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Chas:
My son has experiemented with this many times. He gets a handful of the stuff (we buy it in bulk from Costco) and he goes outside. He pours a small stream of it over a lit match - holding the match a good three feet below his hand. Once the small stream catches, he drops the rest quickly and it goes up like a pyrotechnic device! It really does go like a flash power of some kind.

Lori:
"In Clarendon, Texas, there is reportedly a law on the books that lawyers must accept eggs, chickens, or other produce, as well as money, as payment of legal fees."

I'll have to check on this (but I wouldn't doubt it).  I had a great Aunt and Uncle who lived in Clarendon.  My aunt was known for her cooking (she cooked for the ranch hands) and would take food to the local funeral home, for the people who worked at the funeral home, since they were usually so busy.  Even when she developed stomach cancer.  The same funeral home buried her, and charged my family nothing.  

wmccall:

--- Quote ---well, it's only Tuesday, and my email inbox is already full!!!. Luckily, full of fun emails and not wok related, so I thought I would share one of the cleaner ones with you about some weird facts..................




Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up
in the morning.
 
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One in every four Americans has appeared on television.


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I'll have to give the first one a try.  As for TV, I have been on 3 times I can think of. I was a contestent on the "Time for Bob" show (a local kids show, April 29th 1964 was the date I think) and I was the only one to throw the beanbag through the clowns nose and he noticed I was left handed.  Later they had a  game at the end using a toy that was called a time bomb. (imagine that today) It looks like a big black cannon ball with a fuse that you wound up and it ticked down.  In the game it was designed for you would pass it around and who ever held it when it went off was out of the game.  But on this tv show who ever held it when it went off got the big prizes of the day for the show.  I must have been on with the dumbest kids.  They passed that thing on like it was really going to take thier heads off.  Not me, they handed it to me in my right hand, I acted like I forgot what I was supposed to do, slowly passed it to my left hand and before I could get rid of it, "boom! Where are my prizes?

saz:

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hmmm, its seems to me that dough and Scarborough have the "ough" sharing the same pronunciation. Have I been pronouncing them wrong all these years?


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hmmm, well over here we would pronouce dough like 'doh' ...a la Homer Simpson.........but Scarborough would be pronounced Scarbora..or Scarbra...with the 'a' in 'bra' really short sounding.
No jokes about short bra's tho, please!! ;D ;D

Ruby:
 Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.


Nope, Sorry-Gotta disagree on this one.

I have an oak tree that was born from an acorn the year I moved here (1991).  It has more acorns than I care to step on barefoot.  And they're a pain in th a** to rake in August!

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