Some Trivial Matters

[roamingguy 300292]

"Stewardesses"

 

is the longest word typed with only the left hand

 

 

And "lollipop"

is the longest word typed with your right hand.

(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

 

 

No word in the English language rhymes with

month, orange, silver, or purple.

 

 

 

 

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

(Are you doubting this?)

 

 

 

Our eyes are always the same size from birth,

 

but our nose and ears

 

 

never stop growing.

 

The sentence:

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

uses every letter of the alphabet.

(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?

 

 

 

 

The words 'racecar,'

'kayak'

and 'level'

are the same whether they are read

left to right or right to left (palindromes).

(Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)

 

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":

tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

(You're not doubting this, are you?)

 

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

 

 

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

(All you typists are going to test this out)

 

 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

 

 

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)

 

 

 

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

 

 

 

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

 

 

 

A snail can sleep for three years.

(I know some people that could do this too.!)

 

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that also)

 

 

Babies are born without kneecaps.

They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

 

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

 

 

 

 

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

 

 

 

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,

the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

 

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

 

 

 

 

 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

 

 

 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

 

 

The cruise liner, QE 2

moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

 

 

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

(Good thing he did that.)

 

 

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls

 

froze completely solid.

 

 

There are more chickens than people in the world.

 

 

Winston Churchill

 

was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

 

Now you know more than you did before!!

[SamanthaEvans 166766]

I love lists like these, RG, thanks!

 

I'll add this: The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

[Guest W***ledi*Time]

... The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

 

The lady pachyderm known as Kate

Is a bull elephant's dream blind date.

All through the local herd

Comes trumpeting the word:

"Let's raise our tusks to Four-Knee-Kate!"

[SamanthaEvans 166766]

The lady pachyderm known as Kate

Is a bull elephant's dream blind date.

All through the local herd

Comes trumpeting the word:

"Let's raise our tusks to Four-Knee-Kate!"

 

LOL! WiT, that's absolutely... terrible. In a good sort of way, that is! Limericks... oh, let's not get started on those....

[Old Dog 179138]

Limericks??? did someone say limericks?????

[SamanthaEvans 166766]

Limericks??? did someone say limericks?????

 

placing a soothing ice pack on your fevered brow, I offer you a pair of ear muffs as I shake my head slowly, looking into your eyes and smiling my most winsome, charming smile....

 

No. No one said anything of the kind. Honest. This is a salon for sophisticated, genteel folk, people of high-brow tastes and sensibilities. Trust me. I know about such things. They're my stock-in-trade, so to speak. "Sonnets," was the word, or maybe "Psalms." Yes. That's it. Psalms....

 

I rest my hand on your knee, almost tenderly. Almost.

 

Surely we can find some way to take your mind off wretched, low-brow, doggerel, er, tortured poetry? There must be something I could do. At the very least, perhaps I could help to keep you warm for a little while?

 

 

[samantha is a veteran of far too many text-based games, MUDDs and MUXes from the olden days]

[NotchJohnson 214123]

Yes it is true, but this happens more often than you might think.

There was no Full Moon in February for the years 1809, 1847, 1865, 1885, 1915, 1934, 1961, 1999

 

 

These are also the years that will have two Blue Moons by the way.

[Michelangelo 738]

Pachyderm, is my favorite word in the English language!!

 

And...purple actually has 2 rhymes, I forget what they are, but it came up in an English comedy quiz show I watch called QI (Quite Interesting). I when I cycle through the old ones and copme across it, I will post it in this thread for ya....

 

My 2 cents,

 

MA

[Guest S*rca****sid]

"Stewardesses"

 

is the longest word typed with only the left hand

 

 

And "lollipop"

is the longest word typed with your right hand.

(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

 

 

No word in the English language rhymes with

month, orange, silver, or purple.

 

 

 

 

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

(Are you doubting this?)

 

 

 

Our eyes are always the same size from birth,

 

but our nose and ears

 

 

never stop growing.

 

The sentence:

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

uses every letter of the alphabet.

(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?

 

 

 

 

The words 'racecar,'

'kayak'

and 'level'

are the same whether they are read

left to right or right to left (palindromes).

(Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)

 

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":

tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

(You're not doubting this, are you?)

 

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

 

 

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

(All you typists are going to test this out)

 

 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

 

 

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)

 

 

 

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

 

 

 

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

 

 

 

A snail can sleep for three years.

(I know some people that could do this too.!)

 

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that also)

 

 

Babies are born without kneecaps.

They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

 

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

 

 

 

 

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

 

 

 

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,

the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

 

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

 

 

 

 

 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

 

 

 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

 

 

The cruise liner, QE 2

moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

 

 

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

(Good thing he did that.)

 

 

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls

 

froze completely solid.

 

 

There are more chickens than people in the world.

 

 

Winston Churchill

 

was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

 

Now you know more than you did before!!

There are words that rhyme with the following words:

month rhymes with dunth and uneath;

purple rhymes with hirple;

orange rhymes with sporange; and

silver rhymes with chilver, filver, and hilver.