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czgibson said:
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Yes, because they were founded by workers from the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich in the late 19th century...

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touche

did you know that touche generates from fencing?

touched [French] In fencing, a touch of a sword on the opponent's body is worth a point. Thus, touché has come to mean a score or a point, often used figuratively in verbal fencing and spoken by the person against whom the point was scored. Merely saying touch is wrong since the correct term would be touched. However, even touched is wrong when the meaning is you win.
 
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Hatshepsut said:
did you know that touche generates from fencing?
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I had to learn how to fence in order to perform a swordfight and the end of Hamlet, our school play. What fun!

A fencing fact: the three weapons used in fencing are the foil, the épée and the sabre.

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Shakespeare himself is said to have played the role of the Ghost of Hamlet's father. Nicholas Rowe, Shakespeare's first biographer, mentioned that Shakespeare's role as "the Ghost in his own Hamlet" was "the top of his performance".
 
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did you know your field of veiw (vision) isnt as good as you think it is..... if it were you wouldnt have to move your eeys to focus on stuff.. you can only see clearly what you are directly looking at.

EDIT: My 1000th post. Woohoo!
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Congrats :)
 
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did you know the PMs are monitored for the wellbeing of all us LI forum members...if you didnt you do now....:D:D:D:D and hey did you know myself and others think that this is a-ok and how it should be any problemos? no i thought lolololol :D:D
 
I have many did you knows on my site and will add some from here also after I get permission from the contributors of course... but let me add one from there to here In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
 
Muslim Soldier said:
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
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My geography teacher told us that, that was wrong. The real reason that people say "bless you" when you sneeze is because it was one of the first signs if you caught disease in the plague, which is why people said "bless you"
 
talking about the plague....did you know people thought scented hankerchiefs would keep the plague away...hmmm
 
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did you know that you can use a banana as a hammer if you put it in liquid nitrogen first??
 
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Halima said:
Men talk more than women.
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I don't believe that one for a second!

I always thought it was the case that women are more linguistically competent than men, and hence better talkers?

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did you know why women dont fart as much as men?
ans= because they cant keep their mouths shut long enough to build up the pressure......p.s this is not a real fact just something to get people stirred up....muhahaha
 
hafizmo said:
did you know why women dont fart as much as men?
ans= because they cant keep their mouths shut long enough to build up the pressure......p.s this is not a real fact just something to get people stirred up....muhahaha
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man it must a took u some time to think that one out...;D
can it get any worse?..lol
 
czgibson said:
Greetings,


I don't believe that one for a second!

I always thought it was the case that women are more linguistically competent than men, and hence better talkers?

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Nah, that's just lady-talk for 'Shut up and do what I say' :p

I'm joking sisters. Please do not go militant feminist on me.
 

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