0n (07 Jul 08) Roy Witt wrote to Cindy Haglund...


 RW> 06 Jul 08 17:29, Cindy Haglund wrote to all:

 CH> The last one is the best one!!

 RW> Nahhh.

 CH> 2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana)
 CH> paper.

 RW> George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin
 RW> owned a mill that made hemp paper. Jefferson drafted the Declaration
 RW> of
 RW> Independence on hemp paper. Hemp was a required crop in the colonies.

 RW> Hemp does not mean it's marijuana.

 Okay.
 
 CH> 3. The dot over the letter i is called a 'tittle'.

 RW> What about the dot over the j? Gonna leave it out?

 hehe...  who knows. Don't shoot the messinger Roy :)
 
 CH> 5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

 RW> Not.

 Got that one covered.

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

 RW> McDonald's doesn't break down Happy Meal sales metrics, though The
 RW> Wall Street Journal has noted that restaurant operators confirm that
 RW> the
 RW> once-popular child value meals are waning in popularity. April 19,
 RW> 2007

 GOOD!!!!!! ps we do not know how old that trivial bit is.
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 CH> 8. The 'spot' on 7-UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes.
 CH> He was albino.

 RW> Geeeezz...7-Up has been around since 1938 and it's label never changed
 RW> until 1980, when the 'spot' showed up. I doubt the above is factual.

 Yup. I thought there was something fishy about this one.
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 CH> 11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces
 CH> will kill a small sized dog.

 RW> Can Dogs Eat Chocolate? Of course. Should dogs eat chocolate, why not.
 RW> To kill a dog with chocolate, the dog would need to ingest a
 RW> remarkably significant amount.

 Exaclty. My sisters's dog found and ate a whole fat candy bar and
didn't get sick. I think just as with grapes it's the quanity. If he
hate a lot of that every day THEN he'd get badly ill.. Their
metabolism does'nt handle the the.. what is it the protein in tehre.
The thing we chocololics love.. that gives chocolate it's flavor..

I think a lot of thse don't feed at all warnings are just to not have
to find out how much is too much. Few people will practice moderation
so it's prolly best to say NONE.
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 CH> 12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
 CH> shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

 RW> I'll bet they don't explode.

 I suppsed we'd haveta go Google.
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 CH> 13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

 RW> Nahhhhh. The lipsticks that are called 'shimmers' may look like they
 RW> have fish scales in them, but they're actually mica or silica
 RW> particles.

 Yuck just the same.

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

 RW> Donald's cartoons enjoy vast popularity in the United States and
 RW> around the world, his weekly and monthly comic books enjoy their

 No argument here Roy! :) I didn't make it up. And think it's
rediculous. I mean duh do real ducks wear pants? No. As a matter of
fact real ducks don't wear shirts either and they don't talk either.

Roy. It's not about popularity of the cartoon, it's about.. pants.
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 CH> 15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

 RW> It was sold as Dr. Miles Compound Extract of Tomato.

 hehe just as I thought a snake oil hawker.
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  CH> 16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower'
 CH> because in the time when all original print had to be set in
 CH> individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case
 CH> on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

 RW> Not quite. The upper case letters were stored at the top of the case,
 RW> while the lower case letters were stored at the bottom of the case.
 RW> The lower case letters were more often used, thus they were stored
 RW> closest to the type setter.

 UH that's what they said, Roy, Just not why which is good to know,
thanks.
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 CH> 17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the
 CH> other at the same time (hence, multi-tasking was invented.)

 RW> Sure he could. I wonder who recorded that?

  Beats me!

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

 RW> Not true.

 Wristh watches count? :)
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 CH> 20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was
 CH> never a recorded Wendy before!

 RW> There was: Wen-Ti appears in ancient Chinese lore. The name of Wendy
 RW> was derived from the lispings of a six year old girl Margaret Henley,
 RW> who
 RW> called the Peter Pan author; My Fwendy (my friend), one variation she
 RW> used was Fwendy Wendy...

 YUP. ... but which one did whats his name pick :)  It's said the
latter. The friend's nick name.

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

 RW> There are. I ran across a word that would rhyme with orange the other
 RW> day, but failed to make a note of it.

 Somehow I just KNEW you'd come up with one tooo. heh..

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

 RW> Doubtful on the second part.

 Same here... strange too. Unless say he went off for a voyage
somewhere, and  didn't get back to finish the painting in two years?

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

 RW> A tiny amount of alcohol would be the cause.

  yeah even American Beer! :)

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

 RW> Nope. Steve used a Captain Kirk mask in the 2007 movie, Zombie, but
 RW> not Michael.

  AH wel lgo complain to the author about it :)
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 CH> 27. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law,
 CH> which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider
 CH> than your thumb.

 RW> The term is thought to originate with wood workers who used the length
 RW> of their thumbs rather than rulers for measuring things, cementing its

 That sounds familiar too. I swear I read that somewhere before. Maybe
snopes.com  Sounds more credible too.
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 CH> 28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
 CH> for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market
 CH> was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

 RW> Wrong. In 1930 Galvin Manufacturing Corporation founder Paul V. Galvin

 AH! Good.

 RW> created the brand name "Motorola" for the company's new car radio,
 RW> linking "motor" (motorcar, motion) with the suffix
"ola" (sound).

 yeah cuz he liked how it sounded, the sufficx was popular at the time
as the author said. Like Shinola and granola...

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

 RW> Celery is valuable in diets, where it provides low-calorie fiber bulk.

 Nope. It's zero calorie fiber provider Roy whidh is what the author
said. The negative calorie idea is a Illusion... you burn off more
than you get, but you get zero so you have this negative calorie ide
ROy.. .It's like oh golly if I don't eat that second doughnut I mix
300 calories!  Can't lose what you didn't have in the first place.

C

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