Interesting Facts
Don Aitken
many are new to me. Not many really qualify as ULs but I was intrigued
by 25, 28, 38, 45 and 50.
THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT
ARE INTERESTING... 1- Rubber bands last longer when
refrigerated. 2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of
dynamite. 3- There are 293 ways to make change for a
dollar. 4- The average person's left hand does 56% of the
typing. 5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both
eyes. 6- There are more chickens than people in the world.
7- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched." 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. 9-
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on
4:20. 10- No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver or purple. 11- "Dreamt" is the only
English word that ends in the letters "mt". 12- Almonds are
a member of the peach family. 13- There are only 4 words in
the English language which end in "dous": tremendous,
horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 14- A cat has 32
muscles in each ear. 15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
brain. 16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 17-
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is
10:10. 18- Al Capone's business card said he was a used
furniture dealer. 19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame
Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi
driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." 20- A
dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. 21- A goldfish has a
memory span of 3 seconds. 22- It's impossible to sneeze
with your eyes open. 23- The giant squid has the largest
eyes in the world. 24- In England, the Speaker of the House
is not allowed to speak. 25- The microwave was invented
after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar
melted in his pocket. 26- The average person falls asleep in
seven minutes. 27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation
golf ball. 28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their
lifetime at night. 29- A cockroach can live nine days without
its head before it starves to death. 30- A polar bear's skin is
black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. 31- Elvis had a
twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why
Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his
brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone. 32- Donald
Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't
wear pants. 33- More people are killed by donkeys annually
than are killed in plane crashes. 34- Stewardesses is the
longest word typed with only the left hand. 35- Shakespeare
invented the words "assassination" and "bump." 36- Marilyn
Monroe had 6 toes on one foot. 37- If you keep a goldfish in
the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 38- Women
blink nearly twice as much as men. 39- Right-handed people
live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
do. 40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the
lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. 41- The
names of the continents all end with the same letter with
which they start. 42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word
that can be made using the letters on only one row of the
keyboard. 43- The word racecar and kayak are the same
whether they are read left to right or right to left. 44- A snail
can sleep for 3 years. 45- American Airlines saved $40,000
in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in
first-class. 46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a
population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres. 48- "I am." Is
the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 49-
No president of the United states was an only child. 50- The
average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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Chris Clarke
don-a...@freeuk.com (Don Aitken) wrote:
> This seems to be circulating around the net. A few old favorites, but
> many are new to me. Not many really qualify as ULs but I was intrigued
> by 25, 28, 38, 45 and 50.
>
> 21- A goldfish has a
> memory span of 3 seconds.
Define "memory" -- the goldfish I've had have exhibited life-long memory
of the association between my hand hovering over the water surface and
their impending feeding.
Admittedly, since I've mainly had goldfish as snake food, that life-long
memory only has to last for a couple weeks.
Chris "they also seem to remember the difference between my hand and the
net quite effectively" Clarke
Chris Clarke
> 41- The
> names of the continents all end with the same letter with
> which they start.
This item would seem to establish the list's point of origin: the notion
that North and South America make up the continent "America" is a Brit
canard, no?
- C
Chris W.
>
> This seems to be circulating around the net. A few old favorites, but
> many are new to me. Not many really qualify as ULs but I was intrigued
> by 25, 28, 38, 45 and 50.
> 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
> flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
I didn't spend much time reading the rest, but this wheelbarrow of cow
manure leapt out at me. How many of the rest of them are also bullshit?
Chris Webb
Adam Weishaupt
<3b2a6782...@news.freeuk.net>:
>24- In England, the Speaker of the House
>is not allowed to speak.
^^^
Horse crap. Anywho, the Parliament at Westminster is the Parliament of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Ragnar
"Don Aitken" <don-a...@freeuk.com> wrote in message
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> This seems to be circulating around the net. A few old favorites, but
> many are new to me. Not many really qualify as ULs but I was intrigued
> by 25, 28, 38, 45 and 50.
>
Most of these are rather silly - and wrong.
> THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT
> ARE INTERESTING... 1- Rubber bands last longer when
> refrigerated.
Really? The ones on the counter holding the potato chip bag closed have
lasted over a year (not on the same bag), while the ones in the fridge
holding the salad bag closed have what looks like ozone deterioration cracks
and they break really easy.
>5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both
> eyes.
Sharks aren't fish.
>8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
> flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Nope, its the old "Maple Ensign", which pre-dates the current Canadian flag.
In fact, most demoninations of Canadian paper money have a historic flag on
them; which one is based on the personage on the front.
> 13- There are only 4 words in
> the English language which end in "dous": tremendous,
> horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
According to: http://www.salon.com/weekly/verb960624.html
At least 32 additional dous words repose in various dictionaries: apodous,
antropodous, blizzardous, cogitabundous, decapodous, frondous, gastropodous,
heteropodous, hybridous, iodous, isopodous, jeopardous, lagopodous,
lignipodous, molybdous, mucidous, multifidous, nefandous, nodous,
octapodous, palladous, paludous, pudendous, repandous, rhodous, sauropodous,
staganopodous, tetrapodous, thamphipodous, tylopodous, vanadous and
voudous.
>27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation
> golf ball.
Which regulations? According to the USGA Conforming Ball list, www.usga.org
, it varies from 336 to 402 to 432 to 440, etc.
>28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their
> lifetime at night.
Whats so hard to believe about that? If you sleep with your mouth open,
stuff happens.
> 50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
>
There happen to be USDA standards on food products. They do include
allowable amounts of foreign matter, including rat poop and insect parts.
Ragnar
Chris Clarke
"Ragnar" <rwo...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both
> > eyes.
>
> Sharks aren't fish.
Cite?
They aren't *bony* fish, to be sure. However, the category "fish" isn't
monophyletic. It essentially consists of aquatic vertebrates that aren't
mammals, reptiles, birds, or amphibs. The osteichthyes (bony fish) are
regularly called "true fish," but I'm not aware of anyone in the trade
who denies sharks, rays and skates the name "fish" just because they're
not "true fish." Same with eels and lampreys/hagfish, who are aquatic
vertebrates not belonging to the chondrichthyes or bony fish, but
they're still "fish."
Caroline Brown
"Ragnar" <rwo...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> >5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both
> > eyes.
>
> Sharks aren't fish.
What do you call them then?
According to my dictionary sharks are 'voracious fishes with fusiform body
lateral gill-slits and mouth on the underside. It doesn't say whether/how
they blink, but I wouldn't expect that - it's not a wildlife book.
Caroline
Donna Richoux
> "Don Aitken" <don-a...@freeuk.com> wrote in message
> >5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both
> > eyes.
>
> Sharks aren't fish.
Yes, they are. "Fish" is not a taxonomic classification, but a common
name applied to three quite different groups of animals. This was
discussed in 1998 in a.u.e, and Amicus Constantini <co...@novaroma.gov>
wrote:
>> Another way of explaining this is to say that the three groups we
>> commonly refer to as 'fish' are as independent of each other as
>> reptiles are from mammals. We just don't have common names to make
>> the distinction. One can ignore cladistics and create a group that
>> includes cartiliginous fish like sharks, bony fish like trout, and
>> jawless fish like lampreys; this has been done and the group is
>> called 'the superclass "Pisces"', but biologically speaking it is not
>> a very meaningful classification. Sort of like putting dogs, cats,
>> horses, cows and chickens together in a group that excludes lions,
>> wolves, zebras and pigeons and calling that group 'Domesticati'. It
>> may have relevance for some purposes, but biologically it is pretty
>> useless. Next week: No such thing as a tree.
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Ragnar
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OK, sharks aren't "true fish", but they are in different orders and are
about as different from "true fish" as spiders are from insects.
Given the similarities, I think you are right, and I am mistaken. Thanks
for the save.
Ragnar
Ragnar
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Ragnar
"Donna Richoux" <tr...@euronet.nl> wrote in message
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Its already been beat to death. See above post by Chris Clarke.
keith lim
> Define "memory" -- the goldfish I've had have exhibited life-long memory
> of the association between my hand hovering over the water surface and
> their impending feeding.
> Chris "they also seem to remember the difference between my hand and the
> net quite effectively" Clarke
Ok, now what if you regularly use the net to pour food into the tank?
keith "stupid pet experiments" lim
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Jeff Zahn
>
> This seems to be circulating around the net. A few old favorites, but
> many are new to me. Not many really qualify as ULs but I was intrigued
> by 25, 28, 38, 45 and 50.
[snippage]
> 48- "I am." Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Oh.
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Charles A Lieberman
> 15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
> brain.
If true, so what?
> 19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame
> Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi
> driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
Not so, says the IMDb.
> 35- Shakespeare
> invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
Well, there's invention and there's invention. Obviously he didn't
create either word out of whole cloth. We can't know that he was the
first person ever to use the words in English. Or, for that matter, the
first to write them down. We just know that we haven't seen where anyone
else did first.
> 40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the
> lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
To whom is this interesting? This occasionally crops up on these lists,
but I don't know why. No one over the age of 7 is going to impress their
friends with this nugget of information. Well, maybe if the friends
arent over 7.
> 43- The word racecar and kayak are the same
> whether they are read left to right or right to left.
This is another one that's less than impressive somehow.
HWM
> I didn't spend much time reading the rest, but this wheelbarrow of cow
> manure leapt out at me. How many of the rest of them are also bullshit?
Donald Duck's pants are mine.
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Matthew W. Miller
>Don Aitken quoted a list of items of questionable veracity (sic):
>> 48- "I am." Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
>Oh.
That's an interjection. HTH.
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D.M. Procida
> >> 48- "I am." Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
> >Oh.
So?
D.M. Procida
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to Hawkeye and me and said:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 02:15:05 -0400, Jeff Zahn <jz...@pipeline.com> wrote:
> >Don Aitken quoted a list of items of questionable veracity (sic):
> >> 48- "I am." Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
> >Oh.
>
> That's an interjection. HTH.
Yes?
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Charles A Lieberman
<3B2A88E8...@usa.net>
>> 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
>> flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
>
>I didn't spend much time reading the rest, but this wheelbarrow of cow
>manure leapt out at me. How many of the rest of them are also bullshit?
It occurs to me that if by "America" you mean the continent(s) with that
name, this is accurate.
Charles "not that anyone ever does" Lieberman
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Phil Gustafson
>Matthew W. Miller <mwmi...@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> >> 48- "I am." Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
>
>> >Oh.
>
>So?
>
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Sherilyn
Don Aitken <don-a...@freeuk.com> wrote:
>This seems to be circulating around the net. A few old favorites, but
>many are new to me. Not many really qualify as ULs but I was intrigued
>by 25, 28, 38, 45 and 50.
>
>THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT
>ARE INTERESTING...
>is not allowed to speak.
This is a half truth. The Speaker is not permitted to make a
speech during debates on the floor of the House. In reality, he
or she spends a good part of the debate bellowing "Order". My
favorite bit of House of Commons procedure is the donning of an
ancient opera hat by a member wishing to raise a point of order.
There's an old procedural rule from the time when all men wore
hats, that no point of order can be raised by a hatless member
in the chamber, so the opera hat is kept for that sole purpose.
I think this is sent up in one of the ancient Python sketches.
[...]
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Freddy Letrange
|>The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
|>"screeched."
Hmmmmmmmmm... KOFF KOFF HACK HACK KOFF ('scuuuuuuse me -- too many Camel
Straights) -- arguing is not one of my strengths; still, with all due respect,
I have to say that you seem to have stretched the truth and then scrunched
what you have scrounged up into an itty bitty ball, with which, I fear, you
have inadequately staunched the flow of blood from your swordfall. I am
beside myself: wheeeeeeee!
|>"I am." Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Oh? [1] 'Tis? Can you prove it? Do.
No? Ha!
Go!
[1] "this sentence no ____"
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Charles Wm. Dimmick
>
> This seems to be circulating around the net. A few old favorites, but
> many are new to me. Not many really qualify as ULs but I was intrigued
> by 25, 28, 38, 45 and 50.
>
> THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT
> 20- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
Bullshit. Several refutations available, but start with
this one:
http://www.dragonflysoc.org.uk/faq.htm#lifespan
"At the shortest, a dragonfly's life-cycle from egg to
death of adult is about 6 months. Some of the larger
dragonflies take 6 or 7 years! Most of this time
is spent in the larval form, beneath the water surface,
catching other invertebrates. The small damselflies
live for a couple of weeks as free-flying adults. The
larger dragonflies can live for 4 months in their flying
stage. In Britain, lucky Damsels seldom go more than
two weeks and Dragons more than two months. Most
Damsels rarely go more than a week, and
Dragons two or three weeks. They die from
accidents and
predation, and large numbers from starvation - in
poor weather neither they nor their prey can fly.
No insect has a lifespan of only one day"
Charles Wm. Dimmick
Stranger than Fiction
It seems to me Junebugs don't last long. I find plenty of dead ones
every morning. But I can't vouch for how old they are, just how icky.
In article <3B2EAD8E...@snet.net>, "Charles Wm. Dimmick"
Chris Clarke
cdim...@snet.net wrote on 6/18/01 5:40 PM:
> Don Aitken wrote:
>>
>> This seems to be circulating around the net. A few old favorites, but
>> many are new to me. Not many really qualify as ULs but I was intrigued
>> by 25, 28, 38, 45 and 50.
>>
>> THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT
>
>> 20- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
>
> Bullshit. Several refutations available, but start with
> this one:
>
> http://www.dragonflysoc.org.uk/faq.htm#lifespan
Sounds like someone confused dragonflies with mayflies, and the vaguely
remembered old canard about mayflies living for but a day.
obDeDuck-tion: some mayfly adults live for about a day, but they generally
live for a respectable amount of time as larvae.
Chris "imago" Clarke
Charles Wm. Dimmick
>
> In Message-ID <3b2a6782...@news.freeuk.net>,
> Don Aitken <don-a...@freeuk.com> wrote:
> >This seems to be circulating around the net. A few old favorites, but
> >many are new to me. Not many really qualify as ULs but I was intrigued
> >by 25, 28, 38, 45 and 50.
> >
> >THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT
> >ARE INTERESTING...
> >24- In England, the Speaker of the House
> >is not allowed to speak.
>
> This is a half truth. The Speaker is not permitted to make a
> speech during debates on the floor of the House.
Well, of course not. The Speaker is, I presume, chairing
the session. Here in the US of A, which derived its rules
of parliamentary procedure from the mother of Parliaments,
the chair of a session is not allowed to make a speech
during debate either, unless, on rare occasions, he/she
relinquishes the chair to another member and then moves
to a position among the assembly from which he/she may
speak as an ordinary member of the assembly.
Charles Wm. Dimmick
memb. NAP
Narcissa
The only mildly interesting part is that they didn't use the word
"palindrome." Of course, "interesting" itself is subjective.
Narcissa
Phil Edwards
<DieSp...@dev.null> wrote:
>According to my dictionary sharks are 'voracious fishes with fusiform body
>lateral gill-slits and mouth on the underside. It doesn't say whether/how
>they blink, but I wouldn't expect that - it's not a wildlife book.
And yet you're willing to take its word on their... never mind.
Phil "never met a shark I didn't believe" Edwards
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Simon Slavin
"Charles Wm. Dimmick" <cdim...@snet.net> wrote:
> Sherilyn wrote:
> >
> > >THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT
> > >ARE INTERESTING...
> > >24- In England, the Speaker of the House
> > >is not allowed to speak.
> >
> > This is a half truth. The Speaker is not permitted to make a
> > speech during debates on the floor of the House.
>
> Well, of course not. The Speaker is, I presume, chairing
> the session. Here in the US of A, which derived its rules
> of parliamentary procedure from the mother of Parliaments,
> the chair of a session is not allowed to make a speech
> during debate either, unless, on rare occasions, he/she
> relinquishes the chair to another member and then moves
> to a position among the assembly from which he/she may
> speak as an ordinary member of the assembly.
The only bit about rule 24 which makes it interesting is that
it points out that the traditional name for the 'chairman' of
the lower house of parliament is 'Speaker'.
Simon.
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sla...@hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost (Simon Slavin) wrote:
>In article <3B2FB186...@snet.net>,
>"Charles Wm. Dimmick" <cdim...@snet.net> wrote:
>
>> Sherilyn wrote:
>> >
>> > >THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW BUT
>> > >ARE INTERESTING...
>> > >24- In England, the Speaker of the House
>> > >is not allowed to speak.
>> >
>> > This is a half truth. The Speaker is not permitted to make a
>> > speech during debates on the floor of the House.
>>
>> Well, of course not. The Speaker is, I presume, chairing
>> the session. Here in the US of A, which derived its rules
>> of parliamentary procedure from the mother of Parliaments,
>> the chair of a session is not allowed to make a speech
>> during debate either, unless, on rare occasions, he/she
>> relinquishes the chair to another member and then moves
>> to a position among the assembly from which he/she may
>> speak as an ordinary member of the assembly.
>
>The only bit about rule 24 which makes it interesting is that
>it points out that the traditional name for the 'chairman' of
>the lower house of parliament is 'Speaker'.
Simon, that's not very interesting.
Chris W.
>
> Chris W. Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:18:30 GMT
> <3B2A88E8...@usa.net>
> >> 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
> >> flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
> >
> >I didn't spend much time reading the rest, but this wheelbarrow of cow
> >manure leapt out at me. How many of the rest of them are also bullshit?
>
> It occurs to me that if by "America" you mean the continent(s) with that
> name, this is accurate.
>
> Charles "not that anyone ever does" Lieberman
Since when did the Canadian Red Ensign represent the continent(s) of
America? Or are you saying that a flag flown on any particular
continent is that continent's flag, therefore the Union Jack is really
the European flag?
Chris "searching headers for bobbers" Webb
Chris Clarke
6/25/01 12:07 PM:
> Charles A Lieberman wrote:
>>
>> Chris W. Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:18:30 GMT
>> <3B2A88E8...@usa.net>
>>>> 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
>>>> flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
>>
>> It occurs to me that if by "America" you mean the continent(s) with that
>> name, this is accurate.
>>
>> Charles "not that anyone ever does" Lieberman
>
> Since when did the Canadian Red Ensign represent the continent(s) of
> America? Or are you saying that a flag flown on any particular
> continent is that continent's flag, therefore the Union Jack is really
> the European flag?
>
> Chris "searching headers for bobbers" Webb
NB the phrasing. Not "the American Flag" but "an American flag." That cool
one with the eagle and the snake is also an American flag.
Chris "Progreso E Ordem" Clarke
obExplanation: I generally think the "no posts with more quoted than new
text" rule is a good one, and don't mind my own version of SSSW enforcing it
at gunpoint. However, I wasn't sure how to trim the quoted text without
making it hard on the reader. So this addendum. My apologies. Hope you have
a really, really, really good day.
Charles A Lieberman
<3B37990C...@usa.net>
>Since when did the Canadian Red Ensign represent the continent(s) of
>America?
The original factoid said the flag "is *an* American flag." The flag for
Canada is an American flag. Also the US. Also Brazil. Also Paraguay.
Etc.
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>Chris "Progreso E Ordem" Clarke
Interesting how in our independently composed replies we both allude to
this flag.
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Paul Ding (Del FOOBAR to reply)
posted a message that said, at least in part:
>> >> 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
>> >> flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
>> >I didn't spend much time reading the rest, but this wheelbarrow of cow
>> >manure leapt out at me. How many of the rest of them are also bullshit?
>> It occurs to me that if by "America" you mean the continent(s) with that
>> name, this is accurate.
>Since when did the Canadian Red Ensign represent the continent(s) of
>America? Or are you saying that a flag flown on any particular
>continent is that continent's flag, therefore the Union Jack is really
>the European flag?
Seems to me that the union jack is *a* european flag
A lot more sensible that insisting that the stars and stripes is an
unamerican flag.
Chris Clarke
Charles A Lieberman <cali...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Chris Clarke Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:28:39 -0800
> <B75CED07.1243%ccl...@osrmail.ucsf.edu>
> >Chris "Progreso E Ordem" Clarke
>
> Interesting how in our independently composed replies we both allude to
> this flag.
Yeah, that's it. "Independently composed." Yep.
Chris "sure." Clarke
HWM
> A lot more sensible that insisting that the stars and stripes is an
> unamerican flag.
B-b-b-but it is? http://www.unamerican.com
AFU MODERATOR
:On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:07:09 GMT, "Chris W." <chri...@usa.net>
They may take our beef, but they will never take our flag.
FREEDOM FOR SC^H^HENGLAND
Charles A Lieberman
<3B37990C...@usa.net>
>Since when did the Canadian Red Ensign represent the continent(s) of
>America?
The original factoid said the flag "is *an* American flag." The flag for
Canada is an American flag. Also the US. Also Brazil. Also Paraguay.
Etc.
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Chris W.
>
> Chris W. Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:18:30 GMT
> <3B2A88E8...@usa.net>
> >> 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
> >> flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
> >
> >I didn't spend much time reading the rest, but this wheelbarrow of cow
> >manure leapt out at me. How many of the rest of them are also bullshit?
>
> It occurs to me that if by "America" you mean the continent(s) with that
> name, this is accurate.
>
> Charles "not that anyone ever does" Lieberman
Since when did the Canadian Red Ensign represent the continent(s) of
America? Or are you saying that a flag flown on any particular
continent is that continent's flag, therefore the Union Jack is really
the European flag?
Chris "searching headers for bobbers" Webb
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HWM
> A lot more sensible that insisting that the stars and stripes is an
> unamerican flag.
B-b-b-but it is? http://www.unamerican.com
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Paul Ding (Del FOOBAR to reply)
posted a message that said, at least in part:
>> >> 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
>> >> flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
>> >I didn't spend much time reading the rest, but this wheelbarrow of cow
>> >manure leapt out at me. How many of the rest of them are also bullshit?
>> It occurs to me that if by "America" you mean the continent(s) with that
>> name, this is accurate.
>Since when did the Canadian Red Ensign represent the continent(s) of
>America? Or are you saying that a flag flown on any particular
>continent is that continent's flag, therefore the Union Jack is really
>the European flag?
Seems to me that the union jack is *a* european flag
A lot more sensible that insisting that the stars and stripes is an
unamerican flag.
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Chris Clarke
> Charles A Lieberman wrote:
>>
>> Chris W. Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:18:30 GMT
>> <3B2A88E8...@usa.net>
>>>> 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag
>>>> flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
>>
>> It occurs to me that if by "America" you mean the continent(s) with that
>> name, this is accurate.
>>
>> Charles "not that anyone ever does" Lieberman
>
> Since when did the Canadian Red Ensign represent the continent(s) of
> America? Or are you saying that a flag flown on any particular
> continent is that continent's flag, therefore the Union Jack is really
> the European flag?
>
> Chris "searching headers for bobbers" Webb
NB the phrasing. Not "the American Flag" but "an American flag." That cool
one with the eagle and the snake is also an American flag.
Chris "Progreso E Ordem" Clarke
obExplanation: I generally think the "no posts with more quoted than new
text" rule is a good one, and don't mind my own version of SSSW enforcing it
at gunpoint. However, I wasn't sure how to trim the quoted text without
making it hard on the reader. So this addendum. My apologies. Hope you have
a really, really, really good day.
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AFU MODERATOR
:On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:07:09 GMT, "Chris W." <chri...@usa.net>
They may take our beef, but they will never take our flag.
FREEDOM FOR SC^H^HENGLAND
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Chris Clarke
> Chris Clarke Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:28:39 -0800
> <B75CED07.1243%ccl...@osrmail.ucsf.edu>
> >Chris "Progreso E Ordem" Clarke
>
> Interesting how in our independently composed replies we both allude to
> this flag.
Yeah, that's it. "Independently composed." Yep.
Chris "sure." Clarke
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Charles A Lieberman
Interesting how in our independently composed replies we both allude to
this flag.
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Charles A. Lieberman | "Don't poop on the homeless!"
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