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A couple of nights ago I was watching one of those shows about car crashes, train wrecks and the such caught on tape. Now TV is very educational as you all know but I learnerd something very interesting in the process.

When your lose your electricity, the big mega volt breaker the power company installs kicks out and you have no electricity. The circuit breaker will then send a 10,000 volt charge through the line to test it before resetting the breaker.

Now why I found this interesting I'm not sure and I sincerly hope I never have the need for this information but........you just never know. And you know really it was something you'd never think to ask when acquiring all the information necessary to survive in this world such as hot burns, don't back talk mama and you can't hit your toes with a hammer. The basic stuff is all there but then some people get to the point where their input wasn't really complete and they think it's okay to use the hair dryer in the shower.... it happens.

Did you know that there were more than one accidental death last year by way of wounds self inflicted with an ink pen? Truth? who knows... Now I say something has gone terribly awry if you've managed to kill yourself with an ink pen but maybe these people were just missing an important piece of information that somehow slid through the cracks.

So what has this got to do with motorcycles? Well.. nothing really I suppose but hey! I thought it might be insightful and entertaining just the same. Possibly lame or boring but sometimes you just gotta take risks.

So..... know any oddball - could be useful info? Don't mix coke and bleach? We already know about the peeing on the electric fence so just go ahead and forgoe that one... don't ask.. but any other useful info would be much appreciated if would help move us safely along our chosen path.

If you have a stomach virus that caused you to have the squirts for a really long time DO NOT mistakingly use a Stridex pad thinking it is a Tucks pad.

2 cups of potassium nitrate aka salt petre & 1 cup of sugar.....melt the sugar, mix in the potassium nitrate & let it cool. makes a really nice white hot flame when lit & you dont want to put it in water.

A bag of 1,000 quarters weighs 13.42 lbs.

If you corncob and turpentine a cats @ss in will out run most motorcicles

I know I oughta know something, but try as I might I am coming up blank. Now that's depressing.

Wait, I remember when your mother said "Do the right thing", that the alternative "thing" was always a lot more fun .

JH

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Peanuts are one of the ingredients in Dynamite.

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.

The only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters on your keyboard is "typewriter".

Soren

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The only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters on your keyboard is "typewriter"

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yes. this was the brainchild of early typewriter engineers. as we all forget where we are, or what
it was we walked back into the house to get when
thecarisrunningyouarelateforworkandyouhavetodrive25milesinaraginghailstorm,
or what we are doing. when it's the, what we are doing while typing issue, all you
have to do is apply your Scrabble skills to the top row of letters.

now of course any good Scrabbler(no...not Scrappler)
knows you only get to pick seven letters, so you'd
have to make yourself a goodoldfashionedrunonword
to make the 10 letter word, typewriter.

thus attaching your seven letters to either side of the already existing
word on the board "pew" you will have in fact used
all seven letters, garnered an extra 50 points for being so darn
clever, and in all likelihood landed on a couple of bonus squares
as well. with a "Y", a "W" and a "P" that could
add up to a mighty little bundle of points.

now i don't know if this is on par with things you oughtta know
or if it is a slick little
unintended hijack.
i hafta say though the whole rambling felt wonderfully Arlo-esque.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

If are having problems with the neighbors pets you can set out a small bowl of antifreeze.

"You can't lick your elbow." Really?
SteveB

According to the National Demolition Association, only 1% of demolition is done by implosion (you know, those cool videos of buildings collapsing on themselves). The rest is done by mechanical means or by hand.

In case any of you ever want to make money at the track.
80% of horse races are won by 10% of the jockeys.

Elephants can't jump

In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."

you can't sneeze in your sleep

Reno NV is further west than Los Angeles CA

51% of South Carolina High School students will ever graduate.

New York is NOT the home of the Statue of Liberty!

Before you choose a Doctor, make sure he/she has small hands!!!!!

You think in China they call hamburgers and hot dogs American food??

If you put a bullet in the furnace...

You might be a sex offender!

We have a lot of power outages here in this area. You have to have a surge protector for you TV or it may blow up when the power comes back on.(this actually happened to me once). Now I know why. Thanks Chy.

A small bowl of beer will get rid of slugs. They fall in & drown.
75% of Yankees don't know what a slug is.

If you put a hermit crab in scalding hot water it will come out of its shell.

Hey like I said I was doing an experment. She shouldent have said one thing if she ment another.

I may be a slug though I am attracted to beer and have been know to "drown" myself in it.

I am a proud memeber of PETA...people eating tasty animals.

A cat will land on its feet when dropped only 93 of 100 times.

Man! THAT'S one tough luck CAT, dude! One hundred times???!!!

I wanna know....WHO would drop a poor friggin' cat THAT many times in order to kind out THIS bit o' trivia???

(heck, I'm basically a dog person....but...COME ON!!!)

If your 'cycle helmet is too big, use one of those ladies panty liners on the inside as a shim.

Don't use those ones with 'wings' on tho' - you'll look like Deputy Dawg !!!!!

If you put a sock over a cat's head & let it go they will drop thier heads down to the floor & usually walk backwards & then jump as soon as they touch something.

A goat will eat anything it can chew up