I got this as an email. Pick this apart and tell me how many lies I’ve been told:
Some interesting trivia to dazzle and amaze your friends with…
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>
> Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
> A. Conception.
>
> (Yea December)
>
> Q. What separates “60 Minutes” on CBS from every other TV
> show?
> A. No theme song.
>
> Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
> A. Their birthplace.
>
> Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most
> popular boat name requested?
> A. Obsession
>
> Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have
> to count until you found the letter “A”?
> A. One thousand
>
> Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield
> wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
> A. All invented by women.
>
> Q. What is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
> A. Honey
>
> Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any
> other day of the year?
> A. Father’s Day
>
> Q. What trivial fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny)
> is the most ironic?
> A. He was allergic to carrots.
>
> Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at
> a party?
> A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
>
> Did you know…
>
> The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time
> television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
>
> Coca-Cola was originally green.
>
> Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US
> Treasury.
>
> Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear &
> smell better.
>
> The State with the highest percentage of people who walk
> to work is Alaska.
>
> The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
> The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
>
> The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:
> $6,400
>
> The average number of people airborne over the US any
> given hour is 61,000.
>
> Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
>
> San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National
> Monuments.
>
> Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great
> king from history:
> Spades - King David;
> Clubs - Alexander the Great;
> Hearts -Charlemagne;
> Diamonds - Julius Caesar
>
> 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
>
> If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both
> front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the
> horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a
> result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all
> four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
>
> Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on
> July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the
> rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t
> added until 5 years later.
>
> “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English
> language.
>
> The term “the whole 9 yards” came from W.W.II fighter pilots
> in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the
> ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured
> exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage.
> If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got
> “The whole 9 yards.”
>
> Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that
> makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
>
> The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English
> law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with
> anything wider than your thumb.
>
> The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army
> for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.
>
> The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches
> for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
>
> The only two days of the year in which there are no
> professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are
> the day before and the day after the Major League
> All-Stars Game.
>
> The nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosey” is a rhyme
> about the plague. Infected people with the plague
> would get red circular sores (“Ring around the rosey”).
> The sores would smell very badly so common folks would
> put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously),
> so that it would cover the smell of the sores (“a pocket
> full of posies”). Furthermore, people who died from the
> plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible
> spread of the disease (“ashes, ashes, we all fall down”).
>
> Now that you know, share it with someone!
I’m pretty sure this has been suitably unpicked here before, although I’m far too lazy to search for the evidence right now. Have fun 
<< If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both
front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the
horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a
result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all
four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. >>
In statues, does the number of feet the horse has off the ground indicate the fate of the rider?
I think the jeep (GP) thing and “the whole nine yards” have also been dealt with before.
Coke was originally green
“Go.” (Imperative with subject understood) is shorter.
Nah. The last time this came up, someone tracked it down to a ruling in the U.S. South in the 19th century in which the court described an old legal legend that such a law existed, but ruled that it had no bearing on the case before them. Basically, someone misquoted the U.S. case in a piece of pro-feminist propaganda in the early 70s and it has since taken on a life of its own. (The mis-use of the citation has no bearing on the validity of feminist appeals or demands in the 1970s; this was simply one bad piece of propaganda.)
There never was such a law.
The equestrian statues, jeeps, and “whole nine yards,” explanations are also bogus, as noted above.
The Queen Elizabeth 2 (note, the reigning queen uses the Roman numerals, but the ship uses an Arabic “2”) statement looked bogus. At the alleged consumption, it would require 35 million gallons to cross the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York.
At the (not Cunard affiliated) Queen Elizabeth 2 Home Page - Engine Room I found the following statement:
(Which, of course, is 100 times more efficient than the e-mail factoid.)
Interestingly, while they are using diesel engines, they are not using “diesel fuel.” Rather, they heat and pressurize good old Bunker C and inject it into the engines. (This makes for a much less volatile fuel to store on board.)
poogas, I’m not going to spend hours and hours searching the SD and snopes archives for you, and others are not likely to do so, either.
Do not take the fact that many of these emailed “facts” will not be debunked in this thread as evidence that they might be true.
My suggestion is to spend some serious time reading Cecil’s old columns and the extensive archives over at http://www.snopes.com before forwarding that stuff.
Mel Blanc isn’t allergic to carrots… He just doesn’t like them (to the point of not being able to swallow)
-Bathroom Reader
What occurs in December more than any other month?
The real answer is Christmas, of course
And One Thousand is the first number to have an ‘a’ in it.
True for sure, since Mel has been dead since 1989.
It’s the first integer. I was thinking of, say, one and a half. (Or one and a thousandth, one and one millionth…)
Q. What separates “60 Minutes” on CBS from every other TV
show?
A. No theme song.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t true, but I’m also pretty sure that it is the case that 60 Minutes is the only news program on TV without a theme song.
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Q. What is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
A. Honey**
Anything with loads of sugar in it will last well nigh forever. I’ve had Jolly Ranchers that were two years old before, and they tasted fine.
As others have suggested, check out http://www.snopes.com , as well as the archives here at the Straight Dope.
Not going to bother with the rest of this, as others have touched other points, but
“Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great
> king from history:
> Spades - King David;
> Clubs - Alexander the Great;
> Hearts -Charlemagne;
> Diamonds - Julius Caesar”
snopes.com, my friend. urbanlegends.com also might be able to help you.
I think women smell better than men, but I’m a heterosexual man so I’m biased.