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Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's
nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years..

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing. SCARY!!!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left-handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would
stand seven feet, two inches tall.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
 
> "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

what about "No" or "Oh" ?

> Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.

yes, you got me there
 
> Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

> In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's
> nuclear weapons combined.

> On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

> On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

> Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

> Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
> already married.

> Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

> Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

> It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.

> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

> It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

> The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
> because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
> weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

> A snail can sleep for three years..

> No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

> Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
> never stop growing. SCARY!!!

> The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

> All polar bears are left-handed.

> In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
> including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

> TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
> on one row of the keyboard.

> "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

> If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would
> stand seven feet, two inches tall.

> A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

> The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

> Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

> Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.

Good grief young lady you have far too much time on your hands...and I have just strained my neck trying to lick my elbow.....at least I hope it was my elbow...

P.S Is that 18 acres of pizza per person per day
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
> Good grief young lady you have far too much time on your hands

Nah -- I just copied and pasted it from an email I just received. It took all of 2 seconds (not including my attempt at licking my elbow )
 
How about:
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

By the way...I just licked my elbow.
I'm off to the hospital now. It seems I need my left arm to be sewn back on.
 
I've just licked my elbow.
Another one - my UK readers put the word 'river' before the name of the river. ( River Thames. River Clyde etc etc)
My north american readers, however, put the word 'river' AFTER the name of the river. (Hudson River. Mississippi River etc etc)

I live for moments like these.

> Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

> In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's
> nuclear weapons combined.

> On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

> On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

> Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

> Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
> already married.

> Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

> Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

> It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.

> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

> It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

> The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
> because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
> weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

> A snail can sleep for three years..

> No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

> Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
> never stop growing. SCARY!!!

> The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

> All polar bears are left-handed.

> In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
> including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

> TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
> on one row of the keyboard.

> "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

> If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would
> stand seven feet, two inches tall.

> A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

> The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

> Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

> Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
 
> I've just licked my elbow.
> Another one - my UK readers put the word 'river' before the name of the
> river. ( River Thames. River Clyde etc etc)
> My north american readers, however, put the word 'river' AFTER the name of
> the river. (Hudson River. Mississippi River etc etc)

> I live for moments like these.

It's just like milk in first or milk in second isn't it We're river second down here, which is strange because we're not American. (yet).
 
Ahem,... there are better things to lick
 
> I've just licked my elbow.
> Another one - my UK readers put the word 'river' before the name of the
> river. ( River Thames. River Clyde etc etc)
> My north american readers, however, put the word 'river' AFTER the name of
> the river. (Hudson River. Mississippi River etc etc)
Don't forget the famous Mullica River!!
> I live for moments like these.
Sell your house in Leeds Point and buy in Sweetwater and you too can expericence or eyewitness moments likes these!
What about other bodies of water, like the Atlantic Ocean.
 
Re: Ahem,... there are better things to lick-like what?
 
Re: OT - Useless Replies

> Butterflies taste with their feet.
Do they have feet, in the regular sense. Is there a specific bit at the bottom of their leg that is a foot, or are we just talking about the end of the leg itself?

> A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
I'm pretty sure I've read that this one is a made-up thing that has been spread so widely on the net that people just believe it. Even if the quack didn't echo for some reason, SOMEBODY would figure out why.

> In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's
> nuclear weapons combined.
Weather of Mass Destruction...

> On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
What about fountain pens? Just rich people?

> On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
But top of the list is being killed by spiders.

> Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Define recent. NY's entire history is pretty recent, compared with say, the birth of Jesus.

> Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
> already married.
I like those odds.

> Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Maybe it can- just not very high. What about caterpillars, snails, snakes, can they?

> Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
So long as I'm one of them, that's fine by me.

> It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
Oh, NOW you tell me. Now I have to set up some kind of pulley system.

> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
But blink and you miss it.

> It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
Not me, I have an artificial arm.

> The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
> because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
> weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Really? This seems unlikely. Say the place is only 50 years old, it would have already gone down by over four feet.

> A snail can sleep for three years..
Then it takes another year to hit the snooze button, saying, "Please, just a few more years, then I'll get up."

> No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Only in capitals?

> Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
But surely they onle use it on one pitch, unless they take it to away games. Sorry, English gag, you probably call it an outfield or something. Actually that's weird, the English word for 'throw a ball' is 'bowl' and you do it on a pitch. In the U.S., you pitch and the stadium is called a bowl.

> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
> never stop growing. SCARY!!!
I was so surprised, my eyes DID get bigger.

> The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
For extra punishment, the really bad serial killers have to have a root canal before they fry them.

> All polar bears are left-handed.
Are those hands, or feet? And who checks this stuff?

> In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
> including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Eyebrows and eyelashes aren't the ones I'm worried about.

> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Mozzerian is an ostrich? Who knew?

> TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
> on one row of the keyboard.
What about 'TYPEWRITERY', meaning 'resembling a typewriter'.

> "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
O.

> If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would
> stand seven feet, two inches tall.
Based on what? Are you saying that if you up-size all her dimensions gradually, that at the point her height hits say six feet, her other dimensions are not feasible? I agree she's freakishly proportioned but don't see the logic behind the height.

> A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
It can, it's just too polite.

> The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
By some bright spark, no doubt.

> Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
EACH.

> Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
Those who succeed get a lollipop. In E.R.
 
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