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Started by Nightowl, February 10, 2011, 01:26:39 PM

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Leah

If you are in America or Canada and want to make a canversation much more Interesting, use British words as in Peckish, Rubbish and/or Albeit. :teddyr:
yeah no.

Hammock Rider

Evel Knievel  suffered 433 broken bones during his career.
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Nightowl

Burt Reynolds was promised a free Trans-Am if the movie[Smokey And The Bandit] became a hit. It did and the 1977 T-Top Trans-Am became one of the hottest selling cars of the year. When the movie became a hit, Reynolds expected the executive to come through with his promise. But the Trans-Am never came. After a few months, Reynolds, who was afraid of looking like one of those pretentious stars looking for freebies, finally called Pontiac. As it turned out, the exec who made the promise had retired and the new exec refused to honor the deal.

Psycho Circus

The acnestis is any part of the back that's impossible to scratch.

Nightowl

WD-40 got its name from the fact that it was the 40th try at creating a water displacement substance.

Newt

Horses do not have clavicles ('collar bones').
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Psycho Circus

Acorns can be tested to find which ones will grow into oak trees. When put into water, the good ones will sink.

Raffine

The red-tailed black shark, a very popular freshwater aquarium fish, is extinct in the wild.

If you're an Andy Milligan fan there's no hope for you.

Hammock Rider

It has been estimated that the total number of nematode(round worm) species might be approximately 1,000,000.
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bob

bob spelled backwards is bob
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I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Hammock Rider

In astronomy, the word Trojan refers to a minor planet or natural satellite (moon) that shares an orbit with a larger planet or moon, but does not collide with it because it orbits around one of the two Lagrangian points of stability (Trojan points), L4 and L5, which lie approximately 60° ahead of and behind the larger body
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Leah

There is a limit to what one can wear to Wal Mart
yeah no.

Psycho Circus

An acosmist is one who denies the existence of the universe.

Nightowl

Before becoming one of the world's most famous TV chefs, Julia Child was a top secret research assistant for the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA.

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Quote from: Circus Circus on July 29, 2011, 01:08:18 PM
An acosmist is one who denies the existence of the universe.
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