Body & Soul1 min ago
Load of old rubbish?
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Ive just received this email, and I usually delete cr@ppy ones like this but wanted to know how many of these are actually true?
I know you cant lick your elbow, does anyone else know the others?
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a milli-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphaghetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
The ''sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Twenty-three percent of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
I know you cant lick your elbow, does anyone else know the others?
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a milli-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphaghetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
The ''sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Twenty-three percent of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
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Horses can't be sick, they get colic and it can be very dangerous even kill them.
You have no control over a sneeze and a policeman once told me if you drive up the back of someone in a traffic jam the only acceptable defence is 'I sneezed officer' I actually know someone who used this and got away with it!!
You have no control over a sneeze and a policeman once told me if you drive up the back of someone in a traffic jam the only acceptable defence is 'I sneezed officer' I actually know someone who used this and got away with it!!
For the photocopier worriers, here's what my mate had to say:
"All modern MFDs [MultiFunctional Devices] are digital. The image is scanned to a CCD/image processor which temporarily stores the image as data before it being written by laser onto the drum. Basically it works like a scanner for your PC and then a laser printer.
However, if the reason behind the question is a security related one - no data is left behind in the MFD when copying. This may be different for printing where most MFDs now have hard drives containing an operating system and space for spooling print jobs. As you know, anything on a HDD can be recovered at some point in the future. Canon [who he works for] now offer security kits for this situation though which encrypts the data thus preventing any recovery of usuable data."
"All modern MFDs [MultiFunctional Devices] are digital. The image is scanned to a CCD/image processor which temporarily stores the image as data before it being written by laser onto the drum. Basically it works like a scanner for your PC and then a laser printer.
However, if the reason behind the question is a security related one - no data is left behind in the MFD when copying. This may be different for printing where most MFDs now have hard drives containing an operating system and space for spooling print jobs. As you know, anything on a HDD can be recovered at some point in the future. Canon [who he works for] now offer security kits for this situation though which encrypts the data thus preventing any recovery of usuable data."
