Above rules re nueral signal transduction dont apply to:
trips home from the local;
bike accidents;

Forgot to mention this. Thanks for pointing out this sharriso.

Aristotle died on this day, 322 BC.

I know, my calendar tells me so. (Current 2006, not from 322 BC).

and tomorrow international womens day was celebrated for the first time in 1911... :lol:

Todays chosen subject: Creepy crawlies :shock:



A nest in which insects or spiders deposit their eggs is called a "nidus".

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.

The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4 1/2 mph. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.

A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.

Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.

In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight times faster than an Olympic sprinter.

The film "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut" appears in the Guinness Book of World records, holding the record for most swearing in an animated film, with 399 instances of verbal obscenity (the word f$%k appears 146 times).
The film also contains 199 offensive gestures and 221 acts of violence.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...recordid=54324

Ah, yes, very good, no, I was not aware of any of those things. But did you know that the albedo of the Earth is 0.39?

Anyone for geography :D

The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.

The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles.

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.

Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.

The Nile river flows North.

Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Not sure if we've had this one:

It is impossible for a human being to sneeze with their eyes open. the force would push the eyes from the sockets.

Also:

The Earth moves in its 585-million-mile orbit around the Sun approximately eight times faster than a bullet travels

you can put duct tape on a wart overnight to get rid of it faster.

The average American sees or hears 560 advertisements a day.

The hardiest of all the world's insects is the mosquito. It has been found in the coldest regions of northern Canada and Siberia, and can live quite comfortably at the North Pole. It is equally at home in equatorial jungles

You should never eat a polar bear's tongue due to possible vitamin A overdose.

Thomas Crapper is the name of the man who invented the toilet.


All found on the Internet so I cannot guarantee their authenticity

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Cornwall is the only county to share it's border with 1 other county :roll:

The smallest country in the world is the Vatican with an area of 0.2 square miles

Thomas Crapper didn't invent the toilet though he did improve it an popularise it. see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper (Sorry Jelster)

Gross fact:

Human poo is typically 50-75% water.

:oops:

The "monkey wrench" was originally known as the "adjustable spanner wrench" but wasn't widely used as it was a weak design. It was an American plumber who fixed the design.

Apparently he was quite ugly and the revised wrench was named after his nick-name... Monkey :D



When they say to give something the "whole 9 yards" is a refference to a P-51 Mustang which carried 27 feet of ammunition.

In my defence:

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Musical facts today...im running out now :(

When the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, Jimmy Page was left to honor the band's commitments, performing as The New Yardbirds. The group eventually evolved into Led Zeppelin.

The rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.

"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.

No one knows where Mozart is buried.

Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
(used to live down the road from him :D )

Watching Ferraris passing by all day, then? :wink:

and him flying around in his helicopter all day 8) actually met him when i was in the fire brigade, he wanted water pumped into a lake for his daughters wedding night party...had a big lazer show over the water but the lake level was too low so he hired out 3 appliances from the fire brigade so we could top the lake up in this big stately home he hired, and because the decor of the home didnt match his daughters dress he had the whole place redecorated for that 1 night then restored back to it's former glory the day after...allegedlly the wedding cost in the region of £250,000 :shock:

And another fact about the man himself...the house he bought in corsham used to be owned by camilla parker bowles :D

T S Eliot is an anagram of toilets.

Roald Dahl's mum couldn't spell Ronald.



S'true, honest, bloke in the checkout queue told me....

i used to live next door to Joe Royle, former Everton manager :D

Last year, Tana Umaga (All blacks) introduced a new Haka.
Apparantly he felt the original one, the Ka Mate Haka wasnt agressive looking enough. :shock:

So, he got a new one, with extra added aggression plus plus.

Which is nice. 8)

So, now the deal is, if they just want to beat the other team, they wheel out the usual We are about to beat the sheet out of you Haka.

But, if they are getting a bit worked up. And, want to actually start the match off with a session of reefing off opponants arms and battering them about the place with the soggy end so they can subdue them enough to tear holes in thier throats to pull their tongues through, they use the Haka Plus Plus.

One time Ireland stood and faced the Haka. We got right up in their faces. Apparantly we got some respect for that. Like, they hammered us, as usual. But, none the less respect was earned.

I remember Phil Vickery (I think,) doing that - Awesome to see...

Certainly was. Vicks and Lawrence Dallaglio both faced up to the All Blacks during the Haka. 8) I seem to remember that little squit Matt Dawson getting involved as well. :shock:








Hmmm. Like they're gonna be worried about him! Collossus of a man that he is. Not. :lol: :roll:

I was in the film "Revolution"
with
Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland,Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright,
Annie Lennox, Dexter Fletcher
Sid Owen & Richard O'Brien....


David Bailey was the photographer @ the film shoot kindly told me to "****ing move out of the shot" didn't know who the scruff bag was until I saw him taking photo's of the stars... that when I got all there autographs...

We beat Scotland. And Wales. And Italy. But not B%@###dING france.

Inkland will be interesting. 8)

And...
Emm.

The reason they use those black and white stipey clacker board things for movies, is so they have a referance point to line up the audio track with the video track with one and other in the editing room .

3 percent of the population are homohydroarachnaphobic.


there scared of gay water spiders

Rowntree first patented the system for putting the bubbles in "Aero" bars in 1935

http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=E...X=GB459582&F=0
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=E...X=GB459583&F=0

Buzz Aldrin's mum's maiden name was Moon.

The first petroleum powered vehicle ever produced was a motorcycle.
It was produced in 1895 by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...torcycle-1.jpg

A few days back, some dudes were doing plumbing in Norway... and they attached the local pubs beer pipes onto her water tap by accident.
Next thing she knows... she has beer coming out of all her taps. 8)


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/...st/beer_on_tap

Oh yeah, and Chef is out of South Park...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/...le_isaac_hayes

Didnt like them ripping on Scientology.

It is a little known fact (and closely guarded secret) that Peter Henry owns a Ducati 749 :wink:

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: REALLY!!?!!


Cripes! And there was me thinking this was a website for owners of SV's! :shock: :D :wink:

Allegedly there are 33 ranks in the hierarchy of the Freemasons
ranging from "Entered apprentice" to "Soverign Grand Inspector General"

Some intersing ones inbetween are "Royal Arch of Enoch", "Knight of the Eagle & Pelican and Soverign Prince Rose Criox of Heredom" and "Grand Elected Knight Kadosh"

No knights who say NI though, is there...... Actually I bet there is....

on the (W)hole women have more hair than men .














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The term "chatting" originated in the trenches in WW1.
The men in trenches suffered terribly with lice infestations on their bodies and clothes.

The lice would lay eggs in the seams of the mens clothes. These eggs where known as "chats". Washing the clothes did not remove these chats, they needed to be physically squashed to prevent them maturing and producing more lice. This process was known as "chatting", invariably the men would sit in groups talking whilst doing this, hence the term "chatting".

This may also be the origin of the term "chatty" to describe something that is dirty or shabby.

Bollox. The dictionary says that it's a 16th Century word, derived from 'chatter', which itself can be traced back to c.1225, chateren "to twitter, gossip"

I stand corrected.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story :wink:

******** to you too :D

Shamelessy nicked from the BBC :

A stronger British term for testicles, which rhymes with 'frollocks', is probably worth a guide entry of its own. To talk this word would mean to talk rubbish or to be misinformed, while to say something is 'the dog's...' (often gentrified as 'the mutt's nuts') would suggest it is the best there is. Legend has it that in the 1950s, construction kits like Meccano would be sold in boxes of various sizes. The list of contents which came with the standard size box would be headed 'Box, Standard' (which elided into 'bog standard' when spoken) and the larger box was the 'Box, Deluxe' which was spoonerised to create the phrase 'The Dog's B******s'. This is such a satisfying explanation for two common forms of British English usage that one really wants it to be true.

The word's probable derivation is so non-vulgar as to be quite amusing. Specifically, a bollock is a pulley-block at the head of a topmast, otherwise known as a bullock block. This was used to great effect to prevent the Sex Pistols' album Never Mind the ******** from being censored. A refreshing example of the legal system grabbing hold of the wrong reason and using it to do the right thing.

Children tend to hate sprouts (and other green veg for that matter) because as your taste buds develop the ones which detect bitterness form first (to deter the munching of Yew trees and the like) and therefore the slight bitterness of all veg is accentuated. It's most likely that childhood dislikes would now be grown out of if you're an adult. Scientists have aslo proven that the average human requires only 10 tastes of something it initially dislikes for it to become accustomed to it and actually like it.

For example, if you take sugar in coffee and accidentally take a swig without sugar it tastes foul. If you were then to take ten or so sips your taste buds would adjust and stop looking for the sweetness you'd expect and you could enjoy the rest of the cup.

Too often we deny ourselves the pleasure of tasting new foods or revisiting past dislikes based on assumptions and memories whereas in reality we're capable of liking anything that is edible and non-toxic.

That is absolutely priceless information. I am going to have a chat to someone about that tonight. :wink: :lol:

Believe me! You'll get used to it! :lol: