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Crewleader

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Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:14 PM Sep 2014

AUTUMN/JOKES [View all]

AUTUMN FACTOIDS

You Just Thought You Knew Everything:

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a Full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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 Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

The cruise liner, QE2, 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.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels In order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; Otherwise it will digest itself.

AFTER TAXES

A little boy wanted a $100 badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened .

Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.

When the postal authorities received the letter to God , USA , they decided to send it to the President.

The president was so amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5 bill.

The president thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.

The little boy was delighted with the $5 bill and sat down to write a thank-you note to God, which read:

Dear God: Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that for some reason you sent it through Washington, DC., and those buttholes deducted $95 in taxes.








White Mountains in Autumn, New Hampshire



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AUTUMN/JOKES [View all] Crewleader Sep 2014 OP
and more Crewleader Sep 2014 #1
Autumn Crewleader Sep 2014 #2
stole part of your post for the Lounge rurallib Sep 2014 #3
I had to K&R the cartoons and photos Crewleader Sep 2014 #4
adding another Crewleader Sep 2014 #5
Nitobe Memorial Garden, Vancouver, British Columbia Crewleader Sep 2014 #6
It's not really an American flag on a Candian $2 bill Art_from_Ark Sep 2014 #7
OK Crewleader Sep 2014 #8
Eric Clapton - Autumn Leaves (with lyrics) Crewleader Oct 2014 #9
That is one smart boy! bigwillq Oct 2014 #10
Good to laugh and thanks bigwillq Crewleader Oct 2014 #11
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