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1. 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.
2. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
4. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
5. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2″ by 3-1/2″.
6. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston’s wearing a watch).
7. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. This explains my current situation.
8. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
9. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
10. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
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7 comentarii:
purple- turtle
purple rhymes with curple which is something to do with a horse and i always thought syringe kinda rhymed with orange??
HURTLE
Thumb?
No
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/rule-of-thumb.html
Oranges poranges, who says, oranges poranges,
who says, oranges poranges, who says--
there ain't no rhyme for oranges!
-Witchiepoo
Purple rhymes with:
– Hirple: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hirple
– Curple: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curple
nice try douche hog
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