Pencils & other random items of interest

Glad you asked I have memorized the most important little known facts that everyone should always know!

#1 During an hour's swimming at a municipal pool you will ingest 1/12 liter of urine.

#2 In an average day your hands will have come into indirect contact with 15 penises (touching door handles etc.)

#3 An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

#4 In a year you will have swallowed 14 insects - while you slept!

#5 Daily you will breath in 1 liter of other peoples' anal gases.

#6 Annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

#7 Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.


Not sure how they can figure these things out!

But that would mean that more women are...... HEY, have you been fibbing to us all along?

Brooke

those are most interesting facts...the kind we never want to think about

Thanks, Brooke! I'm having all sorts of fun with all these facts!

Joe - I always suspected that women have been lying to us about that particular matter...

Men are so easily deluded.

So true Noddy. Still, ignorance can sometimes be bliss..

Ignorance can be bliss? 'Tis folly to be wise?


Ah, wilderness. Ah, men.

I am constantly suprised how women manage to find us attractive...

Who could resist a black faced sheep sitting before what might, just maybe, be an antique sewing machine?

Oh yuk. And I thought that the mattress was getting harder to turn because I was getting weaker..............

Roger is right, GD that is an adorable avatar. I was thinking it was a sewing machine, a muppet sewing machine.

Not a bad guess, Roger and Paulaj. It is pretty obscure, I admit. Here is the full image...



And here is a picture of the mystery building in all its glory...



It is the former Battersea Power Station on the south bank of the Thames in London. It is NOT now the Tate Modern Art Gallery. Which is quite cool, since I think it's one of the best-looking power stations I've ever seen.

Anyway, more facts coming soon...

Btw, it's an 'homage' (or rip-off, whichever you prefer) of the cover of Pink Floyd's "Animals".

James Brown holds the record for the most #1 singles of any artist alive today, and the second most #1 singles of all time.

The Battersea power station is not the tate modern !! It is a totally different building. What to do with the power station is still being debated I think...

See, that's what happens when you live Up North! Thanks for the correction, G. I'll go back and edit the post for clarity's sake. Have you a fact you'd care to share?

The Tate Modern is housed in the converted Bankside Power Station, also in London on the banks of the Thames, and also designed in the 1930's by architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. He also designed the old-style red telephone boxes and Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.

This is for you GD....


In ancient times, a groom used to apply a spot of his blood on his bride's forehead, in recognition of wedlock. Today, married Indian women may choose to wear this mark. However, if a women is single, divorced, or widowed, she cannot wear this mark.

Hinduism is the oldest of the five great religions followed today. It also differs from other religions because it cannot be traced to a single founder.

In Vedic literature, there were flying machines called vimanas, which means "he who is able at three strides to take measure of the entire earth and heavens. There were two different types. The first was manmade, and resembled airplanes. The second looked almost looked loke UFOs, and were not handmade.

Alexander the Great discovered bananas in his conquest of India in 327 B.C.

The richest Indian is six times richer than the Queen of England.

It was ancient Indian knowledge that helped Steptoe come up with the test tube baby in 1979.

Gautam, interesting facts.

GD, boy was I wrong, a sewing machine? oops. lol
I wasn't alone though, was I Roger.

Nice one, G! Not just good facts, but themed as well! You da man!