Sunday, December 05, 2004

ODD BUT TRUE

Odd but True


1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. There are no clocks in Las Vegasgambling casinos.

13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

20. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.

28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

38. European women didn't wear underwear until the 1900's.

39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

42. Mexico Citysinks abut 10 inches a year.

43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying"yes" in Sri Lanka.

46. There are more chickens than people in the world.

47. It's against the law in Icelandto have a dog.

48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental".

50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

51. Beethoven poured ice water over his head before he composed.

52. In Pakistan, it's rude to show your feet.

53. 90% of those read till this line are very free.... are you???

Questions...

Some Questions...

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten for 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband.Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?

4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!



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1. The third. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.

2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.

3. Freeze them first. Take them out of the jugs and put the ice in the barrel. You will be able to tell which water came from which jug.

4 . Sure you can: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow!

5. The letter "e", which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear once in the long paragraph.

These are some weird facts which some of us might not have heard before:

These are some weird facts which some of us might not have heard before:

1. A Saudi Arabian Woman Can Get A Divorce If Her Husband Doesn’t Give Her Coffee.

2. A Shark Can Detect One Part Of Blood In 100 Million Parts Of Water.

3. A Rat Can Last Longer Without Water Than A Camel.

4. Your Stomach Has To Produce A New Layer Of Mucus Every Two Weeks Otherwise It Will Digest Itself.

5. The Dot Over The Letter ‘I’ Is Called A Tittle.

6. A Raisin Dropped In A Glass Of Fresh Champagne Will Bounce Up And Down Continually From The Bottom Of The Glass To The Top.

7. A Person Cannot Taste Food Unless It Is Mixed With Saliva.

8. A Male Emperor Moth Can Smell A Female Emperor Moth Up To 7 Miles Away.

9. George Washington Grew Marijuana In His Garden.

10. A Giraffe Can Clean Its Ears With Its 21-Inch Tongue!

11. In Lebanon It Is Legal To Have Sex With A Female Animal, But Illegal With A Male One.

12. 40% Of Mcdonald’s Profits Come From The Sales Of Happy Meals.

13. Every Person Has A Unique Tongue Print.14. During The Chariot Scene In ‘Ben Hur’ A Small Red Car Can Be Seen In The Distance.

15. Einstein Couldn’t Speak Fluently When He Was Nine. His Parents Thought He Might Be Retarded.

16. On An Average, 12 Newborns Will Be Given To The Wrong Parents Daily.

17. Warren Beatty And Shirley Maclaine Are Brother And Sister.

18. Chocolate Kills Dogs! True, Chocolate Affects A Dog’s Heart And Nervous System, A Few Ounces Enough To Kill A Small Sized Dog.

19. Money Isn’t Made Out Of Paper, It’s Made Out Of Cotton. Before The 1950’s It Was Made From Hemp. The Stem And Leaves Of A Marijuana Plant.

20. Most Lipstick Contains Fish Scales.

21. Orcas (Killer Whales) Kill Sharks By Torpedoing Up Into The Shark’s Stomach From Underneath, Causing The Shark To Explode.

22. Donald Duck Comics Were Banned From Finland Because He Doesn’t Wear Pants.

23. Ketchup Was Sold In The 1830s As Medicine.

24. Leonardo Da Vinci Could Write With One Hand And Draw With The Other At The Same Time.

25. The Number Of Possible Ways Of Playing The First Four Moves Per Side In A Game Of Chess Is 318,979,564,000.30. Both Hitler And Napoleon Were Missing One Testicle.

26. Upper And Lower Case Letters Are Named ‘Upper’ And ‘Lower’, Because In The Time When All Original Print Had To Be Set In Individual Letters, The ‘Upper Case’ Letters Were Stored In The Case On Top Of The Case That Stored The Smaller, ‘Lower Case’ Letters.

27. There Are No Clocks In Las Vegas Gambling Casinos.

28. There Are No Words In The Dictionary That Rhyme With: Orange, Purple, And Silver!

29. The Numbers ‘172’ Can Be Found On The Back Of The U.S. $5 Dollar Bill In The Bushes At The Base Of The Lincoln Memorial.

30. Leonardo Da Vinci Invented Scissors, Also, It Took Him 10 Years To Paint Mona Lisa’s Lips.

31. Bruce Lee Was So Fast That They Actually Had To Slow A Film Down So You Could See His Moves. That’s The Opposite Of The Norm.

32. Bubble Gum Contains Rubber.

33. Human Birth Control Pills Work On Gorillas.

34. The First Cd Pressed In The Us Was Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born In TheUsa’

35. By Raising Your Legs Slowly And Lying On Your Back, You Can’t Sink In Quicksand.

36. Cat’s Urine Glows Under A Black Light.

37. Celery Has Negative Calories! It Takes More Calories To Eat A Piece Of Celery Than The Celery Has In It To Begin With.

38. Chewing Gum While Peeling Onions Will Keep You From Crying!

39. Guinness Book Of Records Holds The Record For Being The Book Most Often Stolen From Public Libraries.

40. Astronauts Are Not Allowed To Eat Beans Before They Go Into Space Because Passing Wind In A Spacesuit Damages Them.

15 Things You Probably Never Knew or Thought About

15 Things You Probably Never Knew or Thought About!!

1. At least 5 people in this world love you so much they would die for you.

2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.

3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.

4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.

5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.

6. You mean the world to someone.

7. If not for you, someone may not be living.

8. You are special and unique.

9. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.

10. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.

11. When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look: you most likely turned your back on the world.

12. When you think you have no chance of getting what you want, you probably won't get it, but if you believe in yourself, probably, sooner or later, you will get it.

13. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.

14. Always tell someone how you feel about them; you will feel much better when they know.

15. If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they are great.

16. They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them.

Take the time... to live and love.

Lessons learnt from Alaipayuthey!

Lessons learnt from Alaipayuthey!

1. Never miss a marriage of your friend in the village because some city figures do come there and they may or you may get interested in each other.

2. Never ask a stranger about a girl unless you are sure that he is not her father.

3. If you travel by minsara train please look out of the window ... ;-)

4. All software engineers think logically ..[or atleast they think so] otherwise how would you end upto 70 females from 3.5 million ??[and they have a couple of them as friends who would agree to this logic]

5. When you first meet your girl and she shouts at you and asks whether you have no other work, take this word:" that is the best sign a relationship can get started with" and don't forget to speed in the beach shouting at the top of your voice "Ava enna thittita!!!"

6. The easiest way to let your parents know your lover is to invite her to your house and inform others about your plan.[and she should know to sing "alai payuthey" with a voice like Harini!]

7. When you say "I love you" try to know what it means because girls now a days expect you to know what it means.. [Hero : "I Love You" Heroine : "appadina" ??]

8. Never let your parents to go and do the talking! They spoil it up.

9. When a girl says about 20 weeks and 20 months logic wrt lover and parents don't worry, she would be the first one to defect!

10. When your daughters suddenly wear gorgeous Saris please be sure that she is either going to her kadhalan's house for a function or getting thiruttu married.

11. When you do a "Thiruttu Kalyanam" get Rahman to sing his version of "Mangalyam Thanthunane" since the old version is considered unauspicious in such occasions!

12. Even marriage registrars are happy about "thiruttu kalyanams".

13. Your house owner is not worried about you working in a software company or an garment company ;-)

14. When you hug your wife's sister [for reasons of your own] make sure your wife is not in the vicinity. Your wife's husband wont mind though.

15. There is some "Ilicha vaayan" Software company in California who would give a $2 million contract to a software outfit in Chennai with a staffing of 5 to 6 people.

16. If one of your friends or brother go for "Pen Parkkum Padalam", go with him since she might have a younger sister who might "not" be married

17. Even Doctors are caught up in the TLA [Three Letter Acronyms] frenzy .. They have their own TIG [Trust in God]

18. After Doctors say TIG, it is finally the lover trying in the bedside which would finally let the patient come out of Coma.

19. and finally the message of the film : When you talk to your girl please add this line : "Nee alaga illai.. nee illama vazha mudiyathunnu ninaikkale .. aana please road cross pannum pothu paathu cross pannu"

I Wish I could Use Computers in Real Life...

I Wish I could Use Computers in Real Life...

1) 5 minutes ago you were traveling to office at 80 mph in your brand new car. Now you are traveling to hospital at double the speed in an ambulance. You wish there was 'UNDO' in life!

2) You are already late, and your key is missing, You wish there was 'FIND TOOL' in life!

3) You are a bankrupt, after investing in some weird business, You wish there was 'REBUILD ALL' in life!

4) The train is so crowded that you cannot get anywhere near that nice girl at the other end, You wish there was 'ZOOM AND VIEW FULL SCREEN' in life!

5) One day you realize that you are turning bald, You wish there was 'CUT & PASTE' in life.. And the best one is .............

6) After marriage you realize that there is bound to be a mismatch, You wish there was an 'EVALUATION PERIOD' or at least a 'SAMPLE DOWNLOAD' or a 'DEMO VERSION'!

HOW TO KILL A LION

How to kill a lion?

Rajnikanth Method:
Keep warning the lion that u may come and attack anytime. The lion will live in fear and die soon in fear itself.

Kamal Method:
Go near the lion and cry like anything.... Lion will die of sorrow !

Jayalalitha Method:
Send Police commisioner Muthukaruppan around 2AM and kill it, while it's sleeping !

Manirathnam Method :
Make sure the lion does not get sun light and put the lion in a dark room with a single candle lighted. Keep murmering something in its ears. The lion will be highly irritated and commit suicide.

Balachandar Method :
Send a lioness into the forest. our lion and lioness fall in love with each other. Send another lioness in to the forest, followed by another lion. First lion loves the first lioness and the second lion loves the 2nd lioness. But 2nd lioness loves both lions. Now send another lioness(third) into the forest. You dont understand right... ok....read it after 15 yrs, then also u wont !

Bharathiraja Method:Send Napolean and kill it with Thirupacchi aruva.

Shanker method:
Take the lion to Australia or US.. and kill it in a good scenic location.

Indian Cricket Team Method :Force the Lion to watch match when gang(test matches) and dravid batting ... it will be bored to death

Vijaykanth method:
Bring 5 more lions.Fight with them and kill all of them expect one.Then advice some patriotism to the remaining one.This lion will become cow.

T.Rajendar method:
Bring one lioness.Make ur lion to fall in love with the lioness.arrange for some 6 or 7 songs(make sure that none of them are duets)....Finally see to that the love is broken.lion will die of love failiure

Kamal hassan`s another method:
With the lion as the producer shoot a mega film for 25 crores...Release the film..Lion will die of debt..

Shah rukh khan method:
Release a film like 'ASHOKA".and make the lion to watch the movie.

Govinda method:
Continously dance before the lion for 5 or 6 days.

Rahul dravid method:
Ask the lion to bowl at u.U bat for 200 balls and score 1 run.

Menaka gandhi method:
Save the lion from a danger and feed him with some vegetables continously.

George bush method:
Link the lion with osama bin laden and shoot him.

SOME COOL EQUATIONS

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS

Smart man + smart woman = romance

Smart man + dumb woman = affair

Dumb man + smart woman = marriage

Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy

OFFICE ARITHMETIC

Smart boss + smart employee = profit

Smart boss + dumb employee = production

Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion

Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

NEVER LOVE A GIRL

Never love a Database girl since she always wants her husband to be aUnique key.

Never love a C girl because she always has a tendency to break thingsand exit from house.

Never love a C++ girl since u may encounter some problems in inheritance.

Never love a Java girl since she always throws Exceptions.

Never love a VB girl since she may have a Divorce form with her always.

Never love a ASP girl since she A lways S atisfies P eople. Never love a UNIX/C girl since she may always dump u with a core.

Never love a Pascal girl as she always scolds u as Rascal.

Never love a COBOL girl since she may be very good in the division ofthe family.

Never love a Network girl since she may be very good at shootingtroubles on you.

POEM

If I asked, would you be loyal?
And when you do, would you stay forever?
To hold my hand through my code bugs
Make me laugh through my ephemeral idiocies...

Wipe my tears through anotherjob firing ?
Or cook me potato curry on a tiring monday?
Or add some colorsto my rascally ppt's?
Would you remind me about the boisterous boy inside?
Or just let me play the husband?

If I asked...

IF CONDITION

IF (U WANT 2 B = WHAT U WANT 2 B)
THEN DO (WHAT U WANT 2 B)
AND (TO (DO (WHAT U WANT 2 B)))
BELIEVE (WHAT U WANT 2 B)
ENDIF