When one is not quite SICK enough to spend the entire day in bed (half a day for me) but not well enough to do anything that requires more than 1/4 brain and muscle power, and boredom is also something else that too taxing, I sometimes go here just for the heck of it.
Snopes is a neat place to find neat things, settle disputes and send the mind off into to, 'What If' (extential for Science Fiction / Fantasy writers.
The Lost Legends section has some Stupid Laws, and a couple of facts that don't shake the world, but do provide a "Wow, I had NO idea" moment... Here is three of them. All said to be True.
"Mr. Ed" was not a horse but a Zebra. They got away with it by making the sets smaller to make the Zebra look larger, forced perpective and most facinating of all, a Zebra does not show stripes when shown on Black and White T.V., only when in color!
Mississippi removed
fractions and decimal points from the Secondary School Educational System. We wonder why McDonalds and other places have to use pictures for their training folks to use on the registar? Don't ask them to figure the tax either. Oh and one forth of a pie for desert might make brains freeze there. Think I am exagerating? Nope, true and more horrors are mentioned there too. Look this country has gotten dumber and we have to import people from other countries to run our computers. Hello, maybe there something wrong with our base of knowleage?
The California Flag with the extint Grizzly Bear (no thanks to all those white hunters drunk on Wiskey who shot them all dead for their fur, grrrr). Maybe if we had the flag we were supposed to have, the bear would still be around, but we just might be even more of a laughing stock than we already are. We can take it, our flag was supposed to have a...
Pear! Not a Bear. Funny, huh?
But the best of all, is this
one. To prove I still have a life, you have to go figure it out yourself... (cuz I have things to do other than just do blogs, smile).
Nancy Louise
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