Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The Alamo address, an angry Anglo, and anal a-bombs
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Jan. 30, 2004
In 1940, King George VI of Great Britain practiced firing a rifle so he could fight invading Germans. When Prime Minister Winston Churchill found out, he suggested the King get a tommy gun so he could shoot "even more Germans," and George did so. Germany never did invade.
Canaanites originally founded Jerusalem. It was known as Ur-Salem, salem being the Canaanite word for "peace."
The new Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River will require more than six times as much concrete as the Panama Canal, will stretch higher than the Washington Monument, and will displace 1.9 million people.
According to one scientist, if one farted consistently for 6,009 months, there would be enough gas to match the force of a nuclear bomb.
