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prohemp
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 Posted: 10/11/02 - 13:12 Post subject:
Despite what pop culture would have us believe, we are all beautiful in some way....
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keltic63
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 13:14 Post subject:
| prohemp wrote: | | Despite what pop culture would have us believe, we are all beautiful in some way.... |
let's all sing: Everybody's beautiful, in their own way.....
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prohemp
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 13:17 Post subject:
peanut butter was invented so people with bad teeth could get protein
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 13:35 Post subject:
High heels were invented by the Marquis de Sade.
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prohemp
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 13:39 Post subject:
a weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lefetime during 17th century England
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 13:44 Post subject:
| Quote: | | peanut butter was invented so people with bad teeth could get protein |
and then those with good teeth went hungry? Ate Nutella? What?
I'm beginning to doubt the veracity of your entries, bubba. I had a friend who ran around saying things like: "Did you know more people are killed by DC Metro busses than in area homicides each year?"
which was absolutely untrue but the way he told it gave it great credibility. I think you've got that same knack, Pro
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prohemp
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 14:02 Post subject:
| Gogirlgo wrote: | | Quote: | | peanut butter was invented so people with bad teeth could get protein |
and then those with good teeth went hungry? Ate Nutella? What?
I'm beginning to doubt the veracity of your entries, bubba. I had a friend who ran around saying things like: "Did you know more people are killed by DC Metro busses than in area homicides each year?"
which was absolutely untrue but the way he told it gave it great credibility. I think you've got that same knack, Pro |
the people with good teeth ate red meat
History of Peanut Butter
[Stolen shamelessly from the Peanut Butter Lovers Club's History page.]
| Quote: | There are many claims about the origin of peanut butter. Africans ground peanuts into stews as early as the 15th century. The Chinese have crushed peanuts into creamy sauces for centuries. Civil War soldiers dined on 'peanut porridge.' These uses, however, bore little resemblance to peanut butter as it is known today.
In 1890, an unknown St. Louis physician supposedly encouraged the owner of a food products company, George A. Bayle Jr., to process and package ground peanut paste as a nutritious protein substitute for people with poor teeth who couldn't chew meat. The physician apparently had experimented by grinding peanuts in his hand-cranked meat grinder. Bayle mechanized the process and began selling peanut butter out of barrels for about 6¢ per pound. |
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Cappy
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 16:15 Post subject:
George Patton was dyslexic, and he also had to repeat his first year at math West Point because he failed math.
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prohemp
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 21:06 Post subject:
no word in the english language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple
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copteacher
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 21:08 Post subject:
| prohemp wrote: | | Despite what pop culture would have us believe, we are all beautiful in some way.... |
i got the whole world in my hand
kumba ah my lord
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 21:38 Post subject:
| Gogirlgo wrote: | | High heels were invented by the Marquis de Sade. |
Amen to that Sistah!
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flarunner
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Posted: 10/11/02 - 21:41 Post subject: Re: Riff Raff's Well of Useless Knowledge!
| prohemp wrote: | | The little things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets and the holes the shoelaces go through are called grommits. |
I thought the holes are called eyelets with the grommit being the metal piece that supports the hole.
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Posted: 10/12/02 - 14:06 Post subject:
the dimples on golf balls are actually all slightly different sizes (to account for lift, distance, etc).
*found that out when i spent half an hour coloring a golf ball and realized some red spots were some how bigger then the others*
(i got paid to do this i might add)
-blue
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Posted: 10/13/02 - 17:45 Post subject:
More than 2000 left-handed people die annually from using equipment designed for right-handed people.
Your foot is the same length as your forearm.
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Posted: 10/13/02 - 18:35 Post subject:
'polish' is the only english word pronounced differently when capatalized.
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