this site is just cool to space out and stare at the stars,Helps ya relax,that's all...
this site is just cool to space out and stare at the stars,Helps ya relax,that's all...
Last edited by tiamaria; 02-07-2005 at 01:09 AM.
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
This is one of the oldest and most repeated lines of BS on the web
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"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
-Humphrey Bogart
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
-Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
-His reply
"If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs."
-David Daye
Well, actually there was a mythbuster's show about that. Apparently the frequencies subtract each other out so closely that for purposes it is essentially echoless.Originally Posted by MojoJojo
But you're right, there is a small echo property to the quack.
Here's the link to an article that debunks the myth that a duck's quack doesnt echo.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm
Im gonna try that chewing gum while peeling onions thing..that thing about your stomach digesting itself is just scary..
Yea the onion thingy sounds great!I'm gonna have to give the raisin in the champagne glass a whirl!lol...




That was interesting, I actually learned a few things today. Now I'm going to zone out on the star page......thanks.
LOL,"The star Page"! LOve it! It comes in handy when you feeling stressed or wide awake and can't sleep!Amazing how you feel like your floating in space!Mmmmmmmm...I'm there!!!!
"Rule of thumb" from word-detective.com:
"The phrase "rule of thumb" is notable today, not for its real origin, but for a modern myth of its origin. Supposedly, under English common law in the 17th century, the original "rule of thumb" allowed a man to beat his wife with a switch on the condition that the switch be no thicker than his thumb....
....The "sexist origin" of this phrase is almost certainly pure invention. "Rule of thumb" probably came from the use of the thumb as a convenient measuring tool, the distance to the first knuckle usually being about one inch. Even "The Bias-Free Word Finder," the bible of the Politically Correct Language Guardians among us, considers the wife-beating theory implausible and notes that it first surfaced in a 1986 letter to the editor in "Ms." magazine. So I guess the first "rule of thumb" in these cases is "Check your sources, lest they be hokum."
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