[need4speed]

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T

1 . Money isn't made out of paper... it's made out of cotton.

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle" (not title, but tittle).

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case 'letters.

17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time (hence, multi-tasking was invented).

18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before !

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.

25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19 You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)

27. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law,which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples !

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying !

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.

34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart .. "Boy,I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson is still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her off to jail."

[tls25rs]

Originally posted by need4speed
27. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law,which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

What movie has a scene in it where one of the actors, training a woman much larger than himself as a butcher in a meat processing plant, uses the term "rule of thumb" and the woman proceeds to give him a lecture about how that term came from the english law mentioned above. The actor looks at his thumb and says hmmmmm can't do much damage with that now can we? Perhaps we should have called it rule of wrist, and proceeds to get into a brawl with the woman he was training?

This movie was a good watch and I'm just curious if anyone other than bbzx10(12whateverhesridinghthisweek) knows the movie of which I speak.

L8R

Joel

[TheIglu]

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying !

Untrue.

Onions contain sulfer dioxide (i think) in their cell walls. Once the cell walls are cuptured (cutting, etc) and the sufler dioxide is released into the air, the water in your eyes mixes with the gas creating sulfuric acid. Hence the burning sensation.

There is no way to keep from crying other than reducing the amount of sulfur dioxide being released by continually rinsing the onions while cutting them.

But what do I know?

[TheIglu]

Originally posted by tls25rs
What movie has a scene in it where one of the actors, training a woman much larger than himself as a butcher in a meat processing plant, uses the term "rule of thumb" and the woman proceeds to give him a lecture about how that term came from the english law mentioned above. The actor looks at his thumb and says hmmmmm can't do much damage with that now can we? Perhaps we should have called it rule of wrist, and proceeds to get into a brawl with the woman he was training?

This movie was a good watch and I'm just curious if anyone other than bbzx10(12whateverhesridinghthisweek) knows the movie of which I speak.

L8R

Joel

Boondock Saints!!! AWESOME MOVIE!

"Where you goin? Where you goin?? NOWHERE!!!"

"We could kill.......EVERYONE!!!"

"I'll tip her!"

and in the credits:

"Oh, I'm ready to get BIZZZEEE" ha ha ha ha

Best action movie in history. And I heard they are workin on a sequel!

[bigred875]

..and boy did she have some guns...

[Brian_C6]

Originally posted by tls25rs
What movie has a scene in it where one of the actors, training a woman much larger than himself as a butcher in a meat processing plant, uses the term "rule of thumb" and the woman proceeds to give him a lecture about how that term came from the english law mentioned above. The actor looks at his thumb and says hmmmmm can't do much damage with that now can we? Perhaps we should have called it rule of wrist, and proceeds to get into a brawl with the woman he was training?

This movie was a good watch and I'm just curious if anyone other than bbzx10(12whateverhesridinghthisweek) knows the movie of which I speak.

L8R

Joel

My Favorite Movie..... "The Boondock Saints"

[Brian_C6]

Originally posted by TheIglu
Boondock Saints!!! AWESOME MOVIE!

"Where you goin? Where you goin?? NOWHERE!!!"

"We could kill.......EVERYONE!!!"

"I'll tip her!"

and in the credits:

"Oh, I'm ready to get BIZZZEEE" ha ha ha ha

Best action movie in history. And I heard they are workin on a sequel!

LMAO!!

I swear that movie comes with endless movie lines / quotes. You could go all day with it.

Connor: Do ya know what we need, man? Some rope.
Murphy: Absolutely. What are you, insane?
Connor: No I ain't. Charlie Bronson's always got rope.
Murphy: What?
Connor: Yeah. He's got a lot of rope strapped around him in the movies, and they always end up using it.
Murphy: You've lost it, haven't ya?
Connor: No, I'm serious.
Murphy: That's stupid. Name one thing you'd need a rope for.
Connor: You don't fuckin' know what you're gonna need it for. They just always need it.
Murphy: What's this 'they' shit? This isn't a movie.
Connor: Oh, right.
Connor: Is that right, Rambo?
Murphy: All right. Get your stupid fuckin' rope.
Connor: I'll get my stupid rope. I'll get it. There's a rope right there.

[OreoGitorio]

great flick

[neuthunder]

awesome movie.....
A six shooter?!?
A f*cking six shooter?
there's nine bodies genious, what were you going to do? laugh the last three to death?

What the fuckin fuck, who the fuck, you guys are fuckin, holy fuck....
Well that just about sums up the diversity of the word

[Jaynnus]

I never heard of this movie...I must live a sheltered life

[TheIglu]

Go rent it! or better yet, buy it! You won't regret it.

Super Troopers and The Boondock Saints are must have cult classics.

[JeffL]

Damn, I gotta rent that movie, heard so many good things about it.

[Brian_C6]

oh... easily a buyer....last time I was at Best Buy, I saw if for like $9.99. It's more than a renter so pick it up.

The end scene in the courtroom still gives me the chills and I've seen the movie a dozen + times.

oh, and the movie is even better for us New Englanders because it takes place in Boston (filmed in Canada though).

Where you going? NOWHERE!!
Where's he going? NOWHERE!!

Love the police detective!! Guy is a tool!!

Brian

[RandyO]

1 . Money isn't made out of paper... it's made out of cotton.

untrue, paper money is made out of paper, paper that is 100%rag content. while most paper is made from wood pulp fibres, a lot of high quality paper is made from cotton fibres, rolling paper is made from rice straw fibres

[tls25rs]

The role played by Willem Dafoe (sp?) is funny as hell with his making fun of the other detectives speculation on what happened at the fight scene from the beginning of the movie. I can't quote it exact so I won't murder it here but anyone who has seen it knows what I am talking about. "Some HUGE fucking guy!!!!!!"


What the fuck happened to the cat?

You shot the fuckin cat!

I loved that cat!

You dont even know the cat's name bitch!

That scene was priceless

Definitely a buy and keep and watch repeatedly movie. I bought it brought it to a friends house and now he wont give it back to me so I have to go buy it again and I will be more than happy to do so because it is such a good movie.

Glad to see so many of you knew what I was talking about.

L8R

Joel

[ZX-12R]

Originally posted by RandyO
1 . Money isn't made out of paper... it's made out of cotton.

untrue, paper money is made out of paper, paper that is 100%rag content. while most paper is made from wood pulp fibres, a lot of high quality paper is made from cotton fibres, rolling paper is made from rice straw fibres

Splitting hairs but it should read that money isn't made out of wood pulp... it's made of out 100% cotton.

Another fact is all US currency paper is made in Dalton MA by the Crane Paper Company. It is impressive to see big rigs being escorted by 10+ state troopers when they need to ship the paper. They don't stop for anything including red lights.

Also for all the vegans out there, US currency paper is rehydrated with horse glue after the drying process. Way back in the day horse glue was readily available so it was used for this purpose. The governement doesn't like to change things that are working so even though there are modern alternatives, horse glue is still used. This means people claiming to be vegans that use paper money are not vegans!

[CagedInside]

Originally posted by TheIglu
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying !

Untrue.

Onions contain sulfer dioxide (i think) in their cell walls. Once the cell walls are cuptured (cutting, etc) and the sufler dioxide is released into the air, the water in your eyes mixes with the gas creating sulfuric acid. Hence the burning sensation.

There is no way to keep from crying other than reducing the amount of sulfur dioxide being released by continually rinsing the onions while cutting them.

But what do I know?

I have heard that too.




It is one of the best movies. I love the part with the cat... they left it on the wall all night!


"23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death."

No fucking way, anyone have a scorpion I could barrow?

[Punjistick]

Originally posted by need4speed
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

just like Bunker Hill Bluebeery Ale from Boston Beer Works!

Originally posted by need4speed
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T

17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time (hence, multi-tasking was invented).

I don't know about this one. Try to draw a cricle in one hand and a square in the other at the same time and you'll see what I mean. You either draw two circles, or two squares, or some combination of both. I think I read somewhere that it is physically impossible because of how the human brain works.