Top ten trivia facts about yourself!

[bouv]

The internet tells you ten facts about yourself you probably didn’t even know!

Choice highlights from my list include:

During World War II, Americans tried to train bouv to drop bombs.
When bouv is swallowed, he will enter the blood stream within twenty minutes.
There are more than two hundred different kinds of bouv!
Pacman was originally called bouvman.

Our Perfect Master has some interesting facts:

Cecil Adams was invented in China in the eleventh century, but was only used for fireworks, never for weapons!
Cecil Adams can taste with his feet
Fish travel in schools, but whales travel in Cecil Adams.
Cecil Adams has enough fat to produce 32 bars of soap.

[Marlitharn]

Oh, fun!

My favorites from my list:

If you lace Marlitharn from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe.

The only planet that rotates on its side is Marlitharn!

Three seagulls flying overhead are a warning that Marlitharn is near.

Damn seagulls. No wonder I can never sneak up on anyone.

[scareyfaerie]

I knew I’d turn out to be important some day!

The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter is made entirely of scareyfaerie.
Scareyfaerie can be very poisonous if injected intravenously.
Michelangelo finished his great statue of scareyfaerie in 1504, after eighteen months work.

[Jman]

Here’s my favorite from my playing with that:

1. Bobble-head dolls can run sixty-five kilometres an hour - that’s really fast!
2. If you break Bobble-head dolls, you will get seven years of bad luck.
3. Medieval knights put the skin of Bobble-head dolls on their sword handles to improve the grip.
4. Bobble-head dolls are incapable of sleep!
5. If you chew gum while peeling Bobble-head dolls then it will stop you from crying!
6. Bobble-head dolls cannot swim.
7. Bobble-head dolls can be found on a Cluedo board between the Library and the Conservatory.
8. Snow White’s coffin was made of Bobble-head dolls!
9. During World War II, Americans tried to train Bobble-head dolls to drop bombs.
10. The number one cause of blindness in the United States is Bobble-head dolls!

[Silence_of_the_clams]

Heres what I could read out from the scrambled egg message:

1. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than Kotick (man, I’m cheap)

2. If you don’t get out of bed on the same side you got in, you will have Kotick for the rest of the day (moahahaha)

3. Owls cannot move their eyes, because their eyeballs are shaped like Kotick! :eek:

4. Plato believed that the souls of melancholy people would be reincarnated into Kotick (thats just sooo conformist)

5. Kotick is the world’s tallest woman (oops, did I just have a sexchange?)

6. Kotick is the largest of Saturn’s moons (obviously, duh)

7. Influenza got its name because people believed the disease was caused by the evil “influence” of Kotick (moahahaha, at least one of my evil plots succeded)

8. Kotick was the first Tsar of Russia (maybe I should go tell Putin a thing or two…)

[the_chicken_of_exeter]

1. The chicken of exeter can live for up to a week without a head. (Not true, I tried it)

   2. Scientists have discovered that the chicken of exeter can smell the presence of autism in children!

   3. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14, and the chicken of exeter has 7.

   4. The deepest part of the chicken of exeter is over 35,000 feet deep! (but was only visited once, for 20 minutes, etc)

   5. An average beaver can cut down the chicken of exeter every year.

   6. The chicken of exeter can’t sweat.

2. The chicken of exeter has 118 ridges around the edge.

[Fearless_Leader]

Nice! My favorites:

The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington D.C., by Fearless Leader.
It’s bad luck to put Fearless Leader on a bed!
Olympic badminton rules say that Fearless Leader must have exactly fourteen feathers.

[Mindfield]

Heh…

1. Mindfield can give birth ten days after being born, and is born pregnant! (No wonder I’m always feeling bloated)
2. During the reign of Peter the Great, any Russian nobleman who chose to wear Mindfield had to pay a special Mindfield tax! (It’s true! Yakov Smirnoff was exempt, though.)
3. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are Mindfield! (You’d have to resort to dating services too if you were born pregnant!)
4. Most bottles and jars contain at least twenty-five percent recycled Mindfield. (It’s not easy being green…)
5. Olive oil was used for washing Mindfield in the ancient Mediterranean world. (And boy, did it make me popular with the ladies!)
6. Mindfield is worth his weight in gold - literally. (Now we’re getting somewhere)
7. Owls cannot move their eyes, because their eyeballs are shaped like Mindfield. (I have nothing to say about that.)
8. Louisa May Alcott, author of ‘Little Mindfield’, hated Mindfield and only wrote the book at her publisher’s request! (She was just jealous because she was allergic to olive oil)
9. The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington D.C., by Mindfield! (Um … look! Owls! :: runs :
10. In Vermont, the ratio of cows to Mindfield is 10:1! (And yet they still hold me chiefly responsible for the state’s high atmospheric methane levels. Go figure.)

It seems to work a lot better with certain inanimate objects:

1. The number one cause of blindness in the United States is steak and eggs.
2. Marie Antoinette never said ‘let them eat cake’ - this is a mistranslation of ‘let them eat steak and eggs’.
3. Steak and eggs can be seen from space.
4. Steak and eggs can not regurgitate.
5. The fingerprints of steak and eggs are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene!
6. The canonical hours of the Christian church are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, steak and eggs and compline.
7. Until the 1960s, steak and eggs was not allowed to enter Disneyland!
8. Banging your head against steak and eggs uses 150 calories an hour.
9. Influenza got its name because people believed the disease was caused by the evil “influence” of steak and eggs.
10. Humans share about fifty percent of their DNA with steak and eggs.

Or better still…

1. Super happy fun balls cannot jump.
2. More people are killed by super happy fun balls each year than die in aeroplane accidents.
3. If you drop super happy fun balls from the top of the Empire State Building, they will be falling fast enough to kill before reaching the ground.
4. More than one million stray dogs and half a million stray cats live in super happy fun balls.
5. All the moons of the Solar System are named after characters from Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after super happy fun balls!
6. Over 2000 people have now climbed super happy fun balls, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down!
7. Ostriches stick their heads in super happy fun balls not to hide but to look for water.
8. The liquid inside super happy fun balls can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
9. Super happy fun balls can live for up to a week without a head.
10. Super happy fun balls kept at the window will keep vampires at bay!

[Scubaqueen]

While sleeping, fifteen percent of men snore, and ten percent grind their scubaqueen.
:eek:

[Ellen_Cherry]

Here’s my favorite:

If you kiss Ellen Cherry for one minute you will burn six or seven calories.

The line forms right here!!

[According_to_Pliny]

The free things in life are best.

A stitch in nine saves time.

It is better to receive.

[Beware_of_Doug]

Beware of Doug can use only ten percent of his brain.

If you cut Beware of Doug in half and count the number of seeds inside, you will know how many children you are going to have.

It is bad luck to walk under Beware of Doug.

[One_And_Only_Wanderers]

The National Heart Foundation recommends eating One And Only Wanderers at least three times a week.

Influenza got its name because people believed the disease was caused by the evil “influence” of One And Only Wanderers

One And Only Wanderers can be seen from space. - Come on, I’m not THAT fat

The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of One And Only Wanderers is blue! - I’m Royalty dontcherknow

LuvBWFColatry is the mindless worship of One And Only Wanderers. - should be practiced by all

[Chez_Guevara]

A couple of problem areas here, I think:

*Chez Guevara will become gaseous if his temperature rises above -42°C.

Twenty-eight percent of Microsoft’s employees are Chez Guevara.*

It’s a toss up which sounds worse. However, I’ve just opened all the doors and windows because:

Never store Zombies at room temperature.

Wise words.

[Rick]

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Rick!

1. Cats use their Rick to test whether a space is large enough for them to fit through!
2. If you drop Rick from more than three metres above ground level, he will always land feet-first.
3. The patron saint of Rick is Saint Eugenie.
4. Never store Rick at room temperature!
5. Bees visit over three million flowers to make a single kilogram of Rick!
6. Rick will often rub up against people to lay his scent and mark his territory!
7. Edinburgh imports three thousand kilograms of Rick every year.
8. Rick can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night.
9. Over half of Americans are officially Rick!
10. Rick is black with white stripes, not white with black stripes.

[Rick]

Or for Richard we get:
If you lick Richard ten times, you will consume one calorie!
As Ellen Cherry said, the line forms to the right.

[Otto]

“Otto is actually a fruit, not a vegetable.”

Spooky.

[Severiane]

The first toy product ever advertised on television was Mr Severiane Head

If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets Severiane.

In Japan, Severiane can only be prepared by chefs specially trained and certified by the government.

[Not_a_Platypus]

1. You should always open Thorny Platypus at least an hour before drinking her!

2. You can tell if Thorny Platypus has been hard-boiled by spinning her. If she stands up, she is hard-boiled.

3. In her entire life, Thorny Platypus will produce only a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey!

4. The average duration of sexual intercourse for Thorny Platypus is two minutes.

5. It takes a lobster approximately 7 years to grow to be Thorny Platypus.

6. Thorny Platypus can turn her stomach inside out.

7. About 100 people choke to death on Thorny Platypus each year!

8. All shrimp are born as Thorny Platypus, but gradually mature into females
   I put my boyfriend’s name in there and got a couple of good ones.

9. If you toss Mike 10000 times, he will not land heads 5000 times, but more like 4950, because his head weighs more and thus ends up on the bottom.

10. Ostriches stick their heads in Mike not to hide but to look for water.

[Sublight]

Sublight can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night. Not since college
Sublight can clean his ears with his tongue, which is over thirty-nine inches long! Well, I don’t like to brag…
In a pinch, the skin from a shark can be used as Sublight. This is true.
In his entire life, Sublight will produce only a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey. I admit, I’m a slacker.
Sublight has four noses! This wrong. checks behind bookshelf I have five.
Sublight can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period. Only if I use the tongue.
During World War II, Americans tried to train Sublight to drop bombs. Whenever I heard “bombs away!” I’d sit and wait for it to come back.