Wednesday, August 03, 2005

very interesting n informative blog..
VitaminQ - a temple of trivia lists and curious words

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THE OLD ONE TWO
What you can do with two fingers (index and middle):

1 take a pulse
2 smooth your eyelid
3 smoke a cigarette
4 pull a bow
5 make a peace sign
6 operate a finger puppet
7 cross them for luck
8 give a military salute in Poland
9 flick the Vs
10 type clumsily
11 shoot a pretend gun
12 poke an enemy in the eyes
13 make a scissors shape (to help you look for scissors)
14 wind wool or string round them
15 do rabbit's ears behind someone in a photo..

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LIGHTS, CAMERA, DUSTPAN!
Some TV and film animal actors:

In the 1990s film adaptation, Black Beauty was played by a horse named Docs Keeping Time

Lassie was played in the first films by a collie named Pal; most 'Lassies' have been male, since they are bigger

Flipper the dolphin was played by Mitzi and, later, others including Cathy, Suzie and Bebe

Eddie (Frasier) is played by Moose

Katie and (the imaginatively named) Monkey were the two capuchin monkeys who starred as Marcel in Friends

Toto in The Wizard of Oz was played by a terrier called Terry

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