Tresselbeliever;1487655; said:
not a joke, but just something funny that I ran across
Its even funnier because most of these 37 things are not true.
X"1. CocaCola was originally green." It was never green - check with Snopes.
X"2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed." You probably mean Muhammad.
X"4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue." The muscle that can pull with the greatest force is the soleus (found below the calf muscle.) The strongest muscle based on its weight is the masseter (capable of closing the jaw with over 55 pounds of force.)
X"5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States." Its closer to four, because every adult carries an average of eleven.
X"6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard." As is proprietor, property, and repertoire.
X"10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond." Pope Gregory VII suggested saying ?God bless you? during the bubonic plague in hopes that this prayer would protect people. Besides, well over 99% of the time, your heart does not stop.
X"11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky." Pigs can't look straight up, but can see over 70 degress into the sky.
X"13. 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." Both false, though anything could happen to somebody with poor enough health.
"14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from History. "Spades" King David; "Clubs" Alexander the Great;" Hearts" Charlemagne; "Diamonds" Julius Caesar." Probably true, but your kings are too modern. Playing cards predated at least Charlemagne. The original kings were (supposedly) Augustus, Clovis, Constantine, and Solomon.
X"16. If a statue of a warrior on a 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 as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes." False, false, and false. There are hundreds of examples, with about a dozen in Washington D.C. alone.
X"17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. All invented by women." Wrong. Something they do have in common: they were invented by Americans.
X"27. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'. Neither. He was born in 1564 and bump, which came from scandinavia, entered the English language in 1581, when Bill was only about 17. The word Assassin, literally meaning "hash eater" was used to describe fanatical Muslims who were sent to kill Christian leaders at the time of The Crusades - several hundred years before Shakespeare.
X"28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand." aftercataracts (secondary cataracts of the eye) and sweaterdresses are just two of some the the words that are longer than your example.
I'm bored now....