The chimney swift is thought to be the only bird capable of flapping its wings alternately in flight (left, right, left, right.)
The wall-mounted toilet was invented by Frank Lloyd Wright.
A purple rhyme?
What causes raised eyebrows at a formal dinner? Sometimes a burp’ll do it.:rolleyes:
There’s a subtle difference between subtleties and subtitles.
Who says there are no rhymes for month?
I, myself, can think of a tonth.
My apologies, it had to be said.
It’s not true that nothing rhymes with orange. In the north of England somewhere there is a hill called the Blorange, so I understand.
Hang gliders say-"my airframe is orange, gonna jump off the-you get the idea.
To find a rhyme
with silver
takes will, ver-
bosity, and time
Forget where I heard this - thought it was Nash, but not sure. All witty poems get attributed to Nash.
people who spend more than 2 hours a day on message boards have microscopic penises and gaping canyons of vaginas. its a fact. both of mine fit the stereotype.
Simple!
Burp’ll rhyme with purple
How are you defining a rhyme? Orange<=>syringe. Last three letters? Yes. Similar termial sound? Yes.
with Mr. Everest’s explicit permission I hope?
The generally accepted definition is “the sounds including and following the last * accented* vowel in a word.”
Umm… is one of the Aleutian Island across the international dateline?
Michigan has the most coast line of any of the contiguous states:
3,288 miles. (Alaska is number 1)
The only place in the United States where you enter Canada from the south is Detroit. (Via either the Ambassador Bridge or the Tunnel.)
In Michigan you are never more than 90 minutes away from a Great Lake.
Mickey Mouse’s first name and appearance was in a cartoon called *Steamboat Willie *.
The former name of **Belize ** was the British Honduras.
**QANTAS ** airlines letters stand for Queensland and Northern Territorial Airline Service.
The Country of **Zimbabwe ** use to be called **Rhodesia **
Named for Cecil Rhodes which the lofty **Rhodes Scholarship ** is named for.
Yes. From the State of Alaska :
The piece of land with the most westerly longitude is Amatignak Island at 179’10" west, just shy of the 180th meridian. Only 70 miles away, in a westerly direction but on the other side of the meridian, is Pochnoi Point on Semisopochnoi Island, with the most easterly longitude at 179’46" eastt.
The snowiest spot in the lower 48 isn’t in New York, Colorado, North Dakota, or anywhere you’d expect. It’s in California. (It’s COLD in the Sierras.) Source:
http://www.bfn.org/~af482/snownonsense.html
Doesn’t “syringe” rhyme with “orange?”
Rhyming “syringe” with “orange” is a tricky issue, since it involves what’s called “feminine rhyme.” Basically, “masculine rhyme” is when the final syllables are stressed and rhyme. “Feminine rhyme” is when the final syllables are unstressed, and the final TWO syllables rhyme. Examples:
Flow
Snow
That’s masculine rhyme.
Flowing
Snowing
That’s feminine rhyme.
Shower
Number
In that case, the final syllables rhyme but are unstressed; the second-to-last syllables are the last stressed syllables, and do not rhyme. I think we’d all agree that unless one is Emily Dickinson, “shower” and “number” do not rhyme.
And to bring it all home, “syringe” and “orange” do not rhyme at all, at least the way I pronounce them; I put the stress on the final syllable of “syringe,” but on the first syllable of “orange.”
(For the record, “masculine rhyme” and “feminine rhyme” are accepted literary terms, and I mean nothing sexist by using them; for more on the subject check A Handbook to Literature by C. Hugh Holman and William Harmon; it’s an indispensable reference for literary/linguistic study.)
uhhhh… don’t you mean the only place in the United States where you enter Canada from the NORTH? In most maps I’ve ever seen, most of the United States is south of Canada, so you would normally enter Canada from the south, wouldn’t you?
But of course, not ALL of the United States is south of Canada. Isn’t Alaska usually considered part of the United States? I suppose if you crossed the border of Alaska going into the USA you would be entering from the north, so I suppose you should ammend your factoid to include only the continental United States.
Science Digest once ran a story on “Why Stalin may live to be 100”. It hit the newsstands the day Stalin died. (I used to have a copy of this issue)
Richard, I am looking for facts to back me up. This is something I grew up with and have always accepted as The Truth. Will post more later.
Accepted by whom?
This easily checked useless fact has stuck with me for over 20 years:
There are roughly (to four significant figures) pi times 10 to the 7 seconds in a year.