Subject: Things you may or may not need to know
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>The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. >
>No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. >
>Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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>You burn more calories sleeping than you do
>watching television.
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>Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or >older.
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>The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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>The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
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>American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
>eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
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>Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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>Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking
>you up in the morning.
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>Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
>(No wonder my house is so DUSTY! LOL!)
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>The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first
>"Marlboro Man."
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>Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
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>Pearls melt in vinegar.
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>The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro,
>Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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>It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
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>A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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>Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away
>from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (I keep my
>toothbrush in the living room now!)
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>Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all
>the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton. >
>(Please don't tell me you're SURPRISED!?!!)
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No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. - L. Neil Smith