Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: September 17th, 2013, 12:13 pm
" ... they said nobody would ever go broke publishing photos of women urinating"
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Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: September 26th, 2013, 6:20 am
my cat Bernie hums the entire album Sinatra at the Sands when he thinks no one can hear him
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: September 26th, 2013, 7:47 am
When he knows people ARE listening, Henry's cat hums Talking Heads' entire Fear of Music album - EXCEPT Life During Wartime.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: September 26th, 2013, 8:59 am
Larry the tortoise hums "Sweet Sue" only when you are listening.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: October 23rd, 2014, 8:28 pm
harmony5219 wrote:Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is only one of dozens, if not hundreds, of celebrities who are hermaphrodites. Curtis was born with an unusual chromosome structure (ostensibly some variation of XXY). Other celebs who are/were hermaphrodites: Jim Nabors, Roman Gabriel, Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams, Yogi Berra, Y.A. Tittle, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Alfred "No Cock" Hitchcock, Laura Bush, Bruno Sammartino, Laurel and Hardy, Kevin Spacey, Superfly Jimmy Snuka, Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Jerome "Spud" Webb, and Bruno Mars.
The list must be expanded to include the following celebrities who are/were hermaphrodites: Jack Paar, Taylor Swift, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Jerry Mathers "The Beaver" or at least part of "The Beaver", Jack LaLanne and his wife Elaine LaLanne, Chuck Connors, 50 Cent, Anthony "Reebop" Kwaku Baah, Ann Landers, and James Spader.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: October 24th, 2014, 9:08 am
Whenever you watch television it looks at you and counts your follicles for marketing purposes.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: October 27th, 2014, 4:09 pm
Root vegetables cause Veganism.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: October 28th, 2014, 10:24 am
Asian pears and Bartlett pairs are not related.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: October 29th, 2014, 8:49 am
Asian Pears and Bartlett Pears are related by marriage.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: October 31st, 2014, 7:12 am
Halloween didn't catch on as a Fall Celebration until a guy with a hollow weenie went out for cigarettes dressed as a herring.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: October 31st, 2014, 9:37 am
Ebola can be transmitted by flipping someone off.
(It did really strike me that, in "unsophisticated" West Africa, the people I encountered were more sensible/science-based about Ebola than in sometimes hysterical Europe (Brussels) and the United States (rural and agricultural area).)
(It did really strike me that, in "unsophisticated" West Africa, the people I encountered were more sensible/science-based about Ebola than in sometimes hysterical Europe (Brussels) and the United States (rural and agricultural area).)
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: December 3rd, 2014, 1:25 pm
The moon is made of ice and Rogaine.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: March 26th, 2015, 7:27 pm
It's not like me to bring up a thread that's as dead as this one, but I still think that the issue hasn't been resolved.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: March 27th, 2015, 8:42 am
Indiana has applied to become a county in Mississippi.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: March 30th, 2015, 6:27 pm
Beets mate for life.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: January 12th, 2016, 10:07 am
harmony5219 wrote:harmony5219 wrote:Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is only one of dozens, if not hundreds, of celebrities who are hermaphrodites. Curtis was born with an unusual chromosome structure (ostensibly some variation of XXY). Other celebs who are/were hermaphrodites: Jim Nabors, Roman Gabriel, Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams, Yogi Berra, Y.A. Tittle, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Alfred "No Cock" Hitchcock, Laura Bush, Bruno Sammartino, Laurel and Hardy, Kevin Spacey, Superfly Jimmy Snuka, Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Jerome "Spud" Webb, and Bruno Mars.
The list must be expanded to include the following celebrities who are/were hermaphrodites: Jack Paar, Taylor Swift, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Jerry Mathers "The Beaver" or at least part of "The Beaver", Jack LaLanne and his wife Elaine LaLanne, Chuck Connors, 50 Cent, Anthony "Reebop" Kwaku Baah, Ann Landers, and James Spader.
On his deathbed, Jack LaLanne admitted that his wife Elaine LaLanne was not a true hermaphrodite, but he used this "fact" for the last ten years of his life to boost sales of his "Jack LaLanne Power Juicer".
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: January 4th, 2017, 6:35 pm
Other hermaphrodites who are still in the closet: former Major League baseball players Pumpsie Green, Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Tony Kubek, Ron "The Penguin" Cey, Frank "Big Hurt" Thomas, Jim "Mudcat" Grant, Pete Rose, and Boog Powell. Also, the late greats Walter "No Neck" Williams and Mordecai "Three Fingers" Brown.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: January 27th, 2017, 8:01 pm
Douglas MacArthur, though presumably not a hermaphrodite himself, was known to favor hermaphrodite officers. Hermaphrodites were, perhaps, overrepresented on his staff.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: June 16th, 2017, 2:28 pm
In order to be able to throw out the first pitch for the first game of 2017 World Series, Elton John recently had Tommy John surgery.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: November 10th, 2017, 6:05 pm
A man named Larry Rosenblatt from NYC has a talking parrot whose lexicon is limited to the lyrics of the Iron Butterfly song "In A Gadda Da Vida".
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: November 19th, 2017, 8:23 pm
The Mets are the greatest team in major league history and are going to win their tenth straight World Series next year.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: May 13th, 2018, 4:30 am
When you play Kind of Blue backwards it sounds exactly the same as when you play it forward
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: May 16th, 2018, 5:04 am
I haven't thought of this one in a while, Henry. 
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: December 24th, 2018, 3:45 pm
In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
Update: This fact is actually factual.
Update: This fact is actually factual.
Re: Little known facts (that aren't true)
Posted: February 28th, 2021, 8:35 pm
Donald J Trump lived under a bridge off Route 80 in Lodi, NJ for two weeks in 2021.