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David T
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Finland has the highest percentage of blondes in its population than any other country.

One Fin consumes on average 9 cups of coffee per day.

The Baltic sea is not tidal, meaning Finnish coastlines look like lake.

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Quote: " Finland has the highest percentage of blondes in its population than any other country."


Must... visit... Finland.

Quote: "One Fin consumes on average 9 cups of coffee per day."


An even better reason to visit


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Quote: ""a Koala bear sleeps 22 hours a day. Fact.""

Fraid it cant be true, i had a huge argument with a Koala bear the other day, something about dieting..this argument went of for four hours and seeing he was losing the koala dropped dead...so it cant be true.
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Quote: "Must... visit... Finland. "


Must... Second... Motion.

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Quote: "Doom was blamed for that incident"

I thought they blamed Marylon Manson.

Quote: "Must... Second... Motion."

Must... Spazuh.

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Quote: "I thought they blamed Marylon Manson. "


They should...he's creepy...I mean really creepy.

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But it dosen't mean that he made them do it.

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Must...get...laid...fin...land.....Oooooohhhhhh

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Must...tell...underlord...to..get...a..life.


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Fact: Play any song backwards and you can make the lyrics sound like almost anything you want, all you have to do is think of what kind of messages you want to find, and listen for them.

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Song: "Amazing Grace"
Played backwards: "Bust a cap! Do some drugs! Fsck the police!"
OR
"Worship Satan! Slit your wrist! The first ten cult members get a free toaster!"
OR
"We are Microsoft. Prepare to be assimilated."

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Prodigy: Smack my B***h up

Played backwards: Flower power for Ming the Merciless!

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Quote: "According to town law, in York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a scotsman with a bow and arrow (escept on sundays)"


Its legal to shoot a Welshman from Chester's city walls on a Sunday

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Quote: " The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator."


Quote: " One human hair can support 3kg"


Quote: " The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb"


Quote: "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.""


Quote: " The bikini bathing suit was so named because it was created the same year the atomic bomb was tested on Bikini Isalnd"


Quote: "The full name for Bangkok is Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok pop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivetmahasathan Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprast

You have to pay a tax in Denmark to use the back seat of your car for passengers

Dublin is home to the Fairy Investigation Society

There is a law in France against selling dolls without human faces"


There are some for ya, I got em from here....
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Quote: "Must...tell...underlord...to..get...a..life."


I...must...get....a....life.

but in the meantime heres another "fact" from my book...muwahahahahaha!

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."

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Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time

played backwards - "Sleep with me, I'm not too young"

Absolutely true, listen here:

http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/stairwaybackwards.htm

Most of the others are rubbish but that one is so clear.
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Fact: English is the most complicated language in the world, it is also the most widely used.

Fact: There are some (a surprisingly high number) who have so many problems when using computers, that they should never be allowed to directly use them.

Fact: Knowing C++ does not make you a better game designer.

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Quote: " Fact: English is the most complicated language in the world, it is also the most widely used."




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If I remember rightly Chinese is the most used language. But English is the most understood language, what with lots of Chinese dialects being really different to each other and everything. Then again go to Dublin or Glasgow....

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Posted: 16th Mar 2005 06:48 Edited at: 16th Mar 2005 06:51
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Fact: English is the first language of anyone who claims that english simple.

Fact: English has more dialects then people realise, Essex, Brummy, Cockney, Liverpudlian, Scotish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, American, Redneck, Texan, Australian, etc. Although most are similar enough to be understood by most.

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Quote: " Fact: English is the first language of anyone who claims that english simple."

I know some French people that admit that French is harder than English


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That's because the french get a lot of things messed up.

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Well, erm, yeah.... Every language has multiple dialects, my point was that English is supposed to be the most understood language because most English speakers can understand most other english dialects most of the time. Some Chinese dialects cannot understand each other *at all* apparently.

Anyway, everyone in the UK knows that if you talk slow and loud enough then *everyone* in the world can understand you. If they don't then it really means they won't, probably because they are still annoyed about when we took over their country or somesuch...

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There are some English dialects that are, almost completely impossible to understand without learning, Liverpudlian for example.

Quote: "probably because they are still annoyed about when we took over their country or somesuch"

It's amazing how long grudges can last!

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In germany, the notherners and southerners speak very different german indeed, not just the accent, but the words and grammar.

edit: FACT


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FACT: That talking slow and loud actually works with all English dialects. I reckon...

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Fact - i have never had a thread go over 1 page.

Fact - a dog can't hear the lowest note on a piano.

Note I do not condone that any of my "facts" are true facts so your on your own....but wait don't stop viewing my thread!!!!!! please!!!! don't....stop....ohhhhhh....don't....*comes too*....so as i was saying....

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Posted: 16th Mar 2005 10:08 Edited at: 16th Mar 2005 10:09
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FACT- When you read your own horoscope your mind will automatically find things in your life that connect to it and you will coveniently forget things that happen that go AGAINST the horoscope, Figures I always found myself agreeing with those things,
FACT-Half Life 2 does not work on my computer
FACT-There are way to many WW2 games
FACT-Brothers in arms is the best one
FACT-I have made 4 other facts
FACT-I am getting Geforce 6600Gt on Saturday and want to brag about it.
FACT-Canada Does not mean Big Village it means Little village, I know I am canadian, The stupid settlers thought the Native was naming the country not his village.
FACT-Most violent videogames do not lead to violence, withdrawing the Videogames creates anxiety creating violence (I know from experience)
FACT-Saint Patricks Day is soon
FACT-I have made to many facts
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Quote: "English is the most complicated language in the world"

heh, here in Brazil, if you ask a native portuguese speaker who's studying english in school, "What do you think is more complicated, english or portuguese?", a surprisingly large amount will say "portuguese" despite it being their first language. English is a simple language compared to others (except spanish, which is very simple).

Fact: Pie is by far the most perfect meal. If you get its circumference and divide it by the distance from its center to its border squared, you will get a constant (off the top of my head): 3.141592653589793238462643...

Fact: Nearly all food worth eating is somehow related to Pie:
1) Pizza, a flat pie with cheese and no upper crust
2) Queesh, a funny tasting pie
3) Lasanha, a soggy pie, with the crust mixed up with the filling
4) Burritos, rolled-up-bean-pie
there's more, but I'm getting hungry.

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These are some AMAZING FACTS!

Fact: This icon is a right hand. Although it says ic:lefthand

http://www.brinkster.com/redirect.aspx?rf=g4l3ku5&ad=1000&redirect=/hosting/hosting.aspx
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Fact: This is pointless but keep it up because its still FACT....

Fact: not all facts have to be proven

Fact: Aliens are real

Fact: I am a alien

Fact: I will now blow up earth.....BOOOOMMMMMMMM

(okie the last one wasnt a fact but oh well)

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Quote: " Fact: English is the most complicated language in the world, it is also the most widely used."


Excuse me? There are over a billion Chinese and over a billion Indians in this world. Waaaayyy more than English. The Chinese are *now* just beginning to teach their children English. Anyone who is over 25-30 wouldn't have learned it.

Quote: "Fact - a dog can't hear the lowest note on a piano."


And they know this... how?

Quote: "Some Chinese dialects cannot understand each other *at all* apparently. "


FACT: Mandarin and Cantonese are two completely different spoken languages, yet they're written exactly the same.

Quote: "Canada Does not mean Big Village it means Little village, I know I am canadian"


Actually it just means 'Village' in Iroquois, I believe.

http://www.billcasselman.com/cwod_archive/canada.htm


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Quote: "Quote: "Fact - a dog can't hear the lowest note on a piano."

And they know this... how?"


Quote: "Note I do not condone that any of my "facts" are true facts so your on your own....but wait don't stop viewing my thread!!!!!! please!!!! don't....stop....ohhhhhh....don't....*comes too*....so as i was saying...."




ahhh ha! beat ya jeku have a nice life.....

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I actually think lower English (the basic crap that foreigners learn) is easier, but once you get fluent and have to construct complex sentences it gets hard...well from my experience that is

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Spanish isnt that easy...Im learning it atm and learning the past tense etc is quite hard...Because of all the verb endings...

Meh ...Spanish...


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You should try perfect subjuntive in French. Or even present subjuntive. Quite how you get some of those words is beyond me.

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Which is why I wish I had chosen Spanish instead of French..

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Quote: "I actually think lower English (the basic crap that foreigners learn) is easier, but once you get fluent and have to construct complex sentences it gets hard...well from my experience that is "

Erm, I think you would find constructing complex sentences even harder in French..


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I find languages hard full stop, but I find basic french reasonably easy...

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Quote: "Erm, I think you would find constructing complex sentences even harder in French.."

Yes. Very hard indeed.
Tu es un spazuh?

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Quote: " but I find basic french reasonably easy..."

Thats because strangly enough basic french is, well, basic.

Quote: "Tu es un spazuh?"

C'est quoi un spazuh?


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Fact: Most violent games are a form of stress relief.

Fact: Punching bags are good for stress relief.

Fact: Tearing wall paper of a wall is good for stress relief.

Fact: Yelling and screaming at a computer is a common form of stress relief.

Fact: Computers are a well known cause of stress.

Fact: Children are an even more common cause of stress.

Fact: Obesity in children can be caused by parents using consoles and the internet as a nanny service.

Fact: Lego Star Wars is the greatest Star Wars game ever!

Fact: Facts are only as accurate as the information they are based on and the deceptiveness of the person stating the fact.

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Fact:

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Fact: I should shut the hell up.




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Quote: "Tu es un spazuh?"

Voce é um spazuh?


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Ok what the hell was that?


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what, portuguese? Or the fact that we're asking each other, "Tu es un spazuh"?

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Well, I've always heard from other people usualy those who speak a number of languages, that English was the most complicated. The reason they always gave was that it's the only language where the same sentance can mean many different things depending of tone or voice and the context it was said in. Anyone who speaks english will agree that even if it's your first language you can still get confused. I was always under the impression that no other language goes as far as english does to be diverce.

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Which is why you must be 1336 to master it

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