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A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All Polar bears are left-handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Cat’s urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

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.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the ’30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfish haven’t got brains.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

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.

The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other pe

christ i wish i was a pig ;)

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im a pretty strong traditional left handed or "southpaw" person.. here a list of the things i do with my left hand:
write / throw baseball, football, basketball..etc. / cut scissors / hold knife / swing bats / swing golf clubs / kicking (with feet, of course lol) /

right handed tasks:
arm wrestle (im stronger with my right than left arm, besides punching) / guitar (for now) / computer mouse / jabs in boxing / hand grip (for some reason is stronger than left) / finger picking on guitar (im pretty good at at this) / hand shake / i clap my hands with left hand still and right hand moving / and thats all i can think of right now..

the thing is that i can finger pick really fast with my right but i cant pick as accurately and fast as i want to (i play metal music.. a lot of metallica. i play the rhythm guitar).. now with my left hand i can pick a lot faster and more accurately.. but i cant seem to use my pinky finger on my left hand its very slow and weak, but my right pinky can move a lot faster.. i feel comfortable holding the guitar both left or right.. but a little bit more right since i’ve been playing the "right" way for about 4 months now.. i also cant finger pick with my left hand.. what do you guys think? will i be able to play more faster and more accurately playing the with the right with more experience later on? or will playing the lefty be better for me on the long run?
expense really isn’t the issue.. just which way would be better in the long run.

I recommend to all of my left handed players to play "right" handed for a few reasons.
#1 you have your more coordinated hand on the neck doing the harder job
#2 virtually all material written for the guitar is written from the right hand perspective
#3 99% of all guitars made are right handed

In your case you sound as if you are truly ambidexterous and could excel at it either way you decide to play. You could do what Michael Angelo Batio does and play both ways. He even has custom made multi neck guitars that are both right and left handed and switches between the two effortlessly. (look him up online)

To improve your pinky strength on your left hand do a lot of hammer on/pull off exercises using the basic pentatonic scale. To improve your right hand picking use the ring finger on your picking hand to anchor your hand position at the corner of the bridge pickup. Use this point as the "compass point" and let it aid in keeping the pick directly over the string in play. Use economy of motion when picking, don’t let your picking hand "flail wildly". By anchoring the ring finger you will eliminate wasted picking motion which will make your picking much more accurate and help to increase speed.

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One of the favorites of the hair styling professionals, the 5″ Kamisori Lefty-Jewel Scissor Set is just fantastic for a perfect cut. Especially manufactured keeping the left handed in mind the scissors can be used by them comfortably added to which is the offset handle and its choice of size between 5” and 5.5” The scissors is available in varying

jogging playlist:

*ladyhawke:
-my delerium
*artic monkeys:
-from ritz to rubble
-look good on the dancefloor
-teddy picker
-brainstorm
*scissors for lefty:
-lay down your weapons
-ghetto ways
-nickles and dimes
*Justice:
-the party
-dance pt. 2
*little boots:
-earthquake
-remedy
*any song by "the sounds"
*any song by "franz ferdinand"
*daft punk: around the world
*the gorillaz: clint east wood
*porcelain and the tramps:
-red light district
*we were promised jetpacks:
-quiet little voices

thats my usual jogging playlist. can someone recommend more? thanks
Im looking for something to shake my a$$ to and excercise. I don’t care if the lyrics are intelligent, (although it helps just a little bit) other wise I wouold have mentioned "bright eyes" on the list. if bright eyes were my main workout music then I would be a fat slob.
I wanna move, not so much think

check out:
the morning of

they’re awesome..
-n

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this is a really long story but i just need some help.
im 16 years old, i have been with my boyfriend ( also 16 ) just over a year now. he’s been beating me up for about 9 months. i know, please don’t judge me because i haven’t left him yet. i just don’t know what to do!
well ill start from the beginning. we met through school, and we really liked each other. we rushed into the relationship quite quickly but we did fall in love. at the beginning he was very sex orientated and put his friends before me. for example: i had really bad period pains and he said i should come round his and we would have a relaxing day together. but instead, he dragged me out in the rain and the cold to stand and watch him play football with a few mates for about 2 hours. then we continued on and he started to get angry with me for silly reasons. well ill skip to the main part.
he always hits me..
he accuses me of cheating on him at school(because he has left now)
i have a job and he wont let me talk to the boys there. and he adds all the boys on face book who i work with and says abusive things to them
he goes down my phone and deletes boys
he goes on my face book and deletes boys
if i don’t want a hug he hits me because he thinks im the worst girlfriend ever
i just don’t understand because now his whole life revolves around me. he worships the ground i walk on. he gets up every morning to walk me to and from school. he buys me gifts whenever he can. he saved up a whole year to give me £300 for my birthday. he always says how much he love me, how beautiful i am, and how i am the most perfect girl in the world.
the only reason im asking it now is because of the incident today. well he beat me up again the other day about something to do with work again.
and today he came round mine and he was leaving and i just didn’t want a hug goodbye. im sorry if that’s bad, but i just don’t like him touching me anymore because i feel dirty :( i told him that and he understands normally but today it was so unexpected. he just started punching me in the head, pulling my earrings straight through my ear. punching me everywhere. i don’t know what to do no more. i just want to be like the other girls who are in loving relationships :( i don’t deserve this do i?

if this helps the things hes done to me are
smash my head against window seal repeatedly
smash my head against walls
hes broken my rib, ankle and finger.
he gives me bruises like you’ve never seen before. it makes me look hideous.
he scratches me, pinches me, put scissors to my throat, kicks me in the face, pulls my hair, stamps over my body, punches my breasts, traps my hand in the door, threatens to kill me,
as well as using horrible language
whore, slut, slag, horse, dog, ugliest girl ive ever seen, disgusting, makes him feel sick looking at me, dirty, worst girlfriend ever.
and all i want to be in is a loving relationship
i haven’t left him because ive been in love with him, i want to leave and i don’t FEEL like i have any feelings for him, but i know if i leave i will miss him.

sometimes hes the best boyfriend in the world. and sometimes hes my worst nightmare.
he always apologizes after wards and begs for my forgiveness. but not straight away, it may take a few weeks, most of the time he said i deserve it. i cry 24/7 :(
he u sed to cry after wards but now has no feelings whatsoever.

and he just sent me this message because im ignoring him at the moment
-im guessing your not gonna talk to me tonight but i will wait all night babes
i miss you

please please help me!

OK, all this is going on, and yet your parents haven’t noticed?

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