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* 36% of Americans admit to faking sickness to get out of doing something boring.

* the total amount men spend on their wardrobe:

$35,565...amount women spend on their's: $59,373.

* 33.3% of men have worn a piece of women's clothing at some time...#1: dress #2: panties

* "Pisces" people have the most bedroom partners, 14% have been in the sack with 50+ people. (yes, 50+) They also move faster: 41% had sex on the 1st date. And the most often: 15% say 11x or more a week!

· Redheads seek sex an average of once a day compared with blondes, who could only be bothered twice a week.

· Sex with redheads also lasts the longest - 25-minutes, compared with 14-minutes for blondes.

· Here's the average amount of time you'll spend on the following tasks over a lifetime:

Seeing doctors - 49 hours

Waiting to see doctors - 64 hours

Blowing your nose 6 days, 2 hours

In the bathroom - 7 years

In the shower - 3 months, 17 days

Toweling off - 14 days, 17 hours

Shaving 4 months, 26 days

Applying deodorant - 3 days, 8 hours

Urinating - 29 days, 5 hours

Going number two - 3 months, 8 days

Farting - 2 days, 6 hours

Pounding the pud/flicking the switch - 1 month, 4 days

· The biggest fashion mistake men make is having shirtsleeves that are too long.

· The piece of clothing the average guy is most likely to leave on during sex is? socks.

· Only 27 percent say they wish that their girlfriends talked less.

· 35 percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

· Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

· It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

· Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

· The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

· Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

· 1 A.M. - Pregnant women are most likely to go into labor.

· According to a recent survey, the percentage of guys who'd rather marry a great cook than a sexual dynamo is? 30 percent.

· The romantic dinner the average guy is most likely to prepare for a woman is? pasta.

· Each year in Paris, 650 people break bones or are hospitalized after slipping on dog feces.

· According to a statistic in Men's Health magazine: Number of newlyweds who did not have sex on their wedding night? 32%.

· Percentage of women who wouldn't tell their husband if one of his buddies made a pass at them? 67 percent.

· Percentage of married men who'd cheat with a supermodel if they knew they wouldn't get caught? 43%.

· Two out of three people in the world have never made a telephone call.

· According to a survey of 300 people, the least stressful day of the week is Thursday.
TownDawg
2:23:14 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
Only 99 percent say they wish that kleetn posted less.
kleetn
2:28:13 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
i'm a pisces. it's all true!

wait! so is aimeegee! whoo-hoo!
radagast
2:29:22 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
11 or more times a week.. ??.. wow.. I need to go meet some Pisces hottie really quick.
TownDawg
2:30:30 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
To that 1% out there...Mommy, I love you, too!
kleetn
2:34:57 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
Hey I wish you'd post more too, kleetn. Who's yer Daddy?
arclite
2:36:50 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
Fact: Strangers die everyday!
Buddur
2:39:44 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
"· It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs."

So the "pigskin" is actually a "cowhide?" I thought I had caught you on one, but then I looked it up on the official NFL website (nflshop.com).

All these years, I've been thinking football wasn't kosher!
Forrest
2:47:40 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
so are you and sarabelle going out, buddur?
TownDawg
2:48:37 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
I'm a pieces and a redhead!
REPTILES
3:04:34 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
reeses pieces?
radagast
3:07:11 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
Three out of four Americans comprise 75% of the population.
gordon
3:09:43 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
Reptiles: ya, but sex with a reptile?.. how many girls do you know.. come to think of it.. aren't the budweiser iguana reptiles?.. I bet they get all the hot girls.
TownDawg
3:14:22 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
in some Native American society (which one i forget), clowns used to be able to execute people for committing certain tabboos. they were also the first to touch a newborn, and the last to touch a deceased person.
lyra
3:14:46 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
fact: chili dogs always bark at night
chili36
3:17:54 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
fact: chili should be renamed flaming squirts.
TownDawg
3:20:39 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
No TD, that only happens with Texas chili. I avoid it like a case of the plague.
chili36
3:22:48 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
fact: a true chili cook always defends his chili against all onslaught.
TownDawg
3:25:19 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
Fact: 100% of fatal ski accidents happen on the last run of the day!
Aero
3:27:00 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
TD, that is because my chili is in fact the best chili, after all, I have won the North Carolina and Tennessee state chili championship. Heck, I even have a chili pepper tattoo
chili36
3:27:19 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
*backs off*

see?.. see?.. *pointing for everyone else to notice*.. fact: they ALWAYS protect their chili..

the best part is?.. we get to hike together soon!..

but a chili pepper tattoo?.. hMMm.. I ain't buying me no dawg collar to stay up with ya.. nope.. ain't gonna happen.
TownDawg
3:31:59 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
half of the population has a below-average iq.
radagast
3:55:16 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
rad, I don't think so, I think an "average" IQ is 90 to 110 or 2 standard deviations from the mean of 100 which takes in roughly 2/3 of the population, could be wrong though, just making a "random" observation
chili36
3:59:41 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
fact: some people will argue with a signpost.
TownDawg
4:01:17 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
LOL TD, that is indeed a fact
chili36
4:04:15 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
Fact: you just called rad a signpost.
kleetn
4:07:49 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
*gets a chance to read kleetn's post and busts out laughing here at work*
TownDawg
4:30:17 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
it's a noble job.
radagast
5:20:12 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
I am reminded of two signposts in the town where I live..
Enterprise and Progress.. both street names.. and BOTH dead ends..

I swear it's true.. and will go take a digital pic of me pointing to the sign if you think I'm lying..

:)
TownDawg
5:24:39 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
I don't know what the mean iq is, but exactly 1/2 of the people are below it, and the other 1/2 are above it.
gojo
5:40:43 PM
10/11/01

WARNING!! Math talk.
Above and below the mean do not necessarily have the same number.

The MEDIAN is exactly halfway by count.

But some people here have a negative IQ, so the distribution is really skewed...
gordon
5:52:12 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
Lol TD, I'm not a reptile, I just have several of them tattooed on my body.
Mmmmmmm. Chili, must have chili. (said in Homer Simpson voice)
REPTILES
6:07:22 PM
10/11/01

RE: Random Facts
Part of what I do is statistics.. (quality engineer).. but nope.. I ain't touching this.
TownDawg
8:45:26 AM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
I was driving to work yesterday when I observed a female driver cut right in front of a pickup truck causing him to have to drive on to the shoulder to
avoid hitting her. This evidently pissed the guy off enough that he hung his arm out his window and flipped the woman off. "Man, that guy is stupid", I thought to myself.

I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything to me in traffic and here's why:

I drive 48 miles each way every day to work, that's 96 miles each day.

Of these, 16 miles each way is bumper-to-bumper.

Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway so if you just look at the 7 lanes I am not in, that means I pass a different car every 40 feet per lane.

That's 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to be 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars.

Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper to bumper, I figure I pass at least another 4000 cars.

That brings the number to something like 36,000 cars I pass every day. Statistically, half of these are driven by females, that's 18,000.

In any given group of females 1 in 28 are having the worst day of their period.
That's 642.

According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as dissatisfying or unrewarding. That's 449.

According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all females have seriously considered suicide or homicide.
That's 98.

And 34% describe men as their biggest problem.
That's 33.

According to the NRA, 5% of all females carry weapons and this number is increasing.

That means that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least one female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, is having the worst day of her period, and is armed.

Piss one off?

YEAH, RIGHT!
kleetn
11:00:21 AM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
Awesome kleetn.. very impressive work.

:)
TownDawg
11:03:32 AM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
Kleetn, my drive to work in the morning will never be the same again.
chili36
11:10:15 AM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts From Buddur
Fact: When promulgating esoteric cogitations and articulating superficial sentimentalities, there is a preponderance for platudinous ponderosities.
Buddur
11:15:18 AM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
Good one Kleetn!!!LOL
Big Foot
11:17:19 AM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
re: population, iq, statistics.

Just look at TT. Obviosly some are above average, some are below average, and some are just plain MEAN.
Fritz
11:22:16 AM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
In Michigan, it is not illegal for a 17 yr. old to leave home. They are considered adults.

It is, however, illegal, under the Family Independence Law, for a parent not to supply food, housing, etc for a child under 18.

So, by my 17 year old running away from home, he is not in violation of the law, but I am.

I have no remedy, under state law, to prevent him from running away everytime he disagrees with one of our rules, and am required, under state law, to let him return at any time until 18.
Le Subtil
11:42:11 AM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
Lyra, I think the clowns are at the Taos Pueblo.


Yak milk is pink.
flyguy6x
12:49:06 PM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
Subtil, it sounds like teenagers in MI have a year to really negotiate a better deal on their allowance.
chili36
12:50:31 PM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
Just wait until they go union.
humanpackmule
1:29:45 PM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
Ewww.. bad word.
TownDawg
1:30:50 PM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
I can hear it now "Dad, unless I get a new car, I am going to run away AND call the cops".
chili36
1:32:44 PM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
My bad, sorry TD.
humanpackmule
1:33:55 PM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
:)

we like things non-union around here in the south.
TownDawg
1:35:06 PM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
I know, I'm pretty darn south myself.
humanpackmule
1:37:01 PM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
hehe.. yuppers..
TownDawg
1:39:39 PM
10/12/01

RE: Random Facts
Every year, over 1,500,000,000 insects are killed on US highways by windshields. STOP THE MADNESS!!!
Dirtbag
2:24:23 PM
10/12/01

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