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12 June 2007

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There is no country who's name begins with the letter H that Canadians need a visa to visit.

post by: Capn at: 11:05 | 43 comments

Four out of five dentists prefer Trident for their patients who chew gum.

posted by Doohickie 12 June | 11:08

Strength is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel in it.

posted by msali 12 June | 11:09

Bouncing is what Tiggers do best

posted by TheDonF 12 June | 11:11

Strength is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel in it.

posted by msali 12 June | 11:11

How did that happen?

posted by msali 12 June | 11:12

You probably clicked your browser's back button, is my guess.

So wouldn't strengths be the longest word? ;P

Typewriter is the longest word you can spell using only the top row of your qwerty keyboard.

posted by iconomy 12 June | 11:16

Shit, you're right iconomy. Damn my eighth grade English teacher! Damn her penguin ass to hell!

posted by msali 12 June | 11:18

Hehe. I was going to say that twelfths was the longest word with just one vowel, but luckily you posted right before me and saved me the abject humiliation of being wrong!

posted by iconomy 12 June | 11:21

Today is not my birthday. Nor is it Friday.

Both interpretations of that second sentence are actual facts. Or at least, "true".

posted by crush-onastick 12 June | 11:23

asdfghjkl;'
...is the longest line on the keyboard with just one vowel.

posted by me3dia 12 June | 11:25

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, if you say it loud enough you'll always sound ~~precocious~~ annoying.

posted by elizard 12 June | 11:31

I have shaken hands with both Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton.

posted by danf 12 June | 11:33

Wow, Doohickie, dentists hate gum that much?

posted by altolinguistic 12 June | 11:39

elizard, unless you say it backwards, which is doshusaliexpylisticfragicalirups. But that's just silly.

Oh, and a fact:

Bricks are bad for your teeth.

posted by Specklet 12 June | 12:05

Strength is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel in it.

Strengths.

posted by agropyron 12 June | 12:17

Also the longest one-syllable word.

posted by agropyron 12 June | 12:18

Also: A duck's quack echoes.

posted by agropyron 12 June | 12:19

Volleyball is played with a volleyball.

posted by Hellbient 12 June | 12:24

Volleyball is played with a lead pipe in the sitting room.

posted by Hugh Janus 12 June | 12:29

Fact: I thought "also" was two syllables.

posted by cmonkey 12 June | 12:30

Fact: Hugh never fails to make me laugh out loud. Except when he's being serious.

A bird in the hand leaves a mess on your fingers.

posted by elizard 12 June | 12:41

The Vietnam War was not won "by the power of Greyskull".

posted by Hellbient 12 June | 12:45

Fact: agro made a pink bunny on the hillside.

posted by Specklet 12 June | 12:57

Fact: Specklet is correct about the pink bunny on the hillside.

posted by iconomy 12 June | 13:07

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains.

posted by Daniel Charms 12 June | 13:59

Fact: I've never understood why that wouldn't that be on the plains.

posted by Specklet 12 June | 14:03

Fact: I was thinking a similar thought the other night. Why do we get "in" a car but "on" a train and "on" an aeroplane?

posted by TheDonF 12 June | 14:15

And when did "standing in line" become "standing on line"?

posted by Hellbient 12 June | 14:26

oh and btw donf, "aeroplane" became "airplane" like a hundred and twelve years ago. Fact.

posted by Hellbient 12 June | 14:29

You also get on a bus.

posted by me3dia 12 June | 14:44

And when did "standing in line" become "standing on line"?

When you entered New York City.

posted by Hugh Janus 12 June | 14:45

No, you get on a bus, I get in a limo

posted by Capn 12 June | 14:53

Driver! Take us to the nearest David Burke restaurant; we're a little hungry. Chop chop!

posted by Hugh Janus 12 June | 14:59

There are hundreds of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

Meryl Streep can act.

posted by LoriFLA 12 June | 15:04

FACT: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

posted by Joe Invisible 12 June | 15:04

Fact: You park on a driveway, and you drive on a parkway.

Fact: I helped a turtle cross the road today. And it tried to pee on me.

posted by redvixen 12 June | 15:08

When you entered New York City.

You're actually probably right about that.

posted by Hellbient 12 June | 15:42

Probably? PROBABLY?! Now I know you're just undercutting me because you hate me!

WHY, MAN, WHY?

posted by Hugh Janus 12 June | 15:51

Fact: Hellbient hates Hugh Janus

posted by qvantamon 12 June | 15:52

Fact: I helped my glider cross the cage to a grape and he peed on me. Right after I said "Don't you pee on me, you little scamp."

posted by Specklet 12 June | 16:02

But it was pee of love!

posted by me3dia 12 June | 17:15

Fact: I was thinking a similar thought the other night. Why do we get "in" a car but "on" a train and "on" an aeroplane?

Yahoo Answers has covered that for you:

Why do you get on a bus and a train but get into a car?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

stupid english people

Hopefully that clears things up.

posted by cmonkey 12 June | 17:18

WHY, MAN, WHY?
I don't really like to focus my hatred in (on?) one specific locale, rather I let it ooze and envelop.
OOZE AND ENVELOP!

posted by Hellbient 12 June | 17:29

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