Jerry, This is not spam but the message was obviously originally sent to a Yahoo group.
Folks, can we please try and keep messages to the BrailleNote topic? While humour is very much appreciated, please only use it within a message pertaining to the BrailleNote. Dean. Regards, Dean Jackson Customer/Technical Analyst Pulse Data International Ltd. DDI: +64 3 373 6184 Fax: +64-3-384 4933 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: www.pulsedata.com __________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Weinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:51 AM Subject: re: [Braillenote] weird facts > Dear Listers, > Has a spammer targeted the BN list? I am lately receiving miscellaneous emails from people at yahoo groups. Look at the references to yahoo groups at the bottom of the original email, below. > > Pdi do you have the ableity to sniff out spammers at the server end? > > Sincerely, > Jerry Weinger > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >From: jim taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: braille note <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Blink Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:21:02 +0000 > >Subject: [Braillenote] weird facts > > > > > ---- Original Message ------ > >From: "John at Wall & Co" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [ncwfsa] weird facts > >Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 08:12:24 -0000 > > >Friends, I set out below the contents of an email from an American friend of > >mine, and my comments. > > > > >> Obscure facts that everyone should know > > > >> A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. > > >> A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. > > >> A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. > > >> A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. > > >> A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. > > >> A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a > >> second. > > >> A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. > > >> A snail can sleep for three years. > > >> Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture > >> dealer. > > >> All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln > >> Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. > > >> Almonds are a member of the peach family. > > >> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. > > >> Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until > >> the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. > > >> Butterflies taste with their feet. > > >> Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have > >> about 10. > > >> "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters > >> "mt". > > >> February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to > >> have a full moon > > >> In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been > >> domesticated. > > >> If the population of China walked past you, in single file, > >> the line would never end because of the rate of > >> reproduction. > > >> If you are an average American, in your whole life, you > >> will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights. > > >> It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. > > >> Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. > > >> Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. > > >> No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, > >> silver, or purple. > > >> On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the > >> Parliament building is an American flag. > > >> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose > >> and ears never stop growing. > > >> Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. > > >> Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. > > >> "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left > >> hand;lollipop"with your right. > > >> The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. > > >> The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only > >> says there were three gifts. > > >> The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each > >> gallon of diesel that it burns. > > >> The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a > >> radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. > > >> The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" > >> uses every letter of the alphabet. > > >> The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze > >> completely solid. > > >> The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same > >> whether they are read left to right or right to left > >> (palindromes). > > >> There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. > > >> There are more chickens than people in the world. > > >> There are only four words in the English language which end > >> in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and > >> hazardous. > > >> There are two words in the English language that have all > >> five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." > > >> There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables > >> Vitamins. > > >> Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. > > >> TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the > >> letters only on one row of the keyboard. > > >> Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a > >> dance. > > >> Women blink nearly twice as much as men. > > >> Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two > >> weeks;otherwise it will digest itself. > > > >Hi Arlene: I enjoyed this list. I have the following comments:- > >1. I am not surprised that the average person's left hand does 56% of the > >typing. I heard that the keyboard was designed to slow people down; and as > >most people are right handed, making the left side of the keyboard more used > >than the right helps that objective. It would not be so snappy, but I would > >re-draft the statement to read:- > > "In an average document, 56% of the letters typed are on the left side of > >the keyboard." > >2. "Horrendous" is American, not English - a controversial comment, as we > >are sometimes said to be divided by a common language - and we Brits are > >always stealing your good words - and horrendous is one of them. If I'm not > >careful, you will charge a copyright royalty whenever we use it - and we use > >it very often!! > >3. A serious challenge: Is it correct that "our eyes are always the same > >size from birth"? I had my left eye removed when I was eight; my right > >when I was thirty. Each was replaced by an artificial eye. At the age of > >45, I was having a social lunch with an eye surgeon, when he casually asked > >me why my left (artificial) eye was smaller than my right (I later checked, > >and he was right!) I told him about the different ages at which my eyes > >were removed, and he commented that, of course, eyes continue to grow in > >size until you reach adulthood. Incidentally, the difference was so small > >that I concluded he must have had amazingly good sight himself - I had > >handled them for a long time, and not noticed it. > >After all that, many thanks for the list. It makes fascinating reading. > >Warm regards > >John > > > > >To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >To visit your group on the web, go to: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ncwfsa/ > > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Your use of Yahoo! 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