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Did you make ALL of these up? I feel like its only funny if one of them is true. Maybe the reading backwards one. People always underestimate how many calories you actually do burn when expending a LOT of mental effort like learning new material or something challenging like reading backwards. Its probably not quite as much as walking a half-mile but I bet its >100 calories.

Check yesterday's date.

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04-02-2009 , 12:50 PM

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quirkasaurus

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Originally Posted by sc000t

The word "that" is the only word in the english language that can be said three times in a row and still be gramatically correct.

very, very, very interesting.

Oh and I forgot this one:

Here's a sentence where the same word is repeated 8 times in a row and is grammatically correct:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo

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04-02-2009 , 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Irish Lefty

The words LASER, RADAR, and RAP (as in rap sheet) are all anacronyms.

and scuba....

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04-02-2009 , 03:56 PM

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At least it inspired me to look up what the Q in Q-Tip stands for (Quality).

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04-02-2009 , 04:15 PM

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or more from that page:

fish fish fish.
( fish hunt other fish ).

police police police.
( who keeps an eye on the police? )

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04-02-2009 , 07:42 PM

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In the late sixties and early seventies, researchers used phencyclidine (PCP, Angel Dust) to tranquilize polar bears. It caused psychotic episodes.

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04-02-2009 , 08:12 PM

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According to people who do colonics claim that the average person has 5-25 lbs of feces in their o-hole. Whether or not you have enough common sense to understand this is a flippin' lie may or may not be pointless.

The largest large intestine was recovered from a man in the early 20th century when his got... "backed up." It is display at the Muetter Museaum in Philedelphia PA and is here... http://media.collegepublisher.com/me...s/96y8x28i.jpg

I don't think the Lounge would appreciate this pic posted here.

And also, the longest appendix removed from a human is 10.24 inches found in the dead body of a 72 year-old man.

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04-02-2009 , 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by M8Ludi

Conundrum is a fabricated word.

Yet perfectly cromulent.

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04-02-2009 , 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by quirkasaurus

and scuba....

...which was co-invented by Jacques Cousteau.

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04-03-2009 , 09:10 AM

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perl is arguably the most extensible programming language in the world.
as a testament to its syntactic flexibility, perl programmers write little programs
that end up printing out the sentence "just another perl hacker". These programs
can be absolutely unrecognizably complex and fantastic in their own way.

View some of the best at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAPH

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04-03-2009 , 01:31 PM

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daveT

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Isaac Newton introduced the idea of using the gold standard for money.

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04-03-2009 , 04:26 PM

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youtalkfunny

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Crazy Glue was invented by accident by medical researchers, who were trying to invent a replacement for stitches (which may explain why Crazy Glue sticks to your skin better than it sticks to anything else).

Same thing goes for the microwave oven, when lab techs working with microwaves noticed that the candy in their pockets kept melting.

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04-03-2009 , 07:18 PM

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Narwhal skin tastes like hazelnuts.

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04-03-2009 , 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ChipWrecked

...which was co-invented by Jacques Cousteau.

... who before he acquired that stage name went by the name of McGinty Farlowe and worked as Fatty Arbuckle's bartender.

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04-03-2009 , 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by quirkasaurus

"extensible"? What does JAPH or its cousin perl golf have to do with extensibility?

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04-03-2009 , 08:08 PM

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John Cole

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The largest large intestine was recovered from a man in the early 20th century when his got... "backed up." It is display at the Muetter Museaum in Philedelphia PA and is here... http://media.collegepublisher.com/me...s/96y8x28i.jpg

Dave,

Is a "Museaum" a museum that displays nauseating things?

A handy way to remember the difference between "naseous" and "nauseated": if you're nauseated, you're sick; if you're nauseous, you make other people sick.

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04-03-2009 , 08:44 PM

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Many examples of incorrect word usage ruffle my feathers, but this one doesn't. Probably because nearly everyone says it incorrectly.

I feel the same way about people talking about raising children instead of rearing them.

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04-04-2009 , 01:59 AM

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The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.

Androphobia is a fear of men.

Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.

Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.

Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at.

Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

Clinophobia is the fear of beds.

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04-04-2009 , 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Blarg

I was reared by my father.

I don't know Blarg, it just doesn't seem right, even if correct.

-Zeno

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04-04-2009 , 02:18 AM

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It does sound a little embarrassing.

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04-04-2009 , 06:04 AM

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Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.

I wondered if this was also the word for a fear of potatoes, but some quick googling seems to indicate that there isn't a word for that at all.

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04-04-2009 , 06:14 AM

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It's become a part of the scenery, man. And now everybody who doesn't fear potatoes is the enemy.

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04-04-2009 , 04:41 PM

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all 50 states in alphabetical order.

and 1.4142135 <- sq rt of 2.

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04-05-2009 , 02:07 PM

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LFO

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The word "queue" is pronounced the same if you remove all the vowels. (Maybe the only one?)

The word "facetious" contains all 5 vowels in alphabetical order.