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JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

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garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

Weird Wisconsin Laws

Butter substitutes are not allowed to be served in state prisons.
At one time, margarine was illegal.
While all cheese making requires a license, Limburger cheese making requires a master cheese maker's license.
It is illegal to kiss on a train.
The government may not prohibit manual flushed urinals.
One may not camp in a wagon on any public highway or risk a fine of up to ten dollars.
It is a class A misdemeanor to wave a burning torch around in the air.
It is illegal to throw rocks at a railroad car.
Livestock have the right-of-way on public roads.
In Brookfield - Tattooing is illegal unless it is done for medical purposes.
In Brookfield - It is unlawful for one to allow another to use the first person's telephone in order to make prank phone calls.
In Hudson - Screens are required on all windows from May 1 to October 1.
In Milwaukee - An old ordinance forbids parking for over two hours unless a horse is tied to the car.
In Milwaukee - It is against the law to play a flute and drums on the streets to attract attention.
In Milwaukee - If one is thought of as offensive looking, it is illegal for him to be in public during the day.
In Milwaukee - It is illegal to purchase or use Sparklers in the city, yet you can buy fully disassembled automatic machine guns.
In Wauwatosa - Reserving a city meeting room under a false name is prohibited.
In Wauwatosa - Spitting on the sidewalk is prohibited.
In Wauwatosa - If a person shall fail to return books he/she has checked out from the library, that person should return their library card to the library until the books are returned.
In Wauwatosa - Swimming in water fountains is prohibited.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

garougal wrote:

Weird Wisconsin Laws

While all cheese making requires a license, Limburger cheese making requires a master cheese maker's license.

It should be against the law to even make that cheese. bleh

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles & that's where the word "testimony" comes from.

All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.

Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

ghostdancer wrote:

garougal wrote:

Weird Wisconsin Laws

While all cheese making requires a license, Limburger cheese making requires a master cheese maker's license.
It should be against the law to even make that cheese.

I agree. I am disappointed though, no weird facts about Stallis? cry

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

me and the wauwatosa library have a long history going back to me taking out Shakespeare vhs tapes for a class I took in college and keeping them for the semester. had I but known this law, I coulda saved me like $60 in fines. The A in the class was worth it tho. smile

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

A human eyeball weighs an ounce.

People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.

Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds.

In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times.

A woman has approximately 4.5 litres of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 litres.

sgmorrell · Low in Fiber High in M-SG

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!

Jeremy Riggs · Do I look a little pale to you?

87% of people will believe anything you say if you tell them you saw it in one of those USA Today "snapshot" statistical boxes they put on the front page of each section.

I know it's true, because I saw it in a USA Today snapshot

Jeremy Riggs · Do I look a little pale to you?

garougal wrote:

I agree. I am disappointed though, no weird facts about Stallis?

Stallis has no laws G-gal. Our motta is "Live free and let your mullet blow in the breeze"

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

garougal wrote:

I agree. I am disappointed though, no weird facts about Stallis?

Stallis has no laws G-gal. Our motta is "Live free and let your mullet blow in the breeze"

Good one Riggs.

thumperglh · Thumptastic: Chef of the Stars

In June 1997, before three hundred gay pride marchers paraded through the streets of Bozeman, Montana, members of the town's Klu Klux Kan distributed flyers warning residents to stay inside and not breathe the air in order to avoid getting AIDS.

thumperglh · Thumptastic: Chef of the Stars

Television What show of the 1960's and 1970's had the most homosexual actors? Answer: Bewitched with actors Dick Sargent (Darrin), Diane Murphy (Tabatha), Agnes Mooreheads (Samantha's mother, and Paul Lynde (Samantha's uncle).

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

thumperglh wrote:

In June 1997, before three hundred gay pride marchers paraded through the streets of Bozeman, Montana, members of the town's Klu Klux Kan distributed flyers warning residents to stay inside and not breathe the air in order to avoid getting AIDS.

I always thought the KKK were a bunch of uneducated idiots! This proves I was right.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

I just shared this fact in the office. We had someone who needed a tablecloth, but she didn't know the size of the table, and didn't have measuring tape. The debate was whether it was 6, 7, or 8 feet long, and she's 5'10", so she decided to lay on it to check. At any rate:

If you spread your arms out at your sides, from fingertip to fingertip, it's the same as your height.

Which made me think back to figure drawing and some other stats:

In the ideal human figure, your height is equal to 8 of your heads stacked on top of each other. But most people are 7 1/2 to 7 3/4 heads tall.

Your eyes are at the halfway point between your chin and the top of your head.

Your hand is the size of your face.

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

Toilet talk:

On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day.

Most toilets flush in E flat.

In a year, an average person uses the toilet 2500 times a year.

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

Random:

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Crayola Crayons currently has over 120 different crayon colours.

850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.

thumperglh · Thumptastic: Chef of the Stars

Gotta Love Oklahoma!

Okmulgee owns the world record for largest pecan pie, pecan cookie, pecan brownie, and biggest ice cream and cookie party. Each June, Okmulgee rolls out the welcome mat to thousands of its closest friends as the annual Pecan Festival comes to town.

-- Edited by thumperglh at 20:47, 2007-08-08

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. Don't let that put you off your sleep tonight. bleh

A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.

The sleepiest mammals are armadillos, sloths and opossums. They spend 80 per cent of their lives sleeping or dozing.

The first animal in space was the Soviet dog, Laika, in November 1957. It died on the flight.

sgmorrell · Low in Fiber High in M-SG

At last check, the governor of Arkansas makes $60,000 a year. His salary is the lowest of all 50 states. A dozen or so states pay their governors more than $100,000 year, generally the more populous states. California pays its governor $131,000. Illinois comes in second at $130,000 and change, with New York, a close third at $130,000 even.

Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.

President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth."

Money man Cornelius Vanderbilt was an insomniac and a believer in the occult. He was not able to fall asleep unless each leg of his bed was planted in a dished filled with salt. He felt this kept out the evil spirits. It also kept out the snails, ants, and anyone with high blood pressure.

Artist Andy Warhol became famous for his painting of Campbell's Soup cans. Before that - he made his living painting shoes for advertisements.

Flamenco dancer Jose Greco took out an insurance policy through Lloyd's of London against his pants splitting during a performance.

President Woodrow Wilson wrote all of his speeches in longhand.

Television horse Mr. Ed was foaled in 1949 in El Monte, California. Mr. Ed's original name was Bamboo Harvester. Raised as a parade and show horse he was once owned by the president of the California Palomino Society. He died in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on February 28, 1979, at 30 years old. Tahlequah was also the "home office" for "Late Night with David Letterman's Top Ten List" for several years.

President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the world that Maxwell House coffee is "Good to the last drop."

Lloyd Vernet Bridges III is the birth name of actor Beau Bridges. He was given the nickname "Beau" by his family, reportedly after Ashley Wilkes's son in the classic 1939 film "Gone With the Wind."

On April 14th, 1910, President Howard Taft began a sports tradition by throwing out the first baseball of the season. That happened at an American League game between Washington and Philadelphia. Washington won, 3-0.

Roosevelt was the most superstitious presidenthe traveled continually but never left on a Friday. He also would not sit at the same table that held thirteen other people.

George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was dead.

Richard Nixon's favorite drink was a dry martini.

Julius Caesar was self-conscious about his receding hairline.

James Buchanon is said to have had the neatest handwriting of all the Presidents.

Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, here I come" to be the last piece of music played (slowly and softly) were he to die in office.

The only president to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan.

When the Hoovers did not want to be overheard by White House guests, they spoke to each other in Chinese.

Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modeling agency.

Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA.

Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word "I". Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural addresses.

A short time before Lincoln's assassination, he dreamed he was going to die, and he related his dream to the Senate.

When John Wilkes Booth leaped onto the stage after shooting the President, he trippedon the American flag.

Paul Cezanne had a parrot who he taught to say, "Cezanne is a great painter."

George Washington had to borrow money so he could travel to his inauguration.

Lyndon Johnson died one mile from the house he was born in.

Grover Cleveland answered the White House phone, personally.

Calvin Coolidge was sworn into office by his own father.

Theodore Roosevelt was blind in his left eye.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

"Television horse Mr. Ed was foaled in 1949 in El Monte, California. Mr. Ed's original name was Bamboo Harvester. Raised as a parade and show horse he was once owned by the president of the California Palomino Society. He died in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on February 28, 1979, at 30 years old. Tahlequah was also the "home office" for "Late Night with David Letterman's Top Ten List" for several years."

I thought I read that Mr. Ed was a zebra.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Oh, nope, the zebra thing is a hoax.

sgmorrell · Low in Fiber High in M-SG

I never saw stripes on Mr. Ed!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

wow!
12% of Arizona's work force are illegal aliens!?

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

8-9 million US homes have mortgages due that are larger than the value of the home. negative equity!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

More than 295,000 Wisconsin adults have no high school diploma, and more than 120,000 don't speak English well.

squonk · RetroMan

pipsar6 wrote:

Do you service Uranus too?

Funny, search a band named Popeye's Dik. They do a song "I Saw Something Moving On Uranus"

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

One in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves even before this years economic slump, according to an Agriculture Department report published last week; 36.2 million adults and children didn't get enough food in 2007.