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    Posted: 26 Feb 06 at 11:12am

Cutting your hair or nails at sea is bad luck.
These were used as offerings to Proserpina, and Neptune will become jealous if these offerings are made while in his kingdom.

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Remember Professionals built the titanic, Amateurs built the ark.
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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
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how big a chocolate bar?

600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it.
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how am i supposed to know, its just a random fact

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Always make sure you research your facts and are prepared to answer scutinising questions on them.  I think querying the size of choclotate bar was a perfectly sensible question.
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the Vatican city is about 0.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
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Originally posted by mike ellis

how big a chocolate bar?



It was a Mars Bar
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Nah! You're thinking of Marriane Faithful 

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lol, thats a gd 1. lol


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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.


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