Ponder
Points
If you’ve ever wondered where the author Ian
Fleming got the name for his famous 007 character….wonder no more.
Came from a coffee table book on birds by one James Bond.
While we’re on authors…bet you didn’t know that
the character…’The Cisco Kid’ was created by O’Henry in his story
called…”The Caballero’s Way”.
Remember this next time you go there…..The
distance from the foul line to the head pin on a bowling alley is
sixty feet.
You might have guessed this one…the only
commercial Elvis Presley made in his entire career was for Southern
Made Donuts…came out in 1954…doesn’t say if he got a lifetime supply
or not.
Everyone’s heard of Podunk……we’ve grown to
accept it as describing a small town…where is it anyway? Go to
Worchester, Massachusetts….close to there.
So where did the name for the month of APRIL
get its name? From the Latin word …. Aprilis. Means ‘to open’ as in
the buds and flowers…..You know Spring, buds,
flowers…bees….birds….
So exactly what are ‘yurts’? Everyone knows
they are the round domes tents used by the Mongolian nomads.
Horses are often measured by how many ‘hands’
high they are…..So how big is a ‘hand’ anyway? Four inches.
Young kids aren’t going to get this one……Glenn
Miller was the first musical artist to win a gold record….For what?
Why his recording of “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” of course.
So do you have any recordings of a musician
named ….Annie Mae Bullock? I’ll bet you do…..Oh, yes…you probably
know her better as Tina Turner.
Who’s got the largest egg…..A duck or a
crocodile? Both about the same….3 inches or so.
What do you call a female rabbit? They’re
called a doe….males are called bucks…
Along this same line…..You call a group of
foxes a what? A skulk of course….
Roaring along at a snails pace would be about
what per hour? You’d be cruising at about 25 feet every hour….
Finally ..How many fat cells does the average
human have? About 40 to 50 billion…way too many if you ask me……
If you knew someone who called themselves a
deltiologist…would you…A. ask what kind of a doctor this is? B.
Figure it was some kind of a mystic guru? C. ask if they had found
any new and interesting postcards lately? You should have answered
C…They collect them.
The City of Batman….where is it? If you said
Gotham…you’d be wrong..It’s in Turkey….
If someone told you to go out and buy a “wagger
pagger bagger”…what on earth are they asking for? Nothing here, but
in England…it’s a trashcan.
So, you’re being sworn in as the President and
you are asked to put your hand on the Bible while you take your oath
of office…..what would you be holding if you were becoming some high
official in ancient Egyptian times? An onion.…symbol of eternity.
So when Birdseye first came out with frozen
foods in 1930…what’d they call it then? Frosted Food…they thought
frozen would scare people off…changed it back some years later.
You know Cher…..but I bet you didn’t know her
real name is Cherilyn….full name is Cherilyn Sarkisian.
If you suffered from siderodromophia……what
would you be afraid of? You’d want to stay away from trains….
A squab by any other name is ….just a pigeon
that hasn’t flown yet…..You knew that….
After King Edward VIII abdicated his
position…..he became the governor or the Bahamas for five years.
Now here’s one time you wouldn’t mind being
overweight….in 1946 the Aga Khan was given his weight in diamonds by
his followers…..he weighted in at 234 pounds…about 2.5 million….
If you had a Model T Ford….bet you didn’t know
that you had to clean the spark plugs every 200 miles that you drove
it.
This is weird…..Henry Ford saved Thomas
Edison’s last breath…it’s in a museum on display in Michigan.
What’s that all about?
So, when you bought your first television back
in 1928…..how could you see anything on the screen since it was 3
inches by 4 inches in size?
Ben Franklin was fascinated by turkeys…he also
was the first one to roast one on a rotating spit way back in
1749…..did I mention it was an electric spit? It was….
The only Englishman to have ever become Pope
was one Nicholas Breakspear….otherwise known as Adrian IV….ruled
from 1154 until 1159……
Can you name the signers of the Declaration of
Independence that went on to become President of the United States?
Just 2…John Adams and Thomas Jefferson…..
Old firehouses had circular staircases since
horses could figure out how to walk up straight flights of stairs…
Just the place to be….the average…I said
average temperature at the South Pole is a chilly –56
degrees…….better bundle up…..
Save this one…in what country did India Ink
originate? Surely you didn’t say India…That’s too easy…nope it was
China.
Old Cleopatra…painted her eyelids a
lot…..needed it for all of those relationships…anyway…she did the
lowers very green and the uppers…..blue and black…thought you’d want
to know…..
Noologists study the human mind….you knew that
…..
The word SPAM…came from two words….spiced ham….
The largest fruit crop on earth is grapes…then
bananas….
You knew there was a 120 feet of fabric in a
bolt of cloth…didn’t you? I didn’t.
So, back in the 1860’s you knew where you were
going if you went to a mining camp known as Last Chance Gulch…where
would you go today? Helena , Montana.
The St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco has a
full time person who does nothing but wash coins so the guests don’t
get their hands dirty handling change.
Florida has about 13 shark attacks on folks in
the water each year…..
If you need one…stop in at any one of the 284
restrooms located in the 17 ½ miles of offices at the Pentagon…If
they’ll let you…bet they would…nice folks…..maybe not….
So did you know that Winston Churchill was born
in a ladies cloakroom? His mother went into labor while attending a
ball……
