Why boys are bastards

A place I set up when I was pissed off with the male race... I'm not a real bunny boiler, and sometimes I do say things I don't mean, so if you are offended then I'm sorry. (That was a disclaimer so don't sue me!!!!)

Friday, October 14, 2005

These are just copied and pasted... but some are quite amusing!!!

Useless Facts
Betty Boop is a red head. She appeared in her only colour cartoon, Cinderella, with red hair
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backward.)
In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mailbox.
The stop-motion puppet for King Kong was covered with rabbit fur
Red Dawn was the first movie to have a PG13 rating
"Jaws" is the first movie ever to make over 100 million dollars
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field
In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet
There are Star Wars ships hidden in Star Trek: First Contact, Space Balls, and Independence Day among others
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark
Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates
There is a statuette of R2-D2 attached to the model of the mother-ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and on the Borg ship on Star Trek: The Next Generation
The eye pieces on the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact, flash in Morse code, spelling out the names of several members of the production team
James Bond's car had three different license plates in Goldfinger
Gary Cooper was the first Academy Award winner for best actor to make his acceptance speech on television
101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Hercules and Mulan are the only Disney movies where both parents are present and don't die by the end of the movie
Paul McCartney purchased the rights to the Happy Birthday song we all know, so if you want to use it in a production, you have to pay him royalty fees
Cheech and Chong were awarded the first Bronze Taco, on July 24 1984
Humphery Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty"
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Gone With the Wind had the working titles Tote the Weary Load and Ba! Ba! Black Sheep
The Brothers Grimm wrote 211 fairy tales
It used to be illegal to swim by daylight
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
William Shakespeare claimed that honorificabilitudinitatibus was the longest word used in any of his plays
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"I" is the most spoken word in the English language
"You" is the second most spoken English word
"O" is considered to be the oldest vowel in the English language
The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
Canada makes up 6.67 percent of the Earth's land area
Alberta is home to Canada's largest Ukrainian Easter egg
The fastest broadcaster in history is Canadian Gerry Wilmont, from Victoria B.C. He was a hockey commentator
A Canadian invented the paint roller
A Canadian was the creator of "Superman"
Canada is home to the International Federation of Bodybuilders
Nova Scotia boasts Sober Island, 30 miles from Wine Harbor
New Brunswick is the lobster capital of the world
15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toenails
Deborah Ann Fountain, the 1981 Miss New York State, was disqualified from the Miss U.S.A pageant for padding her bathing suit
The only two bald Presidents were Martin Van Buren and Dwight D. Eisenhower
In a speech made in 1961, John F. Kennedy was recorded as speaking at 327 words per minute, the fastest in public history

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