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Natertot426ex
02-10-2004, 12:52 PM
Can you guess which of the following are true and which are false?



1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.

26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

they are all true...now go back and think about #16

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
--A. A. Milne

MOFO
02-10-2004, 12:56 PM
I'm thinking about #26 and how glad I am that I dont like Coke... green???

Sportrax10
02-10-2004, 01:04 PM
I cant believe #9...

Runnin Dumb
02-10-2004, 01:42 PM
Originally posted by Sportrax10
I cant believe #9...

I do!!!!! Been there, done that and still doin' it:mad:

wilkin250r
02-10-2004, 03:06 PM
Originally posted by Sportrax10
I cant believe #9...

I hear you. That would average out to 2.4 hours of standing in line EVERY DAY. However, it also depends on how they define a year. Is it 8760 hours, or is it an average WORK year, which is 2080 hours based on an 8 hour day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks per year.

Also, number 21 is suspect. I think federal law mandates that the product being advertised be real. Like the picture on a Corn Flakes box. The milk is really glue, but the FLAKES have to be real. Maybe the law only applies to pictures on the product container, and not to advertising...

MOFO
02-10-2004, 03:14 PM
Originally posted by wilkin250r


Also, number 21 is suspect. I think federal law mandates that the product being advertised be real. Like the picture on a Corn Flakes box. The milk is really glue, but the FLAKES have to be real. Maybe the law only applies to pictures on the product container, and not to advertising...



nope, its true. It refers to the "Got Milk" ad's that show a "milk" ring around peoples mouth. They do not use milk for this...

remlapr
02-10-2004, 03:22 PM
So what are the answers :confused:

MOFO
02-10-2004, 03:27 PM
Originally posted by remlapr
So what are the answers :confused:


LOL, they are all true... at the very end it says that.

LuckyCharms
02-10-2004, 03:38 PM
There is no way for #2 to be true - if he didn't have a belly button he wouldn't have had an umbilical cord which means he wouldn't have been born!!!

sleestack68
02-10-2004, 04:13 PM
Come on look at #8, is not true.

Read for yourself (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/861940964.An.r.html)

blondie69
02-10-2004, 05:06 PM
Originally posted by LuckyCharms
There is no way for #2 to be true - if he didn't have a belly button he wouldn't have had an umbilical cord which means he wouldn't have been born!!!

It can be true. I can't remember the reason why, my best friends mom doesn't have one:huh I've never personally seen it, but she's told me numerous times and I didn't believe her and then her mom told me and i was like "right..:huh ". I think it has something to do w/ scarrage?? I have no friken clue, lol.