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Subject: The last one is the best one
I got this in my email and thought I would bring it here for comments or just to make you guys laugh. :D I know they scream of urban legend, but they are fun.
DISCLAIMER: I HAVE NOT RESEARCHED ANY OF THESE STATEMENTS; YOU DECIDE WHICH
ONES TO BELIEVE.
1. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the living room now.
3.The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
7. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
8. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
9. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.
10. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
11. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
12. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
13. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
14. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
15. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
16. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (Alicia, is this true?)
19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
21. Pearls melt in vinegar.
22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
25. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
And, the best for last.....
28. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
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18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (Alicia, is this true?)
End Quote
I dunno.... ::)
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
You should read these.. ::)
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The strongest muscle in the body is the toungue.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
A snail can sleep for 3 years. (they call it Yasmin)
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cottongrowers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The average human eats 8 mosquitoes in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in planecrashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump".
It is very scary that people believe this s**t.
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
Quoting:Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people doEnd Quote
:'( :'( :'(
That's not fair! ::) ::) ::) ;D
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
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9. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
14. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (Alicia, is this true?)
End Quote
These are indeed true. Marilyn Monroe was born with six toes on one foot and had surgery to remove the extra toe.
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
''Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. ''
Seriously?
Reminds me of that episode of Friends where Chandler couldn't get over the fact that he wears a towel around his waist when he gets out of the shower :D
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
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These are indeed true. Marilyn Monroe was born with six toes on one foot and had surgery to remove the extra toe.
End Quote
False. Read "The Marilyn Encyclopidia" and go to www.marilynandthecamera.com ans some other sites. The Marilyn thing about the six toes is NOT true and if you look in one of her pictures it is part of her foot not an extra toe.
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
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:'( :'( :'(
That's not fair! ::) ::) ::) ;D
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Sounds fair to me! ;) ;D
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
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''Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. ''
Seriously?
End Quote
That's false:
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/finland.htm
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
Quoting:5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. End Quote
If this is true, I'm definitely taking that flight now! :D
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
I can't reach my elbow with my tounge.. :P Ehhhh.. ehh.. mm... auuugh..
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
Yup..i know all that..I was the one who started tat e-mail :-D <joking>
nah, some of that I didnt know, and is quite intresting..Ill have to add it too my Useless Facts Book.
Jarrad Brooke
Useless Facts Man
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
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9. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
11. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
End Quote
True, although 'clockwise' probably isn't correct. Venus rotates in the opposite direction to the other planets. Venus' day is also longer than its year. There is also mild debate among astronomers from time to time over the direction of the rotation of Uranus.
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14. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
End Quote
Also true.
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25. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
28. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
End Quote
False. All sounds produce an echo under the right conditions. Saying 'no one knows why' is a complete cop out for not understanding something.
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
End Quote
All of these are true. The continents one would be true except for the Americas. Obviously AmericA starts and ends with the same letter but the continents are called North America and South America.
Quoting:
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump".
End Quote
I believe "assassination" has Arabic origins.
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
I can sneeze with my eyes open.. ???
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
Quoting:
I can sneeze with my eyes open.. ???
End Quote
Can you? Do your eyes stay open during the sneeze, or are you being facetious?
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
No one seems to have responded to the most important discovery in all of this. We've located the penguin sympathizers! Obviously! I mean, after reading that, who can ever trust turtles again?
I'm still out on the donkey issue. They may just be opportunistic anarchists...
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
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The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
End Quote
Yes, I've heard that some "Three Musketeers" and "Mary Jane" candy bars in the 70s had insect legs, along with rat pellet (poop), and spiders' eggs. That was also a rumor with "Bubble Yum" or "Bubblelicious".
Quoting:A snail can sleep for 3 years. (they call it Yasmin)End Quote
How can you tell if a snail is sleeping or if it is just very, very slow, as most snails are? (Is that Yasmin as in Bleeth) ;)
Quoting:China has more English speakers than the United States.End Quote
Yeah, but we have more Chinese than they do. ;D
Quoting:The electric chair was invented by a dentist.End Quote
Named Josef Mengele?
Quoting:Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.End Quote
Actually each only have one sound each: mewing and barking.
Quoting:Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.End Quote
Believe me, my hair and nails are the only things that never stopped growing on my body. And my belly..;)
Quoting:In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.End Quote
It was implied that Seinfeld was Superman and Newman was Lex Luthor.
Quoting:If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.End Quote
I'd hate to see a lifelike Mr. T doll.
Quoting:February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.End Quote
Easily disputable. Full moons only occur once a month. It even says so on the calendar. ;D
Quoting:The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.End Quote
No wonder there's so much sh*t going on there.
Quoting:In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.End Quote
Except men. :D
Quoting:Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.End Quote
In all seriousness, I did know a co-worker who has lived her entire life without kneecaps. She can only move through crutches or a wheelchair. :(
Quoting:Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.End Quote
I can just read it now, "Coroners Revealed Nutmeg in Martha Stewart's Bloodstream".
Quoting:Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.End Quote
Sadly true. I even make more money annually than Nike workers in Malaysia.
Quoting:One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cottongrowers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. End Quote
Woody Harrelson's great, great grandfather was lynched because they found hemp on their plantation. ;)
Quoting:Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. End Quote
Bob Hope might be one of them.
Quoting:The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. End Quote
Dave Thomas made up that name for his restaurant too. :D
Quoting:If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.End Quote
I'd also might have laryngitis for the rest of my life afterward.
Quoting:The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.End Quote
Rent "Scarface" and find out.
Quoting:Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. End Quote
No wonder Ozzy Osbourne's children are so skinny.
Quoting:On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. End Quote
I fear death from spiders.
Quoting:The average human eats 8 mosquitoes in their lifetime at night.End Quote
They taste great sauteed.
Quoting:The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.End Quote
Soon to be broken by the Tyson-Lewis fight.
Quoting:Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.End Quote
You noticed it didn't say "organ donors".
Quoting:Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.End Quote
I've heard some Finns don't wear pants either.
Quoting:More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in planecrashes.End Quote
Those dang Democrats.
Quoting:Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump".End Quote
Lee Harvey Oswald and John Hinckley read a lot of Shakespeare.
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
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No one seems to have responded to the most important discovery in all of this. We've located the penguin sympathizers! Obviously! I mean, after reading that, who can ever trust turtles again?
I'm still out on the donkey issue. They may just be opportunistic anarchists...
End Quote
I had wondered about the turtles myself. It does seem a little odd...
Subject: Re: The last one is the best one
I CAN sneeze with my eyes open. I don't know how, but I can.