Fact or Fiction?

[FastEd]

DID YOU KNOW:

The "spot" on the 7UP logo came from its Inventor, who had red eyes.
He was an Albino.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
Do you really know who you are?

Chocolate is not good for a dog's heart and nervous system.
A few ounces will kill a small dog.

Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Hence multi-tasking was invented.

Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s.

There were 315 misspelled words in Webster's 1966 Dictionary.

Google is actually the common name for a number that has one million zeros after it.

At New York Grand Central Station the terminal clock and the Tiffany clock outside the station are fast by exactly one minute. In fact, and so are the departure schedules. All done for safety reasons.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second. Think about that for a minute.

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. Now I can feel safe again...

 

[Cooperhawk]

Had a Brittany Spaniel that the children gave two Orios every morning of his life. Died at 17. Are they really chocolate?

 

[427mach1]

DID YOU KNOW:

Google is actually the common name for a number that has one million zeros after it.

Google is 1x10^100, or a one with one hundred zeros after it. We learned that in fifth grade - got extra credit on a test if we wrote it out correctly!

 

[FastEd]

DID YOU KNOW:

Google is actually the common name for a number that has one million zeros after it.

Google is 1x10^100, or a one with one hundred zeros after it. We learned that in fifth grade - got extra credit on a test if we wrote it out correctly!

Actually a GOOGOL:
A googol is the large number 10100; that is, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes:
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
The term was coined in 1920 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta (1911 - 1981), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.[1] Kasner popularized the concept in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination.[2] Other names for googol include ten duotrigintillion on the short scale, ten thousand sexdecillion on the long scale, or ten sexdecilliard on the Peletier long scale.

Its all way over my head....

 

[mohavesam]

Pretty much fiction. Entertaining tho.

And everyone knows Budweiser was named by three frogs...

 

[FastEd]

DID YOU KNOW:

Googol is actually the common name for a number that has one hundred zeros after it.

Google is 1x10^100, or a one with one hundred zeros after it. We learned that in fifth grade - got extra credit on a test if we wrote it out correctly!

When I was in the fifth grade we were still working on feet & inches.

 

[FastEd]

Pretty much fiction. Entertaining tho.

And everyone knows Budweiser was named by three frogs...

You mean there is a beer named "RIVET?"

 

[FastEd]

Had a Brittany Spaniel that the children gave two Orios every morning of his life. Died at 17. Are they really chocolate?

I'm thinkin' hard core basic Hersheys chocolate.

 

[gramps]

My grandson was selling chocolate bars for school. He left the "kit" on the floor of his bedroom. His mother's toy poodle ate 2 oz of chocolate and died from it.
gramps

 

[wolfsong]

Pretty much fiction. Entertaining tho.

And everyone knows Budweiser was named by three frogs...

You mean there is a beer named "RIVET?"

Reminds me of a couple of jokes.

How deep is a frog pond?

Kneedeep.

What holds a frog pond together?

Rivets.

And my all-time favorite: What do you call a dog with no legs?







It doesn't matter. He won't come anyway.

 

[stevemb]

Ed, you need to get a life, you can find it in my backyard, with me as guide. LOL !

 

[FastEd]

Ed, you need to get a life, you can find it in my backyard, with me as guide. LOL !

Yeah, just me and Hoss on the front porch today watching the cars go by and playing checkers.
That is getting pretty dull too. I usually beat him 8 out of 10 games...

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

Regular frogs say "RIBBIT." What do horny toads say?

If you know the answer, please keep it to yourself. Family forum, ya know?

Rick C

 

[Precision32]

You know what frogs say; time's fun when you're having flies!

 

[SAJohn]

Old walnut husks on the ground can develop a mold which produces a toxin which can kill dogs.

Not all chocolate is created equal: semi-sweet has about 4 times the toxin that milk chocolate has, Bakers Dark 8 times. It takes a lot more chocolate to make a large dog sick.

 

[blume357]

DID YOU KNOW:
Chocolate is not good for a dog's heart and nervous system.
A few ounces will kill a small dog.

I've heard and believed that for a long time.... had a dog (basset mystery hound mix) that ate a big old dark chocolate bar and it did not effect it..... hum....

two months ago my Catahoula Leopard Dog ate .... a pound and half of pure cooking chocolate...... same..... nothing... well he did eat a big bag of uncooked pasta at the same time.....

 

[Colonialgirl]

DID YOU KNOW:
Chocolate is not good for a dog's heart and nervous system.
A few ounces will kill a small dog.

I've heard and believed that for a long time.... had a dog (basset mystery hound mix) that ate a big old dark chocolate bar and it did not effect it..... hum....

two months ago my Catahoula Leopard Dog ate .... a pound and half of pure cooking chocolate...... same..... nothing... well he did eat a big bag of uncooked pasta at the same time.....

Glad I Don't HAVE to clean up YOUR yard !!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: :wink: :mrgreen:

 

[SAJohn]

PJSD, Instead of a paper sack and a hand trowel, Blume probably uses a shovel and a wheel barrow.

I had a 60 pound boxer dog who ate a box of aspergum one evening. His back legs were paralyzed for for about 12 hours. I had to carry him outside and hold him up by his houches while he did his nightly business. The next morning he was fine, so no trip to the vet.

Ed's dog is so big he can probably eat just about anything with no problems. I suspect Ed uses a backhoe.

John

 

[mohavesam]

Our (mostly hers) 13-yr old Dachshund ate a two-pound box of dark-chocolate cherries while were at dinner one Valentine's day. We watched for symptoms but all we got were dozens of little crumpled red foil chunks all over the yard. Personally I think it made him meaner. I sure would have been...

 

[pisgah]

An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. Now I can feel safe again...

I'd always heard it was piston rings...

 

[Bull Barrel]

I had a dog that ate $200 once. Called the vet and he said let nature take its course. The money never appeared so another call to the vet.
He said the dog probably did me a favor, saying the money was counterfeit because the dog couldn't pass it.

Then there is the googol plex. A googol to the tenth power, IIRC.

EDIT

Mr. Grigg, the inventor of 7up was NOT an albino. Plus, the dot didn't appear in the logo until around 1970.
He was also responsible for the invention of another soda, "Whistle" an orange flavored soda while he worked for the Vess Co., the "Billion Bubble Beverage"
If you are from the Midwest, you would remember tbat one.

 

[stevemb]

I ate the 3 frogs, burp.