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Ricky
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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 Posted - 09/12/2004 : 19:39:31 [Permalink]
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Where to begin?Babies are born without kneecaps. They do not appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age. Well, according to this article, if one is born without kneecaps, it's considered a defect. I can see my kid's kneecaps in his baby photos. There are, after all, some pretty important muscles attached to them, enabling people to walk and suchlike. The vast majority of kids seem to be able to walk before age two.The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning. Burning? Utter nonsense.
Oh, and it's a much shorter list once you find that several of them are repeated, at least once. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/12/2004 : 22:58:04 [Permalink]
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WTF kind of site is it? It just seems to be a list of claims, without even a reason for being. Or is the point just to be amazed?
Anyway, the first claim:
North American Indians ate Watercress to dissolve gravel and stones in the bladder.
I am not a doctor, but I personally know of no way in which gravel could find its way into someone's bladder, even if they swallowed a handful. Perhaps I'm missing something.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/12/2004 : 23:44:21 [Permalink]
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quote:
North American Indians ate Watercress to dissolve gravel and stones in the bladder.
I hope they are referring to kidney stones.... otherwise the only way to get gravel and stones into the bladder would require some serious trauma to the urethra or an opening through the abdominal wall..... rofl... ouch. |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Ricky
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
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Posted - 09/13/2004 : 02:21:15 [Permalink]
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| It seems to be of a guy named Mitch. He has similar lists for other topics like 'laws' and 'animals'. Seems to be genuine as far as I can tell. |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Robb
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Posted - 09/14/2004 : 12:16:31 [Permalink]
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quote:
You blink about 84,000,000 times per year.
This works out to 2.7 times/second! |
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tomk80
SFN Regular
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Posted - 09/14/2004 : 12:44:38 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Robb
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You blink about 84,000,000 times per year.
This works out to 2.7 times/second!
No wonder I've been seeing so badly lately  |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/14/2004 : 12:50:08 [Permalink]
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| It's just someones blog. Is the site supposed to be valid for some reason? |
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Ricky
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/14/2004 : 13:03:19 [Permalink]
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quote:
The disease Tuberculosis, is best known as consumption.
Change 'is' to 'was' on that...
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The nose continues to grow throughout your life.
nope sorry, this is a misconception of cartilige based animals.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/Mar2003/1048719208.Dv.r.html
Edit2: removed my misinformation
And my favorite of all
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The human brain is so complex; that it would cost over 8 billion
for anyone to program,and sell a computer(s) to do all the thingsit does!
I wont even bother saying why this is wrong.
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Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
Apparently rocks all come in one form now.
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The average human being will walk 160 billion millimetres in a lifetime.
I have a hard time believing that the average human walks 160,000KM in a lifetime, but I may be wrong on this one. 4.38KM a day for 100 years, somebody must be doing a lot of extra walking to make up for americans. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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