Thought you knew everything?
Stewardesses is the longest word
typed with only the left hand.Â
And ‘lollipop’Â is the longest word typed
with your right hand.Â
(Bet you just tried these out mentally, didn’t you?)
No word in the English language rhymes withÂ
month , orange,silver, or purple.Â
‘ Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’. Â
(Are you doubting this?)
Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The sentence:
‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’
uses every letter of the alphabet.Â
(Now, you KNOW you’re going to try this out for accuracy, right?)
The words ‘racecar,’Â Â
‘kayak’
and ‘level’
are the same whether they are read left to right   or right to left (palindromes). Â
(Yep, I knew you were going to ‘do’ this one.)
There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.  Â
(You’re not possibly still doubting any of this, are you ?)
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’Â
(Okay, admit it, you just went through ⤘ a-e-i-o-u ⤙ in your head) Â
TYPEWRITERÂ Â is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.Â
(All you typists are going to test this out)
A cat has 32 muscles in each earÂ
A goldfish has a memory span of three secondsÂ
(And, some days I think I ⤙ m right there with them.)
A ‘jiffy’Â Â Â is an actual unit of time, 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. Â
A snail can sleep for three years.Â
(I know some people that could do this too!)Â Â
Almonds are a member of the peach family.Â
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.Â
(I know some people like that also . Actually I know A LOT of people like this!)
Babies are born without kneecaps
They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.Â
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. Â
If the population of China  walked past you, 8 abreast,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.Â
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE 2,
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
(Good thing he didn ⤙ t have dynamite.)
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara FallsÂ
froze completely solid
There are more chickens than people in the world.Â
Winston Churchill
was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Now you know a lot more than you did before!!
The Rain-   Thomas Kinkade Â
This is a Thomas Kinkade painting It’s rumoured to carry a miracle!
They say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle.
I am passing this on because I thought it was neat
and besides, who couldn’t use a miracle?!
  Now you know everything ……………………….. ……………………..
The Association of Retired People
Questions and Answers from a recent Forum |
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Q:Â Where can single men over the age of 70 find younger women who are interested in them? | A:Â Try a bookstore, under Fiction. |
Q:Â What can a man do while his wife is going through menopause? | A:Â Keep busy. If you’re handy with tools, you can finish the basement. When you’re done, you will have a place to live. |
Q: Someone has told me that menopause is mentioned in the bible… Is that true? Where can it be found? |
A:Â Yes. Matthew 14:92:Â “And Mary rode Joseph’s ass all the way to Egypt…” |
Q:Â How can you increase the heart rate of your over-70 year-old husband? | A:Â Tell him you’re pregnant. |
Q:Â How can you avoid that terrible curse of the elderly wrinkles? | A:Â Take off your glasses. |
Q:Â Seriously! What can I do for these crow’s feet and all those wrinkles on my face? | A:Â Go braless. It will usually pull them out.. |
Q:Â Why should 70 plus year old people use valet parking? | A:Â Valets don’t forget where they park your car. |
Q:Â Is it common for 70-plus year olds to have problems with short term memory storage? | A:Â Storing memory is not a problem; retrieving it is the problem. |
Q:Â As people age, do they sleep more soundly? | A:Â Yes, but usually in the afternoon. |
Q:Â Where should 70-plus year olds look for eye glasses? | A:Â On their foreheads. |
Q:Â What is the most common remark made by 70-plus year olds when they enter antique stores? | A:Â “Gosh, I remember these!” |
SMILE, You’ve still got your sense of humor! |