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And on the subject of hats

The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was a symbolic character for the hat makers in towns of the late 1800's. The large felt hats of the day had supports made out of lead. The lead caused an organic form of psychosis (brain damage) to develop in the hat makers causing them to be declared crazy.
 
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undergradnitz,
What kind of answer is that? You live in Ontario. You got good fishing there, in the north anyway. I spent alot of summers in Blind River at my grandmothers, on lake huron. I know some good fishing holes there. Where have you fished? I like the fight the walleye and pike give you back there.


The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosy is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")

Posies that odd, last movie I watched was Greenfingers a most excellent gardening movie, very funny...Seperendipty?
 
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undergradnitz,
What kind of answer is that? You live in Ontario. You got good fishing there, in the north anyway. I spent alot of summers in Blind River at my grandmothers, on lake huron. I know some good fishing holes there. Where have you fished? I like the fight the walleye and pike give you back there.


The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosy is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")

Posies that odd, last movie I watched was Greenfingers a most excellent gardening movie, very funny...Seperendipty?
 
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What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?

All invented by women

Guess that why I knew how to mess with my brothers wipers :D
 
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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.


There might be something to that bogie :D I love pumpkin, I could eat a whole pie in one sitting. I grow lavender....can't remember tho the last time any of it aroused me :lol:
 
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For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties

8O I am left handed in everything I do :cry:
 
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undergradNITZ

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to peapod: i fish up north..i go with my friend to his cottage and i cant remember the place's name...anywho

A snail can sleep for three years

and because im bored here's another...

Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live. That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life
 
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Hey bogie you got a new avatar 8) by the way here is something strange after you mentioned the crossroad book thing in one of your postings. Someone I knew was reading a book at starbucks, asked what it was and they started telling me how they got the book...it was a crossroad thing...how strange is that?


Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States

Viagrara probally has made this fact untrue now :lol:
 
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My wife, maggiemuffet, started doing the Bookcrossing thing after our son told her about it. Now she is the #1 BookCrosser in our area - and becoming fanatical about it! Everytime we go out she has to release another book, somewhere. She is an avid reader (usually a book a day), so has quite a stockpile.

People who eat popcorn at the movies are three times more likely to cry in the movies than those who don't eat popcorn.
 
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undergradNITZ

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i was watching a show and they were saying some fruits spark in the microwave...so i was like i got some grapes...and i did it!

Grapes spark when you put them in a microwave!!

its soooo cool!
 
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Undergradnitz,
You should putting an egg in the microwave, my nephew and I use to it alot :lol:

Fact:
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not
 
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undergradNITZ

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im gona do that some time...and i mostly tape up 3 cherrybombs and poke a hole in the egg and then make it a bit bigger so it can fit and light...KABLAMMO! egg everywhere...lol i still got like 400 more cherrybombs left hehe...

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; A group of geese in the air is a skein
 
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now you are rocking undergrandnitz, cherry bombs uh. Try this one out.

Drop three lit matches into a glass bottle that has a narrow neck (an old-style 600 mL milk bottle works well). Quickly put a peeled, hard-boiled egg on the mouth of the bottle. What happens? Why?

What seperates "60 minutes" on cbs from every other TV show?

no theme song.
 
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