Something you probably don't need to know

[mrmackc]

........But here it is anyway

      1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.  
       2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.  
       3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a 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. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. 
       6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.  
       7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".    

8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).  
       9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!  
       (That explains a few mysteries…)  

       10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.  
       11 Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood 
       12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.  
       13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.  
       14 The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.  

      15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.  

       16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will   instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this?)  
       17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.  
       18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA”  
       19. The original name for butterfly was “flutterby.”
       20. 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.  
       21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. 
       22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.  
       23 By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.  
       24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.  
       25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.  
       26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.  
       27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."  
       28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!  
       29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.  
       30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.  
       31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.  
       32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!  
       SEE?  NOW WASN'T THAT CALMING AND NICE FOR A CHANGE? … not to mention how much smarter you've now become.

Edited June 27, 2019 by mrmackc

[sketch]

Thanks mack👍

[Cunuckgaucho]

I wonder if dropping knowledge like that will get me laid...

[98Z5V]

Hard to say, but if you walked into Fall Shoot and dropped that kinda info and knowledge, we'd all be impressed enough to give you a Pants-Down Hug...  

[Cunuckgaucho]

1 minute ago, 98Z5V said:

Hard to say, but if you walked into Fall Shoot and dropped that kinda info and knowledge, we'd all be impressed enough to give you a Pants-Down Hug...  

 My shots are all up to date.

[98Z5V]

[mrmackc]

1 hour ago, Cunuckgaucho said:

I wonder if dropping knowledge like that will get me laid...

Not with me guy,  I stay away from male G.S..arses

[mrmackc]

1 hour ago, 98Z5V said:

Hard to say, but if you walked into Fall Shoot and dropped that kinda info and knowledge, we'd all be impressed enough to give you a Pants-Down Hug...  

 Oh SCHIDT!!! I would be so honored!  

[sketch]

you know the rule on elders.. they cant run away! brace yourself anyway possible! It's gonna happen! with pants down!

[392heminut]

#16 sounds interesting! Scorpions aren't much of a problem here in New Mexico but from what my son and daughter tell me, they are in Tucson and Casa Grande. I guess when I move to Arizona I should keep a bottle of cheap liquor around to mess with the scorpions!

My wife says I'm a bug sadist, I keep a can of Black Flag around to spray any black widows I come across. I would rather spray them and watch them suffer as they die than just step on them! I personally don't think that's sadistic, just good clean fun!

[mrmackc]

It ain't sadistic unless you pull their 8 little legs off slowly one by one then poke their eyes out with a red hot needle.

[mrmackc]

51 minutes ago, 392heminut said:

#16 sounds interesting! Scorpions aren't much of a problem here in New Mexico but from what my son and daughter tell me, they are in Tucson and Casa Grande. I guess when I move to Arizona I should keep a bottle of cheap liquor around to mess with the scorpions!

My wife says I'm a bug sadist, I keep a can of Black Flag around to spray any black widows I come across. I would rather spray them and watch them suffer as they die than just step on them! I personally don't think that's sadistic, just good clean fun!

I once did a R.A. materials underground storage inspection in Artesia, N.M. didn't find any scorpions but 40 or 50 big vinegar rhones were under a  4'x4' cellar door, that look just like a scorpion except they are a dark maroon in color, a local said they don't sting like a scorpion, but I didn't chance it that he was blowing smoke , Poured a 5 gallon bucket of diesel on the critters, they turned all their ugly asses over and died.

[sketch]

ants are my nemisis mixed with moisture.. they can take out a house without you aware of the problem! gas the ants not your house!

[392heminut]

39 minutes ago, mrmackc said:

I once did a R.A. materials underground storage inspection in Artesia, N.M. didn't find any scorpions but 40 or 50 big vinegar rhones were under a  4'x4' cellar door, that look just like a scorpion except they are a dark maroon in color, a local said they don't sting like a scorpion, but I didn't chance it that he was blowing smoke , Poured a 5 gallon bucket of diesel on the critters, they turned all their ugly asses over and died.

Bwahahahaha!!! Those things are definitely ugly as hell but he was right, they don't sting or bite. They are basically harmless for as nasty as they look.

The other really nasty looking bug we have is called a 'child of the earth' or 'el nino de la tierra' south of the border. They aren't venomous but do have a painful bite. To quote Arnold in Predator, "Your one UGLY mudda fukka!"

[98Z5V]

5 minutes ago, 392heminut said:

The other really nasty looking bug we have is called a 'child of the earth' or 'el nino de la tierra' south of the border.

I had to look these things up - and they are UGLY...  

 

They looked almost as fucked up as Camel Spiders, which themselves look like Predator...   ... 

 

[survivalshop]

Poor Elephant 😕

 

[392heminut]

16 hours ago, 98Z5V said:

I had to look these things up - and they are UGLY...  

 

 

 

I still vividly remember the first time I saw one of those things, it was about 12" from my nose! I was under a friend's 66 GMC pickup at night, stabbing the transmission. I got the damn thing up into the bellhousing and turned my head to look for a bolt and that ugly SOB was RIGHT THERE! My buddy said never in his life had he seen someone come out from under a vehicle so fast!

[98Z5V]

On 6/26/2019 at 6:21 AM, mrmackc said:

       5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. 

I've had two ex-wives that are JUST like that...   I'm just sayin'...  

[mrmackc]

1 minute ago, 98Z5V said:

I've had two ex-wives that are JUST like that...   I'm just sayin'...  

...and I bet they are still much alive......

[98Z5V]

3 minutes ago, mrmackc said:

...and I bet they are still much alive......

Maybe - but I don't care where they are or what they're doing...   They're torturing someone else right now, and not me...  

[mrmackc]

Just now, 98Z5V said:

Maybe - but I don't care where they are or what they're doing...   They're torturing someone else right now, and not me...  

I just meant to say I know a few of those ferret women and they always outlive a horny man.

[98Z5V]

26 minutes ago, mrmackc said:

I just meant to say I know a few of those ferret women and they always outlive a horny man.

I don't get it, though - I'm hornier than a 3-peckered Lemur...  

[mrmackc]

10 hours ago, 98Z5V said:

I don't get it, though - I'm hornier than a 3-peckered Lemur...  

These ferret women are able to find a horney man to "mate" with easier than a man can find a "mate" unless he visits old lady thumb and her 4 sisters , and didn't your mom tell you that if you keep doing that you will go blind?  Have you made arrangements for a seeing eye dog?