Allegedly True Things

[Miri]

The house fly hums in the middle octave, key of F


A pregnant goldfish is called a twit






111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 1.2345678987654321


A group of unicorns is called a blessing





12 or more cows is known as a flink


A group of owls is called a parliament


The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

All polar bears are left handed


Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants


Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are blood donors


If Barbie were life size, her measurements would be 39-23-33, she would be 7' 2" tall
and have a neck twice the length of a normal. In other words Barbie is an alien


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


If you fart continuously for 6 years 9 months, enough gas is created to produce the
energy of an atomic bomb





No word in the English language rhymes with month


The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue


The electric chair was invented by a dentist






Now I know you can't wait to try some of these out for yourself.
If you want to try for the atomic bomb, just give the rest of us a
bit of a warning first.


And to everyone else, this is what happens when you spend all day waiting
for the telephone engineer to arrive.

 

[GrumpyCrumpet]

The one about eating spiders gave me a shiver. I didn't need to know that. I could have gone my whole life without knowing that.

 

[Miri]

The one about eating spiders gave me a shiver. I didn't need to know that. I could have gone my whole life without knowing that.

Oh you know what, a while ago I was asleep in bed and I had a sensation of something hitting
against the side of my mouth. I was half asleep so just brushed off my face thinking it was the
bed covers and went back to sleep.


In the morning I woke up to see a massive spider the size of my palm above me on
the ceiling. Aaaaargh


The awful thought occurred that maybe it had dropped on me in the night and
somehow made its way back to the ceiling.


I had nightmares for days after.

The house spiders in the UK seem to get bigger every year, I'm sure it's the
milder winters, they don't die off like they use to and they are speedy fast!

Help !!!!

 

[GaryA]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 1.2345678987654321

"No decimal point..."


111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321

 

[GaryA]

"That looks like a pretty-good-sized wolf spider you got there..."

 

[wwjd_kilden]

The one about spiders is false, thankfully

I've read that a flock of crows is called "a murder" (don't ask me why, sounds spooky though)

 

[Tinuviel]

I've read that a flock of crows is called "a murder" (don't ask me why, sounds spooky though)

I wonder why?

 

[Willie-T]

Only one question.
Do the ducks in Finland wear pants?

 

[Tinuviel]

Only one question.
Do the ducks in Finland wear pants?

..............................................................ROFL

 

[Willie-T]

Only one question.
Do the ducks in Finland wear pants?

..............................................................ROFL

Honestly though, isn't this the very kind of uptight Victorian nonsense that causes so many problems in all societies?

 

[Depleted]

-- The Barbie measurement thingy changes post by post.

-- I'm finally catching I do use the word "thingy" often.

-- A group of cats is called a clowder.

-- I am so glad I wear a CPAP at night. I may well have saved myself from eating three spiders.

-- The population of China has decreased at such an alarming rate that they changed the amount of children a couple can have from one to two. The damage is probably already done though, since for decades most couples kept their sons, not their daughters. Now their sons don't have many to marry.

-- I'm wearing pajamas right now. (Hey, unlike Melita, who is probably wearing pants, but might be wearing a skirt.)

-- Orlando Bloom's first job after graduating from a school as an actor was some out-of-the-way, who's-crazy-enough-to-go-from-England-to-New-Zealand-for-just-some-movie film called Lord of the Rings.

-- Hubby is not suppose to put anything in his mouth except ice or water, (and water is only allowed depending on which nurse has him that day.) Despite this, he takes one of his pills as a lozenge, he was given lemon in his water after he got sick to his stomach, and he has left his open packs of sugar-free candy out on his table right next to him for three weeks. (They were sitting right there on that table while his doctor told yet another reason he couldn't consume anything but ice and water. lol) He just asked for new packs of sugar-free candy. Yippee! He is tasting again.

-- The octopus finds a mate by turning a multitude of colors.

And all this was brought to you by someone waiting around before going to see hubby, but, hey. He just called, (for that candy request), so time to go. Waiting is over.

 

[Depleted]

Oh you know what, a while ago I was asleep in bed and I had a sensation of something hitting
against the side of my mouth. I was half asleep so just brushed off my face thinking it was the
bed covers and went back to sleep.


In the morning I woke up to see a massive spider the size of my palm above me on
the ceiling. Aaaaargh


The awful thought occurred that maybe it had dropped on me in the night and
somehow made its way back to the ceiling.


I had nightmares for days after.

The house spiders in the UK seem to get bigger every year, I'm sure it's the
milder winters, they don't die off like they use to and they are speedy fast!

Help !!!!



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If this helps any, the world's 10 largest spiders do not live in the UK (and only one lives in the US too, but down south enough all I have to do is avoid going that far south.)

And, no. It doesn't help me either.

 

[Miri]

-- The Barbie measurement thingy changes post by post.

-- I'm finally catching I do use the word "thingy" often.

-- A group of cats is called a clowder.

-- I am so glad I wear a CPAP at night. I may well have saved myself from eating three spiders.

-- The population of China has decreased at such an alarming rate that they changed the amount of children a couple can have from one to two. The damage is probably already done though, since for decades most couples kept their sons, not their daughters. Now their sons don't have many to marry.

-- I'm wearing pajamas right now. (Hey, unlike Melita, who is probably wearing pants, but might be wearing a skirt.)

-- Orlando Bloom's first job after graduating from a school as an actor was some out-of-the-way, who's-crazy-enough-to-go-from-England-to-New-Zealand-for-just-some-movie film called Lord of the Rings.

-- Hubby is not suppose to put anything in his mouth except ice or water, (and water is only allowed depending on which nurse has him that day.) Despite this, he takes one of his pills as a lozenge, he was given lemon in his water after he got sick to his stomach, and he has left his open packs of sugar-free candy out on his table right next to him for three weeks. (They were sitting right there on that table while his doctor told yet another reason he couldn't consume anything but ice and water. lol) He just asked for new packs of sugar-free candy. Yippee! He is tasting again.

-- The octopus finds a mate by turning a multitude of colors.

And all this was brought to you by someone waiting around before going to see hubby, but, hey. He just called, (for that candy request), so time to go. Waiting is over.

I see what you did there with the allegedly true thingy. Lol
Lets pray hubby continues to taste more than ice and water.

 

[Miri]

Ps do you think only females scream like girls at the sight of a spider, or do
males have the same reaction.

 

[GrumpyCrumpet]

Ps do you think only females scream like girls at the sight of a spider, or do
males have the same reaction.

I don't do the typical "1950s B-Movie scream" at the sight of a spider, but I will usually jump back about a body length and let drop some expletive as I search for something to kill it. Where I grew up we had Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders, so I don't take chances.

This reminds me I need to pick up a bag of cedar shavings and spread around my basement and around the foundation outside the house. Spiders hate the acrid oils from cedar.

 

[GrumpyCrumpet]

Whoever rep'd me, thank you. Cedar is a natural bug repellent. It takes care of spiders, but it works good for other nasties like house centipedes, silverfish. Plus, it smells good (I think), and a bag of shavings is way cheaper than buying the blocks of cedar wood that you throw in the closet or whatever. Just get a cheap plastic flower pot and fill it up with shavings and distribute them around the house.

I try to avoid chemicals when I can, so natural alternatives that work good are ace in my book.

 

[GaryA]

Ps do you think only females scream like girls at the sight of a spider, or do
males have the same reaction.

"I suppose that depends on the size of the spider..." HAHA

Actually, it is more like this:

I don't do the typical "1950s B-Movie scream" at the sight of a spider, but I will usually jump back about a body length and let drop some expletive as I search for something to kill it. Where I grew up we had Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders, so I don't take chances.

-- expletive depending on the size of the spider ( JK )

-- or, possibly, if the spider is on me when I notice it...

This reminds me I need to pick up a bag of cedar shavings and spread around my basement and around the foundation outside the house. Spiders hate the acrid oils from cedar.

Thanks for the tip!

Will any kind of cedar be good for that...?

 

[GrumpyCrumpet]

I just pick up the bags of cedar shavings that people use for bedding for hamsters and gerbils. One bag lasts me one year, with an application in the Spring and then a heavy one in the Fall when the crawlies want to move indoors.

 

[Depleted]

Ps do you think only females scream like girls at the sight of a spider, or do
males have the same reaction.

IDK. Three brothers growing up. (The sister and fourth brother didn't come along until after I was married.) One collected reptiles and amphibians, which all tend to eat insects, so my fear of over-4-legged critters didn't develop until later, when I stepped on a bee and then was bitten by an ant -- both with huge allergic reactions. I suspect some guys scream too, but not the ones I know. (I wish they would. I'd be less embarrassed. lol)

 

[Miri]

I am actually peering around my bedroom as we speak now, before I
go to bed.