Monday, September 17, 2007
-Obscure Nonsense-
On a more cheerful note. 10 obscure facts:
10. "Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
9. "One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
8. A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire. (My house is on fire. I better eat everything right now so they don't go to waste)
7. 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
6. 259200 people die every day. (And I'm sitting in school doing nothing about the starving kids in Australia)
5. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
4. 85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
3. A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
2. A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall. (No wonder I suck at it)
1. A fly hums in the middle octave, key F
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Obscure (yet somewhat hilarious) laws.
Washington:
1. All lollipops are banned.
2. People may not buy a mattress on Sunday.
3. You need a license to sell condoms in Washington state.
Texas:
1. A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
2. In Kingsville, there is a law against two pigs having sex on the city's airport property.
3. It is illegal to milk another person's cow.
4. It is legal to commit a homicide as long as you tell the person when, and how you are going to kill them.
5. In Texas, sixteen-year old divorced girls are prohibited from talking about sex during high school extracurricular activities.
Vermont:
1. It is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.
2. In Vermont It's against the law (not to mention impossible) to whistle under water.
3. Lawmakers made it obligatory for everybody to take at least one bath each week - on Saturday night.
I wonder if we have some funny law like this we don't know of. Like 'it is illegal to feed ants on a Sunday night' or 'it is illegal to sing Hallelujah in the evenings'.
| so spoken! @ 4:31 PM|
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