12/09/06 Cruise Continued ~ Pirating Bananas DIS Geekorama Part 2 Part 9

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okay...back to talking to myself...


Strange but True Facts...


Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
 
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!



Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!


The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!


A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
 

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:rolleyes1 okay Angie...I'll just believe that you read all those fascinating news stories!
 
So, I'm on the receiving end of problems here at the VA. I scheduled an eye exam for DrHug and it did not get put into the system! I do not remember who I talked with to schedule this! DUH! With the job I have, you'd think I'd know better. :confused3
 
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!


Sounds like the typical summer bank robbery around here... :rolleyes1
 
I have no idea why I am just so chatty tonight. There's no one home and then there was no one home on the boads.

The boys are at football practice...should be home soon. I'm exhausted and I guess I'm just trying to stay awake.
 
MrsMork said:
So, I'm on the receiving end of problems here at the VA. I scheduled an eye exam for DrHug and it did not get put into the system! I do not remember who I talked with to schedule this! DUH! With the job I have, you'd think I'd know better. :confused3


Oh that's not good...do you get to complain to yourself or will someone take care of the problem?
 
pyramid2000 said:
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!


Sounds like the typical summer bank robbery around here... :rolleyes1


well at least SOMEONE is reading my tidbits and fascinating news stories.

A+ Caroline!!


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BuzzBoyMom said:
Oh that's not good...do you get to complain to yourself or will someone take care of the problem?

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I needed that Karen!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
 
Continuing my story in a second post... :teeth: So now DrHug has told his agency he needs the 26th off for an appt at the VA that he does not have. :rolleyes: Note, he does not get paid when he does not work!
 
39 more posts till a milestone...Brandi and Becka would be proud of us!!
 
I can't take care of it, because as his wife I am not allowed to access his records...confidentiality. :sad2:
 
I wonder why the time on this board fluctuates so much?!?! :confused3 It says about 6:45 and it is 7:08.
 
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