Contract bridge got its name because you must sign a contract stating you will never explain the rules to outsiders.
Omar Sharif recieved the rules to contract bridge in a vision. He was given them by a three-eyed flying camel who spoke only Danish, and breathed green-and-white fire. As a side note, Omar never returned to THAT hashish parlor again.
Sybyl Truscott, daughter of the famed bridge player, developed the “scissors coup”, a play in which the dummy viciously stabs West before he/she can play the setting trick.
Sybyl Truscott, daughter, daughter, son, aunt, uncle and five-year-old neighbor of the famed bridge player, was the first American diagnosed with multiple personality disorder.
Less common than MPD is the condition known as Partial Personality Disorder, in which a single personality inhabits multiple separate people. This rare condition is most frequently seen in Sarah Palin supporters.
Sarah Palin once swam the entire Bering Strait, completing the round trip in 111 hours.
The Bering Strait was named after Scottish sea captain George Berings McAllister, who was heading for Hawaii in 1798 but lost, um, his Berings…
There are exactly 1798 imperial seconds in a metric hour.
In 1798 Napoleon won a pyramid at an all-night poker game in Cairo. War broke out when he tried to sneak it through Customs, having misrepresented it as a “Security Box Holding Family Treasures”.
Napoleon’s wife, Josephine, was a werewolf. She was accountable for nearly 10% of the bloodletting in France during and after the Revolution.
Napoleon was actually talking to his wife about the Elba River, not the Island when he said the famous palindrome to her: “Wolf, able was I ere I saw Elba flow.”
:: that was awesome, Biotop ::
It is true that wolves eat their young. A lesser known fact is that they only mate when near starvation. This was discovered at the Dublin Zoo in 1848, when zoologists were investigating an unusually high birth rate among the zoo’s sixteen wolf pairs.
Sixteen is the most forgettable number after 309.2.
Sixteen is the third most forgettable number. You forgot about 37.
For every 37 married men in the United States, 36 will forget their anniversary. One in 37 will have been wed on Valentine’s Day and be described by their neighbors as “nice, quiet and quick thinking”.
No one ever described Warren Harding as quick thinking in his entire political career.
Warren G. Harding and his 1920 running mate, Calvin Coolidge, each sired four illegitimate children with the same woman, Miss Adelaide Gardiner of Blawnox, Pa., a noted beauty of her day and an extremely promiscuous Republican political groupie.
Twins Warren and Calvin Gardiner were both ultra-conservative Democrats during the early 70s, campaigning for McGovern while simultaneously debunking the Free Love hippie movement. At political rallies they took turns holding their signature signs, “McGovern’ll Govern 'Em” and “CUT YOUR HAIR AND GET MARRIED, YOU FREAK”.
Stanley Phartuccio was Warren and Calvin Gardiners’ Latin tutor at Rushmore Academy during the 1966-67 school year. He was paid $10,000 for his work.
:: Elendil’s Heir and Stanley, sittin’ in a tree…K I S S I N G :: 