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Lizard Of Oz

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If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times,
but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up
on the bottom.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are
the largest anagrams.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pi
g farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor:
Mint Oreo.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty
Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II
who fathered over 160 children.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth.
Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents
and then swallows the stomach back down again.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in
the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if
the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby
daughter, Ruth.

A whale's penis is called a dork. Armadillos have four babies at a

time and they are always all the same sex.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are
known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of
rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod. A group of ravens is called a
murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks
is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament.

Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known
as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for
Muster Marc"

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses
were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the
bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.


"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about
because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three
dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once,
on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's
real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once
in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing
the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float.
Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it
has floated ever since.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building
it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that
falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors
for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a
brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in
the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, c
alled a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would
crack and break off... Thus the saying.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
otherwise it will digest itself.

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-Lizard plays a doctor on TV.

Go Go now, you've been set free,
Another month or so you'll be poisoning me,
with your lovely smile.
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail,
your flickering tongue and your rattling scales,
like a real reptile.
 

8-4-7-2

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The penny tossing at the top: This is because a penny is no LaPlace coin. To make a real probability experiment you must use a exactly balanced coin (called LaPlace coin)!
 
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DSV_Selerox[PuF]

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You guys have waaaaaay too much time on your hands...

BTW, the Speaker of the House of Commons (Parlement) does actually speak. The current Speaker is Betty Boothroid (sp)

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PuF: Come play dying.

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