Gizzmo7
Charles Dickens' initial choice for Scrooge's statement "Bah Humbug" was "Bah Christmas."
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Much prefer 'Humbug'....... y'can eat humbugs!!!
Gizzmo7
They are 95 Calories in each mint humbug
davidneale
The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
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@ Gizzmo 7
'There are 95 Calories in each mint humbug'...... Damm!!
Gizzmo7
But only 10 calories per Malteser.........LOL
gixergal
NOT ALLOWED IN AMERICA:
(Or shall I say only in America)
Unmarried women parachuting on Sunday's (Florida)Persons classified as 'ugly' walking down any street (San Francisco)Taking a bite from another persons hamburger (Oklahoma)Singing in a public place when wearing a swimsuit/trunks (Florida)Carrying an ice-cream cone in your back pocket (Alabama)Getting a fish drunk (Ohio)Milking another person's cow (Texas)Donkeys sleeping in bath tubs (Arizona)Taking more than three sips of beer whilst standing (Texas)Wearing a false moustache that may cause people to laugh in church (Alabama)
Gizzmo7
Only in AMERICA could you find that.....lol
davidneale
More from accross the pond!
Laws forbidding the sale of sodas on Sunday prompted William Garwood to invent the ice cream sundae in Evanston, IL, in 1875.
The New York phone book had 22 Hitler’s listed before World War II ... and none after.
Gizzmo7
The perfume brand "Irish Mist" was introduced to the german market. Unfortunately, in german language "Mist" means nothing else but "Bullshit". Because nobody wanted to buy bullshit to spread it over his face, now it is called "Irish Moos" = moss.
gixergal
In the Middle Ages, animals were tried in court and publicly executed. Birds, wolves and insects were found guilty of witchcraft and heresy. The last trial took place in 1740, when a French judge found a cow guilty of sorcery and ordered it to be hanged by the neck until dead.
davidneale
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
davidneale
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." -Albert Einstein
On June 10, 1958, a tornado was crashing through El Dorado, Kansas. The storm pulled a woman out of her house and carried her sixty feet away. She landed, relatively unharmed, next to a phonograph record titled "Stormy Weather."
bomb doctor
Milwaukee: Not only the birthplace of Harley Davidson but also the typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard in 1869
wenders
when numbers become letters.........................
On a calculator the number 71077345 when read upside down, reads shelloil.............................
07734 is hello..............................
Havent you always wanted to know that???????? Haha
Ragnar
The phrase "It's a cock and bull story" come from a bench on Clapham Common, where drinkers from a pub called "The Cock" met with drinkers from "The Bull" and they all told tall tales.