Did You Know? Part 3

[boinky 0]

*There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.

*America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

*Steal Someone's Thunder-Meaning: To pre-empt; to draw attention away from someone else's achievements in favor of your own. English dramatist John Dennis invented a gadget for imitating the sound of thunder and introduced it in a play in
the early 1700s. The play flopped. Soon after, Dennis noted that another play in the same theater was using his sound-effects device. He angrily exclaimed, "That is my thunder, by God; the villians will play my thunder, but not my play. The story got around London, and the phrase grew out of it.

*Pay Through the Nose-Meaning: To pay a high price; to pay dearly. Comes from ninth-century Ireland. When the Danes conquered the Irish, they imposed an exorbitant Nose Tax on the island's inhabitants. "They took a census (by counting noses) and levied oppressive sums on their victims, forcing them to pay by threatening to have their noses actually slit." Paying the tax was "paying through the nose."

*To Lay an Egg-Meaning: To fail. From the British sport of cricket. When you fail to score, you get a zero- which looks like an egg. The term is also
taken from baseball, where a zero is a 'goose egg.'

*The first advertisement to discuss body odor was a 1919 ad for the deodorant Odo-Ro-No.

*Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3 times as nutritious as beef.

*A week-old gazelle can outrun a full grown horse.

Nina

Are we called "DAWGs" because we stick our noses up people's butts? (RIP Buzz)
Yep, you're a postwhore-billyvance

[justaflygirl 0]

very very interesting....

[Travman 6]

[reply*Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3 times as nutritious as beef.

[swedishcelt 0]

If you ate a pound of grasshoppers wouldn't you die of protein poisoning?
For some odd reason, I believe my high school Science teacher told me that.

[bobsled92 0]

According to the Great Philosopher, George Carlin:

"In a National survey, 4 out of 5 people think the >5th guy< is an asshole"
-true story

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[Evelyn 0]

I didn't know any of that stuff. Thanks for enlightening me

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[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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[reply*Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3 times as nutritious as beef.

I bet the scientists are already working on a cow sized grasshopper, but then comes the question of fences.

[SpeedRacer 1]

You gotta cook the grassopper first. Then it isn't all goopy inside.

Hey we eat shrimp, right? Those are just bugs from the sea.

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[BillyVance 35]

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You gotta cook the grassopper first. Then it isn't all goopy inside.

Hey we eat shrimp, right? Those are just bugs from the sea.

Yeah, but you have to defile them too... otherwise they taste like shit...

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[mnealtx 0]

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You gotta cook the grassopper first. Then it isn't all goopy inside.

Hey we eat shrimp, right? Those are just bugs from the sea.

Yeah, but you have to defile DEVEIN them too... otherwise they taste like shit...

Fixed that for ya, Billy... unless you really have a Dark Altar set up in your basement specifically for defiling those poor little shrimp....

Mike
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[BillyVance 35]

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You gotta cook the grassopper first. Then it isn't all goopy inside.

Hey we eat shrimp, right? Those are just bugs from the sea.

Yeah, but you have to defile DEVEIN them too... otherwise they taste like shit...

Fixed that for ya, Billy... unless you really have a Dark Altar set up in your basement specifically for defiling those poor little shrimp....

LOL yeah, devein is what I meant...

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[mnealtx 0]

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Fixed that for ya, Billy... unless you really have a Dark Altar set up in your basement specifically for defiling those poor little shrimp....

LOL yeah, devein is what I meant...

Thank God you didn't say "deflower"!!!!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[bobsled92 0]

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You gotta cook the grassopper first. Then it isn't all goopy inside.

Hey we eat shrimp, right? Those are just bugs from the sea.

Yeah, but you have to defile them too... otherwise they taste like shit...

YEP!
Lobster are in the same family as cockroach (jap. ablino large roach=food)
Crab is related to the spider family.
===all bugs.
scuba diving for lobsters is called "bug hunting".

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