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Posted:
such as..
did you know that the word thong comes from the portugese for dental floss...
humans and apes are the only species to have sex for fun..
shakespear had an estimated vocabulary of well over 24,00 words...most people only have 10,000
such as..
did you know that the word thong comes from the portugese for dental floss...
humans and apes are the only species to have sex for fun..
shakespear had an estimated vocabulary of well over 24,00 words...most people only have 10,000
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Location: Florida
Posted:
Did you know your first question is wrong?!
Did you know 75% (including this one) of statistics are made up on the spot?
Did you know that humans are weird?
Did you know that manipulation can change your life?
Drome
Did you know your first question is wrong?!
Did you know 75% (including this one) of statistics are made up on the spot?
Did you know that humans are weird?
Did you know that manipulation can change your life?
Drome
JUGGLEwithyourmind!
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Location: South Wales
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Location: South Wales
Posted:
did you know that it wasnt actually a question but a fact?
did you know its nearer 97.5%
did you know that it wasnt actually a question but a fact?
did you know its nearer 97.5%
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Location: Florida
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Location: Florida
Posted:
It became a question as soon as you said 'did you know' and as soon as I said it wasnt a fact...
dental floss = filo dental (which is what they call VERY VERY VERY small bikinis in Brazil) um and not just thong or g-string bikinis!
Drome
It became a question as soon as you said 'did you know' and as soon as I said it wasnt a fact...
dental floss = filo dental (which is what they call VERY VERY VERY small bikinis in Brazil) um and not just thong or g-string bikinis!
Drome
JUGGLEwithyourmind!
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Posted:
dolphins have sex for fun! be VERY careful when swimming with them, you might not be the only one excited!
[ 04. December 2002, 05:40: Message edited by: toneman ]
dolphins have sex for fun! be VERY careful when swimming with them, you might not be the only one excited!
[ 04. December 2002, 05:40: Message edited by: toneman ]
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Location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto
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Location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Posted:
More people are killed by wild bores (pigs) every year then they are by sharks
If you eat to many tomatoes your skin will turn red
If you eat to many carrots your skin will turn yellow
...and if you eat to many carrots & tomatoes your skin will turn ORANGE!
It's true I swear!
*~SunSpot~*
More people are killed by wild bores (pigs) every year then they are by sharks
If you eat to many tomatoes your skin will turn red
If you eat to many carrots your skin will turn yellow
...and if you eat to many carrots & tomatoes your skin will turn ORANGE!
It's true I swear!
*~SunSpot~*
Om Namah Sivaya
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Location: United Kingdom
Lambretta Fanatic
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Location: United Kingdom
Posted:
:randon fact: i am a very nice guy really!
:randon fact: i am a very nice guy really!
HOP Lord of the Pirate Admiralty
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Location: Canterbury, UK
Posted:
Did you know that the world governments arepurposely trying to keep the number of official "death by shark attack" numbers down. Even if there's only half a body found, with blatent bite marks, and there's water in the lungs, the death certificate will say "drowned".
Did you know that i only exist as an internet-boure entity, and have no physical presence in the real world...
Did you know that the world governments arepurposely trying to keep the number of official "death by shark attack" numbers down. Even if there's only half a body found, with blatent bite marks, and there's water in the lungs, the death certificate will say "drowned".
Did you know that i only exist as an internet-boure entity, and have no physical presence in the real world...
D.B.
X x X x X
Ship off the starboard! sound general quarters! noise and light discipline! man the cannons! GET ME THE RUM!
Master of the Free Hug Program
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HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted:
Here's a sobering one. One person dies of AIDS on average every 10 seconds.
quote:And dolphins!
Originally posted by THE UNITED CHAINS OF FIRE:
humans and apes are the only species to have sex for fun..
Here's a sobering one. One person dies of AIDS on average every 10 seconds.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada.
Posted:
There are no facts.
There are no facts.
member
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Posted:
there is no spoon...
4% of this statement is true.
there is no spoon...
4% of this statement is true.
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Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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Location: Rochester, NY, USA
Posted:
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.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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.
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (Honey, I'm home! What the!?...)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Starfishes haven't got brains.
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.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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.
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (Honey, I'm home! What the!?...)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Starfishes haven't got brains.
FYI: I am not Pele. If you wish to reply to me and use a short version of my name, use: PWB.
English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England. - Homer Jay Simpson
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Location: Laguna Beach, but i live in Denver, Colo, USA
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Location: Laguna Beach, but i live in Denver, Colo, USA
Posted:
We are related o lemurs. Yep, lemurs are primates, as are aye ayes and tarsiers.
The smallest primate, when curled in a ball, would fit inside your head.
Also, they're extremly cute, but that's kinda subjective...
We are related o lemurs. Yep, lemurs are primates, as are aye ayes and tarsiers.
The smallest primate, when curled in a ball, would fit inside your head.
Also, they're extremly cute, but that's kinda subjective...
We got the MikeZ in the house, woot!Glue the ham, hat baby!
back from the dead...sort of
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Location: 43°41'N 79°38'W
Posted:
::heads out for vigourous jog::
quote:Crap!
Originally posted by Pele'sWhippingBoy:
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
::heads out for vigourous jog::
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Location: Essex
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Location: Essex
Posted:
Male cats have pointy/spikey things on their genitals . After copulation the female nearly always, turns around and tries to clobber him
Male cats have pointy/spikey things on their genitals . After copulation the female nearly always, turns around and tries to clobber him
I don't like living below the tropic of Capricorn..... and now I seem to be in England...... how did I get here???
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HOP Mad Doctor
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The human kidney filters about 180 liters of blood a day (assuming a 70kg man). Average urine output is 1-2 liters per day.
Bone is seven times stronger than concrete per unit mass.
There is enough iron in a 70kg man's body to make over 40 staples.
The average human brain weighs about 1.5 kg and is about the size of a large grapefruit.
On a typical Western diet, it takes food about 3 days to traverse the entire digestive tract. On a high-fiber diet, it can take as little as 28 hours.
The average human male produces 20 times more testosterone than is required to maintain secondary sex characteristics. Testosterone receptors throughout the body are saturated at about 5% of "normal" testosterone levels. There is a wide variation in wnat is "normal," though.
The surface area of the gas exchange area of the lungs in a 70kg man would cover a tennis court.
The largest cell in the body (both by volume and by dimensions) is a neuron that starts at the tip of the big toe and ends at the brainstem. In whales, this neuron can be tens of meters long!
60% of the human body's weight is water. Of this, 2/3 is within cells, 1/3 is outside of cells and 7% is blood.
The human kidney filters about 180 liters of blood a day (assuming a 70kg man). Average urine output is 1-2 liters per day.
Bone is seven times stronger than concrete per unit mass.
There is enough iron in a 70kg man's body to make over 40 staples.
The average human brain weighs about 1.5 kg and is about the size of a large grapefruit.
On a typical Western diet, it takes food about 3 days to traverse the entire digestive tract. On a high-fiber diet, it can take as little as 28 hours.
The average human male produces 20 times more testosterone than is required to maintain secondary sex characteristics. Testosterone receptors throughout the body are saturated at about 5% of "normal" testosterone levels. There is a wide variation in wnat is "normal," though.
The surface area of the gas exchange area of the lungs in a 70kg man would cover a tennis court.
The largest cell in the body (both by volume and by dimensions) is a neuron that starts at the tip of the big toe and ends at the brainstem. In whales, this neuron can be tens of meters long!
60% of the human body's weight is water. Of this, 2/3 is within cells, 1/3 is outside of cells and 7% is blood.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Ninja Rockstar!
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Location: Denver, Co. U.S.A.
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Location: Denver, Co. U.S.A.
Posted:
Anyway, kangaroos masterbate. I saw actual video evidence.
quote:Hey! I'm the one who says that
Originally posted by toneman:
there is no spoon...
Anyway, kangaroos masterbate. I saw actual video evidence.
Jesus helps me trick people.
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Posted:
No comment
No comment
Meh
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Posted:
there is enough phosphourous in your body to fire a small cannon.
there is enough phosphourous in your body to fire a small cannon.
erm...this is only a temp account until i get home and get the password to my usual account...sorry (itsa still the same flipping wierdo though)
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Location: Oxford, UK
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Location: Oxford, UK
Posted:
If you break a leg off a star fish, it will grow another leg...and the leg will grow another star fish.
If you break a leg off a star fish, it will grow another leg...and the leg will grow another star fish.
---------------------With a bit of luck, his life was ruined; always thinking that just behind some narrow door, in his favourite bars, men in red woolen suits are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know.
110% MONKEY EVERY TIME ALL THE TIME JUST CANT STOP THE MONKEY
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Location: London
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Location: London
Posted:
Porcupines are also known to masturbate.
Hmm, am I actually going to press the add reply button after typing that?
I guess so.
Porcupines are also known to masturbate.
Hmm, am I actually going to press the add reply button after typing that?
I guess so.
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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Location: At the bottom of the garden with the fairies...
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Location: At the bottom of the garden with the fairies...
Posted:
Did you know:
That 5 people die from aids a minute,
That 1 in every 3 children who get lukemia die,
That dogs can go senile,
And that Clive Barker (an author) is gay but he's got a daughter!
Did you know:
That 5 people die from aids a minute,
That 1 in every 3 children who get lukemia die,
That dogs can go senile,
And that Clive Barker (an author) is gay but he's got a daughter!
THWACK!!!!
Liz_Ard: Ouch!
SNOOPoi: Thats just not the sound of someone doing it right!
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Location: South Wales
Posted:
snoopoi...are you saying that the other two children born with lukemia...never ever die?
snoopoi...are you saying that the other two children born with lukemia...never ever die?
Pooh-Bah
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Location: la-la land
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Location: la-la land
Posted:
People with big and annoying ego's never notice... anything outside their own little world.
People with big and annoying ego's never notice... anything outside their own little world.
I honour you as an aspect of myself..
You are never to old to storm a bouncey castle..
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HOP Mad Doctor
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HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted:
quote:At least in the US, most children who get leukemia get ALL (Acute Lymphblastic Leukemia). At this point, the cure rate for patients under 10 is about 80%, so at least in this country, it's down to 1 in 5. At least, that's what we were told a few months ago...
Originally posted by SNOOPoi:
Did you know:
That 1 in every 3 children who get lukemia die,
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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Posted:
Toneman I met you once in the past...You know which past I am talking about...
[edit1]and Sickpuppy..."Hey! I'm the one who says that" everyone who believes it has the right to advocate it...
I WILL go look for that thread now... find the quote I posted and them come edit this post with a link to it. I have been thinking it for a very long time...[/edit1]
Drome
[ 05. December 2002, 03:15: Message edited by: dromepixie ]
quote:If I could find the thread I said this in I would post it but I cant remember.
Originally posted by toneman:
there is no spoon...
Toneman I met you once in the past...You know which past I am talking about...
[edit1]and Sickpuppy..."Hey! I'm the one who says that" everyone who believes it has the right to advocate it...
I WILL go look for that thread now... find the quote I posted and them come edit this post with a link to it. I have been thinking it for a very long time...[/edit1]
Drome
[ 05. December 2002, 03:15: Message edited by: dromepixie ]
JUGGLEwithyourmind!
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Location: South Wales
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Location: South Wales
Posted:
dear ms stix. (ive got to do it here cos im being ignored by her)
i meant NO offence to anyone when i said jokingly that the other two kids lived for ever. im sorry for it..i was only doing it cos snoopoi knows me and i know she took no offence by it. it was a play on words as we often do here on HOP. i read it as only 1 in 2 kids died from it. she said nothing about the other two, it implied that they lived for ever.
i dont hink there was any reason for you to ignore me and if you knew me you would know thats what im like, i jokingly make posts like that. ask smallboy, bam bam, frostypoi, DFQ, snoopoi herself, dromepixie, coleman, space monkey, carrey, c@ntus, fluffy napalm fairy, bovril monkey or a whole host of others that know me and they will tell you that im exactly like that, be it on the message boards or in real life.
Im not egotistical or anything like that. i accept other peoples views, and respect that if they have views different to mine, as all people are different.
once again i appologise if anyone took offence by my comment. i in no way am taking th episs out of people with lukemia as it is a serious disease. I meant no one offence and it upsets me that because you dont know me, you feel that you can judge me.
if you want to talk to me in private feel free to pm me.
dear ms stix. (ive got to do it here cos im being ignored by her)
i meant NO offence to anyone when i said jokingly that the other two kids lived for ever. im sorry for it..i was only doing it cos snoopoi knows me and i know she took no offence by it. it was a play on words as we often do here on HOP. i read it as only 1 in 2 kids died from it. she said nothing about the other two, it implied that they lived for ever.
i dont hink there was any reason for you to ignore me and if you knew me you would know thats what im like, i jokingly make posts like that. ask smallboy, bam bam, frostypoi, DFQ, snoopoi herself, dromepixie, coleman, space monkey, carrey, c@ntus, fluffy napalm fairy, bovril monkey or a whole host of others that know me and they will tell you that im exactly like that, be it on the message boards or in real life.
Im not egotistical or anything like that. i accept other peoples views, and respect that if they have views different to mine, as all people are different.
once again i appologise if anyone took offence by my comment. i in no way am taking th episs out of people with lukemia as it is a serious disease. I meant no one offence and it upsets me that because you dont know me, you feel that you can judge me.
if you want to talk to me in private feel free to pm me.
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Location: South Wales
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Location: South Wales
Posted:
HANG ON EVERYONE!!!we got it sorted in the end...i think she, sorry..MiS Stix, was replying to a previous post after i posted mine which i reacted very very very badly to.
Im sorry. my bad.
ps....oh...after seeing your photos i do recognise you...but i dont know why at pip i tookthe piss out of you...cos i couldnt do the BTB 3 beat then...but i can now..
HANG ON EVERYONE!!!we got it sorted in the end...i think she, sorry..MiS Stix, was replying to a previous post after i posted mine which i reacted very very very badly to.
Im sorry. my bad.
ps....oh...after seeing your photos i do recognise you...but i dont know why at pip i tookthe piss out of you...cos i couldnt do the BTB 3 beat then...but i can now..
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Location: Melbourne
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Location: Melbourne
Posted:
I thought that more people died from HIPPO attacks than shark attacks?
And female mosquitos are the only ones that suck blood... we're such bitches, us females arent we? muahaha
Dropping a tim tam into coffee does not make it taste better.
I keep on spilling salt on to my table.
I thought that more people died from HIPPO attacks than shark attacks?
And female mosquitos are the only ones that suck blood... we're such bitches, us females arent we? muahaha
Dropping a tim tam into coffee does not make it taste better.
I keep on spilling salt on to my table.
You've got to move fast to beat the Devil - Your arm's too short to box with God.
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Location: Florida
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Location: Florida
Posted:
Freeze dried coffee is not good for you.
What is is not and what is not is.
Freeze dried coffee is not good for you.
What is is not and what is not is.
JUGGLEwithyourmind!
Pooh-Bah
2,419 posts
Location: la-la land
2,419 posts
Location: la-la land
Posted:
Err I wasn't replying to any post - just being random.. was just a quote on my calender for today - bad calender!! I thought it was a good random fact..
All friends again..
Err I wasn't replying to any post - just being random.. was just a quote on my calender for today - bad calender!! I thought it was a good random fact..
All friends again..
I honour you as an aspect of myself..
You are never to old to storm a bouncey castle..
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