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irrelevant facts thread

  • 11-08-2003 1:13pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭


    Mohammedd is the most poupular name ever but i dont know how to spell it!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭iornman


    Im wearing odd socks with a hole in one. Fact.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    umm...
    if a turkey looks us when it's raining it'll drown. so i'm told

    rats can last longer without water then Camells
    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 413 ✭✭karma kabbage


    :D If you pour alcohol on a scorpian it'll go crazy and sting itself to death!!! (life is complete once you have witnessed this!!)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭Daylight


    elephants are the only land animal that can't jump

    a pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

    a ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why

    it's impossible to lick your own elbow


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    here's one
    The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

    Karma Kabbage has 2 tittles... but this is up for debate


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    this is one that i love:

    Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭Wools


    No two countries housing McDonalds outlets at the same time have ever gone to war against each other.

    Fast Food = McDonalds
    Mcdonalds= Catalysts in world peace


    Hence

    Fast Food = World peace


    Long live supermacs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Cherry


    Marylin Monroe was not a size 16 like everyone thought.

    'Red Spirit' smoothies will make your teeth red for hours after drinking one.

    I also am wearing odd socks, but they both have holes in.
    Huzzah for odd socks

    Wheelie bins make good hiding places when empty, but not so good when not empty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    I happen to be wearing odd... smelly socks.. mainly because i didn't have any clean ones around.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭LA_girl


    In California the only things you can legally throw out the car window are water..... and chicken feathers.

    In "Ar-kan-saw" it's illegal to pronounce it Ar-kansas.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭Rockiemalt


    Wacker is great and i just recieved a text from him threatening to dump me again

    we ran out of nurofen dammit


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Cherry


    Plugging mice & microphones into computers is a pain in the arse.

    Pointing a hose straight up at the sky & letting the water rain down on you feels nice.

    I have a massive stress headache & am doped up on painkillers. Whee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    • Galway is great for going out on the piss, go to Sally Longs best pub ever!!!!
    • ginger ale and southern comfot is yummeh!
    • amp is currently not wearing pants (and no that's not a typo)
    • You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby round round round round!
    • An Post will be the victim of Mark's revolution
    • Buy a bong it means you will never have to worry about running out of papers etc.

    More to follow...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Saint-dotsie


    Galway is great for going out on the piss, go to Sally Longs best pub ever!!!!
    this information could be considered relevant
    tyrrial is setting a great example, be like the boy

    About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting
    on it.

    just found that one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    Nah it's not really relevent as most of the people posting on this board are in/from dublin and would have absolutely no intention of venturing outside of Dublin to do any sort of socialising/getting stoned/drunk etc.

    If it makes you feel better you can substite it for this one...
    • There are places/things outside of Dublin

    Which may also be seen as irrelevant to afformentioned peoples


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭Daylight


    If the worlds population consumed the same energy as the average european we would need two more planets to survive.
    If the worlds population consumed the same energy as the average american we would need four.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Ro: maaan!


    Watching unhealthy amounts of television will have no effect on the shape of one's eyes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭butterfly


    facts that i find fabulous:
    (except for the 1st 1, thats just there baecuse some1 mentioned arkansas)
    *my english teacher, she who is supposed to pronounce things correctly &annunciate&stuff, pronounces arkansas ar-kansas

    onto the interesting ones
    *butterflies can swim
    *butterflies often migrate with flocks of birds for the winter and can live up to 4years
    *male seahorses get pregnant
    *hummingbirds are the only bird that can actually fly backwards (as opposed to being blown back by the wind or the like)
    *we like roy
    *my socks are pretty &holey&odd but i cant find them
    *my wife's back tonight&im very excited so all must rejoice


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Saint-dotsie


    In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    The average human head weighs 8 pounds.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Cherry


    In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.

    Men with long hair were not allowed enter Disneyworld or any Disney-affiliated-themepark until the late 60's.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,114 ✭✭✭doctor evil


    A baby guinepig can eat solid food after two days, and they are born with their eyes open.


  • Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭dr strangelove


    I just found this by accident.....

    William Patrick Hitler, Adolf's nephew, came to America in the 30s, and went on to serve in the U.S. Navy and fought against his uncle.

    from
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/02/05/last.hitlers.cnna/

    (my first post - please be gentle)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    here's another interesting one:

    The first couple to be shown in Bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭bandit


    There are more brothals in Manchester then in Amsterdam


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭Gar_ptc


    Once a pit bull terrier bites, it locks its jaw. the only way to remove it (against its will) is to insert one's finger in its ass.


  • Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭irokie


    Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, the universe is the imagination of itself and there is no such thing as death....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭memaeve


    Rabbits can't vomit.

    Each stamp you lick contains one tenth of a calorie.

    Banging your head off a wall consumes 50 calories an hour, (or something like that!)

    O'Connell Bridge is the only bridge in Ireland that is wider than it is long.

    There's a species of bat that can hear a beetle approaching on sand up to 6 feet away.

    I've got more but can't think of them now.

    This is a fun thread!
    xxx me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Saint-dotsie


    the irish sea is the most toxic in the owrld, but thats quite relevant
    CLOSE SELLAFIELD
    maybe we should start a new thread called so who would listen?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    memaeve helped me remember this one with her bat comment
    There's a species of bat that can hear a beetle approaching on sand up to 6 feet away

    Bats always Exit a cave to the Left...?!?!


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