[NSRCA-discussion] Do You Know Everything?

[Ron Van Putte]

I wasn't going to respond to this, because I actually sent the  
original post to the NSRCA discussion list inadvertently, but I type  
with both index fingers and both thumbs - nothing else.  This  
"ASDF... stuff is way beyond me.

Ron Van Putte

On Mar 11, 2007, at 12:48 PM, DoWayne Gould wrote:

> How do you type with two hands? Every time I try that it takes me  
> 20 minutes to untie my fingers.
>
> Dowayne
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> From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca- 
> discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Ron Van Putte
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:51 PM
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> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Do You Know Everything?
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> SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
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> "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the
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> left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out
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> mentally, didn't you?)
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> Maine is the only state whose name is just one
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> syllable. (I'll bet you're going to check this out.)
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> No word in the English language rhymes with month,
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> orange, silver, or purple.
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> "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the
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> letters "MT". (Are you doubting this?)
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> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our
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> nose and ears never stop growing.
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> (Isn't that "great" news, especially for some of us.)
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> The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
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> dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to
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> try this out for accuracy, right?) I checked this one out and it does
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> use every letter of the alphabet.
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> The words 'racecar,' 'kayak,' 'radar' and 'level' are
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> the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
>
> (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)
>
> There are only four words in the English language which
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> end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
>
> (You're not doubting this, are you?)
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> There are two words in the English language that have
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> all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit  
> it,
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> you are going to say...... A E I O U)
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> TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using
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> the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are  
> going to
>
> test this out)
>
> All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
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> Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
>
> A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
>
> A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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> A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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> (Some days that's about what my memory span is)
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> A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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> A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
>
> A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people
>
> that could do this too.)
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> Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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> Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
>
> Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear
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> until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
>
> February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not
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> to have a full moon.
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> In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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> If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,
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> The line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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> If you are an average American, in your whole life, you
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> will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
>
> Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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> On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
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> Parliament building is an American flag.
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> Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
>
> Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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> The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
>
> The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each
>
> gallon of diesel that it burns.
>
> The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by
>
> a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing  
> he did
>
> that)
>
> The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze
>
> completely solid.
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> There are more chickens than people in the world.
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> Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
>
> .................Now you know everything!
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>
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