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Post by Pina on Sept 20, 2003 2:37:58 GMT
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Post by Paulo on Sept 21, 2003 16:26:43 GMT
 Source: The Metro, 19.09.2003 |
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Post by DagmarS on Sept 21, 2003 16:37:06 GMT
Oh, that HARV WAS THERE gravestone!  ... how nice!!! ... I think now I know what will be on mine ...  |
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Post by Pina on Sept 28, 2003 0:55:48 GMT
It's all true...
1. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
2. 100 people a year choke to death on ball-point pens.
3. 35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
4. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
5. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
6. Snails can sleep for three years.
7. No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
8. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
9. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
10. Polar bears are left-handed.
11. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
12. "Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
13. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
14. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
15. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
16. Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day.
17. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
18. Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
20. In the United States alone, there is a lawsuit every 30 seconds.
21. Rats and horses can't vomit.
22. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
23. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
24. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
25. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
26. Forty percent of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.
27. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
28. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand or attempted to do so.
29. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
30. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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Post by Pina on Sept 28, 2003 0:58:21 GMT
Ok now admit it.. how many people tried to lick their elbow after they read #19? ;D
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Post by Pina on Oct 2, 2003 20:06:16 GMT
The G-Files: Top 10 Worst Junk Foods
Friday, September 19, 2003
By Gunn Sikk
I'm here to tell you about reality and fantasy. Reality is not all foods are created equal, in fact, a lot of them are junk. The fantasy is, if you think by eating a lot of junk foods you're going to remain healthy, you're mistaken.
That's why I've created the top 10 list of worst junk foods people commonly eat.
10. Fruit drinks. Not to be confused with fruit juices, fruit drinks are 10 per cent or less real fruit sugar. They're loaded with artificial colouring and sucrose. Definitely teeth rotters.
9. White bread. Yes, this is a junk food. Everytime you're looking at a slice of white bread you are seeing a slice of sugar -- it acts in the body the same way.
8. Doughnut. It's white bread dipped and deep-fried and sugar. What can be worse? No wonder there's a big hole in the middle, it's a nutritional zero.
7. Decaffeinated coffee. An excellent way to remove the caffeine and add chemical solvent residue right into your favourite beverage.
6. Pop. Let's see now, how do you spell increased bone breakage? P-O-P.
5. Diet pop. You get all the dandy benefits of pop, plus artificial sweetener, which has been shown in studies to actually increase your sugar cravings and alter your brain chemistry.
4. Sugary breakfast cereals. Now here's a guarantee: If you want to start your day in a low lifeforce mode, then this is the junk breakfast for you.
3. Deep-dish pizza. This is an excellent way to stack, jack and pack your G.I. tract with one big dollop of sodium, dough and fat -- an overnight weight-gain wonder.
2. Ice cream. Here's a beauty, high in sugar and high in fat, for another whack attack on your pancreas and your arteries.
And the number one worst junk food hands down is...
1. French fries and potato chips. Here's why: Yes, it's unparalleled sodium-loading enzyme-dead food. But new information now shows that it's high in acrylimide, a known cancer-causing agent. In fact, the amount of acyrlimide in a serving of fast-food French fries is 300 times above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's limit set for one glass of water.
Now, every behaviour carries with it its own consequences. It's no different with nutrition. Reality or fantasy, take your pick. Choose wisely.
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... how nice!!! ... I think now I know what will be on mine ... 