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The St Louis Rams was the first football team to paint helmets. Racecar backwards is racecar. Turkeys kill themselves drinking the rain because they don't stop for air. salt dissolves snails. Butterflies were originally Flutterbies and they taste with their feet. The Flintstones were the first couple shown in bed together on television. They also advertised Lucky Strike cigarettes. If you recited the alphabet backwards successfully during a sobriety test then you were positive. Alcohol builds confidence and if you're afraid to mess up when you are sober then you will and you are innocent. At least half of all US presidents have had connections with masons (not the occupational kind). maddog isn't a palindrome but it says something backwards. that would be a beaver dam so take it easy on the hate mail. MySpace has a stock on wall street. Those dots above the i in "Helium are called twiddles. Sounds mischievous....lol. Yeah, that's a typo. lol is also an acronym. If acronym was an acronym it would probably mean, "A Cool Random Ongoing Name You Misunderstood". Google it. It's not there. I just made it up. Smokeless tobacco contains a chemical which replaces the blood of corpses. It is also an illegal narcotic( the chemical that is). And people purchase it from morticians to get a high when they dip a cigarette in it. If you play the album, "Dark Side of the Moon" -Pink Floyd- from a certain part of Wizard of Oz until the end of the movie, it is a synchronized music video.(I think it begins after the tornado) Ozzy Osbourne snorted a line of ants with the Motley Crew. Marilyn Manson has claimed to have smoked human bones for the sake of a new experience on an interview. Televisions are also air purifiers for the reason that static on the screen collects airborne dust particles. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedalli ophobia is the fear of long words. It didn't even make it through spell check. Peanuts are used to create dynamite. In Texas if two trains meet at a railroad crossing they must both stop and neither may proceed further until the other leaves. In the 90's thirty people were massacred for practicing witchcraft.

When the moon is set straight up in the sky you don't weigh as much as usual

Coca Cola without food coloring would be green. Sheep snore. It is illegal to chase more than 2000 sheep down Hollywood Boulevard. There is a mobile phone service that breaks down voice patterns and character recognition to see if your partner is speaking to you honestly and with true affection.

If you drop a raisin into a glass of champagne it will bounce up and down continuously

If you were to lay back and have water poured over your eyes only you would not be able to breathe. It's called water log and is a torture/execution mechanism.

An automobile is the safest place to be during a thunderstorm since it is grounded by rubber.

Prison inmates are some of the more intelligent people in the world; some of them can make a gun with a pen, a knife with paper, and cigarettes from orange peeling.

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