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WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. Posted Dec 15, 2005
I think I'll join you, she had her whip out this morning and I don't like the look of that cutlass 
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AYEBEE PW - RIP TERRI Posted Dec 15, 2005
well.....
you could be right..
do you think i need to tone down the amount of puddings i'm eating?
no.. leave the little critters be, ill put it round me neck
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Proudwart, AKA Connorchap. Posted Dec 15, 2005
The baseball player Babe Ruth put a cabbage leaf in his cap to keep his head cool, and he changed it every two innings.
I have no idea how I know this, seeing as I don't even like baseball...
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 15, 2005
Then that makes that the perfect kind of useless fact for this thread. 
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Proudwart, AKA Connorchap. Posted Dec 15, 2005
YAY, I'M PERFECT!
I'm going to reward myself with chocolate.
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sabrielschild Posted Dec 15, 2005
if you behead a cockroach, it can still run about for days afterwards as its brains run all through its body. eventually though it will die of starvation. lacking a mouth to eat through and all...
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Galigan Posted Dec 15, 2005
but if you take the head of another cockroash and attatch it with a small straw like a piece of biro or something the body will survive on the food the head eats.
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Dec 15, 2005
*subject reversal*
That cabbage leaf -
Yeah, great on Mummy's *ahem* dinner plates when they get *ahem* overloaded...
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Dec 16, 2005
Headless cockroaches cannot vomit underwater.
RF
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Dec 16, 2005
Strangely, I'm watching a documentary about sharks, which is describing their habit of vomiting underwater.
RF
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The Groob Posted Dec 16, 2005
If you are in shark infested waters and feel the need to vomit, the advice of the experts is to fill your mouth with vomit and then swallow it again.
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Wilma Neanderthal Posted Dec 16, 2005
d'ye think perhaps you are focussing a tad on a rather revolting bodily function? How 'bout a few uselss facts on swallowing underwear - just for a bit of variety, yeah? 
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Dec 16, 2005
Headless cockroaches cannot swallow their own underwear.
RF
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Galigan Posted Dec 16, 2005
do headless cockroaches wear underwear?
do they get chafage if they wear the wrong sort of underwear?
do they wear trainers?
are they democratic?
are they more or less democratic than ants?
do ants wear trainers?
so many questions...
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- 2601: WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2602: AYEBEE PW - RIP TERRI (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2603: Alfredo (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2604: Proudwart, AKA Connorchap. (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2605: Baron Grim (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2606: Proudwart, AKA Connorchap. (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2607: sabrielschild (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2608: Proudwart, AKA Connorchap. (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2609: Galigan (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2610: Alfredo (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2611: Wilma Neanderthal (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2612: Wilma Neanderthal (Dec 15, 2005)
- 2613: U1969296 (Dec 16, 2005)
- 2614: Proudwart, AKA Connorchap. (Dec 16, 2005)
- 2615: A Super Furry Animal (Dec 16, 2005)
- 2616: A Super Furry Animal (Dec 16, 2005)
- 2617: The Groob (Dec 16, 2005)
- 2618: Wilma Neanderthal (Dec 16, 2005)
- 2619: A Super Furry Animal (Dec 16, 2005)
- 2620: Galigan (Dec 16, 2005)
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