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[sjbbandgeek]

It took a thirteen year scientific study by the Vatican to pardon Galileo from supporting heliocentric theory. Pope John Paul II pardoned him in 1992

[El Nino]

I don't know if it's the only one, but. If not then the following word is one of the few that has 5 vowels in a row "Queueing

[Korbin Dallas]

I think I've worked out why so many women like to ride horses. Because they like to have something large and powerful between their legs.

[El Nino]

Mother in law is an anagram of woman hitler.

I think I know why so many women like to have so many pairs of shoes so if they decide to kill their partner with a pair. There's more likelihood that someone else in the local vicinity will have the same pair.

Sex and the city star Kim Cattrall also played a vulcan in Star trek 6.

[Righteous]

Corey Taylor sings for both Slipknot and Stone Sour

J Mann sings for both Mushroomhead and 216.

J Mann left Mushroomhead to go full-time with 216. Upon hearing this, Ri sulked for four straight hours.

[Korbin Dallas]

Some rhyming slang you might or might not have heard

Beer scooter - the ability to get home after a night out on the booze & not remember it. i.e. "I don't even remember getting home last night, must have caught the beer scooter".

One in the departure lounge - the need to defecate imminently.

Aeroplane blonde - one who has dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'!

Aeroplane skirt - a skirt with a very long slit up it that goes all the way up to the 'cockpit'.

Pearl Harbour - cold (weather). This is one I have heard from a fair few people recently. An example of it would be - "It's a bit Pearl Harbour out there". Meaning - there's a nasty 'nip' in the air ! This comes from the well-known surprise attack by Japanese planes on the American port in Hawaii in 1941(History Lesson Over).

Britney Spears - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'beers'. e.g. "Give us a couple of Britney's will ya Doreen".

Bruce Lee's - erect nipples (as in a pair of hard 'nips').

Bunny boiler - an unhinged and overly possessive woman. From the rabbit boiling scene in the film "Fatal Attraction"
e.g. "I don't like the look of her mate, could be a bunny boiler".

Donald Trump - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'dump' (defecate). e.g. "I'm just nipping out for a Donald".

Drink-link - a modern term for a cashpoint machine (ATM). Named so because it is common to visit one before going out on the booze!

Furry monkey - slang term for vagina. As used by Daisy Donovan on Channel 4,s Eleven O'Clock Show.

Greyhound - a very short skirt. From the fact that a greyhound (on a racetrack) is close to the hare (hair). i.e. "Blimey look
at the greyhound on that bird!".

Johnny-no-stars - a young man of substandard intelligence, i.e. the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' bit comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear which show their level of training.

Kryptonite - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'web site'.

Kung Fu fighter - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'lighter'.

Leo Sayer - an 'all-dayer' (drinking or a rave etc).

Melvyn Bragg - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'fag' (cigarette). e.g. "Oi mate, can I scrounge a Melvyn off you?".

Mumblers - used when you spot an attractive girl in tight shorts or similar clothes i.e. you can see the 'lips' moving but can't quite make out what they're saying.

Nelson Mandela - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'Stella' (the lager).

Pat Cash - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'slash' (to urinate).

Pictures of the queen - paper money, notes. Suggested by Dan Adams. e.g. "How do you want payin ?", "Pictures of the queen mate !".

Salad dodger - an excellent phrase for an overweight person.

Steve McQueen's - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'jeans'.

Swamp donkey - an unattractive woman. e.g. "Blimey, have you seen those swamp donkeys sitting in the corner !".

Tart fuel - similar to 'bitch piss', bottled alcopop's regularly drank by young women.

Tropical fish - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'piss', pron. 'pish' (in a Scottish way ?). An example of an abbreviated way of using
it would be to say "I'm off for a tropie".

Turkish bath - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'laugh'. e.g. "You're 'avin a Turkish mate !".

Up on blocks - having a period (menstruating). i.e. Out of action, a bit like a car in a garage. e.g. "I don't think I'll be in luck
tonight lads, the missus is up on blocks".

Wallace and Gromit - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'vomit'.

Wind and kite - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'web site'.

Wyatt Earp - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'TWERP'.
Wynona Ryder - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'cider'. Suggested by James Mellor. e.g. "Can I have a pint'a Wynola and half a Nelson".

[Righteous]

Remember how our parents told us we could take only one vatamin per day? That's because you can OD on those.

[Moosh]

The Vienna Boy's Choir do a version of the eighties hit 'I Touch Myself'

Chocolate is leathal to humans in sufficiant quantities

Indian Railways is the biggest employer in the world

When bears hibernate they form a butt plug out of poo and hair so they don't need to go to the toilet

In Texas it is legal to own a nuclear weapon but illegal to detonate it

The last offence you could get the death penalty for in England was Arson in Her Majesty's Dockyards. Stopped in 1997

[Forever Unknown]

A group of baboons is known as a 'flange'. And how I laughed.

[El Nino]

Robert Picardo who played several characters in Star Trek the most famous of which was the holographic doctor in Voyager. Also played the voice of the Johnnycabs in Total Recall.

[Quoth(The Raven)]

I think I've worked out why so many women like to ride horses. Because they like to have something large and powerful between their legs.

And, with horses, the rider decides when the ride is over, not the horse...

[Quoth(The Raven)]

In one city in the states there is a law which states
"Anyone found detonating a Nuclear Device within the city limits is liable for a fine not exceeding $5000"

Isn't that kinda like having a money back guarentee that a parachute will open?

[Quoth(The Raven)]

In England its Legal to shoot a welshman outside the city gates after dark except on a Sunday.

Can't have people disturbing the Sabbath, now, can we...

[Quoth(The Raven)]

there are 57 ways to kill someone with a paperclip

How do you even Know that? Should we be concerned?

[arachnidoc17]

In Chicago it is completely ILLEGAL to drink beer out of a bucket on the street curb.

In a certain Kentucky town, it is mandated by law that manure be referred to as fertilizer, but it's all cow hockey because there is no penalty.

[arachnidoc17]

Also, somewhere in the US, (I cant remember where) it is illegal to hunt or fish while having sex on your wedding day.

[El Nino]

I don't know whether this counts for all sharks or just the hammerhead variety but they are the only creatures other than humans that can get suntan/sunburnt.

[Korbin Dallas]

I don't know how true these are but some of them are interesting

There were seven pairs of ruby slippers used during the filming of The Wizard of Oz.

It's estimated that 40 percent of players in the NBA have a criminal record.

Experts claim the color combination that has the most visual impact is black on yellow.

The medical term for a nosebleed is "epistaxisis."

Only 0.1 percent of animal species that have ever lived are still alive today.

In poker, a card combination of 9 and 5 is called a "Dolly Parton," in reference to the film in which Parton starred, 9 to 5.

Actor Tom Hanks is a descendant of Abraham Lincoln.

Mallard ducks have 360-degree vision.

Two hundred million atoms placed in a row would measure one inch.

Just 14 percent of Chinese women believe having sex with an animal should be illegal.

During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" only sold about 3,000 copies.

Robert E. Lee was the only person to graduate from West Point without a demerit.

Ninety percent of Brazilian women classify beauty products as an essential rather than a luxury (the average worldwide is 77 percent).

"Cainophobia" is the fear of newness.

Since Neptune was discovered in 1846, it has made about three-quarters of one revolution of the Sun.

Julius Caesar hated cats.

In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers.

The set of glasses filled with different levels of water used to make different musical tones is called a hydrodaktulopsychicarmonica.

"Judo" translates as "the gentle way."

By law, after a divorce, a Muslim man gets custody of his children because they're considered his property.

About 130,000 freed slaves became Union soldiers during the Civil War.

[snooodlysnoosnoo...]

I don't know whether this counts for all sharks or just the hammerhead variety but they are the only creatures other than humans that can get suntan/sunburnt.

Pigs get sunburn, as do hippos and rhinos.

Cats can get sunburn.

There are more but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

[Righteous]

Actor Tom Hanks is a descendant of Abraham Lincoln.

Which is aperpo, because they are both overrated and have tainted everything they were a part of.

Robert E. Lee was the only person to graduate from West Point without a demerit.

Which is also aperpo, because as far as I'm concered, Lee was one of the best military leaders of all time (and not just for what he did on the battlefield).

But enough of my opinions...

Most people who use marijuana try it between the ages of 12 and 18.

There has been only one documented case of overdose from marijuana in the United States. It was an older guy who over a few days smoked and ingested massive amounts of weed.

According to the UN's estimate, 141 million people around the world use marijuana. This represents about 2.5 percent of the world population.

Over 83 million Americans have admitted to having tried marijuana.

The U.S. federal government spent $19.179 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. State and local governments spent at least another 20 billion.

[Forever Unknown]

Actor Tom Hanks is a descendant of Abraham Lincoln.

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[arachnidoc17]

KD just got me started on phobias... Here we go again...
Nosebleeds- Epistaxiophobia
Opinions- Allodoxaphobia.
Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth- Arachibutyrophobia.
Phobias- Phobophobia.
feeling pleasure- Hedonophobia.
Politicians- Politicophobia.
Pope- Papaphobia.
Puppets- Pupaphobia.
Russians- Russophobia.
Left-handed; objects at the left side of the body- Sinistrophobia
Learning- Sophophobia.
Ideas- Ideophobia.
Money- Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia.
standing up and walking- Stasibasiphobia.

[Usurper MrTeapot]

There has been only one documented case of overdose from marijuana in the United States. It was an older guy who over a few days smoked and ingested massive amounts of weed.

I think the only guy to have died of Marijuana in the UK was when a dealer dropped a stone bag of it directly onto his head.

A near fatal hospitalisation was when a teenager realising he was going to be seached in line for a club swallowed a large block of hash and choked on it.

[Righteous]

To be fair, there have been plenty of marijuana-related deaths, car accidents, etc. However that was the only death where marijuana was the cause instead of a factor.

[El Nino]

I don't know whether this counts for all sharks or just the hammerhead variety but they are the only creatures other than humans that can get suntan/sunburnt.

Pigs get sunburn, as do hippos and rhinos.

Cats can get sunburn.

There are more but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

Then either I didn't hear the word sea before creature or they neglected to mention the fact. It was on one of those natural world type progs.