their car at the junkyard to find their other passenger, a local woman, dead and still in the back seat. None of the seven police and fire department workers had noticed.

When the French king Louis XIV died his heart was preserved. Many years later it was eaten by William Buckland, the Dean of Westminster, who saw it sitting in a jar on the mantelpiece at a house he was visiting and mistook it for a pickled walnut
 
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 01:41 PM
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More people dies each year from donkey related accidents than in train crashes
We have got to stop that Donkey
 
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ATC Crazy

When the French king Louis XIV died his heart was preserved. Many years later it was eaten by William Buckland, the Dean of Westminster, who saw it sitting in a jar on the mantelpiece at a house he was visiting and mistook it for a pickled walnut
Talk about a small heart.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 02:17 PM
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humm, I've really got to watch it, I sure dont want to be involved in a donkey related crash. Besides, what would my insurance rates do then? Heck, you'd probably be blackballed from ever getting insurance again if you were invoved in a donkey related fatality I would presume.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperDutyHaulin
Actually, I beleive the interstate one is the opposite, I thought that 1 mile out of every 5 had to have some sort of curve to it, as the many of the first interstates were straight, and there were many deaths and accidents due to people falling asleep......just saw it on the history chanel......the first hiway to incorperate this was the Autobahn.
saw the same program on the history channel, said that america did not follow the example set by the Autobahn(which was originally for aestetic purposes) and went for straight highways(cheaper) we also did not build our highways with nearly the same structural capabilities of the autobahn, just FYI
 
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