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Old 22-July-2007, 02:49 AM
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There is no medical name for the 'back of the knee'.
sorry to dig this up but it's "the popliteal fossa".
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Old 22-July-2007, 03:14 AM
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Wm Shakspeare's plays were not written by him, but by a man of the same name who lived in the same place at the same time.
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Old 23-July-2007, 01:17 PM
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You can't keep yours eyes open when you sneeze.
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The Maltese Falcon is the largest privately owned sailing yacht in the world at 88 meters (289.1 ft).
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Old 24-July-2007, 08:48 PM
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One-eyes -- the Manxmen's slang name for the ex-Colonial Civil Servants settled in retirement on the Isle of Man to avoid British taxes. Because of their habit of standing in a pub or at parties, pink gin or beer in hand, loudly declaiming: "WhenIwas in Africa/Malaya/India...", but the One-eyes from India often held a brandy-and-soda, of course.
There is another reason for the name that cannot be told on this forum because of the rules....... The Aussies among us might guess it though.
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Why only the Assies? We Yanks aren't as daft as you thunk we are...
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Old 25-July-2007, 07:41 PM
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It was said to be an Aussie revival of an older piece of slang, in about the 1960's.
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Baseballs hit at Denver's Coors Field carry farther than in any other stadium in the country---the 'Coors Field Effect'
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Despite releasing Ocean's 13 (domestic gross: $115m and counting) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (domestic gross: $252m and counting) during the most recent quarter, Time Warner's movie division only recorded $81m in profits for that period.
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Old 03-August-2007, 04:37 PM
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OK, I guess I'll be replying to myself then...

The combined mass of the inner Solar System (planets, moons, asteroid belt) is equal to almost exactly twice the mass of the Earth- to within less than one percent.
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Old 06-August-2007, 10:42 PM
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You can repair the scratches on your watch glass by brushing them with tooth paste.
Don't believe me, try it!
Know how it works, please let the rest of us know.
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Half the world's nickel supplies derive from a single asteroid impact in Sudbury, Canada 1.8 billion years ago.
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95% of the world's heroin supply now comes from Afghanistan.
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Some bridges built by Romans are still in use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_bridges

(NB Trajan's bridge over the Danube lasted 1,000 years.)

Late 20th Century bridges only last 25-50 years? And were DESIGNED in this way? Was the public told this on the day the bridge was opened?
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We've left 188 tons of equipment on the Moon.
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A rock thrown at 45 degrees related to horizon will travel further than any other angle (barring any obstacles).
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You can't keep yours eyes open when you sneeze.
Use duck err duct tape.

I have two dead pixels on my LCD.
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A rock thrown at 45 degrees related to horizon will travel further than any other angle (barring any obstacles).
I bet not if you take Earth R into account.
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Old 31-August-2007, 08:23 PM
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Use duck err duct tape.

I have two dead pixels on my LCD.
Hey, does that work in reverse, if I tape my eyes open will I never sneeze?

CPR on pixels does not work.
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Old 01-September-2007, 10:32 PM
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I bet not if you take Earth R into account.
I bet you are right.

A bullet dropped from a gun's height will hit the ground at the same moment as a bullet fired from it (horizontally), given it is released at the moment the gun is fired and you disregard the Earth's curvature.
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