Something to Ponder...

Did you know that...................
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one
olive from each salad served in first-class.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't
wear any pants.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to
have a full moon.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
"I am."(or?) is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice
the length of a normal human's neck.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Leonard Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of
the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because
cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers-
* they saw it as competition.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never stop growing.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.

Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Starfish have no brain.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The average human eats eight spiders in his lifetime at
night in his sleep.    WHAT?  GROSSSSSSSS!
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for
each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to
the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The most common name in the world in Mohammed.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that
they start with.
The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as
necessary.  When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia
still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks
and whites.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The word racecar, kayak and radar are the same whether they
are read left to right or right to left.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.
And Finally:
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath!!

A magician was working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.  The
audience would be different each week, so the magician allowed
himself to do the same tricks over and over again.  There was only
one problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows every week and began
to understand what the magician did in every trick. Once he
understood that, he started shouting in the middle of the show:
"Look, it's not the same hat!" "Look, he's hiding the flowers under
the table!" "Hey, why are all the cards the Ace of Spades?" The
magician was furious but couldn't do anything, it was the captain's
parrot after all.
 
One day the ship had an accident and sunk. The magician found
himself on a piece of wood, in the middle of the ocean, and of
course the parrot was by his side. They stared at each other with
hate, but did not utter a word.  This went on for several days.
After a week the parrot finally said: "Okay, I give up.  What'd you
do with the boat?"
 

A few words for the wise, from the wise, oh heck just read on!
*********

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky
tire.

It's a small world. So you gotta use your elbows a lot.

We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to
others.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without
your help.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car
payments.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably
worth it.

If you haven't much education, you must use your brain.

You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Who gossips to you will gossip of you.

When someone says, "Do you want my opinion?" - it's always a negative one.

When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them
gently.

The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.

The trouble with work is - it's so daily.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Scientists say 1 out of every 4 people is crazy. Check 3 friends, if they are
OK, you're it.

Pain and suffering is inevitable but misery is optional.

Things We Wonder

Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still
grow?
Only to be troubled and insecure?

Is there another word for synonym?

Isn't is it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?

When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?

Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"?

Why do they report power outages on TV?

Is it possible to be totally partial?

What's another word for thesaurus?

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean
them?

Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?

If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their headlights
off?

When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?

Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?

Why is the word abbreviation so long?

If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?

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