You Wouldn't Have Known These Abbreviations

1. MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
3. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..
6. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
7. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
9. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
10. TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.
11. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.

Misnomers

A misnomer is a term which suggests an interpretation that is known to be untrue. Here are a few examples:

1. An inchworm is neither an inch long, nor a worm.
2. Greenland is icy and Iceland is greener)
3. Panama hats are not made in Panama, but Ecuador
4. The “lead” in pencils is made of graphite and clay, not lead
5. Northwestern University is in northeastern Illinois, a midwestern state.
6. “Tin foil” is almost always actually aluminum.
7. Catgut is made from sheep intestines.
8. The Hundred Years’ War did not last for 100 years but 116.
9. Head cheese is actually a meat product.
10. “Horny toads” or “horned frogs” are actually lizards.
11. Though a starfish is star-shaped, as the name suggests, it is not a fish.
12. The titmouse is a bird, not a mouse.
13. Jellyfish are not fish.
14. The Washington Redskins play in Landover, Maryland.
15. The New York Jets and New York Giants play in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
16. Scotland Yard is located in England.
17. The “funny bone” is not a bone — the phrase instead refers to the ulnar nerve.
18. During its peak, rush hour often lasts more than an hour, with very little, if any, movement.
19. A parkway is a type of street or road where parking is generally prohibited.
20. A residential driveway is intended for parking.

Why Our Great-Grandparents Were Happier Than We Are

Bayers Heroin

A bottle of Bayer’s heroin. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough.

Coca Wine, anyone?

Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine onthe market.
Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment.

Mariani wine

Mariani wine (1875) was the most famous Coca wine of it’s time.Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.

Maltine

Produced by Maltine Manufacturing Company of NewYork.  It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal… Children should take half a glass.

A paper weight:

A paper weight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne ( Mannheim , Germany ).They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine.

Opium for Asthma:

No comments.

Cocaine tablets (1900)

All stage actors, singers teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance.
Great to “smooth” the voice.

Cocaine drops for toothache

Very popular for children in 1885. Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children happy!

Opium for new-borns

I’m sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!)

No wonder they were called The Good Old Days!!

NOW WE KNOW!

How To Make A Website Look Crazy

Code to make any website look crazy.

1. Open a website.
2. Clear the "Address Bar"
3. Paste following in the address bar

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

Press enter and enjoy.

Some Funny Questions With No Answers

Q - Why is it called a TV set when there's only one?

Q - If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

Q - Can a guy named Nick have a 'nick 'name?

Q - If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?

Q - If an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs someone over, does it stop to help them?

Q - Do vampires get AIDS?

Q - Why do people never say "it's only a game" when they're winning?

Q - If you accidentally ate your own tongue, what would it taste like?

Q - Are zebras black with white stripes, or white with black stripes?

Q - Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?

Q - If Wile Coyote had enough money for all that Acme crap, why didn't he just buy dinner instead of chasing Road-Runner?

Q - How can you hear yourself think?

Q - If you had x-ray vision, but closed your eyes, could you still see?

Funny Facts (Part 2)

Some more funny facts (Remeber they all are true)

• Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
  
• The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
• The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
• 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
• Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
• Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
• The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms )
• Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
• The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
• If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over theParliament building is an American flag.
  
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
  
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  

Crazy Facts

1. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
   
2. Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
   
3. Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
   
4. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
   
5. If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
   
6. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
   
7. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
   
8. Singapore has only one train station.
   
9. The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
   
10. The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
    
11. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
    
12. Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
    
13. Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
    
14. There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
    
15. Blue and white are the most common school colors.
    
16. On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
    
17. The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
    
18. There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
    
19. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
    
20. Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
    
21. The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.

Funny Facts

Funny facts listed below are all true (believe it or not).....

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)
  
• If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
  
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
  
• A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
  
• A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves to death. (Creepy. I'm still not over the pig.)
  
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Warning: Do not try this at home........ maybe at work.)
  
• The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the......?!")
  
• The flea can jump up to 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a entire football field. (30 minutes....lucky pig.... Can you imagine 30 minute orgasm??)
  
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond or the sea?)
  
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life.... quality over quantity!)
  
• Butterflies can taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)
  
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmmm........ won't go there.)
  
• Right-handed people live, on an average, live nine years longer than left-handed people. (Glad to be right handed.)
  
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing.)
  
• A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)
  
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
  
• Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)
  
• Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
  
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig???)