office mail

[percival]

Collection of facts being forwarded around the office - complete with the comments in brackets.



If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to
death. (Creepy.)

(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to
its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)


The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat's urine glows under a black light
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

Comments

[etherealwolf.livejournal.com]

Preoccupied with the pig, much? :P

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people.

Oh, dear. I'd better start practising writing with my right hand. XD

Thanks for that - tres amusing.

[tefkas.livejournal.com]

Can snakes jump, then?

[stereo-m.livejournal.com]

Tee hee. I've seen that one before. Lucky bastards, pigs.

[robertstheology.livejournal.com]

I am 9 years and two days older than Carolynne, who is left-handed.

[themorningstarr.livejournal.com]

So in other words, male praying mantises should hope and, well, pray that they are pigs in their next life?

I've seen those before, but never with the commentary, LOL!