Jenn's Reverie
Monday, February 13, 2006
Professor Jenn At Your Service; Feel Free to Take Notes
1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of **Independence was written on hemp paper.
3. The dot over the letter I is called a "tittle".
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was
albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong par! ents, daily.
10.Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces
will kill a small sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because
in the time when all original print had to be set in individual
letters, the 'upper case'letters were stored in the case on top
of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
17. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other
at the same time ... hence, multi-tasking was invented.
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World Wa! r
II were made of wood.
19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never
a recorded Wendy before!
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange,
purple, and silver!
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad
and sting itself to death.*
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween"was a
Captain Kirk mask painted white.*
25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being
able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)
26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink
in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
27. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from ! an old English law,
which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than
your thumb.
28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was
the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece
of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with
apples!
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified Kosher.
32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from Public Libraries.
33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
23 Comments:
Note to self.......ask Jenn to see her tittles.
Linny: Thank you! Learn something new everyday! Itchy Ass. That's like the better half to Itchy Balls himself! (I heart teh Mexigogue.)
Note to Bill: You've been asking for what? Five years now? And you're still in square one. However, I do admire your determination.
Allison: Long time no comment! We're sisters, too. I just hadn't told you.
Knew all that.
I can't wait to try #4, and #23. I gotta find me a scorpion!
I ran out of paper. I'll have to come back and listen to the rest of the lecture.
Ten years to paint lips? He must have had OCD.
Stop the damn lists. Where did the fire, the rants, the pouring of love go in your posts? You might have to go back to graveyards to wite some great posts again.
wow, it's true when they say "everyday you learn something new"
was someone bored? or did you spend the weekend watching all the episodes of Jepordy that you had taped and meant to get to one day?
you should teach all of this to your son now, before his brain gets filled with useless things like algebra and grammar. ;-)
You know Jenn, I am not so sure about all of those. I have heard that chocolate kills dogs, but I beg to differ. I once had a dog eat 5 lbs of chocolate. It puked alot (and it smelled like chocolate pudding), it's belly was distended and it was not well...but it lived. This was a Dalmation, a stupid, stupid Dalmation, not a small dog.
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II! were made of wood.
-METAL WILL NEVER BE SCARCE!
Those are funny...some are true and others are urban legend. Susan Lucci is not the daughter of Phyllis Diller (lol).
There are no clocks in casinos and MALLS too. It makes sense to me.
teh Pheonix beat me to it. Of course, I was just going to say "no" and leave it at that.
Thanks Kurt, I knew she was nuts on that one..bout Lucci and Diller.
Jenn..you got way too much free time on yo hands girlfriend.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Coca Cola was also sold as a medicine, and it did contain cocaine.
Also, astronatus aren't allowed to eat foods that make you fart because of the whole flammable issue.
The Susan Lucci being Phylis Diller's daughter got me in trouble last year. I got that same email and was astounded, mentioned it to someone and got called on it. So I did a search and found that Snopes has an article discrediting the claim.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
No wonder I that Susan looked like a man.
It is all coming together now.
Now, Prince and Phyllis Dillard in the same room together... I think the world might implode.
Jenn, what a cool post. I'm a little late to the game, but this was gold. I love to know the origins of words or expressions, like the rule of thumb. Good stuff.
When my son was born, I stayed with him even when the nurses wanted to take him away. We gave birth in a private room and neither of my two sons left my sight.
Well, very interesting facts. Only I'm afraid I'm not with the wrong parents, my luna mom is really mine.
Eh, you know the Uncle John books aren't 100% accurate, right?
The rule of thumb wasn't a wife-beating law. This myth was invented by radical feminist professors at UCSF so they would have something original-sounding to bitch about.
Da Vinci couldn't have invented scissors, since they were in common use in ancient Rome, and scissormakers had their own patron god.
Gwendolyns and Guineveres of ages past were oft nicknamed "Wendy." Merlin's sister's name was "Gwendydd".
Using Wendy as a proper name was a breakout move of some significance in the post-Victorian age. So was sex.
I feel completely learn-ed / edukashon pays!!
Have a good 1, and if you can add this free album to your list (Sun Kil Moon's Tiny Cities (Modest Mouse covers)), then you're truly doing well.
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange,
purple, and silver!
Orange, huh? Door hinge.
Were the wooden Oscars to truly emulate some of the winning performances?
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