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How the faceless and amoral world of cyberspace
has created a deeply disturbing... generation SEX

By Olivia Lichtenstein

Last updated at 8:12 AM on 28th January 2009

Remember that Hilaire Belloc cautionary tale - Matilda told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp and stretch one’s eyes? I used to love it as a child when telling lies was one of the naughtiest things you could do: Matilda ended up getting burned to death.

These days, however, everything has changed and it’s the truths that children tell that make one gasp and stretch one’s eyes.

A couple of years ago, my daughter Francesca, then aged 13, told me about a party she had been to one Saturday night.


Insight: Olivia (left) and daughter Francesca

In the course of the evening, she came upon one of her friends, also aged 13, performing oral sex on a boy in the garden. The boy was standing and videoing the event on his mobile phone.

My daughter, in whom the feisty gene has always found strong expression, pulled her friend off the boy, knocked the phone out of his hand and slapped him round the face.

I apologise for shocking you, but then there are a number of things shocking about this event: the casual nature in which such an intimate act is performed in public, the young age of the participants and last, but by no means least, the fact that it is being filmed.

This not only signals the boy’s disassociation from the physical experience, it also indicates his intention to replay the event and, no doubt, to share his triumph with his friends as one might brandish a trophy above one’s head for all to see.

Reality TV has a lot to answer for

Nor was this the only such event on this particular evening. I am no prude, but Francesca painted a picture of Bacchanalia that certainly made me gasp.

That week at school, when conducting a post mortem of their weekend as teenagers do (and always have done), the girls at her then school (she’s since moved), a private girls’ school in London, exclaimed: ‘Hurrah, now we’re more slutty than Slutney’, the affectionate nickname of another school.

Call me old-fashioned, but when I was a gal, sluttishness was not a condition one aspired to.

That year, they were all dressing in Hooters T-shirts (the uniform of the well-endowed waitresses of a U.S. restaurant chain whose slogan ‘delightfully tacky yet unrefined’ sums up its approach) and buttock-skimming shorts.

They looked, as girls so often do, far older than their 13 years and not unlike the Playboy Bunnies who incensed a generation of feminists. (Interestingly, clothing depicting the distinctive Playboy bunny is highly popular now among teenage girls.)

When one considers our society, it’s no surprise that our children have lost all sense of modesty.


Reality check: TV's Skins glamorises teenage promiscuity

Not only do social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo encourage teens to share information about themselves; but when they are not taking their clothes off, their role models are spilling their guts about their ‘private’ lives all over the pages of every national newspaper, magazine and on television.

We have an immoderate interest in the private lives of perfect strangers. Pop stars such as Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears expose the car crash that is their life for all to see.

Jordan, who won fame by revealing her breasts, has a documentary series where she and her husband, Peter Andre, discuss their sex life (or lack of it) in intimate detail.

The Osbournes revealed all for our entertainment in their television series. Was this extraordinary exposure responsible in part for the subsequent drug and alcohol abuse of the two of their children who participated? One can’t help feeling it might have been. Their third child, Amy, wisely chose to stay out of the limelight.

Whatever its exponents may say, reality television has a lot to answer for. I have been a documentary film-maker for more than two decades and am well aware of the power of the medium.

Today’s teenagers are starring in the reality show of their own lives and doing all they can to make it as dramatic as possible.

Where before mistakes we made when young - excessive drinking, acts of promiscuity - were quietly forgotten, now they are recorded and broadcast on the internet for all to see.

From happy slapping to amateur sex videos (Paris Hilton rose to fame when a shamelessly intimate video of her and her boyfriend found its way on to the internet, a reality TV show followed, and the rest, as they say, is history).

Do these girls even know what feminism is?

The sexualisation of our young is ubiquitous: boys caught cheating on their girlfriends on mobile phones, ritual humiliation and worse by YouTube (In February 2008, a gang of London teenagers aged 14-16 drugged and raped a woman in front of her children and then posted the film of the attac


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CRASH! My three friends and I rushed to see what had fallen out of the sky, one of them still holding a slice of the pizza we were eating. It was a huge meteor the size of two cars, right there in my backyard. The whole neighborhood woke up from the sound of the meteor. They rushed to see what it was. Everybody had surprised looks on their faces, some of them wondering how far it had come from (especially because it had a weird green and red glow). The next day a news crew had arrived to the scene, I said a few things, and that was it. They took it away a few days later, but I managed to get a big piece and keep it in the living room on the table. Oh, sorry, I haven’t introduced myself. My name is Vance and I’m fifteen years old. My three other friends who were at the incident are also fifteen. Their names are Evan, Dax, and the one that was holding the pizza (he sure likes to eat) is Ryan. A few months had passed and we all started noticing something strange, including my mom, but not my dad, since he is usually going out of town for his job, while my mom works at night. Every now and then Ryan tried to say something, he says it too loud and apologizes, saying he didn’t mean to. For Dax, he is clumsy and he usually bumped into things pretty hard. But now, when he does, he just kept on walking, and he would sometimes let out a small cry like “Ow!” or something, but it was very rare. As for me, I had become a lot faster when I run, and I would jump a lot higher. Sometimes when my mom put on the stove, even if it was on low, the flame was too big for some reason. Evan was the strangest, because all of these things that happened to us happened to him as well, only less. Everything started becoming weirder and weirder as time passed by for all of us.
“Vance, I want to talk to you!” yelled my mom from the living room while I was in my room, watching TV. “What’s up, mom?” I said when I stepped into the room. “Here, I want to show you something.” she said. And right there I saw it. It took some effort, but it was amazing. She held out her hand, grunted a little, and just like that, fire came out of her hand! There were absolutely no tricks, because it seemed impossible to fake it, and Ryan was a great magician, so of course he would’ve shown me this one, unless he didn’t know it, which was very unlikely. “Cool mom! When did you notice this at first?” “Well, you know how the stove’s fire is usually too high? I think this is related to it.” I thought about it, and replied, “Well, check this out! It’s sort of abnormal, but you need to come outside.” so we went outside to the backyard and I showed her what I could do. With just one jump, I jumped to the top of our tree, and believe me, it’s a pretty tall tree. “For this next thing, I need you out in the neighborhood.” I told her. I told her to time me, I ran around the whole block and came back in under twenty seconds, and she had a shocked look on her face. “How…?” she said. “I guess I have powers similar to yours.” I replied with a grin. “Man this is pretty weird isn’t it?” she said “I guess” I replied. The next day Ryan Evan and Dax came over to my house, they all had something to show me too. Ryan showed me first, but led us outside. He told me to be ready for something loud, so I braced myself. “HEY!!”, Ryan said with a booming voice that even threw a light trash can at me, luckily the fast reflexes I had gained recently helped me get out of the way. “Oops, sorry about that”, said Dax “but pretty cool, huh?” “Yeah that’s cool!”, I said. So when did you know you could do this? “Well at first it was a little from time to time, you probably noticed it, then just this morning I was yelling across the house telling my mom something, then all of a sudden the blankets I was under flew off, and I was amazed!” “My turn! Hehe… look at what I can do, ok Vance, I want you to punch me in the stomach your hardest.” “Ok, here goes nothing!” I pulled my fist back and punched him as hard as I could, and he didn’t even move, he just stayed there. “Wow!” , I said, “how did you do that?” “I don’t know, but I haven’t been working out, oh yeah look at this too!” “He picked me up and started spinning me around very carefully but at a pretty fast speed. “WHOAAA STOP IIT!!!”, I cried “Haha sorry but I just had to do that, I guess I’m a lot stronger too, and like I said, I haven’t been woeking out. “Look at this!”, said Evan. First he did what Ryan could do, then he did what Dax was capable of, then he started doing what I was able to do. “Wait a minute, I can do that too!”, I said. I started jumping and running with him. “But can you do this?” he snapped his fingers and fire came out of his hand.


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Okay, here's the deal. If you can name these fifteen songs and artists correctly, I'll give you ten points. (first person correct, gets the best answer.)

1. "Standin' in the rain. With his head hung low. Couldn't get a ticket. It was a sold out show."

2. "Why don't you just go away? I can't seem to get my head straight. There's so much I need to say. It could take, all day"

3. "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? Well, I must be travelin' on now. Cause there's too many places I've got to see."

4. "Spend my days with a woman unkind. Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine. Made up my mind to make a new start..."

5. "Holly came from Miami, FLA. Hitchiked her way across the USA. Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she..."

6. "I never knew there'd come a day, when I'd be saying to you. Don't let this good love slip away, Now that we know it is true."

7. "Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world. She took the midnight train going anywhere."

8. "He spends his nights in California. Watchin' the stars on the big screen. And then he lies awake and he wonders. Why can't that be me?"

9. "Well, it rains and it pours when you're out on your own. If I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes? Cause I spent the night dancing, I'm drunk I suppose. If it looks like I'm laughing I'm really just askin' to leave."

10. "Oh darlin', you got the love I need. Maybe, more than enough. Oh, Darlin', darlin', darlin' walk a while with me. Oh, you've got so much, so much, oh so much."

11. "Beth, I hear you callin'. But I can't come home right now. Me and the boys are playin' And we just can't find the sound. Just a few more hours. And i'll be back home to you. I think I hear them callin'. Oh, Beth what can I do?"

12. "It's not the end of the world. In fact it's not even the end of the summer. But thank God the TV is on. Cause there's no way we would know. Anything that's going down. Or how we're supposed to be feelin' about it..."

13. "I'm sailing away. Set an open course for the virgin sea. Cause I've got to be free. Free to face the live, that's ahead of me. On board I'm the captain. So climb aboard. We'll search for tomorrow on every shore. And I'll try, woah Lord, I'll try, to carry on."

14. "I'd give up forever to touch you. Cause I know that you feel somehow. You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be and I don't want to go home right now."

15. "Twenty-five years and my life is still. Tryin' to get up that big hill of hope. For a Destination. And I realized quickly when I knew I should. That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man. For whatever that means ."


((All of the lyrics of the fifteen songs above are the first lyrics that appear/are heard in the song. I did listen to these songs myself, so if any of the lyrics are wrong, I apologize. Oh, and if no one can guess ALL the songs correctly, then the person who gets the majority of them will be awarded best answer. Good Luck.))::EDIT::
Look 'em up then!


Who can name these songs? Easy ten points.?
So, think back to "Hercules," & "Xena," "Land of the Lost--Conan Doyle version" and "Baywatch" days as I have been struggling to remember the name of a tv show that came out around that same time. It was about a group of people who survived a plane crash after going through a surprise storm. And, no, I'm not talking about "Lost." It wasn't a commercial liner, it was a small plane.

There was a father/dad duo, a young adult male, a female and an older man. They crashed in a beautiful, tropic area (think Hawaii). There seemed to be two groups of people inhabiting the island--natives who kidnapped the little boy and who were psychic, then the religious zealot camp who had no experience with electricity, etc. The native camp were considered evil by the religious camp, and the natives looked as though they were wearing a cross between traditional Hawaiian dress and African dress. The other group of natives (the super religious group) looked like they were from the early 1900's/ pioneer days. Everybody on the plane (minus the little boy) made camp in the religious camp, and initially the religious camp thought the plane crash folk were angels.

Basically, each week the storyline was about the dad trying to figure out where his son is, and/or the religious camp leader trying to decide if he is going to kill the plane folk for being demons or honor them for being angels. Conflict increased as the plane folk brought the religious camp new information about democracy, women's right, etc., so of course the big bad religious leader was feeling threatened.

I want to say the show may have been on UPN or WB (this aired long before the CW),on Saturday mid-mornings with lots of repeats late at night. I don't think it lasted very long and I certainly don't remember a series finale. I can certainly say the show probably wasn't the most politically correct...

Anyone remember this? Would love to know the name. Unfortunately, I don't remember any well known actors. The Dad is one who I see often doing supporting roles or Lifetime movies now-adays, but I don't know his name.


TV show help (early-mid 90's). Cable tv--probably cancelled.?
I would love to hear real-life ghost stories in honor of the day. Anyone have some that will make everyone's hair stand up?

Here's the best one I have.

I was watching tv after after a night out. It was around Halloween and the first episode of A Haunting (Discovery channel) I had ever come across was on. Probably started about 1 AM. Anyways, watching this episode, about a kid who starts acting really, really spooky and creepy after family moves into a new house (which used to be a funeral home, no less, like gurneys and freezers still in the basement, creepy!; after a while, I thought that this could be the 'true' story of the Poltergeist movie, very similar).

Anyways, watching this, extremely intense, scared pretty good. Show leads into how two famous demonologists come to the house and tell the family something really bad is there, mostly in the basement (where that boy had his bedroom, of course). They agree to let some ghost hunters set up in their house while these two 'experts' try and set up some church-sanctioned cleansing of the house. So this team arrives (and meanwhile dishwater is turning to blood, dad's truck starts itself and crashes into his office, you know, scary crap) and set up. These people have been doing this sort of investigating for decades. They explain how this entity is growing stronger because of the fear it is feeding off of from the family and that it is holding open some sort of gateway to other nasty things.

Long story short(er), one night a videographer is up monitoring the equipment when things go crazy on the instrument panel. He goes to the basement and opens the door only to be confronted by whatever it was there. Like I said, dude had been doing this for decades. Yet he slammed the door shut, woke everyone else up, told them all good luck, packed up and left.

So, yeah, I was into. Probably didn't blink for 20 minutes at a time. Finally, show ends. I go to smoke a cig to calm down, lived at my mom's at the time. She has a ranch where the garage (which is where I was going) is off the kitchen, and right by the door to the basement. So I'm already a little edgy and always been a little weirded out in that basement. As I'm walking by, I kid you not, the smoke alarm went off! Not the chirp, chirp when the battery is low. Like there was an inferno downstairs. Not a thing. I swear the first thought I had was, "Watch. I'm going to go check and there won't be a battery in it." Fortunately, there was, but not a wisp of smoke to be found. I was so effing scared to go check things out. I think I smoked that cigarette in about 68 seconds once I finally got to it.

You have any?Was she showing too much T&A for ya?I smoked in the garage with the door to the kitchen closed. And besides, the detector went off BEFORE I went out.


Halloween ghost stories (mine's sorta long, but pretty good)?
(Kind of a rant as well...)

For as long as I can remember my family has been dysfunctional. My step-father and I have never really been on good terms and him and my mother fight constantly. He would hit my brother and me when we were younger and would hit my mother and till this day he'll still hits her. My mother is an alcoholic in denial and she drinks heavily then resorts to fighting with my step-father pushing him, egging him on. My step-father justifies hitting her as self-defense but I don't understand why he doesn't just leave the house or call the cops. My mother's father and step-mother work for the local police station and my step-father justifies not calling the cops as he doesn't want to family to know.

My step-father is a very selfish man, he controls and dictates my mother's life. I swear he only sees her as a money symbol. He goes golfing every weekend and for their wedding anniversary, they went to a gold course where he just golfed and drank. I don't remember a time where he actually spent his time doing something with my mother or my brother or I. I don't speak to my step-father at all as I don't respect him at all. Anytime my mother starts drinking heavily he comes to my room "You deal with her." I have to calm my mother down. She usually attacks him or tries to key up his car, which is my step-father's only pride and joy. My mother craves attention from my step-father; he's the most unsupportive man I've ever met. She's been cutting herself lately, very deep, and then she lays her lifeless bleeding body at the feet of my step-father, he sits there watching TV as she sleeps in her drunk slumber on his lap.

Last time my mother got extremely drunk, starting cutting on herself and fighting with my step-father. After I calmed down my mother, my step-father went back to watching TV. My mother went to the bathroom, I then heard a crash, as I found the key to let myself into the bathroom she tired to hand herself on the shower rod. She sat there crying, telling me if I cared about her I would call the police. I took my cell phone and called the police informing them that my mother was trying to commit suicide, less than a few minutes later, the police we're in my driveway. My mother highly intoxicated then realized I called the police and ran outside to run away. They chased her down the road where the police officer and I tried to coax her to sit down. I was waiting for him to pepper spray her or shock her for resisting, my step-father stood in the garage watching then came outside to help pin my mother down in the neighbor's front yard. People driving by slowly, staring as if my mother was a fucking side show. I was disgusted. As she was cuffed and hog tied, they took her off to mental health. I called the police and all they did was talk to my step-father about what happened. He joked with the police as his wife was cuffed in the fucking dirt as a pig.

Within a few hours my mother ended up breaking out of mental health. Apparently she made a run for it, she then called a cab and came home. Her justification, "I have work in the morning." The police came over the next night and asked my step-father if he felt my mother's mental health was okay and if he felt comfortable. Why didn't they ask everyone in the house that? What didn't they ask me? The next day they acted like nothing happened, life went back to "normal."

This vicious cycle. My mother drinks, fights with my step-father and my step-father doesn't do anything but fight back and doesn't help my mother in any shape or form. He's her husband for God sakes, he's suppose to be there for her lowest moments and he does nothing.

They bicker back and forth about getting a divorce but they do nothing, then just fight, complain and then the next day its as if nothing has happened. I ask my mother countless times why she stays with a man whose so unsupportive and abusive to her needs and she gives me a laundry list of excuses and she's in utter denial about her alcoholism and refuses to take any action or control of her life.

I feel so helpless and exhausted because I can't do anything. I'm tired of always having to be the one to go after my mother, to make sure she doesn't hurt herself. A push and pull effort, how the hell do you deal with people who refuse to take responsibility of their actions, as well as their lives?

(Thanks for anyone who had the patience to read this all.)I'm twenty-one years old. I want to leave but I feel inadequate as a human being from my social anxiety and lack of working skills. In a way I feel a bit co-dependent and I'm trying to break that. I got to school full time, I see it as my only way out of here.

Also thank you all for your responses, it's really helpful and empowering.


Dysfunctional Family?
this is just the rough short story i've just written..give me your opinion about the plot..mind the grammar mistakes..i'll edit that later..can't wait to read your opinions!


here's the story (it's just a fiction,ok.not a real life story)

Kim just got back from her workplace. she was so
tired that she can even sleep standing up.

"huhhh..what a hectic week for me.."

she had this big research project she have to handle causing
her to stay up 24/7 for months now.luckily,the project
finished successfully today.And she desperately asked for a
holiday.She said she wanted to travel around the
world..hehe..Actually,she's not.Traveling around the world
means staying at home in her dictionaries.Looks like she's
still like her teenage days.Naughty and always good in
finding excuses and multiply reasons.She haven't changed a
bit.Well,except for herself.She's 27 years old now.Still
single.Childish for her age.She's not chubby anymore instead
growing up to be a stunningly beautiful woman.Yet,she still
haven't got any boyfriend mainly because she refuses to go out with them.She'll create various reasons for not going on the blind dates her friends set up.Or,she'd just play with them.

Deep down,she still haven't recovered from her past
relationship.or so-called relationship.Apparently,she never
intended to forget her first love.

But now she's concentrating on her career as a researcher
and barely even got time for herself until she get her sabbatical
holiday approved.She never been this happy
before.Well,except when she's seventeen.

on her first day of the holiday,she just spend the
time at home looking at a giant pile of mess made by her
all this time.She really need a maid.

after a week at home,she starts going out.First,she went to
the mall to shop some stuffs she'd been longing before.You
can say that she's quite a shopaholic.

All her friends including her 2 best friends were
overseas.It's been a long time since they hang out together
and talk about their lives.And she isn't quite making
friends at her work place considering all her colleagues are
nerds.As she thought.So,she'll go out on her own.She's
really a loner,isn't it?Living in her own world and all.

On the way back home,she rides the train to save
money.ha!!Who knows the train would be so crowded.It's not
even in weekend!she thought.It's been a long time since her last train ride to home.She usually go home with her convertible.

after a few stations,she managed to get a sit nearby the
door.Without her realize,she's asleep along with dozens of
shopping bags.She didn't realize the train was
already making a turn back to the main station by the time
she woke up.She still has a long way back home.

Listening to her i pod,she looked at the surrounding.It's not
that crowded now since all the passengers were in their seat
and most of them were sleeping anyway.Then,she saw a young
couple.Maybe they're in 16 or 17 since they're still wearing
the school uniforms and they were holding hands??

"huhh..whatever you kids"she mumbled on her own.Then,the
train stopped at the same station she went earlier.If only
she's not asleep after that,then, she wouldn't have to be in
this train any longer..

As usual,the door opened and people were rushing by to get a
sit but all the seats were taken by the previous
passenger.She saw this old woman..maybe in her 70s
struggling on her way in..Are this people even notice her?
Without any further ado,she gave the woman her sit.She's not
being nice but afraid the woman will stumble on her feet if
the train speeds.

So,now she's back on standing.It's quite a job to hold on
when you're holding a giant shopping bags while trying to
get your i pod to switch it off.Suddenly,her i pod dropped
while she's trying to get it in her jeans pocket.
Luckily,there's a hand grabbing the i pod and hand it to her.

"There you go miss.."the man gave her a look and smile.

As usual,she didn't even look at his face and just picked
the i pod quickly.She didn't want to mess up with this guy and immediately looked away.

"Kimberly Annabella Stewart.."she heard someone called her name.

People never call her by that name.All her friends called
her Kim,,her nickname when she's a teenager and also her
cyber name.Maybe she's just hallucinating,considering she's
really thirsty now and lack of water really can make you feel..

"Kimberly Annabella Stewart!"

She spun around to look at the previous guy who gave her
the i pod.How did he know her name anyway.Does it on her i pod or something.

It takes a while for her to digest the information and look
carefully at the person before her stomach gave a full blast
of roller coaster ride.

It's him.

"Could that guy be him?"she gave herself a monologue.

The guy must have been aware by her confused and pale look
and approached her.

"Kim.."he called again.

that was the name her friends called her.only it's not
colleague friends.It's just the friend from the past..

She now realized he was Gerry before everything went black-


********************************************************************

She woke up with a heavy feeling on her head.Her throat feels dry and she need a mirror.

"Ouchhh..what the hell had happened?"she mumbled again with
her hand on her head.

It was like a flash of light the nurse came.She have the
sweet face and didn't look fierce as she assumed.

"So,how do you feel today miss?"

"Yeah yeah...i feel fine..sort of.Eh,what day is today?What
time?Since when I'm here?"she asked the nurse impatiently.

"It's been 2 days now.I heard you passed out in the train on
the way back home for dehydration.Your friend came yesterday
and stayed with you until this morning before he had to go
for some urgent call".the nurse carefully replied.

"Okay..hold on!did you just say he??"She's surprised and
tried to recall back what happened on that day.

Then,the nurse almost dropped her tray when she almost
jumped off the bed.

"what??!hey nurse,what's his name?i mean,the friend of mine
who..who.."

Her voice trailed off when she finally remembered the voice
calling her on that day.The voice she'd been longing to hear
for a long time.How could she didn't recognize that face
earlier?It could have been easier to run away and not
meeting him in this most embarrassed way in the whole
world.She can't believe that she just passed out in front of
that guy!

"..miss...miss..do you hear me?his name is Gerry if I'm not
mistaken"

Now,she felt like fainting again..She need to get out from
here ASAP before he came back.

She asked again the poor nurse when she would be released
and glad to hear that she'll be released this evening of the
test gave no problem.

Then,she went to the bathroom to look at the mirror.She
looked unhealthy.Pale.Her face is skinny and the bone jaw is
almost visible.Maybe that's why he can't recognize her
earlier because she looked totally different from the 17
year old Kim.As far as she remember,she looked chubby and
well,fat.Now,she barely even seen a single fat in her body.
Her ribs are clearly visible and her but didn't even show
up.And she's not wearing that glasses anymore thanks to the
laser surgery a few years ago.What a transformation she'd
been through.And of course,they haven't met in years after
the tragic accident happened.It's not that tragic
anyway..but tragic enough for her to change everything and
recovering from the trauma is way more harder than anyone
could think.

She finally washed her face and her hands before looking for
a clean towel and rub her hand and face.

Looks like the game is not over yet because when she exit
from the toilet,she found out that the guy she'd been
thinking was standing in front of the door,holding a bouquet
of fresh flowers.

She realized that her mouth was hanging open before she
closed them back..hehe

"I'm sorry for not recognizing you at the first place"

he started the conversation after a long silence.It's like
the time has stopped or something.She barely can't hear a
pin drop.

"Yeah..me too"she croaked.

"I mean,look at you.You've changed a lot Kim...A lot"

"Well,i almost couldn't recognize you either.You seemed grown
up".Finally she find the right word to say.

She didn't want him to know that she'd been suffering all
this time for him.Just to forget him and he came back now??

"I think you better sit down first. You looked like you're
about to pass out again.Luckily,I can catch you up the last
time coz you're so light."He tried to make a joke.As usual,she
didn't laugh or smile.

What??he catch me the last time.That must be embarrassing.

He must have look at her burning cheek when tried to change
the conversation.He told her about the meeting on the train
and her still ignoring people and all.He asked her again what
she was doing now..

She must have been fallen asleep again when he talked to her
that afternoon coz he left her a note beside the bed.

"Never change huh cutie?Still sleeping like a baby even
though you're obviously 27 now..hehe..will call you later.I
already take your phone number inside your bag..and by the
way..I LOVE YOU"

Gerry

What????????!!!!!!!!After all this time he's still
saying
that to her?Didn't he remember what happened 10 years
ago??Didn't he remembered how he left her there after she
finally able to express all my feelings toward him?Did he
ever remember that?After all the humiliation and
mortification she have to face with all their friends.All of
them?Did he ever felt that?In front of Pam and Alice?Can he
imagined what people said about her when she finished my
sentence?Can he imagine what she'd been called?And did he
know that sheI have to start my life all over again before she
could actually got a job?Did he knew that?All he knows is
saying that stupid things all over again.She can't take it
anymore!

3 days later,Kim went home knowing her nightmares are
going to be back again.After all those years she realized
that still haven't get over him yet.But what can she do
about that now?

She already know the answer 10 years ago..She get it already
but then,when he came back like this..things are getting
like the old time again.Suddenly,all the memories came back
like a film negatives.Some of them are very clear and some
of them still blurred in her mind.That night,she went asleep
clutching the old diaries where all the feelings came back
live in her mind once again..

The next day,she woke up hearing the alarm clock..maybe from
the neighbors.It takes a while before she figured out that
it was actually her phone ringing.She was too sleepy to read
the caller id and just picked up the phone instead.Who could
have wake her at 8 am in the morning on her holiday??

"hullo.."she mumbled,as usual

"hello,can I speak to Kim please.."

Suddenly,she's startled to hear that familiar voice.It was
him!So,it's true about him taking her phone number huh?

He started the one hour conversation and finally asked Kim
out.To catch up each others' life,as he said.
She had no choice but to accept the offer thinking that he
might call again and again.And she didn't want that to
happen..hohhhh..

Later that night,she found herself digging the closet
finding suitable clothing for that stupid dinner.After 15
minutes of hard work,she found herself her favorite shirt
and khaki pants(it's uncomfortable to wear jeans in front of
him).It's like going on a first date or something.But
still.It's not a date..

When she arrived at the fancy restaurant(didn't know that
this guy even had a taste like this),he's already waiting
for her patiently at the table nearby the large window.Nice
view!I didn't know what did he see in me.Well,she knows she's not
wearing an appropriate dress and all.Wearing sneakers never
harm anyone,right?

She heard her stomach make a grumbling noise and realized she
haven't eat anything today yet.No wonder she's so skinny.Now,she
really misses her old body back.The 17 years old Kim seems
happy..not like her now.She looked like people with anorexia
or something.

"Can we take orders now?"he asked her politely.

Since when this guy was being polite with her?As far as she
remembered,he never talk nicely to her.In fact,they're
always teasing each other..10 years back that
is.Now,everything seems different.

"So,what have you become Ger?"She used to called him Ger.

Now,it seems awkward calling him by that name.This is
because he wasn't the old Gerry anymore.In fact,he looked
hot.She immediately cut the thought out of her mind.

"I'm a 3D animator".he replied with a slight smile on his
face.That's cute!

"Owhhhh...seems like you have what you've been dreaming of
right?Being a 3D animator and all"

"Yeahh..you're right.except for one thing".his face look
solemn all of the sudden.His expression,is however,can't be
read.Is this Gerry that she'd known before?10 years
ago,he'll tell her everything,,almost anything.

"What's that thing?"

"Being with someone whom I love"

*cough*

that made she choked on her salad.what???! and she thought he's already married.What happened to her fiancee he always mentioning?

"eh,i thought you're married with Jennifer..what happened?"

his expressionless face suddenly turned out to be moody all
of the sudden and she knew she had said the wrong
word..oooopsss..

"I'm sorry to ask you that.You don't need to answer
that".She said reluctantly.

"ermmm..never mind.We're going to tell everything happened
in our lives anyway..Let me start"

You can tell that she just lose her appetite to eat that
delicious meal to hear what he's saying.She's always been like that.

"Actually,I didn't get married with her."she tried not to
show her shocked face as he spoke.

"We're getting so closed on that day before I realized one
thing.I didn't love her.I thought I could love her
after..after I made the decision about you..I really thought
I can do that".he started to get emotional.

Kim,on the other hand,stood there like a statue listening
to the confession.Tears are just starting to flow..

"I really forced myself at that time.I concentrate on my
studies and tried to forget you.Every time there's a message
arrived,I thought it was you and it's actually not.And I
realized that you're not coming back.I tried to contact your
cell phone,but you already changed the number and even your
best friends didn't know your current number.Then,everything
starts to crumble in front of me.I started to isolate myself
from the crowd and starts living in my own world.I was being
you,munie!I remembered to tease you about being inside the
snow globe and I'm staying in that kind of world now.I don't
even know myself anymore.I can't even find you during all
the KEX gatherings.It's like you're disappearing or
something.I have asked so many people,but they themselves
didn't know where are you.It seems like you're dead to me.I
started to realized that I had lose the girl I love the most
just because I can't love her because of the stupid family
arrangement.Just because she finally summoned her courage to
tell me that she really loves me.I left her at that
point.The point which can make a whole lot of differences if
I didn't done that.I shouldn't have left that
girl.Suddenly,all the memories came by like a flood.Memories
about her that haunts me until today.And when I met her
now,she had changed dramatically,because of my fault.I am so
sorry Kim..I didn't mean to hurt you so much.It's just
that I'm so stupid and immature and dumb to realized the
consequences after that.But I just want you to know that I
still love you and in fact the love is growing for the past
10 years.I'm not sure what makes me found you in the
train.but I think we're destined for each other.... "

"okay..that's enough!!"Kim snapped harshly.

She didn't know how much tears have been produced but she
just can't take it anymore.How could he have done that to
her so much?Maybe the fact that he's still love her is
true.but that doesn't mean he can get away that
easily.There's just no way!

"I think I better get going.."her voice trembling as she
made her way out of the restaurant.She just couldn't take
that explanation anymore.She couldn't digest any of this.It's the best for them not to see each other anymore.

She tried to walk away as fast as she could to her car
across the road.She didn't care when he tried calling her
name and shouting something she couldn't heard.Then,she saw
the bright light coming from the side of the road.Maybe it's
a spotlight.Or is it a car?

Then,everything when blurred.After she saw the bright
light,she heard a loud bang from the nowhere.She couldn't
think of anything else.What is up with that loud noise
anyway?She heard a weird sound rushing towards her.Among the
noises,she barely hear the sound of someone calling her name...

***********************************************************************

When Gerry finished saying his words,Kim just got out from
the restaurant hurriedly.He called her name several times
but she just didn't hear that.In fact,she's on her way back
to her car.He must catch her.or else,he might not see that
woman again for the rest of his life.

But then,he saw a lorry coming across the road and it was
way fast.There's a fat chance the lorry can't see the skinny
Kim in the dark.Plus,she's wearing a black shirt.

Everything went so fast when he tried to called her back.The
collision just happened in front of his very eyes!!
He doesn't know what to do but to just ran towards her and
grab her tightly..

"Oh my god..wake up!!"

"Kim!!wake up!you have to wake up!I'm not finished yet.."

he can feel the tears running like a Niagara fall but he
didn't care.All that matters now is her safety and that
didn't look good.

"please wake up!i need you!i have been waiting the moment to
meet you back so,wake up!Therese lots more to talk about!!"

He saw her hand is still moving but she's definitely badly
injured.The blood is everywhere!And where is the ambulance??
He saw her eyes opened a little and he thinks she's trying
to say something.Oh god.Don't let her die.He couldn't cope that.He already loses her once.

"there's something you need to know".her voice croaked.

"Kim..please stay with me.Don't die yet!"he's pleading like
a child wanting a lollipop.

"do you know that.....i...really...really love you?"it seems
hard for her saying that words for the second time.
but this is not a perfect timing really.

"i know..i know..from the beginning.but please stay with
me..please.."

"I'm tired Ger..I'm really tired of all these".

"no you can't give up now!"

he can feel a crowd of people surrounding them hearing him
shouting like a maniac.

"can someone please call an ambulance!!???"

"i love you.."

that's all he heard before she closed her eyes back..


************************************************************************

3 years later...


It was not a perfect morning for Gerry because as he wake
up,the sound of the noise from the neighbor crashes his
Sunday morning.

he's been busy for the days of the week.So,he couldn't be
disturbed on the weekend..

"what a morning.."

he immediately wake up and take a warm shower before heading
downtown for breakfast.A usual weekend routine he had for
years now.

The weather seems nice and sunny today.

"Perfect for a vacation!"he thought.

after the breakfast,he went to the usual place he would
hangout on the weekend,hospital.Maybe it sounds weird for
normal people.But for him,it's like a home sweet home.

After saying hi to the nurses working in the morning
shift,he went straight to the room.

It was huge.Like a master bedroom in a house complete with a
large plasma TV,furniture,toilet and bathroom and also a
small kitchen.It was like a small apartment.But,it's a
hospital in reality.He tiptoed and enter the room just like
not to disturb the people who's sleeping in there.

At the huge rack,Therese lots of book collection from
childhood until adulthood.all the CDs and DVDs were kept
neatly below them.it was just like a small house.

"Hey,I brought you some more books..but I'm not going to
read this today because I'm too tired and I need a good
sleep..Mind if I join you?"

Whoever passing the room must have thought he was talking to
himself.Well,he's not.In fact,he was talking to his beloved
wife.

He then put the book aside and take a nap beside the person sleeping
on the bed.No signs of her waking up to reply to him.But,she can definitely heard him clearly.

The accident 3 years ago made Kim in comatose condition.He
still remember when the doctor said she'd never wake up
maybe for the rest of her life.But he would never give
up.The doctor said if their family support the patient
mentally and physically,the chances of her waking up maybe a
little bit higher.a little.but,he never gave up.He spent
almost his time watching over her and eventually starts
talking and reading books and articles for her.He knew she'd
listen because the doctor said so.

He began to tell her every single detail what happened in
his life..just like he intended to..and he also started to
decorate the room just like a home to make sure she's
comfortable.This act has inspire many people from that
hospital.Even the doctor was impressed with the
couple.They're so strong.If only that accident didn't occur
than they would live happily ever after.but,it's been 3
years now and still no change from her.she's still looks
like that.that cute face almost haven't change for 3
years.and yet she's still sleeping like a sleeping beauty waiting for her prince charming to come and kiss her.But,it's just a fairy tale.

Even though she might not waking up forever,the most
important thing is he already know the answer.they both know
it perfectly well and all the questions are now pretty
well-answered coz it only narrows to one thing,they love
each other...
sorry if it is too long..


what do u think about the plot?does it look interesting?
Enough already with the comparisons of Kyle Busch to the late Dale Earnhardt in his youth. That's a reach, made by people who don't know because they weren't there.

Busch is slicker, wilier. For a straight down-the-line comparison, you have to go back to the driver who for four years was the best there's ever been in NASCAR. That was Darrell Waltrip, 1979 to 1982.

Whereas young Earnhardt was blatantly brutal on the track, young Waltrip was at least as wicked but disguised it with finesse.

When Earnhardt wrecked somebody, everybody from the victim to the crowd to the TV audience knew who was to blame.

Young Waltrip left his victims talking to themselves, wondering what they -- not he -- did wrong.

And that is Kyle Busch. Witness the two most recent Cup races and his two most recent victims, the indomitable duo of last season, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon.

At Daytona on July 5, Gordon was seething at himself for losing the race because he chose to go high, into the outside drafting line, and let Busch by him on the inside.

After the race at Chicagoland on July 12, Johnson was seething at himself because he chose to stay low and let Busch beat him on the outside.

Flip-flop the scenarios and Busch still wins both races. Had Gordon stayed low, Busch would have gone high, and had Johnson gone high, Busch would have gone low. It didn't matter. Busch was going to win either way.

DW laughed out loud in agreement with my scenario on the phone the other day: "Yeah! That's right!"

As for Busch in general being more like him than Earnhardt, "I totally agree," Waltrip said by voicemail while we were playing phone tag. "That's why I like the kid. I like his style. He's got style."

Young Darrell Waltrip had style.

For comparison to Busch, we're not talking ol' DW here. Not the glib Fox color commentator. Not the twilight driver of the 1990s, riding out his career in bad cars for huge salaries. Not Waltrip at any time after the Daytona 500 of 1983, when a near-fatal crash took the edge off his style.

He has never admitted that, but afterward he adopted this cautious philosophy: "I want to win as many races as I can, going as slow as I can."

We're talking Jaws, as Cale Yarborough dubbed him. We're talking the guy who could get young Earnhardt's goat with such ease and frequency, on and off the track, that Earnhardt was the Intimidated before he grew into the Intimidator.

Before that '83 wreck, there had never been anything like Waltrip in NASCAR. And there hasn't been since -- until now.

Wild Thing is the second coming of Jaws.

Darrell Waltrip was a bad man in 1979, but he faltered late and missed winning the title by 11 points to Richard Petty.

"I'd check into a hotel somewhere and they'd say, 'Are you here with the show?'" DW said. "I'd say, 'No, ma'am. I am the show.'

"You can either be a part of the show, or you can be the show. And right now, Busch is the show."

With seven Cup wins just past the halfway point of the season, Busch has a good chance to break the modern-era record for wins in a season, 13, shared by Richard Petty (1975) and Gordon (1998).

"[Busch] defies logic in my mind," Waltrip said. "It's kind of like a golfer, when they tell you to visualize your shot. I think he visualizes the things he's going to do, and he has the ability to do them.

"He can do about anything he wants to with that car. I've seen him going down the back straightaway at Daytona, down on the inside, and jump -- I don't mean slide up or anything -- jump from the inside of the track all the way to the outside and never lose momentum. That's when I said he's the only guy I ever saw that could go three-wide by himself. And he can.

"Then he went to Atlanta in the truck race and passed four or five guys and he was on the apron. NASCAR got on him, said, 'Don't do that anymore, it's dangerous.' The next time by he passed five guys and he was scrubbing the wall. 'OK, you don't want me on the apron, how 'bout this? I'll go outside. I'll go up against the wall.'"

Defying logic. Embarrassing the best by doing what has never been done. That is Wild Thing. That was Jaws.

In a single afternoon, Jaws embarrassed the top two drivers in NASCAR of the time, Richard Petty and David Pearson. Afterward, their careers were never the same. It was in the Rebel 400, Darlington, S.C., April 1979.

So pressured were Pearson and his then-crack Wood Brothers crew under Waltrip's onslaught that they humiliated themselves in the pits. Pearson drove away with no left-side lug nuts, those two wheels came off, and his car belly flopped on pit road and sat there, lap after lap, like a beached whale. Pearson and the Woods parted company the next week.

On the final lap, racing Petty for the win, Waltrip, by doing the impossible, suckered Petty into embarrassing himself. Entering the third turn -- in the old configuration at Darlington -- Waltrip stayed outside, wide open.

"If you went into that corner on the outside, you automatically hit the wall," DW recalled. "Richard went in on the bottom so hard, trying to beat me into the corner, that he couldn't help but slide up. I slammed on the brakes, cut it to the bottom of the track and slid by him. So I did two good moves in one corner. I put a crossover move on him and a slide job on him, all at once."

Had he visualized those moves beforehand?

Ol' DW snickered, even now, and said of Jaws, "I had a plan."

Busch has won seven Cup races this season. Jaws won seven that year. Seven, but then it stopped. That's why Waltrip is watching Busch so closely now.

"The thing to watch with him is: If you think back to my '79 season, and you were there, I was doing the same thing that he's doing right now. I was winning every week, I was embarrassing the competition, I was harassing them, I was mocking them, I was just being as irritating as I could possibly be.

"But remember what happened in '79? I lost the championship because I wouldn't slow down. I went back to Darlington [for the Southern 500 in September] with a 300-point lead. I was leading by a lap over Pearson [substituting for the injured rookie Earnhardt]. I had the race won, and the crew told me to take it easy, and I --

"Drove it into the wall," we chorused on the phone.

"I lost 100 points that day. Then we went to Wilkesboro and I was racing with Bobby Allison, and Buddy [Parrott, Waltrip's crew chief] was telling me, 'Let him go … he'll wreck us.' … I just kept messing with him. I should have known better, but I didn't, and he wrecked me. And I lost another 100 points there. Then we had an engine failure somewhere, and the next thing you know, Richard Petty is breathing down our neck [in the standings]. And he ends up winning the championship by 11 points.

"So that's what I'm watching this season for Busch. He's right where I was in 1979. And I wasn't smart enough to get to the finish. Of course, we didn't have the Chase, either. So when he gets to the last 10 races, is he going to continue to be wild and reckless and crazy -- not reckless; I don't really call him reckless. He just drives aggressively.

"But is he going to be able to temper that enough to stay out of trouble enough to win the championship? We know he can win races. But you've got to be careful winning races and winning championships. They don't always go together."

All in all, Kyle Busch has a chance -- just a chance, but a chance -- to be the best there's ever been.

Take a bow, kid. Nigga say what?Well hell smartblock, Waltrip compared his own self to Kyle Busch. Is he wrong for doing that?


What are you thoughts on this article comparing Kyle Busch to Darrell Waltrip??
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89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
90. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
94. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
96. Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."
97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South).
98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company's first ads in 1896.
99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.
100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.
102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
103. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
105. China has more English speakers than the United States.
106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
107. One in every 9000 people is an albino.
108. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
110. Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
113. Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.
115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
116. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
117. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
119. About 55% of all movies are rated R.
120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
121. Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.
122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
125. There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.
126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
127. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
129. There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.
130. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
131. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
135. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
136. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
138. Almonds are members of the peach family.
139. Rats and horses can't vomit.
140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim.
141. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
144. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
145. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a character's parents are present and don't die during the movie.
148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
150. Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
151. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
154. All polar bears are left-handed.
155. The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)
156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
157. Butterflies taste with their feet.
158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.
159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
160. Starfish have no brains.
161. 11% of the world is left-handed.
162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.
163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
165. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
166. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
168. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.
170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
173. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
175. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.
177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it.
181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
183. Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Link."
184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother.
186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
187. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth.
190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army abbreviation for General Purpose.
193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
195. Cats' urine glows under a black light.
196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970.
198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.
199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
203. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.
204. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).
205. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
206. Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
209. The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
210. A jellyfish is 95% water.
211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001).
212. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.
214. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
215. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)
216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a score of 10.
217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
218. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
220. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.
222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.
223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the stadium becomes Nebraska's third largest city.
224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.
227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.
229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
230. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.
231. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.
233. Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.
234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
240. You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
242. "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.
244. The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies.
245. "Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.
248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).
249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
250. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
251. At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
252. Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.
254. People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Trust".
256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
257. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.
259. The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+)
260. Pearls melt in vinegar.
261. "Lassie" was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.
262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.
263. Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.
264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
265. Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.
266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.
269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.
270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.
271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.
272. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed.
274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.
275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.
278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
282. Only female mosquitoes bite.
283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail.
284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.
285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.
286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Girl in the Moon).
288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.
289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.
290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
292. Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.
293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."
294. The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.
295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
298. While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Treaty of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951).
299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
300. The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.
301. The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst".
302. Don Mac Lean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same plane crash.
303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard.
304. Hummingbirds can't walk.
305. When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969).
306. Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing).
307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence (7/1/1967).
308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history.
309. William Shatner is credited for being the first person on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek.
310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its supply of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY.
311. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.
312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.
314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex.
315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for pleasure.
316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter "P".
317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.
318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).
319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.
320. The "middle finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds".


FACTS U WILL Be AMAZED?
1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
20. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).
28. Camel's have three eyelids.
29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
30. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
54. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
56. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.
60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
64. IBM's motto is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".
65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.
66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
67. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
69. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.
71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.
73. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.
74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.
75. In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
78. One in ten people live on an island.
79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.
84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
85. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.
87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).
88. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
90. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
92. Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
94. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
96. Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."
97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South).
98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company's first ads in 1896.
99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.
100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.
102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
103. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
105. China has more English speakers than the United States.
106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
107. One in every 9000 people is an albino.
108. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
109. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
110. Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
111. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
112. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
113. Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
114. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.
115. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
116. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
117. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
118. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
119. About 55% of all movies are rated R.
120. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
121. Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.
122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
125. There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.
126. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
127. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
128. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
129. There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.
130. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
131. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
132. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
133. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
134. An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
135. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
136. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
137. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
138. Almonds are members of the peach family.
139. Rats and horses can't vomit.
140. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim.
141. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
142. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
143. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
144. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
145. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
146. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
147. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a character's parents are present and don't die during the movie.
148. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
149. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
150. Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
151. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
152. Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
153. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
154. All polar bears are left-handed.
155. The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)
156. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
157. Butterflies taste with their feet.
158. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.
159. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
160. Starfish have no brains.
161. 11% of the world is left-handed.
162. John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.
163. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
164. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
165. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
166. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
167. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
168. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
169. Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.
170. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
171. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
172. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
173. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
174. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
175. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
176. The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.
177. The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it.
181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
183. Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Link."
184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother.
186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
187. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
188. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
189. There are a million ants for every person on Earth.
190. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
191. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
192. The name Jeep comes from "GP", the army abbreviation for General Purpose.
193. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
194. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
195. Cats' urine glows under a black light.
196. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
197. The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970.
198. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.
199. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
200. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
201. David Sarnoff received the Titanic's distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
202. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
203. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.
204. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).
205. "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
206. Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
207. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
208. Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
209. The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
210. A jellyfish is 95% water.
211. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001).
212. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
213. Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.
214. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
215. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)
216. In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a score of 10.
217. In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
218. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
219. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
220. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
221. The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.
222. There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.
223. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the stadium becomes Nebraska's third largest city.
224. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
225. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
226. In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.
227. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
228. Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.
229. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
230. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.
231. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
232. On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.
233. Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.
234. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
235. Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
236. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
237. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
238. In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
239. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
240. You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
242. "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
243. There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.
244. The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies.
245. "Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
246. The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
247. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.
248. Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).
249. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
250. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
251. At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
252. Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
253. The tool doctors wrap around a patient's arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.
254. People say "bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
255. US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Trust".
256. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
257. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
258. In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.
259. The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+)
260. Pearls melt in vinegar.
261. "Lassie" was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.
262. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.
263. Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.
264. Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
265. Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.
266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
267. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
268. God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.
269. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.
270. Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.
271. There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.
272. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
273. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed.
274. The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.
275. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
276. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
277. Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.
278. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
279. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
280. Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
281. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
282. Only female mosquitoes bite.
283. The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail.
284. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.
285. One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.
286. The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
287. The "countdown" (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called "Die Frau Im Monde" (The Girl in the Moon).
288. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.
289. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.
290. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
291. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
292. Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.
293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."
294. The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.
295. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
296. The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
297. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
298. While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Treaty of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951).
299. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
300. The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.
301. The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst".
302. Don Mac Lean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same plane crash.
303. The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard.
304. Hummingbirds can't walk.
305. When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969).
306. Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing).
307. Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence (7/1/1967).
308. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history.
309. William Shatner is credited for being the first person on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek.
310. While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its supply of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY.
311. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.
312. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
313. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.
314. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex.
315. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for pleasure.
316. Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter "P".
317. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.
318. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).
319. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.
320. The "middle finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds".i was bored lol