Fun with Google Search

 

The developers at Google certainly make sure that the popular search engine lives up not to be just another boring search site. It doesn’t only interacts with surfers but provides a few laughs and surprises as well. Give it a try and search some key words as suggested below.

 

Type the following words and hit I Am Feeling Lucky OR Google Search on Google’s home page and you might be surprised on what Google do or returns with. It is best to bypass Google’s auto search capability by going directly to this link http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0, because auto search ruins the effect.

 

1. ASKEW or BSKEW or CSKEW

2. TILT

3. DO A BARREL ROLL

4. RECURSION

5. ANAGRAM

6. A BAKER’S DOZEN

7. THE NUMBER OF HORNS ON A UNICORN

8. THE LONELIEST NUMBER

9. ONCE IN A BLUE MOON

10. THE ANSWER TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTION OF LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING

12. FIND CHUCK NORRIS

13. GOOGLE EPIC (after typing this, look for "Check out my little brother, Weenie Google" at the bottom of the screen) 

14. GOOGLE PIG LATIN

15. GOOGLE PIRATE

16. WHO IS THE CUTEST PERSON?

17. GOOGLE 133T

18. EWMEW FUDD

19. GOOGLE GANGSTER

      

20. GOOGLE BORK

21. XX-KLINGON

22. FUNNY GOOGLE (you can set your own name with this)
23. GOOGLE SPHERE

24. GOOGLE GRAVITY (wait a sec to experience the effect of gravity.)

25. ELGOOG (a mirror effect)

26. RAINBOW GOOGLE

      

27. LOL LIMEWIRE

28. GOOGLE HEART PAGE

29. GOOGLE LOCO                 

     

30. ANNOYING GOOGLE

31. GOOGLE MAGIC

32. 2OB.ORG

33. EPIC GOOGLE

34. EPIC BOX

35. SEXY SNAPE

36. WEENIE GOOGLE

37. WHO’S AWESOME

 

GREAT FUNNY LOGOs

 

Google Pacman  - a fun way to search and play the classic game from the 70s

 

Google Les Paul: - you can play guitar on Google's logo, you can record your song and send it to your friends to listen. That day YouTube was full of recorded songs on Google's logo guitar.

 

Google can also do special search for  mathematical formulas such as these and returns a very familiar result. Copy and paste the formulas and click I am Feeling Lucky.

 

(sqrt(cos(x))*cos(200 x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5

or

sqrt(cos(x))*cos(200*x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2)

Trivial Pursuit

Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.

Q. Only 14% of Americans say they've done this with the opposite sex.
What is it?
A. Skinny dipping.

Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace. This is propinquity.

Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat
name requested?
A. Obsession

Q. More women do this in the bathroom than men.
A. Wash their hands. Women: 80%, men: 55%.

Q. What do 100% of all lottery winners do?
A. Gain weight.

Q. In a recent survey, Americans revealed that this was their favorite
smell.
A. Banana.

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go
until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand.

Q. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windscreen wipers, and
laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.

Q. Married men revealed that they do this twice as often as single
men.
A. Change their underwear.

Q. This stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women
seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous.
A. A kiss.

Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
A. Honey.

Q. 40% of all people who come to a party in your home do this?
A. Have a look in your medicine cabinet.

Q. 3.9% of all women surveyed say they never do this.
A. Wear underwear.

Q. What common everyday occurrence is composed of 59% nitrogen, 21%
hydrogen, and 9% carbon dioxide?
A. A fart.

Q. What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order?
A. 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912

Most expensive grill

A gold plated grill from BeefEater that is worth more than $160,000 can be the best gift for Father’s Day. For sure every barbecue-loving dad would love to try cooking and grilling on one of these.

 

 

Time’s List of Worst Inventions

According to Time, these are the inventions that are quite bright but just didn’t work out in no particular order. It includes the famous Facebook game, Farmville which according to Time is “hardly even a game —it's more a series of mindless chores on a digital farm, requiring the endless clicking of a mouse to plant and harvest crops.”

1. Segway
2. New Coke
3. Clippy
4. Agent Orange
5. CueCat
6. Subprime Mortgages
7. Crinoline
8. Nintendo Virtual Boy
9. Farmville
10. Hydrogenated Oils
11. Honegar
12. Hydrogen Blimps
13. Hair in a Can
14. DDT
15. Auto-Tune
16. Red Dye No. 2
17. Ford Pinto
18. Parachute Jacket
19. Betamax
20. Baby Cage
21. Tanning Beds
22. Crocs
23. Hula Chair
24. Foursquare
25. Pop-Up Ads
26. Phone Fingers
27. CFCs
28. Plastic Grocery Bags
29. Bumpit
30. Electric Facial Mask
31. Sony CD Copy Protection
32. Venetian-Blind Sunglasses
33. Pet Spa
34. Pontiac Aztek
35. Snuggie for Dogs
36. Mizar Flying Car
37. Asbestos
38. Olestra
39. Comfort Wipe
40. Fake Ponytails
41. HeadOn
42. Pay Toilets
43. Tamagotchis
44. Leaded Gasoline
45. Vibrating Ab Belt
46. Spam E-mail
47. Smell-o-Vision
48. Smile Checks
49. Microsoft Bob
50. Vio

Faster than calculator

Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India. Her calculating gifts first demonstrated themselves while she was doing card tricks with her father when she was three. They report she "beat" them by memorization of cards rather than by sleight of hand. By age six she demonstrated her calculation and memorization abilities at the University of Mysore. At the age of eight she had success at Annamalai University by doing the same.

Unlike many other calculating prodigies, for example Truman Henry Safford, her abilities did not wane in adulthood. In 1977 she extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number mentally. On June 18, 1980 she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She answered the question in 28 seconds. However, this time is more likely the time for dictating the answer (a 26-digit number) than the time for the mental calculation (the time of 28 seconds was quoted on her own website). Her correct answer was 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730. This event is mentioned on page 26 of the 1995 Guinness Book of Records ISBN 0-553-56942-2. - source Wikipedia

Time Lapse

Have u ever seen the calendar for September 1752 ?

If you are working in UNIX or Solaris, try this out.

At $ prompt, type: cal 1752




11 Days for the month of September is missing (Sept. 3 - 13).

This was the time England shifted from Roman Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, and the king of England ordered those 11 days to be wiped off the face of the month of September of 1752. (What couldn't a King do in those days?!) And yes, the workers worked for 11 days less, but got paid for the entire 30 days. And that's how "Paid Leave" was born.

Things you thought you already knew

1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

3. Almonds are members of the peach family.

4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

9. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.

12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.

13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.

14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

21. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

23. 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, ere, therein, herein.

24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

27. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

31. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.

33. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

38. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

39. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

How the numbers came to be...

It's all about angles !

No. 1 has one angle.

No. 2 has two angles.

No. 3 has three angles. etc.

and "0" has no angles.

This we owe it to the ingenuity of the Phoenicians.

The Legend of Jack o' Lantern

Stingy Jack was a miserable, old drunk who liked to play tricks on everyone: family, friends, his mother and even the Devil himself. One day, he tricked the Devil into climbing up an apple tree. As soon as he did, Stingy Jack Placed crosses around the trunk of the tree. Unable to get down the tree, Stingy Jack made the Devil promise him not to take his soul when he died.

When Jack finally died, he went to the pearly gates of Heaven and was told he was too mean and too cruel and had led a miserable and worthless life on earth. He was not allowed to enter heaven. He then went down to Hell and the Devil. The Devil kept his promise and would not allow him to enter Hell. Now Jack was scared and had nowhere to go but to wander about foerever in the darkenss between heaven and hell. He asked the Devil how he could leave as tehre ws no light. The Devil tossed him an ember from the flames of Hell to help him light his way. Jack placed the ember in a hollowed out Turnip, one of his favortie foods which he always carried around with him whenever he could steal one. For that day on, Stingy Jack roamed the earth without a resting place.

On all Hallow's eve, the Irish hollowed out Turnips, rutabagas, gourds, potatoes and beets and placed a light in them to ward off evil spirits and keep Stingy Jack away. These were the original Jack O'Lanterns. In the 1800's a couple of waves of Irish immigrants came to America. The Irish immigrants quickly discovered that Pumpkins were bigger and easier to carve out. So they used pumpkins for Jack O'Lanterns.

Happy Halloween!

Trivia Blitz: Barbie

The Barbie Doll was named after the daughter of Ruth and Elliot Handler, founders of Mattel Toy Company. They created the original fashion doll in 1959 after noticing that Barbara, their daughter, preferred teenage cutout dolls to the then rampant cooers and burpers. Barbie's design was based on a German doll called Bild Lilli. March 9, 1959 is Barbie's official birthday. Two years later, her brother became the prototype of Ken.

Word opposites

The English language is home to a schizophrenic breed of single words with opposite meanings. Here are some examples:

left - departed from/ remaining

clip - fasten/ separate

wind up - start/ end

critical - opposed/ essential

scan - examine carefully/ glance at hastily

temper - soften/ strengthen

bolt - to secure in place/ to dart away

commencement - beginning/ conclusion

sanction - give approval/ censure

moot - debatable/ worthy of debate

fix - mend/ mess

All about fireworks

Let's open the new year with a bang...

The first fireworks were provbably made in China 2000 years ago. They are used to celebrate weddings, religious festivals and keep evil spirits away. It is believed that gunpowder was discovered accidentally by a Chinese alchemist who mixed sulphur and salt peter (potassium nitrate) over a fire. The Chinese name for gunpowder is "huo yao" (fire chemical).

Placing gun powder into bamboo stalks and then throwing them onto a fire to be ignited produced a louder and more powerful bang; hence the firecracker was born. Fireworks were soon applied to warfare by attaching them to arrows. The first such use, circa 1200 A.D., involved placing powder into paper tubes with a fuse or a trail of gunpowder wrapped in tissue paper that was attached to the arrows.

The first recorded fireworks in England were at the wedding of King henry VII in 1486. Fireworks became very popular in Great Britain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. William Shakespeare mentions fireworks in his works, and fireworks were so much enjoyed by the Queen herself that she created a "Fire Master of England." King James II was so pleased with the fireworks display that celebrated his coronation that he knighted his Fire Master.

The first fireworks recorded in America were set off by an Englishman, capt. john Smith, famous int he story of Pocahiontas.in Jamestown in 1608

The world's largest single firework was set off at a festival in Japan in 1988. The shell weighed half-a-ton and the burst was over a kilometer across. The biggest fireworks event in the world is held in Madeira, Portugal at the New Years' Eve celebrations, as referred in the Guinness World Records.
In 1996, a string of firecrackers were lit that lasted 22 hours for the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong.

An aerial shell has 2 fuses. The user lights the external fuse, and a second, internal fuse burns as the shell flies up igniting the burst or break.

The first Independence Day fireworks celebration was in 1776, and was memorialized by then future President John Adams as follows: "The day (Independence Day) will be the most memorable in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival...it ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade...bonfires and illuminations (fireworks) from one end of this continent to the other, from this day forward forevermore."

Static electricity in synthetic clothing can ignite fireworks. Those who make fireworks wear cotton all the way down to their underwear.

The most dangerous fireworks-related tragedy in the world occurred on May 16, 1770, during the marriage of King Louis XVI to Maria Antoinette. After the celebratory fireworks show, there was a stampede where approximately 800 people where killed.

The earliest recorded use of gunpowder in England, and probably the western world, is by the Franciscan monk Roger Bacon.

Early fireworks were enjoyed more for the sound than the show—in its simplest forms gunpowder explodes quickly, leaving a terrific bang but not much to see other than a rather brief golden glow. Over time people discovered that using chemical compounds with greater amounts of oxygen made the explosives burn brighter and longer.

The multi-hued displays we know now began in the 1830s, when Italians added trace amounts of metals that burn at high temperatures, creating beautiful colors. Other additives also produced interesting effects. For example, calcium deepens colors, titanium makes sparks, and zinc creates smoke clouds.

Pangrams

Are you familiar with the phrase "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?" It's a sentence which contains all the letters of the alphabet. This is called a Pangram from the Greek words "pan gramma", every letter. Pangrams are used to display typefaces and test equipments. For example, the pangram The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog was utilized by Western Union to test Telex/TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability. It actually is the most well known pangram. Those phrases which contain all the letters of the alphabet exactly once are called perfect pangrams. Forming these type of pangrams are very difficult to achieve.

In the 1980s Michael Jones submitted two pangrams to Guinness: "Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck" and "Qursh gowf veldt jynx zimb pack." Guinness chose the first one. Michael writes that the second pangram "describes a scene where some Arabian coins are striking a group of flies gathered on that woodpecker. The two pangrams are formed using the alphabets only once, and without proper nouns, acronyms and abbreviations.

Here are examples of the other type of perfect pangrams which uses proper nouns, punctuation symbols and abbreviations.

Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q.
Glum Schwartzkopf vex'd by NJ IQ.
New job: fix Mr. Gluck's hazy TV, PDQ!
Frowzy things plumb vex'd Jack Q.
J. Q. Vandz struck my big fox whelp.

Here are other examples of pangrams:

Quit beer," vows dizzy, puking, Michael J. Fox (by Idris Mercer)
A large fawn jumped quickly over white zinc boxes.
A mad boxer shot a quick, gloved jab to the jaw of his dizzy opponent.
A popular belief is that fornication would be a quick fix for some overzealously judicious governments.
A quart jar of oil mixed with zinc oxide makes a very bright paint.
A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats.
A very bad quack might jinx zippy fowls. 32
About sixty codfish eggs will make a quarter pound of very fizzy jelly.
Alfredo just must bring very exciting news to the plaza quickly.
All questions asked by five watch experts amazed the judge.
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes (40)
An inspired calligrapher can create pages of beauty using stick ink, quill, brush, pick-axe, buzz saw, or even strawberry jam.
Anxious Paul waved back his pa from the zinc quarry just sighted.
As we explored the gulf of Zanzibar, we quickly moved closer to the jutting rocks.
Astronaut Quincy B. Zack defies gravity with six jet fuel pumps.
Back in June we delivered oxygen equipment of the same size.
Back in my quaint garden, jaunty zinnias vie with flaunting phlox.
Ban foul, toxic smogs which quickly jeopardize lives.
Barkeep! A flaming tequila swizzle and a vodka and Ajax, hold the cherry.
Baroque? Hell, just mix a dozen wacky pi fonts & you've got it.
Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymph. 27 (by Sir Jeremy Morse)
Big July earthquakes confound zany experimental vow.
Blowzy frights vex, and jump quick. (28)
Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q. 26
Blowzy red vixens fight for a quick jump.
Boy, Max felt hazy during his quick weaving jumps!
Boys of quartz duck phlegm, vow jinx. (29)
Brawny gods just flocked up to quiz and vex him.
Breezily jingling $3,416,857,209, wise advertiser ambles to the bank, his exchequer amplified.
Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox.
By Jove, my quick study of lexicography won a prize.
Campus TV quiz: just why is gold buried at Fort Knox? [Games For Insomniacs (1966) by John G. Fuller]
Cozy lummox gives smart squid who asks for job pen. (41)
Cozy sphinx waves quart jug of bad milk. (32)
Crazy Fredericka bought many very exquisite opal jewels. 48
Crux: Why joking TV blazes FM PDQ? (26) (by Toby Gottfried, 2005)
Cwm kvutza qoph jynx fled brigs. (by Greg and Peter Maggs)
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz 26 (by Dmitri Borgmann)
Dangerously frozen, he quickly judged his extremities to be waterproof.
Doxy with charming buzz quaffs vodka julep.
Dr. Jekyll vows to finish zapping quixotic bum (by Idris Mercer)
Dub waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex. 28
Dumpy kibitzer jingles as exchequer overflows.
Ebenezer unexpectedly bagged two tranquil aardvarks with his jiffy vacuum cleaner.
Emily Q. Jung-Schwartzkopf XV, B.D. (26)
Exquisite farm wench gives body jolt to prize stinker.
Exquisite wizard flock behaving jumpy (by Idris Mercer)
Fabled reader with jaded, roving eye seized by quickened impulse to expand budget.
Few quips galvanized the mock jury box. (32)
Five big quacking zephyrs jolt my wax bed.
Five jumbo oxen graze quietly with packs of dogs.
Five or six big jet planes zoomed quickly by the tower.
Five wine experts jokingly quizzed chablis sample.
Fjord-buck zags whelm qvint pyx. (26) (by Dmitri Borgmann)

Great Blunders 2!

In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory was opened five years later. He also predicted that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible. Today, there are more than one billion radio sets in the world, tuned to more than 33 000 radio stations around the world. The Wright Brother's first flight covered a distance equal to only half the length of the wingspan of a Boeing 747.

In the 6th century BC Greek mathematician Pythagoras said that earth is round - but few agreed with him. Greek astronomer Aristarchos said in the 3rd century BC that earth revolves around the sun - but the idea was not accepted. In the 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Erastosthenes accurately measured the distance around the earth at about 40,000 km (24,860 miles) - but nobody believed him. In the 2nd century AD Greek astronomer Ptolemy stated that earth was the centre of the universe - most people believed him for the next 1,400 years.

In the early 20th century a world market for only 4 million automobiles was made because "the world would run out of chauffeurs." Shortly after the end of World War II (1945), the whole of Volkswagen, factory and patents, was offered free to Henry Ford II. He dismissed the Volkswagen Beetle as a bad design. Today, more than 70 million motorcars are produced every year. The Beetle became one of the best-selling vehicles of all time.

The telephone was not widely appreciated for the first 15 years because people did not see a use for it. In fact, in the British parliament it was mentioned there was no need for telephones because "we have enough messengers here." Western Union believed that it could never replace the telegraph. In 1876, an internal memo read: "This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." Even Mark Twain, upon being invited by Alexander Graham Bell to invest $5 000 in the new invention, could not see a future in the telephone.

Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner (1793 - 1859) didn't believe that trains could contribute much in speedy transport. He wrote: "Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers ' would die of asphyxia' [suffocation]." Today, trains reach speeds of 500 km/h.

In 1943, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM forecast a world market for "maybe only five computers." Years before IBM launched the personal computer in 1981, Xerox had already successfully designed and used PCs internally... but decided to concentrate on the production of photocopiers.

After the invention of the transistor in 1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio. Apparently it was thought nobody would want to carry a radio around. When Bell put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small japanese start-up called Sony. They introduced the transistor radio in 1954.

In 1894, A.A. Michelson, who with E.W. Morley seven years earlier experimentally demonstrated the constancy of the speed of light, said that the future of science would consist of "adding a few decimal places to the results already obtained."

Perhaps the guy who got it wrong most was the commissioner of the US Office of Patents: in 1899, Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, assured President McKinley that "everything that can be invented has been invented."

The middle of the Bible

Did you know that:

1) Psalm 118 is the middle chapter of the entire Bible?

2) Psalm 117, before Psalm 118 is the shortest chapter in the Bible?

3) Psalm 119, after Psalm 118 is the longest chapter in the Bible?

4) The Bible has 594 chapters before Psalm 118 and 594 chapters after Psalm 118?

5) If you add up all the chapters except Psalm 118, you get a total of 1188 chapters.

6) 1188 or Psalm 118 verse 8 is the middle verse of the entire Bible? Should the central verse not have an important message? "It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man." --Psalm 118:8

Longest Domain Name

After so much browsing and exploring the web, I actually found two sites to claim the longest domain name.

http://Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf.org.uk

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/

It seems that domain names are limited up to 63 characters only not including the top level domain suffix. But if you count the domain suffix, the first one would win by three characters.

The first one sounds like a non-sense domain name, but according to the site, "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
(locally known as Llanfairpwll or Llanfair-PG) is a village on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. The upper village is known as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf. The suffix -uchaf means "upper" in Welsh. Welsh is the predominant language in Anglesey (Ynys Môn) and much of North Wales."

To find out more about the village, to learn how to pronounce the name, or to find out what it means, you can visit the village website at : www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk

The second holds true to its name as the longest because they do list a collection of world's longest stuff.

An example would be:

What is the longest song in the world?

Before we get to that there is a definition you should know:

Aleph-nought:
(noun)
aleph-null, aleph-nought, aleph-zero
the smallest infinite integer

Now for the world's longest song:

Aleph-nought bottles of beer on the wall:

Aleph-nought bottles of beer on the wall,
Aleph-nought bottles of beer,
You take one down, and pass it around,
Aleph-nought bottles of beer on the wall.
(Repeat till you pass out)

The Origin of Humpty Dumpty

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!"

Do you ever wonder where this popular nursery rhyme ever came from? Well it's your lucky day!

Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon during the English Civil War (1642-49). It was mounted on top of the St. Mary's at the Wall Church in Colchester defending the city against siege in the summer of 1648. (Although Colchester was a Parliamentarian stronghold, it was captured by the Royalists who held it for 11 weeks.) The church tower was hit by the enemy and the top of the tower was blown off, sending "Humpty" tumbling to the ground. Naturally the King's men* tried to mend him but in vain.
* The "men" would have been infantry, and "horses" the cavalry troops.
- From the East Anglia Tourist Board in England

CD Scratch? Use Banana...

Having some problems with your CD or DVD disks due to scratches and dirts? This amazing video teaches us how to get rid of these using something that we get from our kitchen or regular fruit stand: a banana.


How To Remove CD Scratches With A Banana - Click here for more home videos

Amazing World Clock

iI chanced upon this extraordinary clock from www.poodwaddle.com. The author says, the statistics are based on actual data. What struck me most is the stats in abortion. It's just so sad to see how fast it ticks.

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Created by Poodwaddle.com

Gross Facts

WARNING! This post is not suitable for weak stomach. Please proceed with caution...

The Gross Facts of Life

1. Ever have a craving for a peanut butter sandwich? That thick, yummy, and creamy goodness. In one pound of peanut butter, it typically can contain up to 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs.

2. House flies go to the bathroom roughly every 4.5 minutes. Think about that next time you see one fly on your delicious dinner.

3. Step outside and smell the roses. On a daily average you will inhale 1 liter of others anal gasses.

4. In the mood for fast food? An average person will consume 12 pubic hairs in their fast food annually. Gross!

5. It's summer time, and that means the pools are open! If you swim one hour in a public pool you will intake 1/12 liters of urine.

6. Creepy crawling cockroaches. As if they aren't disgusting looking enough. These insects carry over 40 different pathogens which risk being transferred to humans. Included is pneumonia, plague, hepatitis, and typhoid fever just to name a few.

7. Need to use the bathroom? When a person pees, a small deposit of urine enters the mouth through the saliva glands.

8. Need that morning jump? Next time you go out to the coffee shop think about this, diarrhea induced E.Coli was found on 10% of coffee mugs in the U.S.

9. Enjoy a nice cup of yogurt? You might want to double check the ingredients again. Some yogurts and jelly sweets contain beef or pork gelatin.

10. Think you've got it bad when you vomit? The longest recorded projectile vomiting is 27 feet. I wonder what he ate.

11. We all like a man who gives a nice firm hand shake. However, you might want to think twice before returning the firm grip. Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and did not wash their hands.

12. Through contact with door knobs, counter tops, and other daily objects your hand will come in contact with 15 penises a day.

13. When we sleep we are the most relaxed and at peace. Who would've thought that while you are snoozing you were inhaling bugs! In a years time, most humans will consume 14 insects while in their sleep.

14. Having work done to your house? Research has shown that in a lifetime you will have had 22 workmen examine the dirty contents of your linen basket.

15. Here comes the bride. Next time you're planning to attend a wedding reception you might want to bring a hanker chief. You have a 1/100 chance of taking home a cold sore from one of the guests. Cold sores are a form of oral herpes!



Additional yucky stuffs you may want to know.... or not.

Did you know?

1. Your mouth is the most unsanitary part of your whole body. More than 100 million microcreatures live there at any one time.

2. You swallow about one quart of snot every day.

3. Most people fart 14 times a day.

4. Seventy out of 100 people admit to picking their nose. Three out of those seventy admit to eating their boogers.

5. Thomas Crapper was an Englishman who invented the shut-off for clean water entering the toilet tank in the 1800s. The word crap comes from Crapper.

6. Fresh urine is more sterile than spit or the skin on your face because healthy pee is not home to bacteria.

7. Ear wax naturally dries up and forms little balls that drop out when we yawn, chew or swallow. It coats the inside of the ear canal to trap any nasty stuff like dirt, dust and bugs that get into your ear. People who live in big cities make more ear wax.

8. About 10 billion tiny scales of skin rub off your body everyday. In a lifetime, you could fill eight five-pound flour bags with dead skin.

9. Feet sweat because there are about 250,000 pores on their soles that squirt a quarter cup of liquid each day.