True or False? Quite interesting!

[sally_cinnamon]

Which do you think are true or false? Keep score and check at the end!


1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
morning.


2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.


3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.


4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a
lot more.


5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart!


6. Only seven ( 7 ) per cent of the population are lefties.


7. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.


8. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are
2-6 yrs. old.


9. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in
lines.


10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.


11. The average housefly lives for one month.


12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.


13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.


14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.


15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.


16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.


17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search
for water.


18. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's
head are the rabbit and the parrot.


19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a
Gentleman" and "Tootsie."


20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.


21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white
paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.


22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane
just in case there is a crash.


23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can
for a carburetor.


24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from
women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.


25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th
cousins.


26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.


ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE TRUE!

[sally_cinnamon]

[Marymary]

So what happened to Alfred Hitchcock's bellybutton then?  :)

[emmy1978]

Excellent. Love this stuff. Number 16 - eeuuuw

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

9. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in
lines.

surely this only applies to the British?? Praps it should be

"The average Italian over fifty will have spent 5 years gouging the eyes out of other people, trying to get to the front"

[pye]

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

I don't know if they're true but these two made me laugh out loud (and then look hard at my feet).

"The average Italian over fifty will have spent 5 years gouging the eyes out of other people, trying to get to the front"

;D ;D ;D

RT - are you speaking from (bitter) personal experience?

pye (a leftie)  8)

[redimp]

9. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in
lines.

surely this only applies to the British?? Praps it should be

No - cos we wait in queues.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

not really pye, though the Italian language students we used to have in our cafe were certainly the most pushy (and the Germans the most Impatient).........

actually some of my very closest friends are Italian........seeds

[Tin Shed]

The mind boggles - all those Americans injuring themselves with toilets. Who would own up to being injured by a toilet anyway.
Alfred Hitchcock must have had a belly button at the beginning.........perhaps he was injured by a toilet and it had to be removed!

[Robert_Brenchley]

The Japanese are tops at injuring myself with toilets; apparently they have a fancy variety which washes and cleans your backside for you like a mechanical Groom of the Stool, and they havwe a habit of bursting into flames.

[Slug_killer]

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

Should this be "40,000 toilets are injured by Americans each year."


On Working Lunch some months ago there was a chap importing toilets from America as UK toilets are only tested to 120Kg, and with the increase in UK lardy arses this was seen as a good financial opportunity!

Just don't think of all that flab hanging over the edge.

[Ceratonia]

9. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in
lines.

That would mean around two hours a day queuing, every day of your life. Maybe in Soviet Russia  ???

The Japanese are tops at injuring myself with toilets; apparently they have a fancy variety which washes and cleans your backside for you like a mechanical Groom of the Stool.

Seen these many times in Japanese hotels; complete with dozens of buttons to adjust the water temperature and all kinds of other parameters. The labels on the controls are always written in Japanese though, so I've never been brave enough to turn the thing on.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

Japanese toilets are wondrous things. Here are some of them (our Sensor Group looked at similar applications)

Matsushita engineers introduced a toilet seat with electrodes that send a mild electric charge through the buttocks -- and take a digital measurement of body-fat ratio.

Toto, Japan's toilet giant, came out with Wellyou II, which automatically measures the user's urine sugar levels by making a collection with a little spoon held by a retractable mechanical arm

You may think a toilet is just a toilet, but we would like to make a toilet a home health measuring center," Matsui, the Matsushita engineer, said in a lecture in Nara. "We are going to install in a toilet devices to measure weight, fat, blood pressure, heartbeat, urine sugar, albumin and blood in urine."

The results would be sent from the toilet to a doctor by an Internet-capable cellular phone built into the toilet. Through long-distance monitoring, doctors could chart an elderly or invalid person's physical well-being. "We will have this within five years or so," said Harry Terai, director of home appliances research for Matsushita.