There is an elephant on the loo!

People repost the same old urban legends, and no one knows why.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp

Actually, they'll believe anything printed shoved in front of their noses and never bother to conduct even the slightest bit of independent research.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades --> King David
Clubs --> Alexander the Great
Hearts --> Charlemagne
Diamonds --> Julius Caesar

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." Thus the name of the Don McLean song.

James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott (Scotty) on Star Trek,
is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.

Peanuts are an ingredient of dynamite

Peanuts are an ingredient of dynamite

I will be more careful the next time I bite into a peanut.

The Eisenhower (US) interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

Actually, they'll believe anything printed shoved in front of their noses and never bother to conduct even the slightest bit of independent research.

I believe you.
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Actually, they'll believe anything printed shoved in front of their noses and never bother to conduct even the slightest bit of independent research.

Oh good, then you will debunk the strange facts for us, thank you.

A duck quack does echo. But unless the echo has a long enough time delay, you can't tell the echo from the original quack.

I once heard duck quack echoes bouncing off a large boathouse at the other end of the lake.

Scientifically speaking, there should be an echo! I assume ducks quack to communicate with other ducks nearby. However, wouldn't an echo confuse this rather addleheaded bird? Sorry, no ducks in the desert!

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 surprising the sleeping firemen upstairs.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

I pity the person who verifies that one. No one wants a whole bunch of cows upstairs :(

My dad has a large collection of Benny Hill shows. Sometimes when I visit him we sit down and watch some of them and laugh a lot. Benny Hill is a very funny man!

I remember when he tells how he and his buddies drag the dead circus elephant upstairs and sit it on the loo, so he can surprise his all-knowing wife with it.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time equal to 1/100th of a second.

There is no egg in eggplant.

An alarm goes off by going on.

When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

An ugly carpet lasts forever.

Did you know that with every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand
miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules?

There is only one station on the London Underground that does not have any letters from the Word Mackerel in it. I'll give you a few hours to find it....

You cannot sneeze keeping your eyes open ..;)

You cannot sneeze keeping your eyes open ..;)

Because Sneezes can reach speeds of over 200mph, and your eyeballs will blow out of your skull!

There is only one station on the London Underground that does not have any letters from the Word Mackerel in it. I'll give you a few hours to find it....

St John's Wood

Because Sneezes can reach speeds of over 200mph, and your eyeballs will blow out of your skull!

I didn't know that!

The information superhighway has no rest stops available.

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The information superhighway has no rest stops available.

Wasn't the information superhighway a brainchild of Al Gore? Rest stops must be environmentally unfriendly to him.

Wasn't the information superhighway a brainchild of Al Gore? Rest stops must be environmentally unfriendly to him.

Of course they are. They encourage people to travel long distances, because they provide the possibility of a temporary resting point between the two ends, breaking the longer distance into two (or more) shorter ones. And because they encourage travel, they encourage more use of various forms of automobile, which in turn means more usage of gasoline. And since gasoline seems to be anathema for the various environmental/preservationist groups, this makes rest stops a bad thing for them.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

So who wants flies?

So who wants flies?

A fly fisher person perhaps, or someone who puts flies into ointments.

The letters 'a', 'b', 'c', and 'd' do not appear in the English spelling of numbers 1 to 99.

The letter 'c' does not appear in the English spelling of numbers until you get to octillion (10^27).

Did you know that one millionth of a mouthwash is a microscope?

The weight an evangelist carries with God is a billigram.

Ten rations are a decoration.

One million aches are a megahurtz.

The basic unit of laryngitis is a hoarsepower.