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Good, then the social skills classes are paying off in that respect at least. ;)
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Pedronicus wrote:Human eyes never grow, but nose and ears never stop growing

not even when you die?
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The1exile wrote:
Pedronicus wrote:Human eyes never grow, but nose and ears never stop growing

not even when you die?

At least the hair in your nose and ears will continue to grow for some time.
saxitoxin wrote:Your position is more complex than the federal tax code. As soon as I think I understand it, I find another index of cross-references, exceptions and amendments I have to apply.
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The1exile wrote:
Pedronicus wrote:Human eyes never grow, but nose and ears never stop growing

not even when you die?
You grow moldy.
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did you know.....


There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious".
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Pedronicus wrote:Human eyes never grow


This is simply not true. A newborn infant does not pop out with full-size adult eyeballs.

"At birth, the head and structures within it, such as the eyes and brain, are more developed in proportion to the rest of the body. The head and eyes increase in width by only 1.5 times up to the age of 5 years, and after that only a very small proportion more until early adulthood. So the eyes do grow slightly, probably only a matter of millimetres, and only up to age 5 or so."
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loaf and lady both came from the same Old English root word "hlaf". Hlaf became loaf (originally bread) and hlafdige became lady (originally one who makes bread).
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Did you know that 55% of Pakistanis living in the UK are inbred?
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brooksieb wrote:Did you know that 55% of Pakistanis living in the UK are inbred?
And your English Royal Family is, as well.
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Bet you didn't know that I'm not human.
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porkenbeans wrote:
brooksieb wrote:Did you know that 55% of Pakistanis living in the UK are inbred?
And your English Royal Family is, as well.

There is no such thing as the English royal family.
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The Prince of Wales has never actually been Welsh in at least 500 years.
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brooksieb wrote:
porkenbeans wrote:
brooksieb wrote:Did you know that 55% of Pakistanis living in the UK are inbred?
And your English Royal Family is, as well.

There is no such thing as the English royal family.

True, they were originally imported from Hannover I think.
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There once was a Scottish King of England.
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brooksieb wrote:
porkenbeans wrote:
brooksieb wrote:Did you know that 55% of Pakistanis living in the UK are inbred?
And your English Royal Family is, as well.

There is no such thing as the English royal family.
Sorry, What do you call the folks that live in Buckingham palace ?
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A garbage bag does not work as a parachute when jumping off a house. That includes the second time as well.
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did you know

that the number 43,046,721 is that largest number on a standard 8 digit calculator that can be square rooted 4 times and still equal a whole number

43,046,721 square root
= 6,571 square root
= 81 square root
= 9 square root
= 3
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I have a ten digit calculator and for me the largest number is (((4^2)^2)^2)^2=4294967296
saxitoxin wrote:Your position is more complex than the federal tax code. As soon as I think I understand it, I find another index of cross-references, exceptions and amendments I have to apply.
Timminz wrote:Yo mama is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
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Third Grade teachers don't like it much when you mention "during" or "of" when they are lecturing that a preposition is "anything a rabbit can do to a hollow log".
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porkenbeans wrote:
brooksieb wrote:
porkenbeans wrote:
brooksieb wrote:Did you know that 55% of Pakistanis living in the UK are inbred?
And your English Royal Family is, as well.

There is no such thing as the English royal family.
Sorry, What do you call the folks that live in Buckingham palace ?
The British royal family.
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That in their only war, Canadian (British at the time..) troops burned the White House and also captured Detroit?

We gave Detroit back. Didn't want it.

Don't regret it either.

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muy_thaiguy wrote:A garbage bag does not work as a parachute when jumping off a house. That includes the second time as well.


And, no matter how often you've seen it in the cartoons, umbrellas do NOT make good parachutes. (personal knowledge, here.)
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jonesthecurl wrote:
muy_thaiguy wrote:A garbage bag does not work as a parachute when jumping off a house. That includes the second time as well.


And, no matter how often you've seen it in the cartoons, umbrellas do NOT make good parachutes. (personal knowledge, here.)


seconded, on both.
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jonesthecurl wrote:
muy_thaiguy wrote:A garbage bag does not work as a parachute when jumping off a house. That includes the second time as well.


And, no matter how often you've seen it in the cartoons, umbrellas do NOT make good parachutes. (personal knowledge, here.)


seconded, on both.
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did you know....



The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
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