Friday, February 24, 2006

Who Knew?

I've seen this a few places. It appealed not only to my love of trivia but to my slightly skewed sense of humor.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Lime!

  1. The first domain name ever registered was lime.com!
  2. Lime will become gaseous if her temperature rises above -42°C!
  3. The canonical hours of the Christian church are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, lime and compline.
  4. Lime, from the movie of the same name, had green blood!
  5. In the Great Seal of the United States the eagle grasps 13 arrows and lime.
  6. During the reign of Peter the Great, any Russian nobleman who chose to wear lime had to pay a special lime tax.
  7. Until the 1960s, lime was not allowed to enter Disneyland.
  8. The smelly fluid secreted by skunks is colloquially known as lime.
  9. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are lime.
  10. Lime does not have toes.
I am interested in - do tell me about

1. And yet I am not making any money off this!
2. I hear Beano helps remedy this.
3. And the correct posture for prayer is kneeling.
4. It's true, I'm part vulcan.
5. And let me tell ya, the talons do not feel good!
6. Russian euphemisms...ha!
7. It's a little know fact that equality for lime was a part of the civil rights movement.
8. Only because of that little problem I had before I discovered Beano......sheesh, they never let you forget, do they?
9. Oddly enough, I have actually dueled a Paraguayan. His name was Gus. I swear I am not making this up.
10. Well, no worries about excessive toe jams that way.




What the heck, that was fun enough to try again....

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Michelle!

  1. Four-fifths of the surface of michelle is covered in water.
  2. According to the story, Pinocchio was made of michelle.
  3. The air around michelle is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun.
  4. More than one million stray dogs and half a million stray cats live in michelle.
  5. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are michelle!
  6. US gold coins used to say 'In michelle we trust'.
  7. Michelle is the smallest of Jupiter's many moons!
  8. There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat michelle, though it may feel uncomfortable!
  9. Michelle can run sixty-five kilometres an hour - that's really fast!
  10. It is impossible to fold michelle more than seven times!
I am interested in - do tell me about

1. It SHOULD say '4/5 of Michelle is covered by chocolate!'
2. Um, are they saying I gave him wood? That just seems wrong.
3. When yer hot yer hot!
4. And all the voices are making me crazy!!!!!
5. I already told you, the other guy's name was Gus. I swear it's true.
6. Until they found I was hoarding them all. I guess I wasn't so trustworthy.
7. I'm just glad I'm not orbitting Uranus.
8. I will be purring contentedly, however. (Like all of you didn't have similar thoughts...)
9. Only when that rocket pack is strapped to my back.
10. I used to be much more flexible but age is catching up to me.

What amazing trivial facts can you tell me about yourself?

Happy weekend all!

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

LMAO... this is the best way to wake up at the beginning of spring break!! Too funny, hun! Have a great weekend!

Stephanie said...

OMG!! That was funny!!

#8 made me snort I laughed so freaking hard and quickly scrolled to your retort!! LOL!!

A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are individually known as Snavy.

In her entire life, Snavy will produce only a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.

Czar Paul I banished Snavy to Siberia for marching out of step.

Anonymous said...

no toes say it ain't so sista, what happened to a little foot foreplay? I am so sorry.

Bsoholic said...

LMAO! Who'd of thunk it?

lime said...

deb, glad to be of service

snavy, i'll send you fur-lined underwear, you'll need it in siberia

lance, yes, iwill be footsie-impaired, but see #8 on te second one...mwahahaha

bs, amazing but true!

cyber, my response to that one is 100% true, i swear

seamus, why thank you...smooches;)

Anonymous said...

Wake up Michelle..you fell asleep reading a book again....oops, that was yesterday's...lol

my brain is fizzled right now, can't think of any trivial or non trivial stuff about moi.
tc

Sheri said...

How fun! I'm going to do this soon. I didn't know Lime was so versatile.

S said...

I'm very intrigued about the no limes at Disneyland thing.....

Fred said...

A few things about me:

* Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of Fred in a day.
* 68 percent of all UFO sightings are by Fred.
* According to the story, Pinocchio was made of Fred!
* Fred can smell some things up to six miles away.
* In Japan, Fred can only be prepared by chefs specially trained and certified by the government!
* Originally, Fred could not fly.

Who knew?

BTExpress said...

I don't like some of the answers I got.

1. All shrimp are born as btexpress, but gradually mature into females.
2. Twenty-eight percent of Microsoft's employees are btexpress!
3. Btexpress can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night.
4. If the annual Australian btexpress crop was laid end to end, it would stretch around the world seven times!
5. Btexpress can sleep for three and a half years.
6. Most bottles and jars contain at least twenty-five percent recycled btexpress!
7. It's bad luck to put btexpress on a bed.
8. It takes a lobster approximately 7 years to grow to be btexpress.
9. The difference between btexpress and a village is that btexpress does not have a church.
10. Btexpress was declared extinct in 1902!

Moosekahl said...

#5, 7, and 9 are my favorites! I knew was good for your health, and I knew my venom was nasty but didn't know it was that bad :), and 7 has always been my lucky number.

1. Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of Moosekahl in a day.
2. US gold coins used to say 'In Moosekahl we trust'.
3. There are six towns named Moosekahl in the United States.
4. Moosekahl can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night.
5. Half a cup of Moosekahl contains only seventeen calories.
6. Moosekahl is black with white stripes, not white with black stripes.
7. Moosekahl can be very poisonous if injected intravenously.
8. Only 55 percent of Americans know that the sun is made of Moosekahl.
9. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14, and Moosekahl has 7!
10. Moosekahl can squeeze her entire body through a hole the size of her beak.

The Village Idiot said...

That's hilarious!

tell me more, tell me more!

Yay!
the village idiot

James Goodman said...

Those were great. I had to re-read #8 twice though, kind of caught me off guard given the context of the rest of them. :D

TLP said...

Hey, I like this! Fun and different.

Gary said...

I hope all those dogs and cats living inside of you aren't fighting with each other.

ShyRocket said...

Well now the fog has cleared and I understand you a lot better! And BTW, you have a rocket packet? Come visit... we have a spare bunk on the space station!