Useless Facts and Triva: Volume 14

For those of you that don't read my blog regularly, What is the problem? Get with it and join on as a FOLLOWER, for God's sake. What do I have to do? Get on my hands and knees and beg? Sheesh! , I post articles now and then with silly and useless trivia, along with MY equally silly and useless COMMENTS in bold italics.

So, yes....for a rest from photography today, I have a new set of Useless Facts and Trivia for you! You can thank me by sending me your first born child, later.

Here goes:

1. A pregnant goldfish is called a twerp.

Gosh, I have called people Twerp's before. I had no idea.

In fact, there was a TWERP dance at our high school once a year where the girls could ask the boys to attend. Wonder if the school knew it was encouraging impregnating goldfish?



2. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Wow, they must live in the jungles or caves? Or be very, very poor. Think of how different our lives would be without telephones! Maybe better too?

3. Rats and horses can't vomit.

Well, NOW I know who I am taking out to the bars with me next time I go. Come to think of it, neither rats or horses would look very pretty vomiting, now would they? And the horse? He would need an extra deep toilet bowl to ralph in it. Giddy-burp-up!!





4. "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

You are going to practice it, now, aren't you? AREN'T YOU?? And then you will challenge your friends to say it ten times fast and then you will whip it off your smooth and silver tongue and say, "Why are you having such a hard time with it, it is easy to say!"

5. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

First, does that picture bother you as much as it does ME?

Second, doesn't that thought bother you?

Third, even if you are "living green", don't you want to go out and buy about a ton of rat poison? Heck, TWO tons???


6. A lot of photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

You have done it, haven't you???

C'mon, admit it!!!!

I know I will be armed with some antiseptic spray and some wipes the next time I use the copy machine. You know, just in case...

7. Cat's urine glows under a black light.

I KNOW you are going to save some from your litter box and try testing this one.

Again...keep those wipes handy.

I bet it glows purrrrr-fectly under the black light. (Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

8. The oldest standing building in Australia is Captain James Cook's house, brought over from England brick by brick.

Why did they do this? Weren't there any bricks in Australia so that they could copy his house plans and just build another one?

Put another shrimp on the brick barbie, Jimmie.

9. Paul McCartney's real first name is James - Paul is his middle name. Thus, all the Beatles (including Ringo, whose first name is Richard) were named after kings.

A royal flush! Who knew?

They were like princes to me when I was a teen...who didn't have royal crushes on them ALL???

I wanna hold your crown hand....

10. The hole inside a CD is exactly the same size as an old Dutch 10 cent coin, called the "dubbeltje". (?!) Of course, all the European countries (save a few) have gone Euro now.

Wonder why they made the hole the size of a coin?

The hole serves no purpose, really....does it?

Except to get your thumb stuck in it when you are trying to pry that sucker out of its CD case, (which by the way takes about 80.9 minutes to pry out of its for-the-love-of-God-why-don't-they-use-this-plastic-no-break-crap-to-make-condoms-with covering).