New Hampshire license plates, with the slogan "Live Free or Die," are manufactured by prisoners in the state penitentiary in Concord.

i have a zit on my cheek, but the only person who really cares is 450 miles away.

Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents in a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that traveled at thirty-five miles per hour. The Great Boston Molasses Flood claimed the lives of twenty-one people and scores of animals, injured more than a hundred, and caused widespread destruction.

Thats a Sweet tsunami. !!!!

boys have penises and girls have vaginas

The "whole 9 yards" refers to the capacity of old cement trucks

My left testicle hangs a little lower than my right.


The more you know

The swiss flag is square
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:ayxSFOCjJGkJ:http://www.swisstraditions.com/Photos/swiss_flag.jpg

BTW the origin of "the whole 9 yards" is often disputed... I've heard numerous explanations that were much different than the capacity of a cement truck... which btw is unlikely, considering that 9 cubic yards would require a truck that is 27 feet wide, 27 feet long, and 27 feet tall (so if you reduced this so it could fit in a lane, and made it not 3 stories tall, it would be pretty damn long)

A leading bowling ball manufacturer based in Salt Lake City, Utah, announced it was about to roll out a new line of balls that would smell like peppermint, spearmint, black cherry, blueberry and nacho cheese. :D

California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

There is hope for California after all :)

The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

For all of you hoping for nuclear war to cleanse our country, it just goes to show that come hell or nuclear war the IRS will get their money. :confused:

There is hope for California after all :)

Hahahahaha! Nuh-uh, no way, never happen. But I'd still rather be here than most of the rest of the world. On that note.......

The term "third world country" was originally a French term (Tiers Monde), it was coined by G. Balandier in 1956. The First World refers to the industrialized West (like the USA), the Second World refers to the Communist nations of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the Third World refers to all the other countries.

The Fourth World must be California. :D

The "whole 9 yards" refers to the capacity of old cement trucks
The term "the whole 9 yards" actually refers to the amount of material used to make an ancient Scottish kilt (ala Braveheart). To properly make a kilt, 27 feet of tartan material is laid out on the ground and then all but three feet is pleated. A wide belt is slipped underneath and the wearer lays down on the kilt and wraps the pleated material around himself, securing it with the belt. Once that is done, the wearer bunches up the remaining hanging material and secures it over one shoulder with a brooch.

I did a lot of research when I was looking for a kilt to wear to my wedding. It was during that research that I learned this little tidbit of information. The kilt I wore at my wedding was quite comfortable, though a bit of a challenge to wrap properly. My wife was happy with the results, though. ;)

"To each his own" was found at "Buchenwald" concentration camp

On mail call, the loud guy said that the whole nine yards came from the length of belted ammo for specific machine gun. Giving someone the whole nine yards would mean fire the entire length of the belt at them. Who knows? :D

On mail call, the loud guy said that the whole nine yards came from the length of belted ammo for specific machine gun. Giving someone the whole nine yards would mean fire the entire length of the belt at them. Who knows? :D
I've heard a bunch of different explainations, but the kilt one is credible and it's one of the oldest.

http://www.shetlandpiper.com/Celtic_History/great_kilt.html

http://www.scottishdance.net/highland/MakingKilt.html (http://www.scottishdance.net/highland/MakingKilt.html)

"Midgets" can help you win scrabble. (7 letter word 50 bonus points + whatever word and letter bonus you land on) :D
I know from personal experience.

The swiss flag is square
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:ayxSFOCjJGkJ:http://www.swisstraditions.com/Photos/swiss_flag.jpg

BTW the origin of "the whole 9 yards" is often disputed... I've heard numerous explanations that were much different than the capacity of a cement truck... which btw is unlikely, considering that 9 cubic yards would require a truck that is 27 feet wide, 27 feet long, and 27 feet tall (so if you reduced this so it could fit in a lane, and made it not 3 stories tall, it would be pretty damn long)
who said 9 cubic yards?

and 27*27*27 = 19683 ft^3
but, 9 yards^3 = 243 ft^3

who said 9 cubic yards?

and 27*27*27 = 19683 ft^3
but, 9 yards^3 = 243 ft^3

Oops!

Panko surprisingly makes a good substitute to instant mashed potato flakes.

Panko surprisingly makes a good substitute to instant mashed potato flakes.
Actual potatoes also make a good substitute for instant mashed potato flakes. ;) :D

Actual potatoes also make a good substitute for instant mashed potato flakes. ;) :D

didnt have time to boil potatoes...regardless instant mashed potatoes and real mashed potatoes dont taste the same, i like each individually for different reasons. Sometimes the instant stuff hits the spot.

On April 13th 1992, Chicago had a flood and the streets remained dry.

A old tunnel system runs under the "Loop". This originally transported coal & other goods to building and freed the streets of this traffic. Today the tunnels are used as a conduit for telecomunications and electical cables.
On this day a breach in the tunnels formed in a portion that went under the Chicago River and began flooding the tunnels. Many buildings still had a unused connection to the tunnels. This caused not only problems with the cables but the basement levels of most of the buildings to flood. It took many days to empty the tunnels of water and weeks before some buildings could be used again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Flood

On mail call, the loud guy said that the whole nine yards came from the length of belted ammo for specific machine gun. Giving someone the whole nine yards would mean fire the entire length of the belt at them. Who knows? :DThat certain type of machine gun was the M60 just FYI, and the term is older than the M60. I have heard it said before in favor of the Scottish kilt as well.

Mr. MacKey taught me that drugs are bad 'mmkay'...

In July 1981, a tortoise was sentenced to death for murder. Tribal leaders in an eastern Kenyan village formally condemned the tortoise because they suspected it of causing the deaths of six people by magic. However, because none of the villagers was prepared to face the tortoise's wrath by carrying out the execution, it was chained to a tree instead. The tortoise was later freed after the government promised an inquiry into the six deaths.

The duration of a pig's orgasm is, on average, thirty minutes.

I've heard a bunch of different explainations, but the kilt one is credible and it's one of the oldest.

http://www.shetlandpiper.com/Celtic_History/great_kilt.html

http://www.scottishdance.net/highland/MakingKilt.html (http://www.scottishdance.net/highland/MakingKilt.html)


Many old sailing ships had three masts, the fore, main, and mizzen. Each mast held three square sails. The horizontal stays that support the square sails are called yards. Hence the ships had nine yards.

Incidentally, a yardarm is one side of the yard.

Depending on the sailing conditions, more or less sails would be raised. In the best conditions peak speed could be achieved by raising all nine main sails, the whole nine yards

With all this debate on where it started, there is nothing on snopes?

Snopes is no fun. It's more fun to argue about lies. :D

the whole nine yards is about a chic's conversation about her man. she used yards instead of inches. she was blonde incidentaly.

the whole nine yards is about a chic's conversation about her man. she used yards instead of inches. she was blonde incidentaly.I think you must be blonde as well because that was actually centimeters not inches or so he told me... ;)

The "whole 9 yards" refers to the capacity of old cement trucks


Acctually old concrete trucks could only hold 3 yards.


Just some other facts
9 yards of concrete weigh 36,000 lbs :eek: (thats why your concrete trucks have so many axels)

New concrete trucks can hold either 9 or 12 yards, but can only effectively mix 9 yards.

9 yards of concrete would make a 6'3"x6'3"x6'3" cube.

9 yards of concrete is 244ft^3

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was married to Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein." He died before she did. After she died, his heart was found amongst her belongings, apparently wrapped in one of the sheets of "Adonais" - Shelley's famous elegy to Keats.

Acctually old concrete trucks could only hold 3 yards.


Just some other facts
9 yards of concrete weigh 36,000 lbs :eek: (thats why your concrete trucks have so many axels)

New concrete trucks can hold either 9 or 12 yards, but can only effectively mix 9 yards.

9 yards of concrete would make a 6'3"x6'3"x6'3" cube.

9 yards of concrete is 244ft^3
This is all fine and dandy, but the saying wasn't give me the whole 9 cubic yards. They could have been talking about anything I suppose. Maybe the 3 cubic yards would fill a 9 by X by X yard side walk slab, or trench or anything really 9 yards in length. Pushing it, perhaps, impossible, no.

Drive-up ATM machines have braille-equipped keypads.

The Antartic is the driest place on the planet.

Reckless drivers actually tend to wreck more.

84% is the number of ppl who admit to admiring the scenary while driving...go figure...

Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet?

Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball?

Dragonflys have 6 legs but can not walk?

A hummingbird can fly backwards?

Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp?

The eye makes movements 50 times every second?

The world's termites outweigh the worlds humans 10 to 1?

The crocodile cannot move its tongue?

and finally....


The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows?

Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.