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  • Jeff_is_Mr_Incredible
    Jeff_is_Mr_Incredible Posts: 82 Member
    Skuntzman31 wrote: »
    Kangaroos have sex to make baby Kangaroos.

    And they don't go blind.
  • Jeff_is_Mr_Incredible
    Jeff_is_Mr_Incredible Posts: 82 Member
    Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited November 2016
    The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..

    Cross referenced with websters its the same word.
  • Jeff_is_Mr_Incredible
    Jeff_is_Mr_Incredible Posts: 82 Member
    In case you want to account for it in your exercise diary:

    Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
  • Jeff_is_Mr_Incredible
    Jeff_is_Mr_Incredible Posts: 82 Member
    NASA had to rename the sizes of the apparatus used for male astronauts to pee, from small, medium, and large, to large, gigantic, and humongous, because no one was willing to pick their true size.
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..

    Cross referenced with websters its the same word.

    10 points if you know what it means. Some kind of lung disease caused by breathing volcanic ash. Am I right? I actually didn't Google it. I used to chant this word with my cousin when we were little.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    VeryKatie wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..

    Cross referenced with websters its the same word.

    10 points if you know what it means. Some kind of lung disease caused by breathing volcanic ash. Am I right? I actually didn't Google it. I used to chant this word with my cousin when we were little.

    lung disease
  • ChrisNels1
    ChrisNels1 Posts: 16,638 Member
    I'm a Cranky Old Yank in my Cranky Old Tank on the streets of Yokahama with my Honolulu momma doing those beat-o beat-o flat on my seat-o Hirohito Blues was once listed in the Guiness Book as the longest song title.

    My brother had the book and we laughed and laughed and both memorized it.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Jeff_is_Mr_Incredible wrote: »
    NASA had to rename the sizes of the apparatus used for male astronauts to pee, from small, medium, and large, to large, gigantic, and humongous, because no one was willing to pick their true size.

    I saw this. I'm sure they all still picked Humongous.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
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  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    Slurple has my vote.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    GnothiSeauton23 wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

    Not until I get the term pilver and slurple to catch on

    drinking tonight?
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Before being rewritten as comic relief, Jar Jar was a mercenary who ultimately betrays Qui-Gon Jinn.

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    JarJar was SO NOT funny.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
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    Well that explains this entire last week.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

    Some pregnant people are twits too.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

    I was looking at this the other day and actually orange and sliver have an official rhyme each. Sporange and chilver; respectively.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    The highest per capita Jell-O consumption in the US is Des Moines.
  • Karb_Kween
    Karb_Kween Posts: 2,681 Member
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    Monkey_Business wrote: »
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    The very first song played on MTV was 'Video Killed The Radio Star' by the Buggles

    That's not correct. MTV didn't exist. It was VH1. :)

    www.billboard.com

    "On this day in 1981, MTV began broadcasting for the first time.

    The new cable channel was out to pioneer a new frontier in music broadcasting and for that, it’s first few minutes on air were very appropriate. At 12:01 a.m. Aug. 1, they played footage of 1981’s space shuttle launch and the 1969 moon landing (both set to rock music), followed by the first music video in the channel’s history -- the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.”"

    Ahhh, good to know. I always thought VH1 started and became MTV.

    VH1 started in like 1995 I think
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    The highest per capita Jell-O consumption in the US is Des Moines.

    Really? I am just over an hour from there. I wonder why? For the record, I am not a jello fan. Rarely ever use/eat it.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    RunHardBeStrong wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    The highest per capita Jell-O consumption in the US is Des Moines.

    Really? I am just over an hour from there. I wonder why? For the record, I am not a jello fan. Rarely ever use/eat it.

    jello reminds of hospital food..especially when its green jello (just gross)..
  • apolinarshamler
    apolinarshamler Posts: 37 Member
    37 people were killed trying to get a snack from a vending machine from 1978 to 1995
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    apolinarshamler wrote: »
    37 people were killed trying to get a snack from a vending machine from 1978 to 1995

    13 people are killed annually and in addition, all of this is while trying to shake merchandise out of them. 113 people have been injured.
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  • gojaqs
    gojaqs Posts: 471 Member
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..

    Cross referenced with websters its the same word.

    So, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is pretty puny comparatively speaking. B)
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited November 2016
    gojaqs wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..

    Cross referenced with websters its the same word.

    So, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is pretty puny comparatively speaking. B)

    Yes this a non nonsense word...

    I need to come up with better bs facts of the day.. :(


  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
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  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    littlemissbgiff wrote: »
    Within 15 minutes of entering a swimming pool the average person releases .14 grams of fecal matter into the water.

    It's in the hope that peeps that think the pool is a frickin coffee/chit chat shop, get out of the damn way...

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