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Can you cry under water?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered
assassinated instead of just murdered?Why do you have to “put your two cents in”.. But it’s only a “penny for
your thoughts”? Where’s that extra penny going to?Once you’re in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were
buried in for eternity?Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
What disease did cured ham actually have?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up
like every two hours?If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They’re going to see you naked anyway.
Why is “bra” singular and “panties” plural?
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him
Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?
If the professor on Gilligan’s Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs!
If Wiley E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn’t he just buy dinner?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
Why did you just try singing the two songs above?
Why do they call it an asteroid when it’s outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it’s in your butt?
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
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LOL@ If deaf person goes to court, is it still called a hearing?…
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Apparently, the expression ..Giving 2 cents worth is taken from the original English idiom…To put in my 2 penny worth. By deprecating the opinion to follow – suggesting its value is only 2 cents, a very small amount – the user of the phrase, showing politeness and humility, hopes to lesson the impact of a possibly contentious statement. It is some times used ironically when expressing a strongly held opinion.
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Something else to ponder on….the saying…money for old rope.
Years ago at public hangings, after the poor sod had gasped his last, they cut them down, and cut the rope into pieces and sold it…hence the phrase.
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Jane, funny you should mention rope. Been looking everywhere for rope to fix my cats scratch post! he’s demolished it to shreads! Dont do many hangings now at St Georges plateau here in Liverpool. Many years ago we had lots of rope stores selling rope of all sizes to supply the ships etc, the street was actually called Rope walks. Anyway i finally found someone on Ebay who sells sisal rope lol. Hope it arrives quickly before the mog destroys my furniture!
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Curing is interesting……preservation of foods such as fish, meat and vegetables by the addition of combos of salt, nitrates or sugar with the aim of drawing out moisture from the food by the process of osmosis. Many curing processes involve smoking, spicing or cooking. earliest form of curing was dehydration….because this increases the solute concentration in the food and thus decreases its water potential. The food then becomes inhospitable for the microbe that causes food spoilage.
Talking of rope….why is a granny knot thus named? Apparently because originally the knots were tied by women or landsmen. It is also suggested that rather than impugning the knot tying skill of grand mothers, the name ‘granny’ may be a corruption of of granary after its possible use of tying the grain sacks
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Baking and waiting for things to come out, may I suggest..Not a good one but have a cat a real hunter brings home everything way too big to carry. Rabbits and you name it. Before she goes out finds urge to sharpen nails. Ropes never ever worked. Car tires she goes after mine, try to discourage that..if you have old one try…
The very best. Ever see the thin,very thin corse mats used for outdoors. Use one myself indoors. Very thin carpet. She literally uses that as a post. Loves it.
Or a very thick branch, log type, if goes outside, bring one in. Make sure clean, no bugs..thick anyways, she loves that too! Hope helps before ebay arrival.-
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Penny for your thoughts…origin comes from a time when the penny was worth a significant sum. In 1522, Sir Thomas Moore wrote in (4 last things) : It often happeth that the very face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage in such wise that other folk sodainly say to them…a penny for your thoughts. Becomes an expression to ask some one who is obviously deep in thought what’s on their mind.
Can you cry under water? answer is technically yes but you would die. In order to cry you would have to get very emotional about some thing and this would cause heavy breathing which means you’d gasp for air and drown.
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