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3 Of 8: Currently lurking. <?> <BORG> Posted Aug 11, 2001
Windscreen (windshield) wipers were invented by a woman.
As was the paper bag, and canned food. Not all by the same woman though.
Our thoughts are one ô¿ô
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WeS Posted Aug 11, 2001
How about...
In German there is no word for "fluffy"
(I know this is a line from Blackadder, but it's true)
No animal is nature makes use of the wheel.
All of the gold in the earth would fit into a cube the size of Trafalgar Square.
WebSherpa
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Aug 13, 2001
In a deck of cards, the Queens are never in profile. I believe the figures are three Jacks and one King are.
Queen Elizabeth II is the great grand-daughter 32 times removed of Alexander the Great.
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Aug 13, 2001
The only way to be sure if glass is a liquid or solid would be to constantly measure the temperature while you "melt" some. If the temperature stays constant for a while, it's solid; otherwise it's liquid.
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Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Aug 13, 2001
"No animal is nature makes use of the wheel."
Zorpheous, doesn't the dung beetle use the wheelish principle? 
SC 
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Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted Aug 13, 2001
OOPs! Misidentification alert!
I mean WEBSHERPA!
So sorry; I should be 
!!!
SC 
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Zorpheus - I'm so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. Posted Aug 13, 2001
No problem. I was thinking the same thing.
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Andy Posted Aug 13, 2001
If the British monarchy didn't favour males in the line of succession (for the past few hundred years), our ruler during the first world war would have been Germany's Kaiser Bill.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Aug 13, 2001
The current temperature in Aldhar, Mongloia is 22 Centigrade....
Its Mostly Cloudy, and currently has a southwesterly wind blowing at 9 mph.... (sufficiently Useless? 
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Wampus Posted Aug 13, 2001
Termites live up to 50 years.
The outside temperature at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California goes above 72 degrees F only nine hours a year, on average.
Now THAT's useless!
Wampus
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Xanatic Posted Aug 13, 2001
Hopefully the power plant isn´t causing the high temperatures.
The dung beetle doesn´t use the round thing for transport, isn´t that what is meant?
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Xanatic Posted Aug 13, 2001
Yeah, that´s true. And what about that fish in the banner?
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Aug 14, 2001
Col. Sanders was made an honorary Colonel in the Confederate Army (I think it was called) about 100 years after it was disbanded.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Aug 15, 2001
Was he in the Band?
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HappyDude Posted Aug 15, 2001
George Formby wuz extremely popular in the Soviet Union and in 1943 he wuz awarded the Order of Lenin 
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HappyDude Posted Aug 15, 2001
Will Hay (actor/commiedian) discovered the spot on the planet Saturn in 1933
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RazorbackX Posted Aug 15, 2001
Nigerian Dwarf Goats, or Pygmi Goats have the highest ratio of milk fat of any domestic goat, typicaly 9% or better.
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HappyDude Posted Aug 15, 2001
In 1988, the Videotex Industry Association (now the
Interactive Services Association) said that there were 40
fee-charging consumer videotex sytems in operation and that 1.1
percent of U.S. households were using some form of videotex.
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RazorbackX Posted Aug 15, 2001
Nevada is the only state in the US that has Legal Prostitution. It's perfectly fine to engage in paid sex transactions EXCEPT in Clark county,Washoe County, and the municipality of Carson City.
E-mail me for the realy useful information(Letters of introduction, maps, payment scales and tipping guidelines)
The wide gap between Saturns rings is called the Cassini Division.
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- 481: 3 Of 8: Currently lurking. <?> <BORG> (Aug 11, 2001)
- 482: WeS (Aug 11, 2001)
- 483: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Aug 13, 2001)
- 484: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Aug 13, 2001)
- 485: Spaceechik, Typomancer (Aug 13, 2001)
- 486: Spaceechik, Typomancer (Aug 13, 2001)
- 487: Zorpheus - I'm so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. (Aug 13, 2001)
- 488: Andy (Aug 13, 2001)
- 489: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Aug 13, 2001)
- 490: Wampus (Aug 13, 2001)
- 491: Xanatic (Aug 13, 2001)
- 492: Andy (Aug 13, 2001)
- 493: Xanatic (Aug 13, 2001)
- 494: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Aug 14, 2001)
- 495: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Aug 15, 2001)
- 496: HappyDude (Aug 15, 2001)
- 497: HappyDude (Aug 15, 2001)
- 498: RazorbackX (Aug 15, 2001)
- 499: HappyDude (Aug 15, 2001)
- 500: RazorbackX (Aug 15, 2001)
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