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Post 684
Hello... is anyone out there???

Well, thank goodness this week is almost over. I'm starting to itch for spring.

Ever have one of those moments.. where you draw a blank trying to think of someone's name in a movie.. and it drives you NUTS??
Last night, my daughter and I were talking about this new, blonde, James Bond in the next movie when I said "They should have brought back the guy before Pierce Brosnan", to which she said "Who?". And there, I drew a blank on the name Timothy Dalton, who played Bond in only 2 movies, The Living Daylights and License to Kill. I really liked him as James Bond. He wasn't a "prettyboy" like Pierce or Roger Moore, he was more rough around the edges like my very favorite, Sean Connery. But... for some reason, they cast Pierce after Timothy doing 2 movies.
But I digress. I was thinking about it from the moment I was talking to my daughter, lying in bed, when I got up this morning, driving into work... GRRRR! *LOL*
Thank goodness for the IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase).

And, from my friend Kelley, some cool facts (some of which I knew, others not):

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW, BUT PROBABLY DON'T............

1 . Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case'
letters.

17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ... (hence, multi-tasking was invented.)

18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain
Kirk's mask painted white.

25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.
You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)

27. 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.

28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because
passing wind in a space suit damages it.

34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart "Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America who is willing to cook, clean, and
work in the yard, and they haul her fanny off to jail."

On to the news:

Spectators enjoy thrill of India's Rural Olympics featuring such events as bike cow-jumping, pulling tractors with teeth and, judging from the picture, tractor-ass relay

and in a story that makes guys like me cry...
Idiot drag races his million dollar Ferrari Enzo, smashes it in a million pieces.

and right here in Connecticut:
Girl who wanted to meet the governor gets her wish when she runs into the governor's car

Eight guys who worked graveyard shift at food-processing plant claim the $365-million jackpot. Local media says that three of them actually came to work last night

Ten of the ugliest things created by man. Tara Ried's boob job somehow not on the list

That's it for today... enjoy your Thursday!

posted by Dave at Thursday, February 23, 2006