How observant are you?

Check out both these awarenesses tests:

Strange. . .

First its raining cat's and dogs,

Then, human's begin falling from the sky.

Weird. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this random picture, more to come soon!

Stupid Laws:

These are both hillarious websites that have a ton of stupid laws from all over the US:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/laws01.htm

http://www.bitoffun.com/stupid_laws.htm

Enjoy!

(By the way, did you know that in Conneticut, a pickle is not legally a pickle unless it bounces?)

Weekly Update

J'ai mange' avec mes aimes.

Yes, I just said "I ate with my friends." I, the AMAZING, Miss Madison Furniss, am currently eating regular meals. It was a long and hard, (two weeks), but I've done it! And I will, as they say, "Keep on Truckin'", whatever that means.

:)

Factoid's

Oh my wow, I am such a horrible blogger! (Although I do come up with some pretty spectacular phrases such as, oh my wow, crud monkeys, etc. etc.) What would my fans say??? I have given them nothing the past couple of months!

Actually, to be honest, the only reason you're getting anything right now is so that I can slack off. I have major writers block on my powerpoint for English right now, so, you know. . .

Anyways, Since I have left you all without adaquat entertainment for oh-so long, I while now be taking a page out of Jessica's book, and giving you a bunch of random, but very interesting facts. Enjoy!

· President John F. Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

· In an average lifetime, a person will walk around the equator, 5 times.

· Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

· The 57 on Heinz Ketchup bottles, (for all those people out there who actually care. . . ) represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

· In the early days of telephones, operators would pick up by using the phrase, “Well, are you there?”. It wasn’t until 1895 that they changed to, “Number please?”.

· According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. (Really? Wow! What a coincidence! I hate Mondays too!)

· The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

· Karoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese.

· The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

· The first know contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

· Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name, because it’s offical name (used on all state documents) is, “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”.

· When you die, your hair still grows for a couple of months.

· There are two credit cards for every one person in the US.

· Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. (And trust me folks, that’s quite an achievement.)

· It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

· The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 Million.

· A Neanderthals brain was bigger than ours.

· On the new hundred dollar bill, the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

· Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages; heart = church, spades = military, clubs = agriculture, diamonds = merchant class.

· The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would be in the building.

· The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly.

· The pancreas produces Insulin.

· 1 in 5000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

· A skunk’s smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

· The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the world you want.

· The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.

· Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint of the time was the fastest paint to dry.

· Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

· Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.

· The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

· World Tourist day is observed on September 27. (Wouldn’t it be funny if there were less tourist’s out that day?)

· The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet away. (That is so cool!)

· When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. (Still think snakes are cool Mary?)

· The Australian 5 and 100 dollar notes are made out of plastic.

· St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

· Stressed is actually desserts spelled backwards.

· If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

· Charlie Brown’s dad is a barber. (Then why does Charlie Brown have such a horrible hairdo?)

· Flying from London to New York by Concord, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

· Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 ft. away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

· You burn more calories sleeping that you do watching TV. (Dang it!)

· A lion’s roar can be heard from 5 miles away.

· Canadian researchers have found the Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than usual. (And how did they find this information out? Do they have it locked in a cryogenics lab somewhere?????)

· The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys Gum.

· The largest number of kids born to a single woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. (And she did all of this without any anesthesia.)

· In Ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

· The word “nerd” was first created by Dr. Seuss in “If I ran the Zoo.”

· Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

· The largest rhinestone in the world is 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.

· A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon than an automatic.

· Cats can hear ultrasound.

· Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. (HaHaHa)

· The US has never lost a war that mules were used in.

· Kids grow faster during the springtime.

· On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac buns.

· -40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as -40 degrees Fahrenheit.

· Ancient clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their house down, hence the term “to get fired”.

· Every human spent about ½ an hour as a single cell.

· The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary, “I quit smoking tobacco.” He died one month later.

· The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

· Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.

Math Jokes

Math jokes are the best. Don't say their not, because we all know that when two especially nerdy mathmaticians are sharing them, they are hilarious. Here are some for your viewing pleasure:

A mathematician, an engineer and a chemist are at a conference. They are staying in adjoining rooms. One evening they are downstairs in the bar. The mathematician goes to bed first. The chemist goes next, followed a minute or two later by the engineer. The chemist notices that in the corridor outside their rooms a rubbish bin is ablaze. There is a bucket of water nearby. The chemist starts concocting a means of generating carbon dioxide in order to create a makeshift extinguisher but before he can do so the engineer arrives, dumps the water on the fire and puts it out. The next morning the chemist and engineer tell the mathematician about the fire. She admits she saw it. They ask her why she didn't put it out. She replies contemptuously "there was a fire and a bucket of water: a solution obviously existed."

An analyst, a pure mathematician, and a statistician apply for a job. The interviewer asks each of them the question "What is 1/3 multiplied by 3?" The analyst enters it into his calculator and replies that the answer is 0.9999999. The pure mathematician replies that the answer is obviously 1. Then, the statistician asks the interviewer "What do you want it to be?"

A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician are sitting in a street café watching people entering and leaving the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people entering the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three people leaving the house. The physicist says, "The measurement wasn't accurate." The biologist says, "They must have reproduced." The mathematician says, "If one more person enters the house then it will be empty."

Math is a fun thing, but only when it's like this. :)

The Weird Laws of our Nation

If you're wondering what I am doing on my blog after about a month or longer of inactivity, I will tell you, and if you're not, to bad, you're obviously reading this, so you're going to find out anyway.

It was my fans. My adoring fans. They missed my strange sense of humor, my artistic misspelled word choice, and my oh-so-many grammatical errors. So, my adoring fans, this if for you.

I have recently been researching some weird laws from our great country. A few of them are posted below, but you can find lots more at:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/laws01.htm

1. In Alabama, (as well as in several other states, it's illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket at any time.

2. In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from a airplane.

3. It is illegal to mispronounce Arkansas while in Arkansas.

4. It is illegal to eat an orange while in your bathtub when in California.

5. A dog catcher must notify the dog he intends to capture, three days before he does so, at least in the state of Colorado.

6. In Conneticut, (this one may just be my favorite:) a pickle is not legally a pickle, unless it bounces.

7. In Florida, if an Elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the meter must be paid just as if it was a vehicle.

8. In Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a lamp post.

9. In Hawaii, you will be fined if you don't own a boat.

10. In Illinois, it is illegal to eat in a restraunt if the restraunt is on fire.

11. Indianna has a law that states: "Citizens are not allowed to attend a cinema or theatre nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic."

12. Iowa has some of the best laws, but this is one of my favorites for this state: In Fort Madison the fire department is required to practice fire fighting for fifteen minutes before attending a fire.

13. In Kansas, it is illegal to hunt whales.

14. It is illegal to shoot game out of the window of a moving vehicle, with the exception of a whale. (At least in Kentucky, but I do have one question, where do they find these whales?)

15. In Louisianna, it is illegal to rob a bank, (wait for it), and then shot the teller with a water pistol.

16. In Maine, It's against the law to step out of a flying plane.

17. It's illegal to take a lion to the movies in Maryland.

18. Believe it or not, in Massachutes, you "may not take a crap on your neighbor at any time".

19. It is illegal to paint sparrows and sell them as parakeets in Michigan.

20. In Minnesota, it is illegal to drive through a line of children.

21. In Mississippi (Here's a good one:), no one can rig a game/match with the exeception of wrestlers.

22. In Missouri it is legal (yes, legal) to speed.

23. In Montana, it is illegal to use speed-dial in the city phone system.

24. Nebraska: "A parent can be arrested if their child can't hold back a burp during church".

25. It's illegal to buy ice cream after 6 PM in New Jersey.

26. In New Mexico, it is illegal for people to dance around a sombrero.

27. New York: Jumping off any building (including the Empire State Building) is punishable by death.

28. It's illegal to sing off key in North Carolina.

29. It's illegal to collect seaweed in New Hampshire.

30. It's illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on in North Dakota.

31. It's illegal to get a fish drunk in Ohio.

32. In Oklahoma, fish may not be contained to fish bowls while on a public bus.

33. It's against the law to not let your dishes drip dry in Oregan.

34. It's against the law to sleep on a fridge if it's outside in Pennsylvannia.

35. In Rhode Island, if you marry an idiot or a lunatic, your marriage is legally void.

36. Horses may not be kept in bathtubs in South Carolina.

37. In South Dakota it's illegal to fall asleep in a cheese factory.

38. In Tennesse, it's illegal to catch fish with a lasso.

39. If two trains going in opposite directions on the same track meet each other, one can't move until the other does. (That's from Texas, and they have a lot of laws like this.)

40. In Vermont it's illegal not to take a bath at least once a week.

41. Lollipops are illegal in Washington.

42. It is illegal to snooze on a train in West Virgina.

43. In Utah, it's illegal to sell alchol in the case of an emergency.

44. In Wisconson, unless the customer asks for it, it's illegal to sell butter instead of margarine.

45. It's illegal to take showers on Wednesdays in a part of Wyoming.

46. It's illegal to tickle women in Virgina.

47. Hollow logs can't be sold in Tennesse.

48. It's illegal to hunt camels in Arizona, so don't do it.

49. It is illegal to fly over any body of water, unless one is carrying sufficient supplies of food and drink. (At least in Delaware)

50. Idaho: Riding a merry-go-round, on a sunday is considered a crime.