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February 4, 2008

WEIRD !!!!!

Filed under: Uncategorized — fotodose @ 11:01 pm


The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. 

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants. 

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump.”

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 

The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. 

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

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction 

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. 

A snail can sleep for 3 years. 

China has more English speakers than the United States. 

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world. 

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. 

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. 

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 

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

Cat’s urine glows under a black light. 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. 

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.  

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. 

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. 

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. 

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 

Polar bears are left-handed. 

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. 

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. 

Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump. 

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. 

Starfish haven’t got brains.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The average secretary’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

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

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
“screeched.”

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”.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

There are only four words in the English language which end in “- dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence “Oz.”

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

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

February 3, 2008

Courtroom Testimony

Filed under: Uncategorized — fotodose @ 9:22 pm

These are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.


ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.


ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
WITNESS: July 18th.
ATTORNEY: What year?
WITNESS: Every year.


ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.


ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?


ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, “Where am I, Cathy?”
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan.


ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?


ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Would you repeat the question?


ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Uh…


ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?


ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?


ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.


ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.


ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.


ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!


ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh?


ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

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