things of interest

this is good stuff

2010-09-05T03:44:00.000-07:00

cool UFO sites
http://we-know-ufo.blogspot.com/
http://ufo-elitejaz.blogspot.com/
http://more-than-ufos.blogspot.com/

MIKE THE HEADLESS ROOSTER

2010-08-31T22:40:00.001-07:00

this is a strange kind of crule but true thing of interest called "mike the headless chicken"
    mike was a rooster that a farmer named Lloyd Olsen tried to chop the head off so he could have mike for a meal but it did not work out the way olsen thought.
    olsen did chop off mike the rooster's head but mike, not only did not die, he went on living farely normal (as normal as a rooster can without a head) for 18 months because half of the brain stem and one ear was still intact.
    mike was fed and watered with an eye dropper through where his head once was and grew to be around 8 pounds. mike was inducted into the guiness book of records and went on tour from coast to coast.
    fortunately for mike, olsen never did get his roasted (baked, fried, whatever?) mike meal but fortuately for olsen, mike was valued at some $10,000.00 and insured for the same amount when he died.

here are a few more interesting triva to tide you over!

2010-08-31T00:21:00.000-07:00

- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
- you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
- Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny
- In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
- Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
- There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
- There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
- America once issued a 5-cent bill!
- The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! and male praying mantis cannot have sex until it's head detatch which is why the female inticiates sex by ripping the males head off.
- An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
- In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
- Bulls are colorblind so it is the cape waving not the color red they attack
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- most Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
- Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first
- baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

a bunch of interesting trivia

2010-08-31T00:19:00.000-07:00

i just thought you might like some stuff to ponder while waiting for me to post something really interesting for you to read;
- On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
- If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
- The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
- Porcupines float in water!
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

bill and god

2010-08-30T05:05:00.000-07:00

Bill Gates died (it's just a joke, he is not really dead) and met God, and God said,
"Well, Bill, I'm really confused on this one. I'm not sure whether to send you to Heaven or to Hell. After all, you enormously helped society by putting a computer in almost every home in the world, and yet you created that ghastly Windows. I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to let you decide where you want to go."
Bill Gates said, "What's the difference between the two?"
God said, "It might help you decide if you took a peek at both place. Shall we look at Hell first?"
Bill was amazed. He saw a clean, white sandy beach with clear waters. There were thousands of beautiful
men and women running around, playing in the water, laughing and frolicking about. The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect.
"This is great!" said Bill.
"If this is Hell, I can't wait to see Heaven."
God said, "Let's go!" and off they went to Heaven.
Bill saw puffy white clouds in a beautiful blue sky, with angels drifting about playing harps and singing. It was nice, but surely not as enticing as Hell. He thought for only a brief moment and rendered his decision.
"God, I do believe I would prefer to go to Hell."
"As you wish," said God.
Two weeks later, God decided to check up on the late billionaire to see how things were going. He found Bill shackled to a wall, screaming amidst the hot flames in a dark cave. He was being tortured by demons with pitchforks.
"How ya doin', Bill?" asked God.
Bill responded with anguish and despair,
"This is awful! This is not what I expected at all! What happened to the beach and beautiful women playing in the water?"
"Oh, that," said God. "That was just hell's screen saver."

i will be up and running soon

2010-08-30T04:47:00.000-07:00

i am just starting this blog so there is little to say at this time but i am interested in hearing what you think is interesting. i will be testing out the features and adding stuff to keep you interested until i am fully set up and i will notify you about how it is going over the next few days as part of the testing.