Thread: OK short quiz.

Can you guess which of the following are true and which are false?

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years..

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7% of the population are lefties.

7. 40-people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14. The average computer user blinks 7-times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselveswithout turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and 'Tootsie.'

20. Michael Jacksons estate owned the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem.

21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

24. Some hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.

26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

Originally Posted by gusthedog

Actually the original name for Alice Springs is 'Mparntwe', an Arrente word. Been in use for many thousands of years before Stuart came along. Maybe the question should have been "what was the first white/Anglo/European name was Alice Springs given?"

Technically correct, good point. Wish I had made that point a question. Some info on the Arrernte Bob



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Originally Posted by digger

Can you guess which of the following are true and which are false?

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years..

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7% of the population are lefties.

7. 40-people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14. The average computer user blinks 7-times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselveswithout turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and 'Tootsie.'

20. Michael Jacksons estate owned the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem.

21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

24. Some hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.

26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

NO ONE TRYING?
Apparently they are all true!

Back in 1894, a water pipeline was commenced, to supply an industry of immense financial profit, in Australia. The idea was to pump 5,000,000 gallons of water a day, thru 30 inch steel pipes. At that time, the longest water pipeline in the World. From where was it piped, and what was the destination? Who was the engineer, at first ridiculed, but then lauded, for this achievement. A hint. Gold was the attraction, Bob

Mundaring weir to Kalgoorlie, engineer: C Y O'Connor

It is quite interesting that when someone gives an answer re historical facts anywhere around the world, we tend to quote references to prove a point.
Here in Australia we are different from everyone else, in that we have been led to believe that what some early and possibly poorly educated (by our standards) explorer thought he heard an aboriginal say was in regards to what he called a certain spot (and for those of you who have had any contact with these people or lived and worked with them will understand, they don't have specific names for every place, but names for features such as waterhole, hills etc.,) then that is the actual name of that place and is the name that everyone called it.
This is by no means necessarily so.
(about 70% of Australian towns with aboriginal names translate to "high place' "meeting place of the waters" or some such description. Please note Digger, that I have not mentioned Yunta in that group!)
Dialects were tribal, and tribes were basically families, and as a result there are/were thousands of different dialects spoken throughout the country,
The big difference here is that we apparently accept anything that an academic translates as an aborigine telling us but vehemently distrust anything a caucasian says unless he can supply literary back-up.
Sounds a bit weird to me.
The aboriginal dialects (that we acknowledge in general) are also changing with the times apparently, as when I was working with and amongst the aboriginals in the 70's, they referred to themselves as either "Boories" or "Koories", and I never ever heard of a "Muri" until the Murray (European bestowed name) family up north carried out a successful law suit.
This great old bloke called himself a "Boorie" (literal spelling, as the ones in Darwin I would have spelt "Buri" - same word, different tone.) This shot was taken at Iwupataka creek just outside Jay creek mission in the 70s.

If we want to get a bit technical about the name of Alice Springs, the area the aborigines knew as (insert whatever each different tribe called that particular waterhole) upon which the Stuart telegraph station was located is not where Alice Springs township is situated today. Alice is situated on the junction of the Charles and Todd Rivers a reasonable distance from the OTS.

Anyway, back to the original theme of the topic, this rant has been supplied by an old bod who lives not too far out of a town that was once named "Edenglassie". Pity we ever changed that name.
Another favourite old time town name that I liked was "Ellengowan". Its been replaced too.
Regards
Glen

Sorry Digger, I can't go along with #9 being accurate.
If we consider the amount of time we all spend waiting on line for an operator to answer a phone call to bureaucracy as waiting in a queue, then that time will be much larger.
Regards
Glen

Originally Posted by bee utey

Mundaring weir to Kalgoorlie, engineer: C Y O'Connor

Correct! .Bob


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