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Post by Jarrah White on Dec 29, 2005 21:20:29 GMT
The freakiest thing that's ever happened to me was when I was about nine. My pet fish died during really hot weather, it was floating belly up and everything. I was really upset, and for some reason I thought that cooling it down would bring it back to life.... I put it in a jug of water and left it in the fridge for two hours, and when I came back it was swimming around like nothing had happened! I swear this is true! That's probably something to do with the fact that fish are cold blooded, just like reptiles and insects: they need to make their own body heat using external tempratures. If they get heat they do okay, if it gets too hot they don't do well and they must find cold to cool down, if they get too cold they must find heat or their bodies go into hibernation. Fortunately us as humans make our body heat internally and we don't have to rely on the tempratures we feel outside to feel cool or warm or whatever.
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Post by StarTodd on Dec 30, 2005 3:10:39 GMT
Relax, my Gaelic friends. Apparantly that law I quipped was a)ONLY legit in York and b)I THINK was repealed... But bear in mind: it's illegal to carry a stringed long/bare/recurve/compound bow anywhere in public.
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Post by Penguin on Dec 30, 2005 15:40:15 GMT
Blast, Stepney beat me to it. I was about to post Snopes....
The site's hilarious, frankly. I love the myths about nudity being slipped into single frames of Disney movies that turned out to be true.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Dec 31, 2005 0:14:13 GMT
Here's an odd one for you Englishmen out there:- In York, if you shoot a Scotsman, on a Sunday, before noon, with a bow and arrow, it is perfectly legal as a)defence of the city and b)bow practice. Kill a Scot at 11:59am and you're a legal patriot practising. Kill at 12:01pm and you're nicked sonny-jim. There's a similar rule concerning the Welsh after dark in Shrewsbury. Mind you, I think you could be done for, well, killing people. I don't know, I've never tried it myself, I quite like the Welsh.
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Post by bobwinkle007 on Dec 31, 2005 22:11:39 GMT
This thread's rather interesting. Have you guys ever noticed any ODD happenings on this forum?
Did you realize that a fifth of the posts on this site are in General Chatter section alone?
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Post by StarTodd on Jan 1, 2006 5:12:42 GMT
It's that bloody lightbulb thread! XD
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Post by SRapi on Feb 19, 2006 16:36:46 GMT
Here's something odd: go into a pitch-dark room, with the door closed, and look at a mirror. Then, take out a Lifesavers candy (it has to be Wint-O-Green flavor, or else it won't work) and chew on it with your mouth open. You'll see sparks in your mouth!
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Post by CPK on Feb 19, 2006 19:31:49 GMT
You know, it is actually possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs..... this was actually done as an American High School prank at one point.... apparently.
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Post by bobwinkle007 on Feb 20, 2006 1:01:38 GMT
Here's something odd: go into a pitch-dark room, with the door closed, and look at a mirror. Then, take out a Lifesavers candy (it has to be Wint-O-Green flavor, or else it won't work) and chew on it with your mouth open. You'll see sparks in your mouth! That is so much fun.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Feb 20, 2006 14:29:40 GMT
You know, it is actually possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs..... this was actually done as an American High School prank at one point.... apparently. I heard that. They get scared.
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Post by SRapi on Feb 20, 2006 15:17:54 GMT
There's a town, I think in New Jersey, that makes it that: if you weigh over 300 pounds, it is illegal for you to ride a donkey in short pants. There's also a town, I think in Montana, that makes it illegal for you to eat peanuts in church on Sunday.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Feb 20, 2006 17:06:13 GMT
Are those the laws exactly? As I said before, quite often these laws are taken out of context. For example, theft is illegal in Britain, and therefore you could correctly say, "In the town of Shrewbury it is illegal to steal a monkey on a Friday afternoon." The town in Montana might have a law against, say, blasphemy, which eating peanuts in church on Sunday could broadly come under.
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Looks familiar, doesn't it?
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Post by Rheneas on Mar 5, 2006 21:19:26 GMT
This law can't be much weirder, and I don't think it can be simplified like the other ones: In Movave County of Arizona, if you are caught stealing a bar of soap, you must wash yourself with it until you use it up. Strange, eh?
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Post by Bonner on Mar 5, 2006 21:23:48 GMT
Heres something I can not get my head over, some people say that theres a country tht eat Dogs. And I heard this country is China. I mean, i'm not having a go at their culture, but Dogs? Mans best friend? I could never bring myself to eating the same breed as the Dog sat beside me. I'd probably make myself fall to sleep.
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Post by stepneydude on Mar 5, 2006 21:34:02 GMT
I've heard that Russia, Belgium and China do it. I'm not sure which one is true - some country somewhere probably does.
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Post by Nanaki on Mar 6, 2006 20:43:36 GMT
Here is an odd thing:
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Post by Jarrah White on Mar 7, 2006 12:19:51 GMT
What the f#@$?
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Post by bocodiseasel on Mar 7, 2006 16:11:53 GMT
Here is an odd thing: What the heck is that? And also, in New York, the penalty for jumping off a building is death.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Mar 7, 2006 16:12:37 GMT
Heres something I can not get my head over, some people say that theres a country tht eat Dogs. And I heard this country is China. I mean, i'm not having a go at their culture, but Dogs? Mans best friend? I could never bring myself to eating the same breed as the Dog sat beside me. I'd probably make myself fall to sleep. It's quite common in Asian countries such as China and Korea. Before you recoil in disgust, it's worth bearing in mind that there are cultures that find the idea of eating cows or pigs or, indeed, any animals at all to be utterly abhorrent. I once met a chap who had been in a siege. When the food ran out, they were forced to eat whatever they could find. He said that if he had to choose between cats, dogs and rats, dogs were the ones to go for. Rats were hard to catch and didn't have much meat on them and cats were stringy. I'd imagine that probably came about as the result of a ruling by an eccentric judge. That's usually the other explanation for weird laws.
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Post by stepneydude on Mar 7, 2006 17:27:17 GMT
Reminds me of this old News Report joke: A judge found two teenagers commiting crimes today. One was licking batteries, the other was setting off fireworks illegally. He did to them what they did to the items - he charged one and let the other off
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