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Old 01-03-06, 02:18 PM   #61
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76.23% of all statistics are made
of wood?
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Old 01-03-06, 02:19 PM   #62
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76.23% of all statistics are made
of wood?
Truly and amazing fact.
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Old 01-03-06, 02:19 PM   #63
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Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

"God Save The Queen" is the only English phrase in common use that utilises the subjunctive.
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Old 01-03-06, 02:40 PM   #64
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"God Save The Queen" is the only English phrase in common use that utilises the subjunctive.
i've absolutely no idea what the flip that means

i'd have an easier time of it if you presented me with an engine and said check the valve clearances.
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Old 01-03-06, 02:48 PM   #65
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http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/cour...bjunctive.html

this should help
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Old 01-03-06, 11:24 PM   #66
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1) Robert Oppenheimer, the guy who invented the atomic bomb and ultimately won WW2 for us, was charged with being a communist during the McCarthy era.

2) The ventilation system used in the gas chambers of Dachau, Treblinka and Auschwitz were designed and built by AEG. The same people who now make 15% of all fridges sold in Israel.

3) The entire population of the world would (theoretically) fit on the Isle of Wight.

4) The film "Full Metal Jacket " was filmed entirely in England. The director, Stanley Kubrick, didn't like flying so he spent more of the film's budget recreating Hue city in London's docklands.
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Old 02-03-06, 12:07 AM   #67
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1) A Cat does not have 9 lives...
2) If you see one Magpie... then WOW ... you saw one magpie, no need for sorrow...
3) Gravitey sucks..... It always drags you down.
4) Super Glue was invented to stick skin together for medical reasons...
5) There are 9,000,000 bikes in a song some where...
6) Slugs and Snails and puppy dogs tails, Sugar and Spice and all thing nice... ... I thought it was "when a mummy loves a daddy, the daddy sticks his finger in the mummys ear nine months later ......" that graffiti on thoses school toilet walls was rubbish....
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Old 02-03-06, 12:14 AM   #68
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The phrase the whole nine yards is a military saying.

A WW1 machine gun had a nine yard ammunition belt so to give it the whole nine yards was every round fired in a single burst.

Since I was educated under the metric system, I now have to find out what a yard is...excuse me.
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The phrase the whole nine yards is a military saying.

A WW1 machine gun had a nine yard ammunition belt so to give it the whole nine yards was every round fired in a single burst.

Since I was educated under the metric system, I now have to find out what a yard is...excuse me.
I like that one... that will be a future quiz question me thinks....

just found this...

It is said the .50 calibre machine gun ammunition belts in an aircraft of the period measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, they would say that it got “the whole nine yards”. A merit of this claim is that it would explain why the phrase only began to be recorded after the War.
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Old 02-03-06, 01:05 AM   #70
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The fastest currently available production car from 0-60 is the Lamborgini Murcielago, with 3.65secs.

That's the same time as our "budget motorcycle" SV650!
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