How do you lose inches around your waist? I want to lose four or five inches around my waist, but i don't know how. please help!

How to lose inches/weight fast, but without fasting? Hey, I'm 15. 5'6", and 142 lbs. I would love to be down to 130 by September 4th, if that is possible, then be down to 120 by Octobe 10th or so. I've already lost...four pounds in the last two days by cutting my calorie intake into about half. That isn't saying much though, since swim season jsut ended, and I've decided to take a month off from training with the team, which is what most people do. I was eating about 3,500 calories a day before this point. I already feel completely hungry, but am determined not to eat until dinner in about two hours. Any advice? Should I continue to drop my calorie intake until I reach about 1200 per day, or maybe even 1000? I won't be training for three hours a day like I used to, but I hope to get into the water about three hours a week. Should I also start jogging? I get evil shin splints, and my knee is all messed up though. What about a decent diet? I would love to be down below 130 by the time school starts, but I'm afraid I started too late....

Losing Inches? Does losing inches depend on how many pounds you lose? I'd like to lose at least four inches from my hip, how long would this take? What can I do? (I have about two spare hours a day and the only real exercise equipments I have are my jump rope and exercise ball)

I have a horizontal line below my bust, about four inches above my belly button. Will it go away? I have a horizontal line below my chest. about four inches above my belly button. Will it go away? I think its because i was a bit overweight and there was a flap of fat resting under my bust and it created a crease on my skin. Now that i'm losing weight, im afraid that the crease won't go away. If anyone knows: will it go away? or how can i make it go away? Thanks so much :)

How can I lose a couple of inches off of my waist? I am trying to fit into a prom dress that I have had for three years. I can right now, but not comfortably. How can I lose about 2 to 3 inches off of my waist in four weeks or less without losing weight anywhere else?

will my stomach ever look okay? I am trying to lose weight. I am 5' 4" and recently went from 160 to 143. But I've had two kids and you can really tell by my lumpy stomach. That part below my belly button is really my only issue. Will I ever be able to lose this? It hasn't really budged with my weight loss. I've lost four inches on my waist but that midriff section has only lost 1/2 inch. I've been doing crunches and cardio and stuff like that but I need a more effective solution (that doesn't involve surgery)

How can I lose a few pounds? I am thirteen & I weigh 128.4 pounds (just weighed myself). I am about five feet four inches tall & need to lose some weight. What are some easy ways for me to drop about ten pounds? & please don't tell me I don't need to lose weight cause that doesn't answer my question.

Can I Lose 52lbs In Four Months???? Hi, Im 5 Feet 8 inches And Weigh 235lbs.. (Fat) With Good Diet And Exercise, Can I Lose 52lbs?? I Want To Get Down Too 183lbs By June 20th Is This Doable???

Will I lose weight drinking four bottles of water a day and three apples a day? Im also having special k cereal,special k snack bars,salad,100 calorie packs,and 2 plates of fruit a day also.Totaling about 1100 calories a day.Im 15 years old.125 pounds.5 feet 4 inches.If this isnt a good way,what are other successful ways to lose weight?Please dont respond saying I dont need to lose weight because I do.Please do answer my question.Thanks.

I Want To Lose 45lbs In Four Months!? Im 5 feet 8 inches and weigh 230lbs... Is This Duable? with proper diet and exercise?

why am i not losing weight but i am losing inches ???? ok heres the story i am currently taking kickboxing classes. I have been taking then for 8 weeks now. I go four to five times a week for 50 min, the first half is strength training the second half is cardio on a punching bag. I am very fusterated i have not lost any weight i take in about 1100 calories a day i eat five time a day. I did however lose heres the run down of what inches i lost arms : 12 1/4 to 11 1/2 waist : 35 to 33 3/4 hips : 44 1/4 to 41 thigh: 25 to 22 1/14 abs : 39 1/2 to 36 1/2 and i weigh : 157lbs so tell me is this good ? and why am i not losing any weight but i am losing inches? oh and my body percent only went down 1% . please help i have a christmas party in 4 weeks what can i do in four weeks. HELP

Exercise Dvd? I started an exercise routine and diet on December 3rd and I lost 18 pounds but recently I've had a harder time losing! I still have about 32 pounds to go and I exercise every day to "The Biggest Loser" "Walk Away The Pounds" and a Denise Austin DVD. I read that you need to do different work outs each day. I am really committed to my weight loss for the first time in a long time. Does anyone have any DVD's that they like to work out to? I am just looking for suggestions because I am growing bored of my work out routine and I'd like to add something to it but I don't know what. I do a lot of cardio and really enjoy cardio. I really need to target my ABS I lost about four inches but need to lose many more. I want to be healthy and pretty again. I wasn't always fat. Any suggestions would be really nice. I'm looking for cardio, abs and thighs and some strength training. Thanks for any help! And Happy New Year!

I work out 3 times a week - why did I gain weight and inches? I have lost 85 pounds in the last year and a halfand have kept it off for six months. I have been working out with a personal trainer three times a week for this same six months. I do cardio and strength training. Today we did a six month fitness assessment and while my weight is the same, I gained inches everywhere we measured, including FOUR inches in my waist and shoulders. I had the same person measuring, and, if anything, you would think they would want me to have gone down since I need to pay for three more months next week. My clothes are fitting tighter. I have no idea what to do. I have spoken with my nutritionist and doctor and neither one knows what to do. I am 49 years old and weigh 180 pounds. Any advice would be appreciated. I eat oatmeal for breakfast, lunch is nonfat yogurt with a protein pack, and dinner is six ounces of protein and a package of vegetables. I haven't eaten a single bite of junk food in 18 months. I have carbs in the yogurt and oatmeal, but that is it. This is so puzzling.

i have been exercising for the last seven months and have lost only 6 pounds .Need to lose 14 pounds ? in one month .I AM 5 FEET FOUR INCHES WITH A MEDIUM FRAME .i WEIGH 130 POUNDS .plz help.i invite yiur suggestions.help,help NEED TO LOSE 14 POUNDS IN ONE MONTH .I AM 5 FEET FOUR INCHES WITH A MEDIUM FRAME .i WEIGH 130 POUNDS .plz help.i invite yiur suggestions.help,help I HAVE NOT BEEN DOING MUCH OF WEIGHT TRAINING.CAN CARDIO ALSO MAKE YOU GAIN MUSCLE

Weight gain with inches lost on a diet and exercise program? My wife is on a diet and exercise program. Simple calorie counting along with daily exercise. This week she did Pilates four days and walked until fully out of breath on one. When she measured today she was down or equal inches in all areas. Overall she was down almost two inches. Yet between her doctor's visit on Tuesday and this evening, she's up five pounds!? It just doesn't make sense. Her thighs are a bit swolen due to her period time coming up...could the water gain account for five pounds in four days?

What can I do better to lose ACTUAL pounds? I've been going to the gym three to four times a week. Spin class twice a week. Elliptical for an hour the other days with crunches and weights. I wouldnt go crazy and say my diet is great but i'm carfeul with portions and actual choices. I dont believe fast food is a healthy choice by any means. I'm a 14 and I want to be a 10 by July, i've been going since October and all i've lost is inches, no pounds.. What can I do!!?

Butter vs. crisco? Bubba and Bob were in the showers one day, Bubba noticed how well endowed his friend was. Wow Bob your stuff is big. Well Bob says I know it sounds silly but I've been rubbing it with butter for an hour every night. It really works, I've gained four inches already. Try it. A few months later Bubba and Bob met in the showers again. So Bob asked how is it going with the butter? Bubba said I don't think it's working I've lost two inches. Bob asked if he was doing everything he told him. Bubba said well we don't usually have real butter so i've been using crisco. Damnit bubba said bob crisco is shortening. Ha Ha.

how to lose weight. i need some serious help! =X? okay so im 14 years young. 5`5 and 120lbs. and it may not seem it but obv. u cant see me. but im pretty chunky. my butt is like huge along with my theighs and stomach. i wanna lose i wanna say 10lbs and shed some inches off me stomach. and i wanna do this in four weeks? pleaes dont suggest rediculous things cause im only 14 and i cant like buy anything so please help. =]

Will I lose weight doing an 1100 calorie diet? Im 15 years old.5 feet 4 inches.125 pounds.Im only drinking water.Four bottles of water to be exact.500 calories from my diet consists of fruit.The other portion is 100 calorie packs,special k bars,special k cereal,and salads.Please dont answer saying I dont need to lose weight because I do.Please do answer my question though.Thanks.

women who are size four or six, please answer!? how many inches is your waiste and butt. I know it's a personal question, but hopefully someone will be willing to tell me. I'd just like to know so I can have a goal of how many inches I should lose, thanks. oh will you say how tall you are too please. I am 5'6.

What should I do to lose weight? I'm an eighteen year old female and I stand 5 feet and 4 inches high. I currently weigh 141lbs (about 64 kg). I want to weigh 125 lbs (about 57 kg). How many calories should I intake in a day to achieve this? I plan to jog / run for thirty to forty minutes about four times a week. Will this be enough? Would losing this much weight in about 8 weeks be okay? What else should I do to help me lose weight?

any advice on finding a lost hamster? i have a honey bear hamster, she is 3-4 inches long and when all fours 1 inch tall! i lost her night before last. my dog got in my room and knocked her cage off my desk and when i came back the cage was busted open on the floor and she was gone. i've set food all over the house, turned my room inside out. and i even set books like stairs leading into a bucket where she could climb in and not come out! i have a cat in the house so i need to find her before i go to school tomorrow! any advice?

Will I lose weight running? (Sorry for posting this question again, but I got no answers reffering to the question I've asked) I’ve started running after a too long break, and after I’ve made about all possible mistakes as a runner. I’m following this beginners’ plan that I’ve found on runnersworld.com. I’m also trying to lose a few pounds, I used to go to the gym, but when running four days a week I can’t seem to fit it into my schedule… How many calories (approximately) am I burning? I'd like to know so I’ll decide whether or not it’s enough or that I need to add more aerobics. I’m 18 y.o, 5.1 inches tall and weight about 110 pounds. Thanks in advance! 10-WEEK TRAINING SCHEDULE Week 1 Run 2 minutes, walk 4 minutes. Repeat 5 times. Week 2 Run 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes. Repeat five times. Week 3 Run 5 minutes, walk 2.5 minutes. Repeat four times. Week 4 Run 7 minutes, walk 3 minutes. Repeat three times. Week 5 Run 8 minutes, walk 2 minutes. Repeat three times. Week 6 Run 9 minutes, walk 2 minutes. Repeat Week 7 Run 9 minutes, walk 1 minute. Repeat three times Week 8 Run 13 minutes, walk 2 minutes. Repeat twice. Week 9 Run 14 minutes, walk 1 minute. Repeat twice. Week 10 Run 30 minutes

Hi all.I have lost 15 pounds in 7 months....Four questions..Who can help? Do you think this is a good weight loss or i could have done better.. .. i could have slowed down?. If i want to lose 7 ponds in 15 days .how many times in a day i can work out and for how much time as i have some free time at hand now I am under the impression that weight is lost all over the same..There are people who say weight is first lost here and last lost there where it is first gained is this a myth ? Last when an individual loses weight ,does a size drop of one inch that is 2.25 cm makes a difference in your appearance .I wonder whether anybody can help with all these question .It takes a bit of patience.Anyways thanks for reading

Hi all.I have lost 15 pounds in 7 months....Four questions..Who can help? Do you think this is a good weight loss or i could have done better.. .. i could have slowed down?. If i want to lose 7 ponds in 15 days .how many times in a day i can work out and for how much time as i have some free time at hand now I am under the impression that weight is lost all over the same..There are people who say weight is first lost here and last lost there where it is first gained is this a myth ? Last when an individual loses weight ,does a size drop of one inch that is 2.25 cm makes a difference in your appearance .I wonder whether anybody can help with all these question .It takes a bit of patience.Anyways thanks for reading i dropped two dress sizes .On the verge of dropping one more

How can I lose as much weight possible in the shortest amount of time possible? I am fourteen years old, at a height six feet and two inches tall, and a weight of two hundred and forty pounds. I live a healthy lifestyle, but somehow, in four months, I got to be one hundred and forty pounds. I need some help losing weight and fast. Please help me if you know how to. Thank you. I am fourteen years old, at a height six feet and two inches tall, and a weight of two hundred and forty pounds. I live a healthy lifestyle, but somehow, in four months, I got to be one hundred and forty pounds. I need some help losing weight and fast. Please help me if you know how to. Thank you. Edit: Because somebody asked me, I am a guy.

stuck at a weight?? plz help?!? I'm currently at five foot and four inches.. and am 15 years old girl. But I have a huge problem! My weight is at 89 lbs. I can't seem to gain nor lose weights! Is this normal or not?? I really hate my weight, I do want to LOSE weight not gain. Soo how can I lose weight. I had been fasting for like three weeks but can't get down past 89 lbs. I used to be 75 pounds.. and I would like to go back to that lbs. Sooo how do i lose? and why am I stuck at 89 lbs?? but i'm so obessed about food! I hate them, i'm always trying to eat LESS than 250 a day! I don't want to gain.. i am sorry but my friends got me into losing weights and ever since I love it! I just hate being 'fat' I don't care what other people think abt me.. I don't feel skinny I feel fat. I need to lose weight! But I CAN'T!! I'm STUCK at 89! how can i lose!?!?!? and don't tell me 'you too underweight you need to gain!' plz.. just help?!

Pregnancy Weight Issue and Other? I'm about five foot four inches, I've been a vegetarian my entire life, and I'm obviously preg; 22 weeks and five days along. I'm also 18 years old (no comments about age please, I was married before getting pregnant regardless). I was pregnant before this and we didn't know until I had lost it. Y-Y I had gained a little weight from it and had not lost it. So I weighted maybe about 120 or so before our wonderful baby girl. The mid-wife I'm seeing hasn't said anything about my weight (152 lbs) and says I'm healthy. I know everyone is different, I don't look like I've gained that much. She also meassured my belly and though I was 32 weeks along. I'm not sure what to do. I would like to keep the weight under control but I honestly can't afford to eat that much as is being a vegetarian. I don't understand where 32 lbs can come from. How will I ever be able to lose it? Also I started leaking at 12 weeks?! Is my body just crazy or...?

Question..? I love to jog/run. So I'm going to start jogging one mile on the tretmill every night like I used to before field hockey season. And I am taking a four week self deffence cours and I am loving it so I am giong to start karate. Is this a good enough exersize to lose inches off my waist? And possibly thigh? These are things that I just love to do so if you have any other quick exersizes can do after school than please mention them. Thank you! Someone mentioned a product and so I just need to add that I am only thirteen and products are not something I can have.

Concussion Question? Ok, I feel really stupid about this, but I might as well ask... last night i was tossing and turning for a couple of hours, and i was getting really really frustrated trying to fall asleep....i couldnt, and eventually i cursed and kinda socked myself in the side of the head (balled fist, with the part between wrist bone and pinky knuckle...stupid i know...) i didnt lose consciousness right after and i -dont- have a lump on my head, but i immediately thought 'oh shit' right after i did it. (i am a bit of a worrier.) i checked my pupils in the bathroom and they both seemed to respond normally. i guess my questions are this: how hard of a blow does it take for a concussion to occur, and could i have a mild concussion? if so should i worry and was the force even close to strong enough to cause a brain injury.. i would say the force was about equivalent to pounding a fist on a desk from four inches away (in the manner i described) thanks Anyone else? (also, is 420 safe with a possible concussion?)

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This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food. In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same. No word in the English language rhymes with month. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.) The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low." Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand. Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material. The building now houses the Physics Department. When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr", which means "lord of the sea". The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing. A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away. Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland. Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean war. The southern most city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii. Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain. Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere. Michigan was the first state to plow it's roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119. The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept." Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns would carve out the centers and fill it with wax.So the people buying them started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?" Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply. No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with are in reference of another verb. Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama has the world's largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in the World. The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith. Maine is the only state that borders on only one state. There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska. Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.' The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.' Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz. Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes. Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth. St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position. Lizzie Borden was acquitted. Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize. A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of course). Tribeca in Manhattan stands for TRIangle BElow CAnal street. Soho stands for SOuth of HOuston street. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church. Theworld's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom." Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a projected death toll while it was being built. No one died. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows. A cat has four rows of whiskers. Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride). Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy. If you were standing in the northernmost point in the contiguous (48) states, you'd be standing in Minnesota. Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator. Not all of West Virginia voted to go with the North. When the State of West Virginia was formed from Virginia in 1863 the three western counties in Virginia voted to go with West Virginia, but West Virginia didn't take them because they were poor. Instead they took three counties that voted to stay with Virginia, because they were richer and they had the B&O railroad. Those counties since split and are 5 Jefferson, Hampshire, Berkley, Mineral, and Morgan. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. The Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it. Studebaker was the only major car company to stop making cars while making a profit from them. Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria. (Cork comes from trees.) In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the late M*A*S*H star McLean Stevenson were both once assistant football coaches at Northwestern University. The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three. All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense. Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video. Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later. October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave it to Beaver" and the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym) QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service. The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Almonds are members of the peach family. The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050 The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham-fisted operators", a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e. pounded their fists). While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms. Sam Colt invented the "revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols. A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart. Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. A bullet fired from the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz. A flea expert is a pullicologist. A bear has 42 teeth. M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour. In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots as a warning sign against intruders. In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands. Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil. Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse." If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall. On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot. The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging. Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque. Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency. Ronald Regan sent out the army phoyographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe. Carbonated water, with nothing else in it,can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91. The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes. South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System. In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes. The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons. Charlie Brown's father was a barber. The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy." Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Singer". Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union. It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living! When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio. The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt runoff of Hurricane Hattie. If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation" Gary Burgough who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand. Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean Ingrown toenails are hereditary. The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs during the anti-communist movement. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. "Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.) The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and." The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15. In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role. Only humans and horses have hymens. No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large hole in the roof.) The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland. "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting." The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man will get you." The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second. The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan. Race car is a palindrome. We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.) The Basset Horn, a kind of alto clarinet, was named after its inventor -- a man named Horn. "Basset" is from "Basetto," or "little bass" in Italian. There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son. The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors. Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries. The world's second largest pipe organ is located at the Organ Grinder on 82nd avenue in Portland, Oregon. Games Slayter, a Purdue graduate, invented fiberglass. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine. Olympic Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red home strip. In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right. Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, Here I Come" to be the last piece of music played at his funeral ("softly and slowly") were he to die in office. The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (it is from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party. Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California... The movie "Paris, Texas" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after its box office release. The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y". Pickled herrings were invented in 1375. The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827. Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in the world. At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!) A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. The airport in La Paz, Bolivia is the world's highest airport. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro. Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram. Singpore is the only country with one train station. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor. When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the number of letters which can be printed in an inch. The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is P. In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.' "Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when your talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil" Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. (Its government offices are all in Yaren District, but there's no official capital.) South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein. Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy. The red giant star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil be about three statute miles away. The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "unnilenilenium" The longest muscle name is the "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis popularized it with his lip motions. The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hrs., set by Violet Gibson Burns. The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways. There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older A cat has 32 muscles in each ear An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. The oldest word in the English language is "town" The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other jellyfish known to man. Tigars have striped skin, not just striped fur. Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella. There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo. After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe. Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue. A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones. It would allow one to pull on another face and remove it like a mask if not held on by skin. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.) The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting Pluto-Charon. Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.) Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size. This apparently serves to make room for other organs in the highly-elongated bodies of snakes. A twelve-foot anaconda can catch, kill, and eat a six-foot caiman, a close relative of crocodles and alligators. While these snakes are not usually considered to be the *longest* snake in the world, they are the heaviest, exceeding the reticulated python in girth. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland. If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia. According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light. In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover. In left hand drive countries, such as the UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the right hand side of the car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America. Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour". Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem. Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day." The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin. Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd. The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in paleontology as the best example of that species. The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile". The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan" Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park. The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds. The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path. The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864. The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide. Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several. Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for Satan, Halael. Satan means "adversary", devil means "liar". A cat's jaws cannot move sideways. Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being. Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia. The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an hour behind Atlantic standard time. Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes. The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism". Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese. Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock. The Velvet Underground was named after a book on the S&M culture. The Velvet Underground's first manager was Andy Warhol, who also produced their first album and designed the cover artwork. The cover artwork for the album (called "The Velvet Underground and Nico") featured a bright yellow banana that could be peeled off to reveal a bright pink banana underneath, with the label "Peel Slowly and See." "Peel Slowly and See" is the title of the Velvet Underground comprehensive boxed set, which is the only currently-available Velvet Underground recording to feature a peelable banana. The peelable banana caused substantial delays in the production of the VU's first album and contributed to Lou Reed's firing Andy Warhol as the group's manager. The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild. Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn English. Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they learn Japanese. New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird. Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean. When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau." Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart. Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton. The topknot that quails have is called a hmuh. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd." The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows. New Zealand is also the only country that contains every type of climate in the world. Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold. Ralph Kramden made 62 dollars a week. The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth. Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement. Devo's original name was going to be De-evolution. They shortened it to Devo. Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman. Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles. Chris Ford scored the first ever NBA three-point shot. Of all the East Coast States, New Hampshire has the shortest coastline, about fourteen miles. New Hampshire is also the only State name the has four consecutive consonants in it (in the same word). Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes. Alaska has the longest border with Canada of all the fifty states. Montana has the longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States. Montana also borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It borders three of them. Arkansas is the only US State that begins with "a" but does not end with "a". All the other States that begin with "a", Arizona, Alabama and Alaska, also end with "a". Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice." Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker. Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons." The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should become a saint, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works. The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me" Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 did start in a barn belonging to Patrick and Katherine O'Leary. The O'Leary's house was one of the few that survived the fire. The O'Leary's house had to be guarded by soldiers for weeks afterwards, however, because many enraged residents wanted to burn it down. The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, it is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it the caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed in -- the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California and is named the Sutter Buttes. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT! If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow. There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein. You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard. Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food. The letters H I O X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind. The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator". When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott". Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp. The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins. Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch. The most sensitive finger is the forefinger. Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude. Some of Beethoven's symphonies were performed in Kentucky before they were performed in Paris, France. The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France. Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called Gaeilge. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" A penguin only has sex twice a year. Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative The Dutch town of Abcoude is the only reasonably sized town/city in the world whose name begins with ABC. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country. Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the rest of the state by the Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a bordering state. Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large stret party. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple. A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. "Evian" spelled backvards is naive. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife. The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright. A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box. The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head. Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time. On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal. The Ganges River in India boasts the only genuine fresh-water sharks in the entire world. The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than does cold. Putting tape temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than on the other one. There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts." The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root. "John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches. Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed. Brooklyn is the Dutch name for "broken valley" There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill. Venetian blinds were invented in Japan. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought at neighbouring Breed's Hill. Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute. ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.) The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees) The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him. There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple. In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time. Walt Disney had wooden teeth. The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue. Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off. The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the Pacific Ocean Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes. The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk. Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House. Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven hills. Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common. School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha Orange. The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India. The tailless dinner jacket was invented in Tuxedo Park, New York. Thus it is called the "tuxedo dinner jacket" and is named after the town...not the other way around. The state of Maryland has no natural lakes. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The chemical formula

anyone know of these useless facts? Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord. The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container. David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States. The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp. Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut. The Swiss flag is square. The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation. Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius). The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge. The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline. If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian. No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula. Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river. The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. Emus cannot walk backwards. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America. Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point. The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH. The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery. The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing with his hand resting on a sword, or by holding gloves. The forward pass was created by the football team at Saint Louis University. In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote, there is at least one song about rain. A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches. The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu. Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead". The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen. "Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis." All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel. Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks like two pennants glued on on top of the other) Libya has the only flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it The only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an island) is the Bronx. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team to win the World Series after being relocated. The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit. The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light. Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors. Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S The Western-most point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington. There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard. The first fossilized specimen of Austalopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the palentologists' favorite song, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, by the Beatles. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." The geographical center of North America is near Rugby, North Dakota. The infinity sign is called a lemniscate. Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long. There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum. The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes onstage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines. Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F. Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular. The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird. Camel's milk does not curdle. "Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison. The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck. A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality. The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. Hamsters love to eat crickets. The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts. The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels. The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean. The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint. Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed. The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs. The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God. Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortned to Sheriff. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic. Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third. The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West. The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus. Soweto in South Africa ws derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants. The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show. Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils. Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo. Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths." Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image or a silhouette of the monarch's head instead. Images for picture stamps in the United States are commissioned by the United States Postal Service Department of Philatelic Fulfillment. Artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the done of the U.S. Capitol while painting a mural around the rim. He died four months later. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games. There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989. Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972) Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan. Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark. When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called "spring tides." When they are at their lowest, they are call "neep tides." February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington. Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000. The difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their apron (belly.) The male blue crab has the Washington Monument while the female apron is shaped like the U.S. Capitol. It takes a lobster approxiamately seven years to grow to be one pound. The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding. The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were MC2880 and 1910MD. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator. At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world. A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes. The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone. Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra. Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays. Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds. On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo.) The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself." Giraffes have no vocal cords. Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career. All porcupines float in water. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio. A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins. Many northern parishes (counties) of Louisiana did not agree with the Confederate movement. To show their disapproval, they changed their names. That's why there is a Union Parish, Jefferson Parish, etc. 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. Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.) The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'. German has a wood for the peace offerings brought to your mate when you've committed some conceived slight. This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food. In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same. No word in the English language rhymes with month. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.) The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low." Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand. Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material. The building now houses the Physics Department. When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr", which means "lord of the sea". The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing. A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away. Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland. Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean war. The southern most city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii. Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain. Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere. Michigan was the first state to plow it's roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119. The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept." Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns would carve out the centers and fill it with wax.So the people buying them started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?" Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply. No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with are in reference of another verb. Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama has the world's largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in the World. The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith. Maine is the only state that borders on only one state. There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska. Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.' The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.' Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz. Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes. Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth. St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position. Lizzie Borden was acquitted. Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize. A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of course). Tribeca in Manhattan stands for TRIangle BElow CAnal street. Soho stands for SOuth of HOuston street. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church. Theworld's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom." Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a projected death toll while it was being built. No one died. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows. A cat has four rows of whiskers. Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride). Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy. If you were standing in the northernmost point in the contiguous (48) states, you'd be standing in Minnesota. Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator. Not all of West Virginia voted to go with the North. When the State of West Virginia was formed from Virginia in 1863 the three western counties in Virginia voted to go with West Virginia, but West Virginia didn't take them because they were poor. Instead they took three counties that voted to stay with Virginia, because they were richer and they had the B&O railroad. Those counties since split and are 5 Jefferson, Hampshire, Berkley, Mineral, and Morgan. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. The Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it. Studebaker was the only major car company to stop making cars while making a profit from them. Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria. (Cork comes from trees.) In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the late M*A*S*H star McLean Stevenson were both once assistant football coaches at Northwestern University. The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three. All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense. Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video. Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later. October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave it to Beaver" and the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym) QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service. The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Almonds are members of the peach family. The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050 The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham-fisted operators", a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e. pounded their fists). While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms. Sam Colt invented the "revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols. A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart. Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. A bullet fired from the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz. A flea expert is a pullicologist. A bear has 42 teeth. M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour. In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots as a warning sign against intruders. In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands. Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil. Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse." If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall. On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot. The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging. Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque. Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency. Ronald Regan sent out the army phoyographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe. Carbonated water, with nothing else in it,can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91. The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes. South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System. In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes. The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons. Charlie Brown's father was a barber. The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy." Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Singer". Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union. It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living! When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio. The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt runoff of Hurricane Hattie. If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation" Gary Burgough who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand. Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean Ingrown toenails are hereditary. The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs during the anti-communist movement. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. "Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.) The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and." The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15. In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role. Only humans and horses have hymens. No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large hole in the roof.) The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland. "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting." The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man will get you." The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second. The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan. Race car is a palindrome. We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.) The Basset Horn, a kind of alto clarinet, was named after its inventor -- a man named Horn. "Basset" is from "Basetto," or "little bass" in Italian. There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son. The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors. Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries. The world's second largest pipe organ is located at the Organ Grinder on 82nd avenue in Portland, Oregon. Games Slayter, a Purdue graduate, invented fiberglass. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine. Olympic Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red home strip. In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right. Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, Here I Come" to be the last piece of music played at his funeral ("softly and slowly") were he to die in office. The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (it is from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party. Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California... The movie "Paris, Texas" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after its box office release. The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y". Pickled herrings were invented in 1375. The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827. Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in the world. At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!) A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. The airport in La Paz, Bolivia is the world's highest airport. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro. Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram. Singpore is the only country with one train station. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor. When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the number of letters which can be printed in an inch. The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is P. In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.' "Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when your talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil" Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. (Its government offices are all in Yaren District, but there's no official capital.) South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein. Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy. The red giant star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil be about three statute miles away. The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "unnilenilenium" The longest muscle name is the "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis popularized it with his lip motions. The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hrs., set by Violet Gibson Burns. The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways. There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older A cat has 32 muscles in each ear An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. The oldest word in the English language is "town" The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other jellyfish known to man. Tigars have striped skin, not just striped fur. Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella. There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo. After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe. Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue. A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones. It would allow one to pull on another face and remove it like a mask if not held on by skin. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.) The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting Pluto-Charon. Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.) Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size. This apparently serves to make room for other organs in the highly-elongated bodies of snakes. A twelve-foot anaconda can catch, kill, and eat a six-foot caiman, a close relative of crocodles and alligators. While these snakes are not usually considered to be the *longest* snake in the world, they are the heaviest, exceeding the reticulated python in girth. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland. If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia. According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light. In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover. In left hand drive countries, such as the UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the right hand side of the car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America. Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour". Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem. Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day." The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin. Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd. The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in paleontology as the best example of that species. The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile". The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan" Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park. The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds. The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path. The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864. The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide. Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several. Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for Satan, Halael. Satan means "adversary", devil means "liar". A cat's jaws cannot move sideways. Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being. Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia. The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an hour behind Atlantic standard time. Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes. The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism". Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese. Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock. The Velvet Underground was named after a book on the S&M culture. The Velvet Underground's first manager was Andy Warhol, who also produced their first album and designed the cover artwork. The cover artwork for the album (called "The Velvet Underground and Nico") featured a bright yellow banana that could be peeled off to reveal a bright pink banana underneath, with the label "Peel Slowly and See." "Peel Slowly and See" is the title of the Velvet Underground comprehensive boxed set, which is the only currently-available Velvet Underground recording to feature a peelable banana. The peelable banana caused substantial delays in the production of the VU's first album and contributed to Lou Reed's firing Andy Warhol as the group's manager. The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild. Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn English. Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they learn Japanese. New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird. Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean. When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau." Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart. Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton. The topknot that quails have is called a hmuh. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd." The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows. New Zealand is also the only country that contains every type of climate in the world. Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold. Ralph Kramden made 62 dollars a week. The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth. Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement. Devo's original name was going to be De-evolution. They shortened it to Devo. Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman. Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles. Chris Ford scored the first ever NBA three-point shot. Of all the East Coast States, New Hampshire has the shortest coastline, about fourteen miles. New Hampshire is also the only State name the has four consecutive consonants in it (in the same word). Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes. Alaska has the longest border with Canada of all the fifty states. Montana has the longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States. Montana also borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It borders three of them. Arkansas is the only US State that begins with "a" but does not end with "a". All the other States that begin with "a", Arizona, Alabama and Alaska, also end with "a". Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice." Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker. Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons." The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should become a saint, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works. The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me" Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 did start in a barn belonging to Patrick and Katherine O'Leary. The O'Leary's house was one of the few that survived the fire. The O'Leary's house had to be guarded by soldiers for weeks afterwards, however, because many enraged residents wanted to burn it down. The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, it is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it the caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed in -- the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California and is named the Sutter Buttes. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT! If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow. There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein. You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard. Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food. The letters H I O X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind. The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator". When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott". Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp. The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins. Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch. The most sensitive finger is the forefinger. Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude. Some of Beethoven's symphonies were performed in Kentucky before they were performed in Paris, France. The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France. Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called Gaeilge. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" A penguin only has sex twice a year. Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative The Dutch town of Abcoude is the only reasonably sized town/city in the world whose name begins with ABC. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country. Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the rest of the state by the Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a bordering state. Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large stret party. 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The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright. A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box. The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head. Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time. On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal. The Ganges River in India boasts the only genuine fresh-water sharks in the entire world. The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than does cold. Putting tape temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than on the other one. There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts." The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root. "John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches. Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed. Brooklyn is the Dutch name for "broken valley" There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill. Venetian blinds were invented in Japan. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought at neighbouring Breed's Hill. Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute. ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.) The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees) The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him. There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple. In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time. Walt Disney had wooden teeth. The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue. Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off. The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the Pacific Ocean Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes. The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk. 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The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The chemical formula

What is it? A silver part with purple screws...? Okay when I bought my first car I found a weird something in it and I put it on my key chain because it looked really cool, but I lost my keys and I would ask everybody if they knew what it was or what it could be and nobody knew and now its gone and I really want to know what it was. The person that owned my car before me was a business and they said that they used the car to set up like business displays...like a convention booth I think. Thats what I got out of it. But it could also be a peice of equiptment to a car I dont know. It was about three to four inches and silver. It had about five to six holes in it and little purple hollow screws screwed in the holes. Not all the hole had screws but I dont know if that mattered. It also had like a serial number on the side. Please help. Any ideas would be great, I really have no idea what it could be.

What is it? A silver part with purple screws...? Okay when I bought my first car I found a weird something in it and I put it on my key chain because it looked really cool, but I lost my keys and I would ask everybody if they knew what it was or what it could be and nobody knew and now its gone and I really want to know what it was. The person that owned my car before me was a business and they said that they used the car to set up like business displays...like a convention booth I think. Thats what I got out of it. But it could also be a peice of equiptment to a car I dont know. It was about three to four inches and silver. It had about five to six holes in it and little purple hollow screws screwed in the holes. Not all the hole had screws but I dont know if that mattered. It also had like a serial number on the side. Please help. Any ideas would be great, I really have no idea what it could be.

Can anyone tell me how many calories I should eat per day to lose anywhere from 50 to 60 lbs.? I am a 30 year old female. I weigh 199 pounds and I am 5 ft. 2 1/2 inches. I am currently working out 4 to 5 days per week doing circuit training for 40 minutes and cardio (treadmill) for 30 minutes. I used to drink sugar Kool-Aid every single day. At least three to four glasses per day. I also used to drink 3 to 4 cans of soda per week, but sometimes I would drink two with my dinner so that would increase the number. I also used to eat Little Debbie snack cakes and sugar candies such as Skittles and Starburst. I was in a habit of eating twice a day (lunch and dinner) and I ate pretty much whatever I wanted. I would dip most all meats and veggies in ranch dressing. I never exercised and I NEVER drank water. Now I am drinking at least 64 oz. or more per day. I was never a huge fan of fried foods. I may have fried catfish or fried okra every now and then. But I have did a 360 as far as eating is concerned. Also, I am now eating 4 to 5 small meals per day. Sometimes dinner is a little more than it should be, but I am trying to work on scaling that down.

Im 5 feet 2 inches tall. I weigh 108 pounds. Should i stop my diet? I have been on a diet for four months now. I used to be 140 pounds. i lost total of 32 pounds. my goal is 105 pounds. should i stop once i reach 105 or should i stop rite now. I was wondering because everyone tells me that i should stop. im worried that once i stop, ill gain everything back be 140 pounds again.

Long but worth it? THIS IS SOME KIND OF CHILLI CONTEST If you can read this whole story without tears of laughter running down your cheeks, then there is no hope for you! *Note: Please take time to read this slowly. If you pay attention to the first two judges, the reaction of the third judge is even better! For those of you who have lived in Texas, you know how true this is. They actually have a Chilli Cook off about the time the Rodeo comes to town. It takes up a major portion of the parking lot at the Astrodome. The notes are from an inexperienced Chilli taster named Frank, who was visiting Texas from the East Coast. Frank: “Recently, I was honoured to be selected as a judge at a chilli cook-off. The third judge called in sick at the last moment and I happened to be standing there at the judge’s table asking for directions to the Budweiser truck, when the call came in. I was assured by the other two judges (Native Texans) that the chilli wouldn’t be all that spicy and besides they told me I could have all the free beer during the tasting, so I accepted.” Here are the scorecards from the event: Chilli #1 (Mike’s Manic Mobster Monster Chilli) Judge #1 - A little too heavy on the tomato. Amusing kick. Judge #2 - Nice, smooth tomato flavour. Very mild. Judge #3 - (Frank) Holy shit, what the hell is this stuff? You could remove dried paint from your driveway. It took me two beers to put the flames out. I hope that’s the worst one, these Texans are crazy. Chilli # 2 (Arthur’s Afterburner Chilli) Judge #1 - Smoky, with a hint of pork. Slight jalapeno tang. Judge #2 - Exciting BBQ flavour, needs more peppers to be taken seriously. Judge #3 - (Frank) Keep this out of the reach of children. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to taste besides pain. I had to wave off two people who wanted to give me the Heimlich manoeuvre. They had to rush in more beer when they saw the look on my face. Chilli # 3 (Fred’s Famous Burn Down the Barn Chilli) Judge #1 - Excellent firehouse chilli. Great kick. Needs more beans. Judge #2 - A bean less chilli, a bit salty, good use of peppers. Judge #3 - (Frank) Call the EPA. I’ve located a uranium spill. My nose feels like I have been snorting Drano. Everybody knows the routine by now. Get me some more beer before I ignite. Barmaid pounded me on the back, now my backbone is in the front part of my chest. I’m getting shit-faced from all the beer. Chilli # 4 (Bubba’s Black Magic) Judge # 1 - Black bean chilli with almost no spice. Disappointing. Judge # 2 - Hint of lime in the black beans. Good side dish for fish or other mild foods, not much of a chilli. Judge # 3 - I felt something scrape across my tongue, but was unable to taste it. Is it possible to burn out taste buds? Sally, the barmaid, was standing behind me with fresh refills. That 300-lb lady is starting to look HOT…just like this nuclear waste I’m eating! Is chilli an aphrodisiac? Chilli # 5 (Linda’s Legal Lip Remover) Judge # 1 - Meaty, strong chilli. Cayenne peppers freshly ground, adding considerable kick. Very impressive. Judge # 2 - Chilli using shredded beef, could use more tomato. Must admit the cayenne peppers make a strong statement. Judge # 3 - My ears are ringing, sweat is pouring off my forehead and I can no longer focus my eyes. I farted and four people behind me needed paramedics. The contestant seemed offended when I told her that her chilli had given me brain damage. Sally saved my tongue from bleeding by pouring beer directly on it from the pitcher. I wonder if I’m burning my lips off. It really pisses me off that the other judges asked me to stop screaming. Stuff those rednecks! Chilli # 6 (Vera’s Very Vegetarian Variety) Judge # 1 - Thin, yet bold vegetarian variety chilli. Good balance of spices and peppers. Judge # 2 - The best yet. Aggressive use of peppers, onions and garlic. Superb. Judge # 3 - I shat myself when I farted and I’m worried it will eat through the chair. No one seems inclined to stand behind me except that Sally. She must be kinkier than I thought. Can’t feel my lips any more. I need to wipe my butt with a snow cone. Chilli # 7 (Susan’s Screaming Sensation Chilli) Judge # 1 - A mediocre chilli with too much reliance on canned peppers. Judge # 2 - Ho Hum, tastes as if the chef literally threw in a can of chilli peppers at the last moment. I should note that I am worried about Judge # 3. He appears to be in a bit of distress as he is cursing uncontrollably. Judge #3 - (Frank). You could place a grenade in my mouth, pull the pin, and I wouldn’t feel a thing. I’ve lost the sight in one eye and the world sounds like it is made of rushing water. My shirt is covered with chilli, which slid out of my mouth. My pants are full of lava-like stuff which matches my shirt. At least during the autopsy, they’ll know what killed me. I’ve decided to stop breathing, it’s too painful. Sod it; I’m not getting any oxygen anyway. If I need air, I’ll just suck it in through the four inch hole in my stomach. Chilli # 8 (Tommy’s Toe-nail Curling Chilli) Judge # 1 - The perfect ending, this is a nice blended chilli. Not too bold but spicy enough to declare its existence. Judge # 2 -This final entry is a good, balanced chilli. Neither mild nor hot. Sorry to see that most of it was lost when Judge # 3 passed out, fell over and pulled the chilli pot down on top of himself. Not sure if he’s going to make it. Poor Dude, wonder how he’d have reacted to a really hot chilli?

Lose weight.? I'm overweight for my height and i really would like to lose alot of it. I'm currently on the pill; and that isn't what made me gain the weight. I gained wait through, to put it bluntly, laziness, not eating properly, from extremes of eating too much to starving myself. But lately, I have been eating a healthy diet; fruit, veg, drinking water etc, joined up for the gym and planned to do 3 hours a week at the Gym. Would it just be best for me to tone up my body rather than try and lose weight seeing as, being on the pill means i can't lose weight? Thank you for any ideas you may have. The weight has lowered my self-esteem and it's quite depressing sometime for when i'm at college LOADS of girls have beautiful figures. Oh also, just randomly with that, I DO NOT want to lose my boobs though, if that makes sence, i want to keep them at that size, but also afraid if i lose fat then my boobs will shrink... thank you

The military is testing a new way to regrow lost body parts.? Motive: Soldiers are returning from Iraq with amputated limbs. Method: "extracellular matrix," the material that tells cells where to go and what to become. It's currently used to repair rotator cuffs, Achilles tendons, hernias, and bladders. The military arranged the test in part because a man photographed his finger's regrowth (after losing the last three-eighths of an inch) over four months. He says his regrown fingertip behaves like a newborn's, staying intact while his other fingertips crack in cold weather. Is this not what Frankinstien was about?

lose weight? I'm a 12 year old girl, going into 7th grade and I'm about 5' 1" and 120 pounds. I'm not muscular or anything. My dad has diabetes type 2 so if I don't lose weight I might get it too. I hardly get excercise but the thing is I hardly watch tv, maybe a few times a week. I have wii at home so if I do that will I lose weight? And for example, if someone gave me a chocolate covered donut or a brownie I wouldn't eat it, b/c I hate things that are extremely sweet. Oh, and should I be a vegetarian? I'm not like obssesed with weight loss like some girls in my grade; I just want to lose weight for my health. I don't mind if I do it gradually. I want to lose weight safely. Thanks so much!

What is the min- and max.... punishment for a Aggravated Malicious Wounding Class 2 charge? OKAY HERE STARTS THE NEW CHAPTER IN MYLIFE. LAST MONDAY DEC.03,2007 AT 7:30 PM I GOT STABBED 11 TIMES. ONCE ON MY RIGHT SIDE TWICE ON THE LEFT. ONE OF THE STAB WOUNDS ON MY LEFT SIDE HIT MY LUNG CAUSING IT TO HAVE A REMEMBER WHICH IS... (pneumothorax, collapse of a lung with escape of air into the pleural cavity between the lung and the chest wall). The only symptom may be a sudden pain in the chest. Physical and radiological examination reveals characteristic signs of lung collapse.In tension pneumothorax (where there is high intrapleural pressure), or if both lungs are collapsed, it is mandatory to remove the air from the pleural cavity immediately.) THIS IS ALSO WHY I HAD TO HAVE TO CHEST TUBES ONE IN EACH LUNG. WITHIN THE FEW DAYS I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL MY LUNGS COLLAPSED SEVERAL TIMES AT ONE POINT THEY WERE EVEN TALKING OF REMOVING MY LEFT LUNG. I RECEIVED THREE STABES TO MY THROAT, ONE THAT CUT MY MAIN PULMONARY ARTERY, THAT ONE CAUSED ME TO HAVE SURGERY, ONE OF THE OTHER STAB WOUNDS ALSO PUNCTURED MY TRACHEA BUT DID NOT HARM MY WINDPIPE OR VOICEBOX. I ALSO GOT STABBED IN MY STOMACH ONCE. I HAD TO HAVE SURGERY THERE ALSO TO MAKE SURE THERE WASN'T ANY INTERNAL BLEEDING GOING ON. I RECEIVED 12 STAPLES FROM THAT... I ALSO GOT STABBED IN BOTH OF MY KNEES AND ON MY RIGHT. ANYWAYS I SPENT 13 OR SO HOURS IN ICU AND THEN WENT TO TRAUMA CENTER AT BAPTIST HOSPITAL IN WINSTON AND I WAS UP WALKING AND TALKING 18 HOURS AFTER ALL OF THIS. I HAD TO KEEP MY FINGER STUCK 2 INCHES IN MY NECK SO I WOULDN'T BLEED TO DEATH THAT NIGHT AND OH YEA I DID DIE THEY LOST ME FOUR TIMES TO BE EXACT BUT ANYWAYS I GOT STABBED AT MY OWN HOME BY A GIRL WHO I TOLD NOT TO COME TO MY HOUSE NUMEROUS TIMES, AND ALSO BECAUSE I GOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS GIRL STABBING A FRIEND OF MINE IN HIS HEAD AND HAND... ANYWAYS I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF PUNISHMENT DO YOU THINK SHE WILL RECEIVE?

Lose weight !!!? i really want to lose weight !!!! i weigh about 50 to 49 or 48 kg i have losten weight but i want to lose weight quicker im drinking 4 lt of water every day but want to lose weight pronto plz help !!!!!! im going to Cancun on Jan the 3 i think so i want to lose even a little weight plz help thanks ( im 11 years old im 12 on Jan the 19 )

Advice on losing 7 pounds in 4 weeks? I have gained around 7 lbs over the winter and christmas months. Does anyone have any idea on how much exercise I would have to do and what diet would be appropriate to lose 7 lbs in four weeks or is this unrealistic. Im 5 ft 6 inches and weigh 9 st at the minute. Im not looking to lose loads of weight just get back to my original weight of 8 stone 7 lbs and maintain it.

Lose Weight.? Ok well Im 14 years old. 5'8"and 230 pounds. I really want to lose some weight. My goal is about 30lbs total but I am just looking to lose about 10 between now and next month. I play football and have football everyday from 3-7. I lose some weight during that time but I come home really hungry and put it back on. Does anyone know anything good to eat that will fill me up but not make me put that weight back on. I lift weights daily after I get home from football, but I want to include some other type of exercise that will help me lose weight but not get extremely tired because I would like to do it in the morning when i wake up to get my matabolism going. I dont really want to run in the morning because I run alot at football so any other good exercise that will help would be great. Thanks.

I need workout tips fast!? Ok over the last four months I have lost close to 15-20 lbs. by just doing nothing. I have seen a big drop in appetite and I am loving the fact that I have lost weight and also inches. Before Thanksgiving I was in a size 10 and now I'm in a size 6 to 8 and loving it. Any tips to getting rid of belly fat and other ugly cellulite before swimsuit season? I don't have an eating disorder and have had a checkup with my doctor and everything is ok. I was at an unhealthy weight before this loss of appetite occured so my doc is happy to see me lose these extra lbs. I am drinking water daily. I just need some easy and fun ways to slim up my midsection and maybe my legs? I am on a tight budget so don't have the type of money to spend on expensive things.

lose weight? I'm a 12 year old girl and I'm about 5' 1" and 115 pounds. I'm not muscular, but i'm big boned. My dad has diabetes type 2 so if I don't lose weight I might get it too. I hardly get excercise. I'm not like obssesed with weight loss like some girls in my grade; I just want to lose weight for my health. I don't mind if I do it gradually. I want to lose weight safely. Should I lose weight, and how? Thanks so much!

I drank 4 bottles of water today? And counting? Like said above, I drank four bottles of water today, and the day isn't even over yet! I was wondering is too much water bad for you? Because I've been trying to lose weight, and I was reading all these posts that said to drink lots of water-and that's what I started doing. I feel good about it though, (even if it means going to the bathroom more often) because I'm not as hungry and I don't feel the constant need to snack on something. Oh by the way, I'm a 14 year of girl trying to lose about 2 inches from the tummy. Thanks in advance! =]

Lose weight? I need to lose weight for next wednsday.. I weight 125 pounds and need to lose 15 pounds.. This is urgent because is for a competition.. I've been eating fruit at breakfust and dinner and at lunch I eat tuna or cheese.. The first 3 days I started exercising 3 hours a day but now I don't have the time and have stopped losing weight. What can I do to lose the weight? Any tips will be appreciated.. When the competition is over, I'll go to the nutritionist

losing 13-15 pounds in 7 weeks...possible? I'm 5'5 and I weigh 133pounds, small-medium body frame...measurements are 32/34C-28-37....i'd like to lose a couple of inches especially off my waist...so i'd like to lose about 13 pounds in 7 weeks and get down to 120 pounds by new year....is this possible? its weird but according to my body fat percentage (i got it check at my gp's office), my gp says its pretty high though it doesnt show on the outside! i'm on a diet now and i vary each day between 1100 to 1200 kcal...i also jog for about 30-40mins 5 times a week....is this ok? what should i do if i hit a plateau? any tips? thanks :) PS. I used to be overweight when i was a teen then four years ago through exercise and dieting I got down to 130-something pounds...problem is i can't seem to get any lower...this must be the plateau thing goin on...i'd really like to lose the last 10-15 pounds to reach my ideal...my bone frame is smallish so 133 is abit heavy..... my body is weird...the ppl i know who are around my height and size usually weigh about 125 pounds...and yet i'm heavier...is the heaviness because of some internal fat or something...like arounnd my organs :s Kimmer K: I consume 1100 to 1200kcal...PLUS exercise...i jog or do some brisk walking for around 40mins so that would burn off around 200kcal almost daily...on days i don't feel like eating or i'll eat 100kcal, i take a break from exercise lol...not 100kcal..i meant 800 to 1000kcal (on days i dont exercise)

Lose Weight???? Okay, I really want to lose weight. i don't look fat, but i don't feel healthy either. my thighs and stomach are the worst. i weight 130 pounds and i am 5'6. ever since i met my friend who was really overweight, i've been gaining weight because i was constantly at her house, and all she did was eat. now she moved nnd we don't hang out anymore, but i have bad habits, and i gained a LOT of weight and i REALLY want to lose it again. Does anyone have any good tips for a diet and some good exercises?? Any really good exercises to lose belly fat and make my thighs thinner??? Also, are there any suggestions for a faster metabolism?? Thanks! =]

lose weight? i was hoping to lose weight by mid august. my overall goal for weight loss is at least 25 pounds. i am 5'5 and a half and i weigh 150, i have alot of extra fat on my body and i was wondering what machines at the gym will help me lose alot of weight and quickly. i dont want to build big muscle yet, but when i do lose weight i want the fat from my breast area gone(im a guy) and i want pecs but not huge ones. i want to be skinny but muscular because im not a big guy. i want to be lean. any answers are great help. please no dieting tips, ive been down that road. doesnt help:P thanks

lose weight? um i asked a question like that about 5 mins ago n i got awesome answers [[there was 1 chick tryina preach 2 me bout some stuff n even my attitude lol but shes just lame]] anyway i need unhealthy ways 2 lose weight fasttttttttttt. dont post an answer if ure gonna say some stuff bout proper dietin, etc. n btw i have NOT gained any weight, im not even fat. ppl say ima break but w/e i still think i can lose weight. so i need a fast unhealthy way to lose weight in like...a week? thanks :)

lose weight? I really need to lose some weight! I am 14 and I am 5'1'' and am around 120-125 lbs and I am really sick of being over weight. I want to lose weight and I have tried to do it before but I give into cravings or just give up. I need some tips on how to lose about 10 lbs and I know it will take some time, I'm not thinking this will happen over night. What are ways I can eat healthy and try to exercise regularly without giving into cravings?

Lose weight? I am really athletic and I run track and play competetive soccer, but unfortunatley at the moment I am not allowed to workout because I have mono and hepatitus. I know its hard to lose weight without exercising, but I would really like to lose some weight right now. I am 5'5 a girl and 108ish. Any suggestions on how I could lose some weight? thanks.

Lose Weight? Help! I am 14 years old and I weigh 125 pounds. And 5'3 tall. I need to lose weight in 2 months. Can anyone suggest any ways to lose weight as fast as possible? I need to get in shape for soccer season. How much weight can I possible lose in 2 months?

Lose Weight!? Im 13 years old and i weight about 190 pounds. I am going back to my home town in exactly 2 weeks. And i havent see my friends in a while so i wanna look a lil different. I wanna weight 160. But i DONT wanna lose that much at one time. But over a couple months. I do wanna lose about 5-10 pounds in 2 weeks? prefably in my legs or stomach. Can yall kinds set a plan up for me to follow so i can lose weight. ima pants size 13-14. I wanna be a pants size 7-8 in about 6 months. Thank you oh so much!!!

Lose weight? I am 5 ft 8 and i weight 137 which is pretty average for my height, but i still have some stomache and hip fat. I was wondering what i can do to get rid of it, because it is starting to get harder for me to lose weight. I used to weight 156 but lost about 20 pounds. I want to lose 10 more pounds in the stomache and hip area...what can i do? i already eat healthy and exercise

lose weight? Hi im 14 year old gonna be 15 in october 2007 and im 5 feet 4 and im 170 pounds. I despretly need to lose weight since im supposed to be about 140 and there is a party coming up on July 1st that i really ned to look good for. Ive started doing about 20 minutes cardio on treadmill eating right drinking green tea and increasing protein. But i only lost 2 punds in two weeks. I need to boost this or this way ill only lose about 5 pounds before the party. I want to lose atleast 10-15 pounds. And i want to continue this process through all of summer and maybe rest of my life but right now i need something to boost my wieght loss but i dont want to take protein powders or weight lossing powders unless the natural cleansing powder stuff will work. Please help me and is green tea okay for me since im only 14??

Lose Weight? I Need Help. I Want To Lose Like 26 Pounds In A Month In A Half. I Know Its Possible. But I Really Need Help People. I Want To Be On A Diet. Can Ya'll People Tell Me What Can I Eat Are Eat Less Of. Can I Eat Little Amounts Of Food Plus Alot Of Water. Would That Help? Are Can I Start To Eating Veggies Instead Of Meat? Please I Need To Lose 26 Pounds. I Want That To Be My Target. Just Tell Me What To Do. And Tell Me Want To Do At Night Time, Because Thats When I Start To Eat Alot. I Weight Like 230 Pounds. Put I Want To Lose 50 Pounds In All But For Now I Want To Lose 26. Just Tell Me How To Eat. Is It True When You Sleep It Put On Alot Of Weight Over Night?

Lose weight? I want to know a simple daily routine to lose weight? I am a 15 year old Male and weight 224 lbs (17 UK Stone) and desire to lose weight to improve my health and appearance. I've read many complex diets, and regimes, but I want to know simpler routines that work for you. I enjoy walking, cycling, and swimming.

lose weight??? I am 5'4 and 130-135 lbs. (i am a teenager) I want to lose 5-10 lbs. in 3 months but I want to know how far/how long to run if i run 4-5 days a week. And also what else can i do (i cant do elliptical cause i cant go to a gym) to lose weight. What exercises and things would be good? (I have access to a track, treadmill, and weights/ weight bench w/lateral bar ) Thanks for your help : )

lose weight? i am 4'11 (i no, very short) and weight 120 pounds i dont no how i got this way, but i really need to lose weight! at least 30 pounds! i take fighting classes for an hour on some days, but not all the time is there some method to lose weight? i need to get motivated to exercise too!

lose weight? im ten and I am 130lbs its embarrassing walking around in school with all this weight. does any one know a way I can diet and lose the weight. I really want to lose weight before my 11th birth day on january 10 next year. And I really reall want to be in school weighing lest HELP one my birth day I meant january 20

lose weight?!? im 13.166cm 58kg.i think i need to lose some weight.i have a belly fat and i dont like it.i want my weight to be about 45-50 kg.any tips or advise will do.my question is 1.how to get rid the belly fat? 2.how to lose weight?

Lose weight? hi, i have tried all the product on the market or most of them, to help me lose weight i am 5ft 11 and weight approx 12 stone but there are parts of my body i need to lose weight i have a healthy apprtite, and i must admit i do snack alot, but i do exercise i play football (yes im a girl who plays football) so i train during the week and at weekends to i am currently takin those adios tablets which are a aid to help slimming but i dont see any results i do sit ups and all sorts to try to tone up, like i said i sometimes snack onthe bad things but shouldnt my exercise counter balance that, i also do sit ups every mornng and night before i go to bed. is there anything out there that is not dangerous to help slimming which i will see results!! i dont want to damage my health i have tried all sorts can you help!!?

lose weight? im 14, and im a little on the chubby side, i want to know how to lose weight without dieting, i mean like exercise, would situps do the trick? how many each day? i know it is a little young to lose weight, but i am a little bit over weight..lol candigurl901

Lose weight? im 14 about 5'6'' and i weight about 262 ...do you think its possible to lose about 30-50 pounds by august 23,2007....i have dance dance revolution and i recently got a basketball hoop...i got a south beach diet book....but i havent started yet...and im always tired when i get home from school...i was active but not as much now.....another reason is i think it will make me feel better about myself physically ...mentally(health wise) because im always complaining about stuff and i think most of it comes from being overweight... being scared something is wrong (health wise)...and another thing im pretty fast for my weight but i dont have stamina and energy and i think i have a weak immune system so sometimes i get sick somehow when i exercise....... 1.does south beach diet work 2.is it possible to lose that much weight 4.will it make me healthier and strengthen my immune system 3. any other stuff yall want to tell me to motivate me :) 6. will it give me more energy , stamina, and speed

Lose Weight.? I know everyone asks this question, but I want to lose weight. I'm 5'4.5 and I weigh around 140 pounds. Noone thinks I look like it but I do. I was on Weight Watchers and I weighed around 125 but my doctor said that that was unhealthy so I stopped. And in 3 months weighed 140. I tried to get back on it, but I can't seem to stick with it. I exercise everyday at the local YMCA, but I think I eat too much. When I try to eat less, I feel weak and really hungry. I don't know how to lose weight. Any suggestions?

lose Weight? i am 14 ,currently a student, weight ard 81kg/170+lbs, i want to lose weight constantly , dunnid to be fast, due to my studies , there isn't really any chance to exercise, wat other ways can i do to lose weight?

Lose weight? I'm 5"5" tall and weigh 105 pounds. I want to lose 10-15 pounds to be thin. I am so fat right now. But I am having trouble losing the weight. Any tips on how to lose the weight would be welcome. Should I just stop eating until I lose the weight?

lose weight?? im currently 13 years old and i have somewhat of a stomach problem. i can never seem to lose weight and keep it off. im currently 5'4" as my height and about 116llbs. i really want to lose my tummy so are there any new diet plans that help to lose weight besides running and eating healthy? i'll obviously follow that as well but i need a BIG change

lose weight? hi, i weigh123 and im 5'4. i only really wanna lose weight around my stomach but it wouldnt hurt anywhere else. i eat fibre1 for breakfast, rye bread with a lunch meat and butter for a lunch, sometimes a fruit. i eat these oreo thin strips (the ones with only 100 calories per pack) also at lunch. and for a snack aruond 4ish i eat fat free, sugar free yogurt. i eat a regular supper(no desert) with like, stirfry, spaghettie, meats, etc. but i run 2miles everynight on my tred mill, and i run for 15 minutes every second morning, i have basketball practice on tuesdays for an hour and for an houra nd 15minutes on thursdays. i sometimes do 100 or more crunches at night. im wondering how long will it take me to lose some weight? i wanna lose stomach fat by the summer.. THANKS ALOT<33xxoxo :D if uu have any suggections or anything please do tell. TYY

Lose Weight? I weigh 218lbs. I want to weigh 170-175, a 50lb diffrence. Im married with three kids 8,5,1 1/2, My husband doesnt think i need to lose weigh but im uncomfertable and im not happy with myself, He tells me im beatiful, sexy georgus, all the right things. We work at a restrant that we use to eat at alot for free. I dont eat but once a day and when i do eat i feel very guilty, i have feet problems I tend to think its becouse I need to lose weight. When we get off at nite, he wants mcdonald witch only serve fruit bowls or wendys that serve salads(not at all bad), i want to lose the weight I dont have time to go to a gym so in the mornings after i take my two oldest to school i walk the track. How do i explain to my husband i want to do this for me.

Lose Weight???? well im 15 years old and im 5.7-5.8 tall i weight 195 pounds!!!!and i in a weight class.... people say that muscle weights more than fat but i feel 2 fat any ways 2 help me lose some weight please!!!!!

Lose weight? ok umm im 14 turning 15 this year n june 13. i am really over wieght :( i want to lose ass much as weight possible because nxt year i may do my 16 . this yeah when i turn 15 i want to atleast lose some wight so people would know (especially my family) tha i can lose weight and for the best for myself. please help i tried many diets but i just give up! please help

lose weight? okay i lost 50 pounds and people say i dont ned to lose anymore weight but i still want to lose another 20 pounds before school starts back then i will be at my goal which is 185 pounds what should i do and eat to lose this 20 pounds before september

lose weight? i'm five feet tall and i weigh 120 pounds. i recently gained fifteen pounds from living really unhealthily during the summer. but now i'm trying to drop the weight and it's not going away!!! what are some ways to lose weight fast? i'm vegetarian and i don't eat eggs, by the way. and i have to snack a lot because i have a million errands to run during the day, so please suggest some healthy snacks. tell me some exercises, foods, snacks, and overall tips to lose fifteen pounds fast!!!

lose weight? k... i am a 13 year old girl and i have like lease then 2 months too lose weight for a dance.. give me a good dieght plan i can mantain ( with school too) i also whant to lose weight by the 2nd of july... for a vacation.... k... my school lunch is like really grosse and i weigh like 220.... i need something really easy to mantain at (school)

Lose weight? Hello, my name is Elizabeth and I'm 168 pounds! (5'7''). I have a small bust - and I'm looking to lose weight in a safe way (if you send me ads for "Hoodia" or another stupid diet I will ignore). I am trying to lose weight but I can't resist food at all or eat in moderation! I've been getting an hour to an hour and a half of exercise everyday so I'm on the right track, but how can I stop eating too much?

Lose Weight? I'd like to lose some weight. I don't want to harm myself by using diet pills or anything like that. I'm asking this to people who have lost weight... what diet plan did you use? Your own(If so, describe) or one already out there, let me know. I got graduation in a couple months and I'd like to drop a few pounds before then. So thanks for the help ahead of time.

Lose weight ? My bffl is coming over tomorrow and we want to lose some weight. Any good ideas on how to lose weight fast? dont want to be like paris hiltion :]

lose weight? i'm 18 and a half, 5 foot 2 and about 135 pounds. i'd like to get down to 120-125 pounds by the end of the summer (late august so i have about 8/9 weeks?) and lose one size so my jeans wont be so tight anymore haha i love working out but i can't seem to control my hunger. i'll eat a ton of food, and they go mountain biking for an hour and then do pilates...i've tried to cut back on food but then it seems like i don't have enough energy to work out at my usual intensity, and i end up just going overbored and pig out again... i have a full time summer job. and it seems like right now lunch is the hardest time of the day to eat healthy portions because i'm home for a whole hour...would adding slim fast hunger control shakes or something to replace my lunch make me full enough to lose weight? sorry this is so long. any suggestions on hunger control/weight loss tips...thanks:)

lose weight? hey i am almost 15 years old, i am 5'4" and weigh 130 pounds. i want to lose weight as fast as i can, but safely enough so that i lose fat and not water. i used to be anorexic skinny but now i am fat, so i can barely maintain weight when i consume about 1000 calories a day. i do abdominal exercises most nights of the week. i have a two-pack in my abs, but i want them to be able to show more [like 6 pack] and have a model body to try modeling. PLEEZ help.

lose weight?? im trying to lose weight. i was just wondering if it is still heathly to eat a plain salad ans drink just water all day im trying to lose weight within the next 2 weeks any suggestions thanks

Lose weight? I know loads and loads of people have been asking about this thing and manny people have answered the questions but it doesnt really work for me. I need to lose weight. Not that much but I want to. I'm 57kg and I want to be about 53kg. How can I lose weight safely and doesn't take time until months. I also want to make my thighs smaller. Is that possible?

Lose Weight? I'm 15 and i weigh around 180 pounds. I want to lose weight REALLY badly. Can someone please give me a plan or something like that to lose weight quickly? Your help will be appreciated! =) I'm 5 foot 4 Thank you guys for the all your help! =)

Lose Weight? I've just turned 18 and I really want to lose weight, i'm so unhappy with my body and have been for ages, now i want to do something about it, i'm not obese or really fat, everyone says im being stupid but if people dont like their bodies then its up to them. Wondered if anyone knew some good, quick ways of losing weight as well as eating healtily and going to the gym. Does the salt water things work?

Lose Weight?? i have just gained like 2 pounds and im very mad about it, before i gained weight i had always stayed the same, what can i do to lose the fat besides running(since it's winter) i really want to lose weight so can somebody help me best answer gets 10 points

lose weight? i'm five feet tall and i weigh 120 pounds. i recently gained fifteen pounds from living really unhealthily during the summer. but now i'm trying to drop the weight and it's not going away!!! what are some ways to lose weight fast? i'm vegetarian and i don't eat eggs, by the way. and i have to snack a lot because i have a million errands to run during the day, so please suggest some healthy snacks. tell me some exercises, foods, snacks, and overall tips to lose fifteen pounds fast!!!

Lose Weight? i tried to lose weight but i just cant i dont know how whats the fastest way to lose weight w/out using diet pills and that stuff

lose weight? I need help to lose some weight and everytime I start I find it easier to quite and just forget about it. but, sometimes when I can't sleep or I watch something that reminds me of when I used to play sports I say I am going to lose this weight and do the same thing over and over I need some help to keep me on track what should I do? I though about a personal trainer but its way to expensive and I want to be able to do this cause its hard to meet girls when your over wieght unless you want them as friends....

Lose weight? I'm 15 5"4' i weight 155 i have been loseing weght for a while now i use to be around 190 and well i just got my new treadmill and i have been wanting to lose like 15-20 pounds in like a less then 4 months and i need some help it is really hard for me to eat healthy i do but i sit there and watch my sister eat whatever she wants to and never gain a pound and she is soo skinny and plus i am only 15 so i need food that i can get at like Mejers and i need to know how much can i run to lose weight??? <3thanks

lose weight? If i go to the gym everyday and go on the treadmill for 30 minutes, 20 minutes on the rowing machine and 20 minutes on the excercise bike and 30 minutes of boxing on the bags will i lose weight yes or no and tell me ways to lose weight us well plz

Lose weight? I am going on vaction next week and I just realized that I didnt work out at all! And i need to lose weight and FAST! Any tips on how I can lose weight before I leave? Okay, I did work out as soon as School ended. And then I had to do summer school and that just took up most of my day. So i didnt work out for a month. And I gain fat easly. So me not working out for a month sorta added on more fat. So yeah.

lose weight? hey people im a guy about 6,1 height and im trying to lose weight, my current weight right now is 273.LB and im trying to go down atleast to 200, can someone please tell me whats a good way to lose this extra pounds that i have please.?

Lose weight?...? Will this eventually help me lose weight? Guess how much in how long, thanks? So... I'm eating less for breakfast, cheerios for lunch chinese food and for dinner leftover chinese food and i will work out from 15 to 30 minutes each day i won't eat a lot because i'm drinking a lot of water so will i lose weight? any suggestions? not like american chinese fastfood rice with vegies

Lose weight? Please help me. I love this boy and I need him to like me so I need to lose weight since I am not skinny. Its not just about the boy though, I really wnt to lose weight. Please give me GOOD siggestions. Nothing nasty or perverted or anything that isnt helpful.

Lose weight? Well I am really stressed out and want to lose weight. The only thing that's stopping me is the vast amount of school work that I have to do. I can't find time to exercise, only sometimes. How can I still lose weight? Actually, I have dance rehearsal a lot, but I feel it's still not enough because after dance I eat and then sit and do homework. Help?

lose weight? 18 yr old female. 5 ft tall and weigh about 117lbs I would like to weigh about 110 lbs and dont know where to start. Now I cant run yet becuz I tore my acl back in september and its to much pressure to run, but i can walk. Question 1, does walking really work/make a difference ? how much, how long? Now i would like to gain my muscle def. back in my legs while losing the extra in my butt and thighs, also I would love to lose a lil on my arms and stomach. Should I go on a no carbs diet? What other diets should I try? Any suggestions? And please, nothing outrageous, I would like to lose some weight by August

Lose Weight...? I have been wanting to lose weight for a year now but I have never followed through.. There is a dance in a month at school and I'd like to lose at least 20 pounds. Is there a healthy way to lose 20 pounds in one month for a male? Please help me out.

Lose weight? ok...I am 18 years old, 160 pounds, & 5'1 or 5'2. I have a big butt and thick legs. I looked up my BMI, and I am at the risk of being overweight. Is there something I can do to lose a couple of pounds. My goal is to lose about 10 pounds. I am not fat-fat, but Im thick. I have heard that 6-8 glasses of water makes you lose weight. Also 24 oz of milk a day does the same. Does hoodia work, I kind of want to look into it. I love dancing, so I might just dance 30 minutes a day or somethin to fulfill my physical actiity needs. Any suggestions? I want to look better :)

lose weight? what is the quickest weight to lose weight without doing much of execise...

lose weight? what was the most weight u lost in a certain period of time? and how did u lose it?

lose weight? i don't have any energy i want to work out but i don't have the money of energy to do it I'm over weight and i cant seem to lose it i have cut back on the food big time eating salads drinking lost of water help i cant afford the gym and I'm scared of pills i don't know what to do next?

lose weight.? how can i lose weight? any suggestions?? i weigh 50 kilos at a height of 151 cm..i want to lose about 5 kilos..can anyone help?