I only want the Script, not deals on tickets or pictures or anything.
It's about $100 in NYC, on the street.
Where can i find the script for Phantom of the Opera?performing show opera theater
Yeah. You'd have to buy it. You can probably find somewhere on line that will sell it but it is off broadway now.
Where can I find tickets to the show?
Resources please! :)
Oh, and how can I find cheap parking on manhattan island? (all day)
get tickets on www.broadwaytickets.com
Whats the best place to see "The Phantom of the Opera" on broadway?comedy show opera theater
am sure someone else can tell u about broadway but just want to say i saw it in london and it is wonderful.
The official ticket seller is www.telecharge.com. However, if you want to save some dough, go to www.nytix.com and get their Broadway discount guide. They have all these discount codes that you can use to buy your tickets at a way cheaper price. Top ticket price these days is over $100, and the discounts usually get you tix for $50-70.
At a ticket shop
There are sites that offer broadway discounts to some shows. Check out:
www.theatermania.com
www.broadwaybox.com
This site offers theater discounts and parking discounts:
http://www.seasonofsavings.com/
This site is just for parking: http://www.iconparking.com/
this must be an event that shouldnt be missed .
who is interested ?
i dont have extra tickets , im asking about your interests .
i saw them in Baalbeck International Festival in August 2002
www.baalbeck.org.lb %26gt; go to Festival Hightlights %26gt; 2002
they're amazing ..
would love to see them again .. shoo .. ri7na ???
Lord of the Dance ?he will be showing at the end of March in the Opera ?events opera theater
is this suitable time cleo? to speak about lord of dancing?most users now having final examination ,you have to ask about lord of study...or even lord and king of bread,,,the most broblem all suffer
It will be the same night my bestfriend is having her wedding. Soooo annoyed!! I was planning to go but ah well.. bestfriend's wedding is alot more important!
hope may be next time i'll join you
I'd LOVE to go ... but I can't :(
Yeah i would love to see them live, too bad, maybe next time.
The stalls directly on the sides of the stage
They are OK. The sound is better down the middle. You can see very well from the side stalls, but the sound isn't as good.
No.
http://entertainment.ie/event/Classical/... (These are gig listings where you can find out about it)
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Anyone going to see Madama Butterfly in the Opera House in April?getting late opera theater
no
ye baby, i have a private box. lol!
No, why?
Are you looking for a date or a companion?
P.S. I thought the Opera House was located in Sydney Australia, not Ireland!?!
I wish I was, when I was on holiday in Budapest I went to see the Hungarian Ballet at the opera house and had a great time.
No...but my mum seen it before and she said it was fab!!! Lucky u !
No thanks.
There's nothing on the schedule for that date, yet, but "Lord of the Dance" is onstage January 27th. After that, nothing until March 8th.
Hi there,
You can check out the schedule at http://bostonoperahouse.com/events.html. It looks like there is nothing playing there on that day. Sorry!
The Sydney Opera House has a 93-page document that tells you everything you want to know about the design and then some.
http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/sections...
i recently bought myself a ticket to an opera ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), and i am intending to go by myself, it's something i want to enjoy as a "me time" sort of thing. i have a friend that loves going to operas, symphonies, museums, etc., just like me. i didn't tell her i'd bought a ticket, and didn't invite her, because, like i said before, i want to go by myself. but she found out i was going and is a little bummed that i didn't invite her. as a friend, was i wrong not to invite her to come with me? because i feel a little bad about it, but i'd really like to go by myself.
yep
? Was I Wrong...?headache opera theater
i totally agree with YOU. sometimes you just don't want tag alongs.
no, you weren't wrong
If you wanted to go by yourself, that is perfectly fine and you are in no obligation to take someone with you. I would just explain to her you wanted to go alone and enjoy it on a personal level. No hard feelings. I am sure she will understand. Of course, it would be natural for her to feel a little down about it, but she will get over it if she is a true friend.
She cant expect you to invite her to everything!! You have every right to go by your self. If she wants to go bad enough, she can get her own ticket. Dont let her make you feel bad!
just tell her you'd like a little alone time, and the fact you didnt buy her a ticket wasnt a comment con her character.
tell her basically you think shes a wonderful person, espesh as she shares ur interest in this stuff, but you feel you need to spend time alone sometimes, and you feel you cvan do this best by going to the opera.
annabel xx
ps:good luck
no, and you shouldn't feel bad about it. She can get her own ticket if she wants to go badly enough.
you werent wrong at all.
did you try explaining to her you wanted "me time"?
everyone needs time alone.
people think im crazy because sometimes i like to eat dinner at a resturant alone, but i need "me time" as well.
im sure your friend will understand if you explained it to her and just set a date for another day to see it with her : )
just be careful with your wording because you dont want to come off as avoiding her or you not wanting to hang out with her.
Not at all. If she's upset, just explain that you wanted time to yourself. Then the next time you want to go to an opera, invite her.
she should understand that u want to enjoy the opera by urself , and tel her niceley that next time ull invite her !
Shame on you!!!!!
u are not wrong
everyone deserves time to themselves and u shouldn't feel guilty
"Me" time is always good. But explain to her that you want to go by yourself and that maybe the next time, you will invite her to go too.
Unfortunately, if she's not the "alone" type of person, she won't understand. I think she'd feel bad, but you shouldn't be. Everyone should enjoy their alone time once in awhile.
I'd like to go to the movies alone sometime, but I haven't had the chance to.
Nope, everyone needs me time. Invite her to the next one you go to and explain why she wasnt invited to this one
ur soooo not wrong. and for a friend, she should understand. Simpy say something like this= I;m really sorry I didn't invite you. I really wanted to since ur my good friend and u love operas just like me. Yet I really wanted some free time. I'm sorry. I hope you understand but I didn;t mean it to go like this. I really wanted free time to myself since I get none of that. I'm sorry. I really hope you understand/..
well say SOMETHING similar to that.
No it's not wrong of you to want some alone time. You friend should understand this and respect your need to have some alone time. It's just she enjoys you and likes to spend time with you and she feels she is not needed. Reassure her that she is an important part of your life and that you enjoy being with her, but we all need some personal space. She should understand and probably feels bad for causing a tiff between you.
no your not wrong....you should just tell her that you want alone time and that you girls can go to another opera another time or something....she should understand...
It depends on how you look at it. But if you wanted to be alone that's totally normally.
HELL NO. You did her a favor!
Alone time is good, don't worry about it. Invite her to go do something some other time.
tell her you just wanted to go by yourself... you were right its totally fine to do stuff for you!
If you bought a ticket for your friend then you would have to get one for everyone else. You are not wrong.
No you were not wrong. Alone time is healthy. Invite her to do something another time. A real friend will understand and get over it.
You should invite her but if she says No then don't beg her. Just say I'm going do you wanna go...
I don't think you were wrong - I like doing certain things on my own - just tell her why.
ur fine, just tell her "Hey, I have alot on my mind, I just really wanna go alone.............Maybe we can hook up this weekend (or next depending on ur plans) And we can have some us time, because, this is my me time, not us time.........sorry"
not wrong, maybe you should explain it to her. If she's truly a fan, she'll appreciate you wanting to experience it yourself.
dead wrong, idiot! AS USUAL!!
who the FUCl%26lt; likes opera?
I am going to london at the end of the month to see phantom of the opera.Hotel,theatre tickets and train tickets are paid for,but how much money do you reckon i will need to take for a meal and a few drinks after the show and taxis?
If you figure on 锟?0-锟?5 per taxi ride, plus 锟? per drink (unless you are drinking really expensive cocktails in a thoroughly pretentious bar) you can probably budget 锟?5 for dinner per person including 1/2 a bottle of wine... (do yourself a favour and sign up to www.toptable.co.uk its free to join and you might well get a deal on a half price meal)
All told I'd budget between 锟?00 and 锟?50 to take with you. Have a great time....I miss living in London.
Night out in london?plays opera theater
very variable, Meal cost can vary hugely depending on where you plan to eat... look at spending :
Mcdonalds 锟?.00
Steakhouse $15.00
restaurant 锟?0.00+ (upper limit is too variable, depending on the quality of the restaurant)
drinks.... could run to 锟?.00 to 锟?.00 per Pint of beer or glass of wine...
Taxi depends on station you are using... $10 to 锟?0 maybe
very difficult to answer as it depends on the quality of restaurant and station travelled from.
A decent dinner in a nice restaurant with drinks in a few bars after will cost round about 锟?00 per person minimum. Stay away from the tourist traps in the west end, the Covent Garden, Leicester Square area are particularly expensive and particularly crap. In my opinion the best night out in London now is in the Hoxton, Shoreditch, Brick Lane area. You'll find loads of great bars and clubs round there, while they are expensive compared to the rest of the country they are not as expensive as the crap you will find in the west end.
If you don't go crazy:
Meal - 锟?5 per person
Drinks - base it on 锟? per drink
Taxis - depends where to/from. Only use the black cabs as they are licensed and know he roads.
Depends how many a "few drinks" are. London prices are around 锟? - 锟?.50 each in that area, with a meal being around 锟?0 - 锟?5 per head so you're looking at around 锟?0 per head really. Taxis in London are a right rip off, especially the Black Cabs. Expensive but lovely.
Realistically London is well expensive- think nothing of spending at least 锟?00
depends on what type of meal and how many drinks, but i would say about 50 pounds per person if you want relatively good stuff
By answering about 90 minutes of questions, I was to recieve two tickets to the Opera show. I was almonst done %26amp; had to sign up for two choices of computer offers. One picked was a free credit report. It went on to the search mode, took forever, so I went to bed. Son came home and closed file. I have no idea where I was logged. HELP
Those things are scams. The fact that you are asking this question in the 'credit' section of yahoo indicates to me that this company was possibly asking for credit information from you. I can tell you right now, don't do it!
It was probably a good thing that you lost that web page.
I was filling in a Question sheet yesterday that was connected to Oprah tickets Re:Credit report. Can't find.ms stress opera theater
i think tickets are free to go to the taping of shows like that anyways.
Check your web history it should still have the site that you were on.
Hi Dear all,
I plan to go to the theatre 1 day before the show to buy tickets for Phantom of the Opera, would the cheapest tickets worth it or shall i go for the most expensive one? should i buy from internet or go there buy personally?
For the museum ticket price, is it a norm to pay for the suggested price , or would it be very embarrased to pay less than the suggested price.
Thanks for advices.
Kwan
I don't know if Phantom sells out, but I'd recommend buying tickets in advance. If you want to save some money find out if they have a matinee price.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (and The Cloisters) will accept any amount, including a penny. It's entirely up to you and what you can afford. And of course anything you buy in the gift shop will also go towards the museum. The MET has a bag check which is also convenient if you want to spend time in Central Park, too.
I have a paragraph here that needs two complex sentences and two compound:
Chapter 2: Mr. Wong arrived home from work with two tickets to the opera show that night, and he wanted his wife to go along with him. She had been doing the laundry and didn鈥檛 know about the opera show. Once she found out that they were going to an opera in two hours she hurriedly dashed to the bedroom to get ready. Moments later, out she came and then they left for the opera. Once at the opera he and his wife found two seats in the front row. Mr. Wong was admiring the features of one of the actresses. Then he started to lust after this woman, and he wanted her for himself. Mr. Wong asked his wife how she felt, she liked the woman, so they agreed to she how the two got along was mutual. Later, he decided to introduce his self to her and she agreed to be his second wife. First he said he would only marry her if his first wife agreed so they tried living together. With that, he set out to see if his plan worked.
Find two sentences that are closely related in topic and join them with a conjunction (and but, or, for, nor, yet, so) - that's a compound sentence.
Start a sentence with a group of words that tell when or where the sentence is happening (followed by a comma) and you'll have a complex sentence - something like "After I went home," then follow with the original sentence. - That's a complex sentence.
A man and wife are eating breakfast, just before he goes out to work.
"I'll bet you don't know what day it is today!" she says to him.
With a guilty start he responds, "Well of course I do, did you really think I could forget!" and with feigned hurt he storms off to work.
At 10am there is a knock at the door and she answers it to find a delivery man bearing the biggest bunch of red roses she had ever seen in her life.
At 12 oclock the door goes again, and this time it is a gigantic box of her favourite luxury chocolates all tied in a satin bow. At three o'clock a van arrives from the most expensive boutique in the area and delivers the most sumptious new dress she had ever seen. Attached is a card which reads, "Of course I didn't forget darling, please find attached tickets to the Opera, I know you love it."
Shocked to the core she can't wait for her husband to come in.
"Oh George, first came the roses, then the chocolates, then that gorgeous dress, And darling, how sweet you got those tickets. I know you HATE the opera."
She gives a little sigh, then smiles sweetly
"Really, this is the best Pancake Tuesday of my life!"
HAHAHA~
LMAO!
good one!
xx
He nearly forgot.?opera score opera theater
haha not forgetful at all !
lol poor sod
LOL pancake tuesday!!! LOLOLOLOL thats hilarious 10/10 and have a star while im at it!
Haha, that's great
LOL that was funny....
Funny lol
hahaahahhahahha omg that would completely suck!
Gah, women:-D
Even my hubby laughed at this one!
Thanks for the giggle.... have a star
That was just "mean". You gotta love it! lol.
Lucky her! I wish I could do that to my husband.
omg,he bought all that stuff...FOR PANCAKE TUESDAY!!!!
lmfao,AMAZING joke.
hahaha excellent
ROFLMAO!! It's amazing what pancakes can do! *star*
Hi, we are staying in Bardolino in August and have tickets to the opera in Verona. Will it be possible to get a bus back to Bardolino after the opera has finished, or do the buses stop running quite early? We will have a car, but thought it might be easier just to hop on the bus. Any advice would be great!
Well, yes but it depends on the day of the week, During the week the blue suburban buses, for lack of a better description, do run quite late into the evening back to Verona. However on Saturday and especially Sunday I wouldn't risk it after 7PM Also, if you just miss a bus to Verona from Lake Garda I have sometimes found it is occasionally faster to use the bus in the western direction towards Brescia to the FS train station and ride the train back to Verona Porta Nouva Station. Either way the buses are safe and a good overall bet! They do keep easy to read schedules at the terminal adjacent to the Verona Train station.
I have tickets to the opera, and haven't got a clue if i should do it out prom style, or sun dress it
Why not dress to the nines and make a night of it? Cocktails before and maybe supper after. But sundress is definitely acceptable.
What in the world do you wear?home theatre opera theater
cloths as far as i know!
You can wear a simple black dress. Prom is too prom and sundress is too casual.
Go topless.
hmm.. difficult.. depends on what ur going to c.. id recommend black because u cant go wrong.. mayb a knee length dress.. something classy yet not too formal..
an orange jumpsuit...EOM
During the first 100 days in office, they said *Bring the Troops home, end the War in Iraq...Oh okay..does that mean we won the War on Terrorism??? or does that mean we will send the Radical Islasmists, a white flag, a bowl of tabouli salad and
tickets to the opera?
So we just leave Iraq, Iran takes over and we stand guard at the border checking ID Cards..How can anyone think the Democratic party has a solution on anything that ails the USA when all they do, is have a tums approach to a Major Ulcer problem?
Gopanic your and Idiot,
As a former soldier who has been deployed all over the world and been to both Afgan and Iraq, I agree 100%. It would also be near impossible to re-Deploy all that equipmennt and troops in 100 Days, that's coming from someone with Military experiance
AS former Military what do I know right? but I am sure that Osama and the boys Attepted to blow up the world Center in 93, I do know They Killed 19 Airman and wounded 300 Airman in 96 at Khobar Towers, I do know, That Osama and the Boys Blew up 2 U.S. Embassy's in Africa in 98, I do know that Osama and the boys Blow a Hole in the U.S..S Cole in 2000. I do know that 3,000 Americans were killed by Osama and the Boys on 9-11, So If we leave and they win, and they gain strengh and more followers, there gonna come fast and hard against us, so if people want to live in a left wing nut world where everything is America's Fault, someday they may realize one morning were fighting these Terrorists for our WAY OF LIFE at least Bush is doing something about it!!!!!!! Heck CLINTON did nothing about it, expect LIE ABOUT HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH A GIRL IN WOULDN'T HAVE TOUCHED IN HIGH SCHOOL, and spent more time worrying about LYING ABOUT scandals like Whitewater, PREJURE, THAN MAYBE he would have taken Bin Laden into custody in 98 when the Sudan was willing to hand him over.
The Democrat candidates were asked during the debate, what they would do?palace theatre opera theater
It probably depends on whether or not you're talking about "The Marriage of Figaro" or "Nixon in China"
So, leaving Iraq is giving up on the war? Let's look at a few facts.
1. The concept of them following us home. They are here already. The evidence is the alleged plot to attack Fort Dix and the alleged plot to blow up JFK airport.
2. Since the election in 2004, we have not raised the terror threat level. Clearly it was motivated by politics. We have stopped at least three attacks since then (the two mentioned above and the plot in Great Britian).
3. Iraq is now a failed state. failed states breed terrorism.
4. Our borders are not secure. We should have our security people at every airport and port in North America. That's how you keep terrorists out of the United States. But we don;t do that.
We pretend we are tough on terror, but we really just go through some motions.
It sends the message that we care enough about the troops and hard working, tax paying citizens to get us out of a bogus war that the corrupt government got us into in the first place.
I agree, they have mastered the art of criticism, but how easy it is to criticize when you don't have a better solution.
No we can't be racist and "card" the illegals as they cross.The radical Jihadist will be glad to see the US leave.
I'm sure they will be in the US not long after they see the white flag.
You have to understand that the consequences outlined above are those held in the beliefs of the republican parties and their supporters. Its easier to think that if we pull out we are giving up but dozens of analysts with the same or better qualifications as the Bush administration's believe that pulling out is the best way to go. I know this is not what you want to believe, but we are not fighting a war on terror, we are occupying a country that does not want us. Even Republican Ron Paul said, we should at least listen to why the radicals are telling us they are attacking us, because we go over there and put bases on their land for decades. Besides, al-Qaeda were not the ones responsible for starting the war on "terrorism" it was the Taliban, but thats besides the point. How would you respond if other countries came to america, stationed troops and bases to try to fix us? If we retaliate in self defense, is that aggression? Does it merit sending more soldiers in? Ponder that and get back to me if you want.
Well said.
There is no way we're going to bring the troops home in the first 100 days regardless of what they say.
Our party says crap like that all the time to get into office and then they forget what they promised.
Here is the one thing that the democrats stand for that this administration has refused to even consider. CHANGE. As much as Bush will never admit it, because of his ridiculous need to just continue to stick to his same reasoning, the public is smarter than he thinks. We know that everything he is doing in Iraq is just more versions of the same thing. Oh, we want chage, ok, we'll send more people. Okay, great, but what's the new strategy? Ummm, strategy? I sent more people, doesn't that count? Uhh, not really, you just sent more people to be sitting ducks in a civil war.
As a previous poster said. Iraq is a failed state that breeds terrorism. The one thing that is uniting a gigantic majority of the people there is that they do not want the US there. The only person who really wants us there is the current Iraqi President so that he won't actually have to take responsibility for anything going wrong with his country. While we're there, he can just say it's Bush's fault. We are not creating stability, as one poster suggests. We're causing the chaos there by our sheer prescence. Bush wants us there for one reason, the ability to further his own policies. Now since he's using other people's lives to futher his own agenda, is that better than brining our soldiers home from a war that we had no business starting in the first place?
As far as doing it in the first 100 days, I think that might be a stretch, but well withing the first full year of office, I think the troops do need to be gotten out of the country and back home. They are fighting for something that was presented as patriotic and for our own protection, but has been shown for a lie. Does that make me unamerican to not want the troops in danger in a place a lie placed them? If it does, then I'm unamerican, and so it at least 72% of the country. The major ulcer you refer to is Bush.
early withdrawl from iraq would lead to harsher sectarian violence and yet another oppressive sectular regime like the one they had before. if cant be done in 100 days. and iran wont **** with them theyll wait until one group assumes power then ally with them on the basis of hatered for democracy. though i dont think we should have gone over there in the first place we are there now and have to finish. we cant win the war on terrorism just like we cant win the war on drugs or poverty or any other fictionl wars that we dont have a battlefield to fight on or soldiers to fight. the govt can only devote so much time effort and money into these type things and we dont have that right now nor will we ever. the only thing we can do is keep our homeland safe and use the defense budget to fund defense and not militarism.
I do not agree with the motives for starting the war, but I believe that now that we are there, we might as well finish the job. If we end up with another Vietnam, I think that would only boost the radicals' morale.
Our troops are policing a civil war right now. They're targets - like sitting ducks. You want that to remain the same then?
No, it means that we will finally face the fact that our troops are stuck in the middle of another country's civil war that has been going on for many centuries and may go on for, who knows how many more centuries!
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We went to Iraq to fight terrorism ?
Are you an idiot ?
Are you capable of independent thought ? You are your sheep friends seem to all repeat the exact same lies...word for word. Rush must be proud.
We went there for oil...idiot
Didn't you notice that all 4,000 reasons told for our being in Iraq have all been exposed as LIES
What a waste of space between your ears
Thank goodness! I was beginning to think I was the only one who had noticed this...
Totally agree. Although I do not believe the war in Iraq was handled well AT ALL, we have worked our way into a situation where if we leave Iraq, the people in that country will be utterly slaughtered and mass civil war will break out. At this point, we are the only thing keeping them stable in the slightest. The flip side of this is that progress has been incredibly slow, as we struggle to simply hold on to a country that is overwrought with years of hate, tension, and violence that is just now boiling over.
I agree with you 100 percent. When it comes down do it they don't really know where they stand.
The terrorists and their cells would just follow us home.
Lewis black put it best Democrats have no Idea and republicans have very bad Ideas.
(for cheapness). I have hunted high and low and I have come up with a few suggestions, as has she to me. I have chosen places to go where it will be ok for us both to get home. It was my suggestion we go out in the first place. She left a message on my mobile to say she'd won 2 tickets to an opera. It's too far from where I live, even though I've been there before (but got a lift home from someone at the time). I texted her "thanks, but I don't want to travel on my own that late at night back home". I have not heard from her since. I can't understand what's so wrong with what I texted - I was honest.
Sell the opera tickets. They will fetch quite a bit. Then use the money for a great meal and drinks close to where you live.
My friend and I have been trying to arrange a night out. We're both trying to find the best deal?regal theater opera theater
Why don't you stay at her house? You can't waste free tickets if it is something you would have gone to if it was closer.
how old are you guys?? if you dont want to drive by yourself, then you must be somewhat young, and if you are younger, then why are you going to an opera?? go to a club, or something!! have fun
We are wanting to buy tickets for Phantom of the Opera. I have no idea if it's worth paying $30 more a ticket to sit in the ochestra or front mezzanine. Can somebody give me advice?
Can you sit so far back that you actually have to wear binoculars to see or can you see the stage from everywhere?
I've been to Phantom.
Once this strike thing gets resolved....you will WANT to get the orchestra seats. Somewhere in the first 10 rows at the VERY center.
I won't give the storyline away but TRUST ME....you will want to be seated in that area! :) VERY COOL!
What seats do you reccomend for Broadway shows? Ochestra, Front Mezzanine, Rear Mezzanine?globe theater opera theater
Tony S is absolutely right!
i've also been to Phantom and you can trust his recommendation!
one third of the way back from the stage in the center of the theater is best acoustically. usually the center of the 8th row. you can sit far enough away that you need binoculars, called "opera glasses".
Right now, lets hope for a show!!!!
I want to go May 12th. I need 2 tickets. I called the Toronto Opera Co. They are all sold out
I bought my tickets in August.
It seems that the only seats still available are for May 15th or May 26th. But they won't last.
If all else fails try buying some rush tickets at the box office at 11am the day of the opera. Or arrive an hour before the performance. There are frequently people trying to unload extra tickets for cheap.
Try the COC website
good luck
Hello, I am 16 years old.
My parents silver anniversary is coming up, and I am going to be in London at the time unfortunately. I came into quite a bit of money lately without them knowing, and I want to buy them a fairly expensive present (tickets to a fabulous opera that they really want to see).
The trouble is that I am using a debit card and they can see exactly what I am spending, what I'm spending it on, and where I am spending it.
How to I spend money without them knowing how much I am spending, what I am buying, and where I am when I buy it?
They have been wanting to see it for years and they are sharp people, so if they see the charge, they will know.
Please help me!
Try taking cash advances in small amounts until you get the money you need.
How to spend money without my parents knowing.?paramount theater opera theater
pay by cash!
...plays or musicals, I love it and have season tickets to both the opera and broadway accross america but am going to NY this upcoming weekend and want to go to broadway. This would be my first time. Any suggestions? I really liked Wicked and My Fair Lady and Operas I enjoyed Rigoletto and Tosca
I recommend Young Frankenstein if you love the movie and want a good laugh.
The Little Mermaid was really good also.
Avenue Q is LOL funny and has a crude sort of potty humor if you like that.
A Chorus Line is amazing and it's legendary and all.
Phantom of the Opera would be really good if you like the Opera although it's not really an Opera but it's still wonderful!
And The Lion King is good too
Can anyone suggest any good broadway...?opera ticket opera theater
For Broadway I'd suggest:
Rent (it's going off soon)
Avenue Q (so funny and deserving of its Tony. I've seen it twice, Broadway and West End)
Spamalot (Hysterical)
The Little Mermaid awakens old memories whilst also being innovative.
Spring Awakening
Young Frankenstein (gotta love Sutton)
A Chorus Line (ground breaking musical! Amazing choreography)
I don't know opera as well, but I heard La Boheme is good at the Met. Tristan is wonderful as well. I just read a good review.
~Lisa
see Rent! It's going off broadway june 1!
Spamalot.
It is AMAZING...
But you have to see Holy Grail to understand it sorta.
go see Rent its just one you should absolutly see and then go see the lion king, Chicago....so many
I really enjoyed wicked aswell, i think you would like Hairspray. Or Mary Poppins, If you can, go and see rent, thats amazing. So is Avenue Q, but that is a very small show in comparison, but it is hillarious. I dissagree with the guy who said you had to see Holy Grail to understand Spamalot, i saw spamalot and loved it, without seeing Holy Grail.
So any of the above, but i highly reccomend Rent and Avenue Q
In the Heights. Bi-lingual award winner - I am taking 104 students in May. You can get $25 seats to this - it has gotten GREAT reviews! Check out the press package on YouTube, and also their own website www.intheheightsthemusical.com
Here's a chance to earn bonus points! Along with answering the trick question you must find the Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up" video on YouTube in order to answer this question!
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C) Nancy Reagan
D) Rick Roll
E. Other. There are no women mentioned in the song.
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i'm fortunate enough to have tickets to see the opera, but i don't know any of the music. i can, however, listen to music in the background at work, just to familiarize myself. where can i link up the audio? thanks!
Try these:
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LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3 or ogg files into your own computer:
http://www.librivox.org/
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/home
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categori...
http://www.audiobookscorner.com/free.htm...
http://www.free-books.org/
http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
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I am looking for tickets to the Phantom of the Opera show and I would like to know if the balcony seats are better then the Parterre section because the balcony seats are worth more but they aren't center and look to be farther from the stage then the cheaper Parterre section. Has anyone seen the show and knows what the difference is?
Part two of the question is does anyone want to give me their Team celine member # so I can get discounted tickets to her show while in vegas?
Third... has anyone used Vegas's day of discount ticket service and how much were the tickets... how did they work out?
Any additional promo's or buffet deals would be helpful too.
Thanks!
I went to phantom and trust me dont sit in the balcony the regular seats are better especially in the middle.
I will be in NYC for three months. Any ideas how I can get cheap tickets to various shows and the opera. Thank you
For the Broadway Show, my advice is go to the TKTS Booth in Times Square. There you will get tickets to any Broadway shows at a discount, even tickets for performances on the same day.
As for the The Met (The Metropolitan Opera). I have included a link to the official website below.
Good luck and enjoy the show.
I'm going on an 8th grade end of the year trip to New York that costs $500.
-This includes 2 nights and 3 days at the 4 star Roosevelt Hotel(including security)
-cost of the ride on the bus
-ticket to "The Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway
-breakfasts and dinners
-admission to Bronx Zoo
-admission to Museum of Natural History
-admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
-admission to the Top of The Rock Observatory
-ferry ride past Statue of Liberty on the way to visit and explore Ellis Island
-full day guided sightseeing tour of lower manhattan sites include:
Battery Park
Financial District
Wall Street
Ground Zero
Chinatown
Little Italy
Greenwich Village
This is a great itinerary. The hotel is nice - it's only a few blocks from Grand Central Station. While you're in the lower Manhattan area, hope they go to the World Financial Center - get ice cream at Custard Beach - they have incredible flavors - my favorites are lemon and creme brulee. They change flavors every day. I always tell visitors to try New York pizza, but, if you've been to Regina's in Boston, don't bother. Boston is the only place outside of Italy that has better pizza than New York. At the Metropolitan Museum,make sure to see the Gubbio Studio. It's a fifteenth century library in a duke's palace. As you walk into this room, you see cabinets, closets, bookcases filled with books, musical instruments, scientific instruments, all made of little pieces of inlaid wood. You are not going to believe it when you get close - it's flat! This should take your breath away - I can't describe it. And the museum hardly advertises it. It's on the first floor, north of the medieval sculpture court.
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/vi...
Next favorite are the weapons and armor:
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/de...
If you're doing souvenir shopping, save it for Chinatown - great prices on little stocking stuffer kinds of things.
Have a great time, and since you can get here for only $15, come back again.
Is this worth it?performing arts show opera theater
It definitely seems worth it for 500. Hope you enjoy the trip.
One night in a cheap hotel costs that much.
You have an extremely good deal. The ferry to Ellis Island also stops at the Statue of Liberty, and you can get off and explore each, taking a later boat onward. The Roosevelt is a very fine, fancy hotel that Teddy Roosevelt would be proud to have had named for him. I hope your group plans to have lunch in Chinatown--I would recommend Wo Hop on Mott Street. You are certainly getting around and seeing many things in the short time you are here. I'm willing to bet everyone will be so exhausted that all sleep on the trip back to Quincy.
This is a pretty good deal--as most school trips are. You don't say how many people they're cramming into a hotel room, but you could easily spend $200 per person for two nights even in a triple of quad. The cost of the bus ride is almost certainly more than $15, particularly since you'll be paying the cost of a full-time driver who will accompany you around the city, chaperons, and parking in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Admissions are about $10 per site, and the "Phantom" ticket is probably $50 even at a bulk rate (and could easily be $75). A full day guided sightseeing tour would be no less than $100 per person (and could approach $200), and the cost of your included meals will easily make up the rest of your $500 fee.
That's a very good place. I hope you enjoy yourself. All I got when I was in 8th grade was a stupid visit to Chattanooga and Springfield.
You have no clue of how much that is worth.... Some people around the world will never get a chance to see some of those places. I live in the Manhatten Area so ive seen all of these places. The Museum of Natural History is one always worth seeing as for The Phantom of the Opera im not sure if you would like it or not. It depends on what kind of plays you like but yes it would be incredibly worth it.
that sounds like a great trip! and more than worth your money new york is an expensive place to visit!
you would be a fool not to go.. have a good time...
I found this about a concert I guess? I'm not sure. First person to tell me exactly what that is gets best answer. I need to know where his book signing is going to be too. It is probley at a Borders or Barnes and Nobles.
An Evening with
Anthony Rapp
7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22, Theatre Macon, 438 Cherry St. Best known for his role as Mark Cohen in the opera "Rent." 746-9485. $20, tickets available only at the door.
In Macon.
Anthony Rapp book signing in macon, GA...where?ballet theater opera theater
its not like i know
1) The cost is C(x)= (x^3) - (6x^2) + 13x + 15, find the minimum marginal cost.
2) The revenue is R(x)= 200 - [1600/ (x+8) ] - x, find the maximum marginal revenue
3) The average ticket price for a concert at the opera house was $50. The average attendance was 4000. When the ticket price was raised to $52, attendance declined to an average of 3800 persons per performance. What should the ticket price be in order to maximize revenue for the opera house?
4) An artist is planning to sell signed prints of her latest work. If 50 prints are offered for sale, she can charge $400 each. However, if she makes more than 50 prints, she must lower the price of all prints by $5 for each print in excess of 50. How many prints should the artist make in order to maximize revenue?
1) C(x)= (x^3) - (6x^2) + 13x + 15
Marginal Cost is C'(x)
C'(x) = 3x^2 -12x + 13
Minimize C'(x)
0 = 3x^2 -12x + 13
You can solve x yourself.
2) R(x)= 200 - [1600/ (x+8) ] - x
Marginal Revenue is R'(x)
R'(x) = 1600/(x+8)^2 - 1
Maximize R'(x)
0 = 1600/(x+8)^2 - 1
1 = 1600/(x+8)^2
1600 = (x+8)^2
you can solve x yourself.
3) use a table and record the revenue
you will find $45 is the price to maximize the revenue.
At $50 with 4000 attendance, revenue = 200,000
At $52 with 3800 attendance, revenue = 197,600
You must reduce the price to get more than 200,000.
From the data, decrease $2 will increase attendance
by 200
At $48 with 4200 attendance, revenue = 201,600
At $46 with 4400 attendance, revenue = 202,400
At $44 with 4600 attendance, revenue = 202,400
At $42 with 4800 attendance, revenue = 201,600
So maxi revenue occurs at $45.
4)Let x be the # of prints
Revenue R(x) = x[400-5(x-50)]
R(x) = x[400-5x+250]
R(x) = 650x - 5x^2
R'(x) = 650 - 10 x
0 = 650 - 10 x
x = 65
Her revenue = 65* [400-5(15)]=$21,125
Im planning on going to one with my friends for my b'day in march, and i've selected phantom of the opera (playing in canon theatre, toronto). the tickets go on sale on oct. 23, and i was wondering when is the best time to buy them?? should i buy them when they first go on sale? or will the prices drop later on? and also, should i buy them from the official site?? or are there any other legit sites that sell them for cheaper? ive never bought these so please help me.
I suggest buying them as soon as possible. They tend to sell out quickly, and they do not have rush sales for them (tickets that go on sale right before the show, if someone cancels or returns tickets).
Buying them from the official site is suggested as well, other venues will charge you more of a service fee to make your purchase.
Have Fun!
When is the best time to buy musical/theatre tickets??theater opera theater
the ticket prices they are probably cheaper in the fall time rather than in december when people are off on break. you should buy them as early as possible.
I'm trying to search for tickets to see "The Phantom of the Opera". I tried ticketmaster.uk web site but couldn't find anything for 12/22 - 12/27. I was able to find some tickets on ticketswitch.com web site but i'm not familiar with this site. Has anyone book tickets from it?
Thanks.
Check http://www.theatremonkey.co.uk they have seating plans with detailed descriptions as to which seats give best value.
They also have a section on ticket agencies.
Try http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk if they don't have them on line, you could call and they might "find" some.
Has anyone book tickets to see a london show online? Which website would u recommend? any tip?theatre opera theater
Go to lastminute.com and try there, if not just pitch up to london on the day and buy tickets from one of the hundreds of ticket booths in the west end. Go to see Evita.. Its better than Phantom and you can get reasonably priced tickets at lastminute.com
Enjoy the show..
oh leith prowse usually have all west end shows as well if your desperate to book phantom
As a travel agent, I recommend...www.1-800-bestseats.com
there are plenty shows..one is on 12/22.
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/
Here is your link. Just click on the P in the alphabet in the middle of the page and it will take you right to it
Just go to Leicester Square and go to the Tckts Booth right across from the small park, near Pizza Hut and the big hotel. Don't try to book online first. Go by there first and see what's playing.
Remember, queue from the right for night shows, and from the left for afternoon matinees. If you can't find it listed there -- and it ALWAYS IS -- then go to ticketmaster.com.
Good luck. I'm sure you can find a show. By the way, bypass all those other ticket sellers right by the Tube stop, and go directly to the Tckts booth. The other sellers' tickets aren't always valid, and they aren't always the best price or seat you can get. Only tickets from the Tckts booth give you the best price and the BEST seats.
Cheers, K (teacher and major theatre buff who has been to London 13 times and counting)
You could try http://virtuallondon.eolts.co.uk/ they have a number of cheap deals and also do some including meals.
I got my wife tickets to go see Phantom of The Opera on Broadway for her birthday. What is a unique way for me to wrap or present them? I would rather not just stuff them into the birthday card I got her.
The most practical and clever idea will win.
Put it in a box with a mask glued on top. Get some sheet music of one of the songs and wrap the box in it. Put some roses inside, with the tickets in an envelope attached to the stem.
Unique way to present broadway tickets?pacific theater opera theater
I think that a picture of the Phantom would do the trick, and just stick the tickets inside, you can probably find a picture of this anywhere on the Internet, just print out two and make a card !!!!!!!!! Your wife will be thrilled !!!!!!!!
A friend of mine was talking to me about a particular movie with the following details and I was wondering if anyone knows the name of this movie with me having to ask my friend. The details are as follows:
this lesbian hooks up with this guy for a one night stand.
the guy falls for the lesbian and convinces her to give him a chance by "bribing" her with tickets to go see an opera.
the guy has a habit of asking the person he's having dinner with what they're going to have when deciding what to order.
chasing amy?
never saw it.................just guessing
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Chasing Amy
definately NOT chasing amy.. no opera there.. no bribing of any kind.. You know..... I have NO idea..
Gigli maybe?.. I've only watched about 5 minutes of it.. so cant' be positive
Sounds like you have a lesbian fetish!
I was very interested in knowing what the setlist for that incredible show on Monday May 14th by Damien Rice. I know he did some unreleased B-side tracks and would like to arrange my iPod's playlist accordingly.
05.14.07 Civic Opera House - Chicago, IL
Piano Intro %26gt;
9 Crimes
Me, My Yoke %26amp; I
Volcano
Delicate
Elephant
The Rat Within The Grain
The Professor %26amp; La Fille Danse
Amie %26gt;
Space Jam %26gt;
Sex Change
Rootless Tree
Coconut Skins %26gt;
Woman Like a Man
Cross-Eyed Bear
I Remember
Cannonball
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The Blower's Daughter
Cheers Darlin'
Sorry. I tried to find some information for you, but I came up empty handed. :^(
It has to have the phantom's lair, the torture chamber, auditorium, christine daae's dressing room, and the underground lake! HELP its due next wednesday!
Another option is to print good quality color images of the Opera Garnier's interiors to use as your backgrounds. Mount them on foam board, then use small props--a full length mirror, chairs, a gondola, etc.--and red, curtain-like cloth. You could spray paint a small canoe black to make the Phantom's gondola boat. Use another mirror and a bare tree prop with a noose to create the torture chamber. See the official Lloyd-Webber musical site and the Opera Garnier images on Goggle below to get some inspiration and create your backgrounds.
I have to make a model of the inside of the paris opera house. Cam someone help me????opera cd opera theater
A round or oval mirror always makes a good lake. Red drapery.
Doll's chairs, just enough to suggest the auditorium, and the dressing room...
In fact if I were you, I would visit a place that had doll-house furniture in it, and look for wooden things...
Another place that may be good to visit is a place catering to the wedding set, or a floral shop-- they also often have "littles" that represent "bigs."
They may even have some good ideas for you. Have a wish-list of what you'd like to find, and best of luck to you!
My bf likes The Phantom of the Opera... I want to get him tickets to it for Vday but I have never been there or seen the show. I dont know where would be the best seats there.... Any one know?
http://www.besttix.com/layout/476/984/lo...
thats the layout
SEE..;
1)- **AA left / right center , for family group !
2)** , back in the 90's, to see ''Brigadoon''.
*So, in the balcony the AA, BB, JJ, Right / left ,
can be suitable.
*While, if you like to have some kissing position's, etc.
take the last raw ,in the corners in the balcony ,
as the best private locations'!
OK
Good Luck
A77p
Any one been to Majestic Theatre... San Antonio, TX?chicago theater opera theater
I was there back in the 90's, my girlfriend and I went to see ''Brigadoon''.
My bf likes The Phantom of the Opera... I want to get him tickets to it for Vday but I have never been there or seen the show. I dont know where would be the best seats there.... Any one know?
http://www.besttix.com/layout/476/984/lo...
thats the layout
I have found that you get the best seats at the Majestic if you go to the box office at the theatre rather than on line, as they have a different selection. When looking at Orchestra seats, it is always nice to get as close as possible (especially for Phantom). Avoid the AA-HH orchestra seats if possible. I had the front row center for Phantom at the Majestic which was really special for the chandelier scene.
The front row of the balcony the view can sometimes be blocked by the rail in front of the seats.
The best seats are in the Starlight Suites, but these are rarely available.
Enjoy the show!
This is for New York. Just wanting an opinion on you're reviews on the best shows. Could be anything, broadway, opera, etc. Wanting to purchase two tickets for next week hopefully. Thanks so much!
I can recommend Wicked. I would skip The Drowsy Chaperone. Curtains was very good. I enjoyed Mama Mia. Spamalot was fun, whether you're a Monty Python fan or not. I don't see opera too often, but I live a few blocks from Lincoln Center, and I can't remember what they have on stage right now.
Opinions. What are the best broadway plays, events, etc.?theatre tickets opera theater
Broadway - November with Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf - funniest play I've seen in weels
Opera (Met). Carmen - If you've never seen go - so much more than Broadway in every way - the Metropolitan Opera House itself is worth the trip.
Manon Lescaut - a chance to see to great singers Karita Mattila and Marcello Giordani and the great American conductor James Levine
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: One of the most fun nights in the theater in any genre.
note: Don't worry about prices: seats are available at $15 and $26 and you can hear great from up there!
DEFINITELY We Will Rock You, the musical based on Queen songs. In my opinion, it is, and probably always will be, the best production I've ever seen. I saw it on the West End in London, but I doubt it will be much different from the American version. I also recommend Wicked, based on the life story of the wicked witch of the west from Wizard of Oz. However, if you were planning to see both these shows, I'd go see Wicked first, as, for me, We Will Rock You overshadowed Wicked, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have...
As for operas, Phantom of the Opera is an obvious must-see
:)
If you haven't seen it yet I woudl definetly go to see The Lion King there is so much in that. (I hear it is the most expensive brouadway production)
I've been reading questions asked by others and the answers you've given have put new questions in my mind.
1. What is a Metrocard? Is that a ticket for the subway?
2. Should I get advance tickets to see Wicked, Mama Mia
and Phantom of the Opera? Do they usually sell out?
3. One answer said it's hot in July -- mid 80's. Is that really as
hot as it gets? We're used to 100, so we wouldn't feel hot.
Is it humid?
4. Since I'm not sure of the temp what should we wear?
Jeans? Capri's?
5. We'll stay at the Sheraton Manhattan. Are there places
close by to have breakfast at a moderate price? I know
it would be expensive to eat at the hotel every morning.
Thanks for your help -- and if there is anything else you think I
should know about I'd welcome the information.
I live in NYC btw.
1. a metro card is a card you purchase to enter the subway system, each time you go inside a trin station, you must swipe your metrocard, each ride is a dollar (if you have to switch trains without leaving the stations you dont pay).
you can also buy unlimited metrocards (either for a day, a week or a month)
2. i dont go to plays to much, but since those plays have been around for so long, i dont think so.
3.- oh no, nonono, it gets up to 100, last summer's record temperature was 105. NYC isnt a humid plays, its actually the opposite, unless there is a storm or something.
4.- i dont know when you are coming. but...
january-march: really good jackets that keep you warn, a hat and gloves, and maybe so long underpants.
march and april: lighter jackets.
may and june: short sleeves and you cant alternate between jeans and shoets.
june-august: most definately shorts, very light clothers.
september-october: light jackets
november-december: heavier jackets.
5.- in manhattan, there are alwys places to eat breakfast, trust me, but manhattan is more expensive than the suburbs. but there are still moderate prices, and the food is always good.
recomendations: ALWAYS ask for directions if you are lost, both manhattan and the subway station could be quite confusing.
carry a subway map with you, you'll need it.
have lots of fun. =)
Can you help me with plans for my NYC vacation?hollywood theater opera theaterThis answer is wrong. The fair for the metro is $2.00. I live in New York as well. Report It
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Get advanced tickets to the shows, it's recommended. It's usually very humid in July. There are no moderate prices in Manhattan, don't look for bargains, everything is very expensive. I used to live nearby.
1. You use the metrocard for the subway since they no longer sell tokens.
2. If you want to get the good seats then it is recommended to get advance tickets.
3. It's really HOT in July...it's usually in the upper 90's and very humid!!
4. Try to wear loose, light clothing.
5. There are lots and lots of places to eat in Manhattan that has great prices. Don't worry.
I'm going to Manhattan in June for four days!! Exciting isn't it?!!
I've heard don't wear solid black (for walking around) and don't wear brand new bright white sneakers (glaringly "tourist").
I've also heard it is hot and humid in NYC in summer. :)
Have fun! I'm excited for you!
5 - if you want a waitress, go to Applejack Diner on 55th and Broadway. If you don't care, go to any of the little deli/sandwich shops you'll see on 7th or Broadway. You order eggs, bagels etc from a counter and its real cheap. I recommend Crown Gourmet at 52nd and Broadway and they have seats upstairs once you get your food.
Have fun.
I've been reading questions asked by others and the answers you've given have put new questions in my mind.
1. it's like a prepaid phone/credit card, but for the subway. you swipe it in a turnstile to take a train. you pick the amount of rides you would like when you buy the card, then use it over and over till it runs out. you can buy these inside the subway stations, at metro card machines.
2. yes they usually sell out. get advanced tickets. if you can't you can always try standing in the broadway ticket line in times square the day of the show. call telecharge for more details.
3. heck yeah it's hooooot. and humid. be prepared.
4. well, jeans are thick, so they won't be as good as capris to prevent getting hot. wear capris, flip flops are often worn - although i don't like them b/c your heels get dirty from the street - and tank tops are ok. just nothing too revealing - use common sense. a light jacket in case you go into an air conditioned place should be ok to carry in a bag.
5. sure there are. there's food everywhereeeeeeee.
BRING AN UMBRELLA
try not to shop in times square - it's a rip off. and don;t buy any electronics from any of those little places. they are usually junk and won't refund.
have fun!
:)
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The weather could be in 80s and sometimes it is humid and sometimes not, depends on the day. Both jeans and capris would be a good idea. Also, they have river cruises on the Hudson that are worthwhile to do, it tours around Manhattan.
I live in N.J. but dont get over there too often to help you with the rest, but I hope you have a great time and welcome to the city.
The following story captured our heart. It happened several years ago in the Paris opera house. A famous singer had been contracted to sing, and ticket sales werebooming. In fact, the night of the concert found the house packed and every ticket sold.
The feeling of anticipation and excitement was in the air as the house manager took the stage and said, Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your enthusiastic support. I am afraid that due to illness, the man whom you've all come to hear will not be performing tonight. However, we have found a suitable substitute we hope will provide you with comparable entertainment.
The crowd groaned in disappointmentand failed to hear the announcer mention the stand-in's name. The environment turned from excitement to frustration.
The stand-in performer gave the performance everything he had. When he had finished,there was nothing but an uncomfortable silence. No one applauded. Suddenly, from the balcony, a little boy stood up and shouted, Daddy, I think you are wonderful! The crowd broke into thunderous applause.
We all need people in our Lives who are willing to stand up once in a while and say, I think you are wonderful.
And at times others are expecting this from you.
Are you telling them how wonderful you are . . .??????????
Say it now and make someone's day more pleasant
You are really great...
You are really the best contributor i have in yahoo answer.
each and every thing teaches us a lesson,
very few appreciate it
very few remember it
very few practise it.
Was you say to sombody"you are wonderfull"????read this??london theatre opera theater
ur absolutely correct...but not every relations needs expression or proof of the trueness.like i never say to my parents that i love them but they know i do...also they never say me that they loves me but i know they do....i would also like to add that the person should appreciate others from their heart and not just by words.
PREETONLY YOU ARE WOUNDERFUL
You are wonderful!!!
That is a wonderful story and thanks for reminding me to do this.
great
Ahhh that was a sweet story.
that`s realy nice.
He's my best friend. I've got it bad for him. He seems to like me enough. He has tickets to the Phantom of the Opera and he asked me to go with him. But he's always giving me mixed messages. Talking about other girls in front of me, and then acting like I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. I don't know what to do. Make a move or stay safe...? It's annoying because I don't want to ruin what we have, a great friendship, but I think we could have something and I like him so much!!!!! I'm not using the l-word (although my friends have teased me about it). He sticks up for me in front of everyone else and then doesn't say a word. He's great but afraid to do anything. Help me please!!! Can someone translate?!?!
Best friends are great and wonderful. My husband became one of my best friends before we got married. I would continue to be his friend, but I wouldn't make the first move. Let the man lead. I believe a woman should be pursued not the other way around. However, at the same time you are being his friend you can get some other friends too. Meet new people, go out on dates, have fun with the girls. Don't be too available. If he wants you he'll pursue you.
Does he or does he not?opera music opera theater
I'm not a guy so i can't translate for him. But in my opinion i think that he does like you but the whole talking about girls in front of you maybe he jus says those things cause if you don't like him it doesn't make him look bad were it looks like he's all obsessed for you. You might want to ask him because it also maybe the whole friend thing. Its tricky to decipher between frds and boyfriend.
But once again it does look like he does like you, but you will never know if you don't ask him. But say it in a way that if he does like you only as a friend than it won't make you look bad either.
make a move!
Try this. Be totally honest with him about your feelings. Tell him you want a boyfriend and he is your first choice, but if he doesn't want you (unlikely), you want to move on to someone who does. If he agrees you should move on, you can keep him as a friend and ask his advice about boys.
Bite the bullet! I'm sure you won't lose his friendship if you ask him if he has ever thought about having a relationship with you? You don't have to come on strong.
I was in a similar situation once and it could have led somewhere and I told him that it would have been easy to get involved with him, and he agreed, but said he valued the friendship too much.
Nothing more was said, but now I think we should maybe not have avoided it. We are still friends though.
I will always wonder what would have happened, but my desires now are elsewhere, although I still think the world of him.
You need to know girl....or it will drive you mental! So go ask him!
i think he likes you and the reason why he talks about other girls is that he wanna see if yer gonna get jealous...dont lose hope....time will come and he's gonna tell u how he feels : ) juz jeep on prayin!!!
he may feel the same way you do..he doesn't want to ruin your friendship either...all you can do is ask...if he is your true friend he won't be scared off by your question...if he says no take it as is but continue to be his friend if possible...you never know it may eventually turn out to be love....good luck
I already have tickets to The Phantom Of The Opera and Wicked. I know a lot about musical theatre, but there are so many good musicals on Broadway that I just can't decide. I'm going to one or two more musicals and the options are: Spring Awakening (it seems awesome!!! I've heard the soundtrack and I love it, plus the plot is very good), The Lion King, Jersey Boys (note that I'm not familiar with The Four Seasons), Hairspray (I've seen the movie and I love it), Mamma Mia! (I love ABBA). I like all of them but I want to know which one is the best one, because I don't know when I'm going to see a broadway musical again.
You are going to love Phantom and Wicked. Wicked is an amazing show that is worth every penny of your ticket price. Trust me, I've seen it five times.
As for the others, I would definitely go with Mamma Mia! and the Lion King for sure. I have yet to meet one person who did not like the Lion King, and I hear it won't be lasting much longer. I regret that I was unable to see it when it was in Minneapolis.
I have heard good things about Spring Awakening, but don't know enough to make a serious call to recommend it.
My vote goes to Mamma Mia and The Lion King, the Lion King for sure. If you love Abba, Mamma Mia will be great fun for you, so I think that would probably be the best route.
Honestly, you can't go wrong either way though. Phantom, Wicked, Lion King, Mamma Mia? That sounds like a trip to remember.
Have fun!
Which Broadway musical do you recommend me to see?phantom of the opera opera theaterhairspray!!! Report It
Congrats on being able to get a ticket to Wicked! You are going to love it! I love Phantom is also great!
Out of the shows you've listed, I'd have to say see The Lion King! Its truly an experience!
Good Luck and Have Fun!
I never saw Wicked... but I hear its amazing. I'm dying to see it myself. My 8 year old daughter wants to see it too.
I recommend Avenue Q... its witty and funny ...and really catchy songs. I loved it. If you aren't easily offended by some vulgar content, you'll get a huge kick out of it.
My close friend saw Mamma Mia! and said it was really good. Have fun!
So, I dated this person whom I will refer to as unctuous loser, or l.c. for short. He said he liked me very much, found me to be very smart and attractive. We went to the opera together and I paid for the tickets. When he greeted up for the opera date he was on his cell and ten minutes late. Feeling like he was no longer attracted to me (based also on what seemed to be a distancing demeanor), I basically indicated that we were no longer seeing eachother. I felt really bad because I really liked the person. After discussing it with a friend of mine, I found out they had dated this guy too. I found out, however, that he disclosed more personal details to this person despite reaching the same number of dates (3) and, moreover, he paid for all of these dates.I hope this doesn't sound petty, but is it likely that he paid for my friend because he thought they were worth it and I wasn't or is there some other underlying issue? Still have amorous feelings, can I date him still?
Why would you want to date him?
The doods a mooch.
Kick him out of your head, and quit thinking about him.
He's not worth your time.
No, it had nothing to do with you not being worth it.
And do you even know who he was on the phone with? -Could it maybe be a different girl he was going to meet and get desert with?
Three dates, aren't that many dates.
He should have paid for his own ticket if he just didn't feel that into you. but he didn't. He let you pay, to keep his own wallet thicker. Doods a mooch. You dont want to date a cheap scate!
I'm going to New York in march and though I've heard the soundtrack and know just a little about the plot I want to know what people who have seen Spring Awakening think of the show. Do you think is worth to spend the money on it or do you recommend me to spend the money on another show (different from the Phantom Of the Opera and Wicked, because I already have tickets)?
I think it's great. People have compared it to Rent, in that it's the edgy rock musical of this generation. I don't agree with that so much, but if you like Rent and Wicked, you'll probably like Spring Awakening. It's an amazing show with a really brilliant cast.
What do you think of Spring Awakening? Do you recommend me to go?opera mini opera theater
that's so funny i'm listening to the sound track right now lol . i've never seeen it but i listen to the music like 24/7 and i have a friend who saw it. she said it was amazing and she liked it even better than rent. the music is amazing and i want to see it really bad. but there's a lot of sex and nudity in it so i think it would be awkward with my mom and all. but i think you should go for it.
I am a poor college student living in Philadelphia, and I have never seen a Broadway show before. I'm planning to go to NY on March 14-15, and I would love to see the Lion King, Young Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera... or anything really!
I've done some research online on how to get cheap tickets, but I am still really confused. What is the best way/option for me to guarantee myself two cheap tickets to a show on those dates? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, I am very desperate!
You can get up early on one of the days you are there and stand in line at the TKTS booth in on Broadway and you can get tickets for 1/2 the price for most shows. Check out this website...Good Luck--Broadway shows are awesome!!! You might also consider seeing Wicked, I've heard it's great.
http://www.tdf.org/TDF_ServicePage.aspx?...
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.
David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY
There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.
Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
The Swiss flag is square.
The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.
Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).
The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.
The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.
If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.
The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.
Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point.
The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.
The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery.
The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing with his hand resting on a sword, or by holding gloves.
The forward pass was created by the football team at Saint Louis University.
In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote, there is at least one song about rain.
A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.
The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.
Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
"Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis."
All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.
Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks like two pennants glued on on top of the other)
Libya has the only flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it
The only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an island) is the Bronx.
The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team to win the World Series after being relocated.
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit.
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors.
Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S
The Western-most point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington.
There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.
The first fossilized specimen of Austalopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the palentologists' favorite song, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, by the Beatles.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
The geographical center of North America is near Rugby, North Dakota.
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.
If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.
The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes onstage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality.
The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate."
Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.
The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean.
The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint.
Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album
All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed.
The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.
The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.
Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortned to Sheriff.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.
The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West.
The silhouette on the Major League Baseball logo is Harmon Killebrew.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
Soweto in South Africa ws derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."
Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image or a silhouette of the monarch's head instead.
Images for picture stamps in the United States are commissioned by the United States Postal Service Department of Philatelic Fulfillment.
Artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the done of the U.S. Capitol while painting a mural around the rim. He died four months later.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.
Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972)
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Will Clark of the Texas Rangers is a direct descendant of William Clark of Lewis and Clark.
When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called "spring tides." When they are at their lowest, they are call "neep tides."
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.
Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.
The difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their apron (belly.) The male blue crab has the Washington Monument while the female apron is shaped like the U.S. Capitol.
It takes a lobster approxiamately seven years to grow to be one pound.
The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding.
The lot numbers for the cyanide-tainted Tylenol capsules scare back in 1982 were MC2880 and 1910MD.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.
A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.
Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.
Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds.
On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine light back to your eye creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo.)
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career.
All porcupines float in water.
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.
Many northern parishes (counties) of Louisiana did not agree with the Confederate movement. To show their disapproval, they changed their names. That's why there is a Union Parish, Jefferson Parish, etc.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.
German has a wood for the peace offerings brought to your mate when you've committed some conceived slight. This is "drachenfutter" or dragon's food.
In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers.
In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low."
Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand.
Mustard gas was invented in the McKinley Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Manhattan Project was done in that building. The government used the McKinley Building because of its unusual archticture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would implode onto itself, containing any lethal gas or nuclear material. The building now houses the Physics Department.
When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The naval rank of "Admiral" is derived from the Arabic phrase "amir al bahr", which means "lord of the sea".
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away.
Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.
Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean war.
The southern most city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii.
Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adak in the Aleutian Chain.
Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
Michigan was the first state to plow it's roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.
The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept."
Way back when they were using marble columns, the people selling the columns would carve out the centers and fill it with wax.So the people buying them started asking "Is it without wax?" Or in other words "Are you sincere?"
Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply.
No modern language has a true concept of "I am." It is always used linked with are in reference of another verb.
Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant, Alabama has the world's largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in the World.
The only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Sinclair Lewis for his book Arrowsmith.
Maine is the only state that borders on only one state.
There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.
Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth.
St. Augustine was the first major proponent of the "missionary" position.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Alexander Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr in the groin.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.
A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist (of course).
Tribeca in Manhattan stands for TRIangle BElow CAnal street. Soho stands for SOuth of HOuston street.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Theworld's largest wine cask is in Heidleberg, Germany.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an aligator while he hosted "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Seven Olympic gold medal winners eventually went on to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World
Kerimski Church in Finland is world's biggest church made of wood.The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a
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A cat has four rows of whiskers.
Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Jelly Belly jelly beans were the first jelly beans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger (the same voyage as the first American woman in space, Sally Ride).
Baseballer Connie Mack's real name was Cornelius McGilicuddy.
If you were standing in the northernmost point in the contiguous (48) states, you'd be standing in Minnesota.
Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crabs are actually from Maryland, the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia.
Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
Not all of West Virginia voted to go with the North. When the State of West Virginia was formed from Virginia in 1863 the three western counties in Virginia voted to go with West Virginia, but West Virginia didn't take them because they were poor. Instead they took three counties that voted to stay with Virginia, because they were richer and they had the B%26amp;O railroad. Those counties since split and are 5 Jefferson, Hampshire, Berkley, Mineral, and Morgan.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it.
Studebaker was the only major car company to stop making cars while making a profit from them.
Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and
Algeria. (Cork comes from trees.)
In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the late M*A*S*H star McLean Stevenson were both once assistant football coaches at Northwestern University.
The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.
All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense.
Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on New York Undercover is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.
Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later.
October 4, 1957 is a historic date to be remembered, it is the day both "Leave it to Beaver" and the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 were launched.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
The antifungal, nystatin, which is sometime used for treating thrush, is named after New York State Institute for Health (Acronym)
QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern
Territories Air Service.
The world's largest four-faced clock sits atop the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The first video ever played on MTV Europe was "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a charming man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham-fisted operators", a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e. pounded their fists).
While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms. Sam Colt invented the
"revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols.
A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart.
Revolvers cannot be silenced, due all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
A bullet fired from the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge (also called the .308 Winchester) is still supersonic at 1000 yards.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
A flea expert is a pullicologist.
A bear has 42 teeth.
M%26amp;M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour.
In Irian Jaya exists a tribe of tall, white people who use parrots as a warning sign against intruders.
In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands.
Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be
right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties in climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall.
On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.
The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging.
Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When
He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modelling agency.
Ronald Regan sent out the army phoyographer who first discovered Marilyn Monroe.
Carbonated water, with nothing else in it,can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT%26amp;T.
The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System.
In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot", the next to last one is the "Abby Singer".
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living!
When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt runoff of Hurricane Hattie.
If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation"
Gary Burgough who played Walter Radar O'Reily on M*A*S*H has a deformed left thumb. If you watch closely you will see that he never shows his left hand.
Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs during the anti-communist movement.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
"Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.)
The ampersand (%26amp;) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and."
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large hole in the roof.)
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland.
"Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man will get you."
The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
Race car is a palindrome.
We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)
The Basset Horn, a kind of alto clarinet, was named after its inventor -- a man named Horn. "Basset" is from "Basetto," or "little bass" in Italian.
There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
The "second unit" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors.
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
The world's second largest pipe organ is located at the Organ Grinder on 82nd avenue in Portland, Oregon.
Games Slayter, a Purdue graduate, invented fiberglass.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Olympic Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers
The music group Simply Red is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red home strip.
In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right.
Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, Here I Come" to be the last piece of music played at his funeral ("softly and slowly") were he to die in office.
The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (it is from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party.
Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988 g/cc
Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6 g/cc
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
The movie "Paris, Texas" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after its box office release.
The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
Pickled herrings were invented in 1375.
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child in the world.
At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The airport in La Paz, Bolivia is the world's highest airport.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro.
Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
Singpore is the only country with one train station.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the number of letters which can be printed in an inch.
The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one endpoint is P.
In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'
"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when your talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil"
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. (Its government offices are all in Yaren
District, but there's no official capital.)
South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy.
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
The red giant star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil be about three statute miles away.
The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "unnilenilenium"
The longest muscle name is the "levator labii superioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis popularized it with his lip motions.
The longest time someone has typed on a typewriter continuously is 264 hrs., set by Violet Gibson Burns.
The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways.
There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
The oldest word in the English language is "town"
The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other jellyfish known to man.
Tigars have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently
Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue.
A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones. It would allow one to pull on another face and remove it like a mask if not held on by skin.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.)
The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in the our solar system, excepting Pluto-Charon.
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size. This apparently serves to make room for other organs in the highly-elongated bodies of snakes.
A twelve-foot anaconda can catch, kill, and eat a six-foot caiman, a close relative of crocodles and alligators. While these snakes are not usually considered to be the *longest* snake in the world, they are the heaviest, exceeding the reticulated python in girth.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland.
If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie.
The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch.
Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand
was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
In left hand drive countries, such as the UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the right hand side of the car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America.
Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour".
Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem.
Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day."
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd.
The type specimen for the human species is the skull of Edward Drinker Cope, an American paleontologist of the late 1800's. A type specimen is used in paleontology as the best example of that species.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards
All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.
The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds.
The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path.
The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864.
The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide.
Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code! The World Trade Center has several.
Lucifer is latin for "Light Bringer". It is a translation of the Hebrew name for Satan, Halael. Satan means
"adversary", devil means "liar".
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia.
The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an hour behind Atlantic standard time.
Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes.
The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese. Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.
The Velvet Underground was named after a book on the S%26amp;M culture.
The Velvet Underground's first manager was Andy Warhol, who also produced their first album and designed the cover artwork. The cover artwork for the album (called "The Velvet Underground and Nico") featured a bright yellow banana that could be peeled off to reveal a bright pink banana underneath, with the label "Peel Slowly and See." "Peel Slowly and See" is the title of the Velvet Underground comprehensive boxed set, which is the only currently-available Velvet Underground recording to feature a peelable banana. The peelable banana caused substantial delays in the production of the VU's first album and contributed to Lou Reed's firing Andy Warhol as the group's manager.
The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild.
Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn English. Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they learn Japanese.
New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird.
Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart.
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
The topknot that quails have is called a hmuh.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.
New Zealand is also the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
Ralph Kramden made 62 dollars a week.
The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
Devo's original name was going to be De-evolution. They shortened it to Devo.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.
Chris Ford scored the first ever NBA three-point shot.
Of all the East Coast States, New Hampshire has the shortest coastline, about fourteen miles.
New Hampshire is also the only State name the has four consecutive consonants in it (in the same word).
Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes.
Alaska has the longest border with Canada of all the fifty states.
Montana has the longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States.
Montana also borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It borders three of them.
Arkansas is the only US State that begins with "a" but does not end with "a". All the other States that begin with "a", Arizona, Alabama and Alaska, also end with "a".
Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should
become a saint, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me"
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 did start in a barn belonging to Patrick and Katherine O'Leary. The O'Leary's house was one of the few that survived the fire. The O'Leary's house had to be guarded by soldiers for weeks afterwards, however, because many enraged residents wanted to burn it down.
The biggest bell is the "Tsar Kolokol" cast in the Kremlin in 1733. It weighs 216 tons, but alas, it is cracked and has never been rung. The bell was being stored in a Moscow shed which caught fire. To "save" it the caretakers decided to throw water on the bell. This did not succeed in -- the water hit the superheated metal and a giant piece immediately cracked off, destroying the bell forever.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California and is named the Sutter Buttes.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT!
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
The letters H I O X in the latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind.
The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator".
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.
The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre."
Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins.
Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.
The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.
Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude.
Some of Beethoven's symphonies were performed in Kentucky before they were performed in Paris, France.
The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France.
Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool
Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called Gaeilge.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
A penguin only has sex twice a year.
Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative
The Dutch town of Abcoude is the only reasonably sized town/city in the world whose name begins with ABC.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.
Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the rest of the state by the
Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a bordering state.
Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is
Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large stret party.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the
"shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
"Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war.
The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The A%26amp;W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.
Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time.
On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal.
The Ganges River in India boasts the only genuine fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than does cold. Putting tape temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than on the other one.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root.
"John has a long moustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches.
Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.
Brooklyn is the Dutch name for "broken valley"
There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought at neighbouring Breed's Hill.
Former US Senator Barry Goldwater attended the opening night ceremonies and festivities at Bugsy Siegel's famous Las Vegas casino. They left him out of the movie Bugsy. He is pissed.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery.
White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees)
The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple.
In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
Walt Disney had wooden teeth.
The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the
Pacific Ocean
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.
Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven hills.
Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common.
School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha Orange.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
The tailless dinner jacket was invented in Tuxedo Park, New York. Thus it is called the "tuxedo dinner jacket" and is named after the town...not the other way around.
The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
The chemical formula for Rubidium Bromide is RbBr. It is the only chemical formula known to be a palindrome!
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
The first letters of the names of the Great Lakes spell HOMES.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand.
Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.
The U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man o n the moon in 1969.)
The only two Southern state capitals not occuppied by Northern troops during the American Civil War were Austin, Texas and Tallahasse, Florida.
Rabbits love licorice.
Ogdensburg, New York is the only city in the United States situated on the St. Lawrence River.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show GrowingPains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
Urea is found in humnan urine and dalmatian dogs and nowhere else.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious.) The result should be obvious.
Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Joise in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."
Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna to nothin'."
M %26amp; M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.
Richard Nixon's favorite drink was a dry martini.
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
The license plate number of the Volkswagon that appeared on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road album was 281F.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion.
Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer/flautist responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
Neck ties were first worn in Croatia. That's why they were called cravats (CRO-vats).
Alma mater means bountiful mother.
A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints -- no two cows have the same pattern of spots.
Glass flutes do not expand with humidity so their owners are spared the nuisance of tuning them.
Jersey (in the Channel Islands, UK) was the only place that the Nazi's occupied in Great Britain during
World War II.
Top English soccer club Liverpool were formed because their local enemies, Everton, couldn't pay the rent for their stadium. Therefore Liverpool took over at the stadium (Anfield) and became England's top soccer team ever.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
The "Hallelujah Chorus" fits into the Easter portion of Handel's Messiah, not Christmas.
Over 30 million people in the US "suffer" from Diastima. Diastima is having a gap between your front teeth.
In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag -- it's green.
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
"Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact. So throw your cat off a building today!"
There are eight different sizes of champagne bottle and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the Biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
The female ferret is referred to as a `jill'.
The word rodent comes from the Latin word `rodere' meaning to gnaw.
Australian Rules Football was originally designed to give cricketers something to play during the off season.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug %26amp; Jeffrey Feiger.
Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of "The Boy General" is one of the few women buried at the U.S. Military academy at West Point, New York.
"Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.)
The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: Eye, Ear, Leg, Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip and Rib.
Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.
Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts is the second hillest city in the US.
During WWII the city of Leningrad underwent a seventeen month German seige. Unable to access the city by roads, the Russians built a railroad across the ice on Lake Lagoda to get food and supplies to the citizens.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England--1961
Elton John's uncle was a professional soccer player. He broke his leg playing for Nottingham Forest in the 1959 English FA Cup Final.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
Horses cannot vomit.
Rabbits cannot vomit.
The word "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog (Filipino) word "Bundok," which
means mountain.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
The "chapters" of the New Testament were not there originally. When monks in medieval times translated it
from the Greek, they numbered the pages in each "book."
Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.
Yucatan, as in the peninsula, is from Maya "u" + "u" + "uthaan," meaning "listen to how they speak," what the Maya said when they first heard the Spaniards.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome.
The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
The original plan for Disneyland included a Lilliputland.
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international
conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Crickets hear through their knees.
Turnips turn green when sunburnt.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
A type of jellyfish found off the coast of England is the longest animal in the world.
When Voyager 2 visited Neptune it saw a small irregular white cloud that zips around Neptune every sixteen hours or so now known as "The Scooter".
Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.
Martha's Vineyard once had its own dialect of Sign Language. One deaf person arrived in 1692 and after that there was a relatively large genetically deaf population that had their own particular dialect of sign language. From 1692-1910 nearly all hearing people on the island were bilingual in sign language and English.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
St. Bernard is the patron saint of skiers.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
According to the ceremonial customs of Orthodox Judaism, it is officially sundown when you cannot tell the difference between a black thread and a red one.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
Cyano-acrylate glues (Super glues) were invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart
Most of the little schoolhouses in the U.S. of yesteryear were painted red because red was the least expensive paint color.
Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses.
Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
Dalmatian dogs are born pure white, they don't start getting spots until they are three or four days old.
The growth rate of some bamboo plants can reach three feet (91.44 cm) per day.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.
The two quickest goals scored in the NHL were three seconds apart.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
'Crack' gets it name because it crackles when you smoke it.
(This useless fact is dedicated, with love, to A.G.)
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
Marijuana is Spanish for 'Mary Jane.'
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs -- fierce and agile herd animals that populated
Asia, North Africa and Europe -- and eotragus -- an antelope-like, Asian forest creature.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
Professional ballerinas use about twelve pairs of toe shoes per week. The anteater, aardvark, spiny anteater (echidna), and scaly anteater (pangolin) are completely unrelated - in fact, the closest relatives to anteaters are sloths and armadillos, the closest relative to the spiny anteater is the platypus, and the aardvark is in an order all by itself.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word formis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The youngest letters in the English language are "j," "v" and "w."
The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.
Cranberry Jello is the only jello flavor that comes from real fruit, not artificial flavoring.
The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island.
John Lennon's assassin was carrying a copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" when he shot the famous Beatle in 1980.
Don MacLean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens. All three were on the same plane that crashed.
A game of pool is referred to as a "frame."
Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way
to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy ) are the only two Disney cartoon features
with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it.
They Might Be Giants is the first modern band with an Accordion and a Glockenspiel
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The tango originated as a dance between two men (for partnering practice).
Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an ice-pick.
The Bronx, New York got its name from explorer Henry Bronk.
The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continually held sports event in the United States (1875); the second oldest is the Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show (1876.)
"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
The native tribe of Tierra del Fuego has a language so guttural it cannot have an alphabet.
A family of six died in Oregon during WWII as a result of a Japanese balloon bomb.
AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian," respectively, and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."
The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than his right.
Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Grover Cleveland's real first name is Stephen, Grover is his middle name.
Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bomb.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
A whale's penis is called adork.
Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
"I'd like clarify the comment about iguanas and komodo dragons having two penises. In fact, they have a single penis, but it is split in two (pretty much 'Y'-shaped.) This organ is known as a hemipenes. Snakes also share this interesting feature. Apparently, the dual penis is for ease of left-handed or right-handed mating.
Opossums have forked penises.
Some female hyenas have a pseudo-penis.
A winged penis was the city symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman resort town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption.
One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears and testicles.
Swahili is a combination of African tribal languages, Arabic and Portuguese.
A person from Glasgow, is called a Glaswegian.
An enneahedron is solid with nine faces.
Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels. When an armidillo is frightened it jumps
straight into the air.
Armadillos can be housebroken.
Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos.
Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.
Armadillos can walk underwater.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
Sirimauo Bandranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first popularly elected female head of state in 1960.
There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.
The hieroglyph for 100,000 is a tadpole.
The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forstall curses.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...)
Polar bears' fur is not white, it's clear. Polar bear skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and acts like fiber optics, directing sunlight to warm their skin.
Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their
paws.
The amount of tropical rainforest cut down each year is an area the size of Tennessee.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.
Cleopatra used pomegranate seeds for lipstick.
Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek rather than Egyptian.
The Red sea in the Bible is a long-perpetuated mistranslation of the Reed sea.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
The concerti on the two Voyager probes' information discs are performed by famed Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Chia Pets are only sold in December.
Between 1947 and 1959, 42 nuclear devices were detonated in the Marshall Islands.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor
belt.
The physically smallest post office in the United States is in Ochopee, Florida in the heart of the everglades.
Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as quarks for a random line in James Joyce, "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"
Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain" was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilt later and adopted the name as a nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase does not mean measuring the depth of the river; it means a specific depth, to wit, two fathoms (twelve feet.)
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Money is made of woven linen, not paper
A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Jean Harlow was the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine.
Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age 31 by sticking her head in an oven.
Sylvia Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, was married three times, and two of the women he married committed suicide.
Jesus Christ died at age 33.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Guess that explains the Saints!)
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
Now the Test
Write down your answers to check them at the end.
On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?
How many states are there?
In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?
What 6 colors are on the classic Campbell's soup label?
What 2 letters don't appear on the telephone dial?
What 2 #'s on the telephone dial don't have letters by them?
When you walk does your left arm swing w/ your right or left leg?
How many matches are in a standard pack?
On our flag, is the top stripe red or white?
What is the lowest # on the FM dial?
Which way does water go down the drain, clockwise or counter-clockwise?
Which way does a "no smoking" sign's slash run?
How many channels on a VHF TV dial?
Which side of a woman's blouse are the buttons on?
On a NY license plate, is New York on the top or bottom?
Which way do fans rotate?
Whose face is on a dime?
How many sides does a stop sign have?
Do books have even # pages on the right or left side?
How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?
How many sides are there on a standard pencil?
Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's missing?
How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?
On which card in a deck, is the cardmaker's trademark?
On which side of a venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats?
On the back of a $1 bill, what is in the center?
There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no digits?
How many curves are in a standard paper clip?
Does a merry-go-round turn clockwise or counter-clockwise?
Answers:
Bottom
50
Right
Blue, red, white, yellow, black, and gold
Q, Z
1, 0
Left
20
Red
88
Counter-clockwise (unless you happen to be south of the equator)
Towards the bottom right
12 (no #1)
Left
Top
Clockwise as you look at it
Roosevelt
8
Left
5
6
Bashful
8
Ace of spades
Left
ONE
*, #
3
Counter-clockwise
Scoring:
30-28 Genius...Mensa is calling!
25-27 Not too shabby!
20-24 You could do better!
16-19 McDonald's is calling!
15 or below.. Being blind wouldn't affect you one bit!!
oh yeah. I knew all of them.
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Anyone seen these facts?secure browser opera theateryou said nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag, but the swiss flag is square :) Report It
The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone, i dont understand this... Report It
I saw on mythbusters they sneezed with their eyes open Report It
the part about the boat sailing under a train car and airplane isn't true. There's a place outside of anderson, sc near sandy springs like that too. Report It
You spelt the word 'travellers' the US way. I passionately loved that spelling because I thought that I would never see it used. Please apologise and forgive me; I am obsessed with the English language. Report It
To Much Santa Report It
lenardo davichi (who wasnt really named davinchi, that was just where he was from, vinchi) invented the revolver for protecting the pope. Report It
ha there arent 50 states some states including virginia are actually commonwealths so there are only 46 states no really check it out Report It
ha there arent 50 states some states including virginia are actually commonwealths so there are only 46 states no really check it out Report It
Lucky pigs. Report It
To answer your question, no. I don't think anyone has seen all those "facts." ...probably not even you. I agree with the above poster citing some as inaccurate as well. I didn't do any research, but U + S = $ is highly suspicious. It looks more like I + S = $. After that, I stopped reading. It can't be interesting when there is large doubt to its authenticity.
interesting. But way too long.
Thats alot,santa.
I didn't read all of your "facts", but I know of 1 that is incorrect. Roberta Flack did not write "Killing Me Softly With His Song" It was written from a poem by Lori Lieberman after she saw Don McLean in concert. Check your facts. How many more are wrong?
Timothy leary is my hero
I've seen SOME of the facts.
It was a daunting task trying to read all of the facts, but I managed to pick out some misleading "facts."
"The cruise liner, QEII, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns."
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/qe2...
"Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance."
http://www.snopes.com/history/world/chur...
The following two "facts", I think aren't true. I can't remember where I read/heard the falsity of these "facts." If anyone else knows it, please lead readers to it.
"The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'."
Wendy is a nickname for Gwendolyn.
"Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors."
Vikings have been using scissors to shear sheep.
Also, being in the northern or southern hemisphere doesn't affect the way water swirls down the drain. What does affect the way water swirls down the drain is the design of the sink.
that's a very loooooooooooooooooooooong list!
Yea, seen it many times on here. Why don't you stop posting crap like this?
wow, how can you write that much in one go
Another inaccurate fact is origin of the word POSH.
Etymologists know acronyms are a recent invention. They did not appear until around 1910 or 1920 or later.
When someone tells you a very old word ie For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge or Gentleman Only Ladies Forbidden is an acronym, the story is not true.
True acronyms are modern words such as Radar, Sonar, Scuba
Thanks, I'll pass that on!
Wow! is this what you do in the summer months? shouldn't you be making toys or something??
Nice to see you though.
HA!!
I THOUGHT I'D DO BETTER THAN THAT
Thanks for sharing Santa! Can't wait to show this to my friends at football practice!
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