tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20502769.post-37501612548885696942007-02-13T16:54:00.000-06:002008-12-09T12:30:06.440-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6Y8vQNw-dXY/RdJVeW_u9AI/AAAAAAAAABY/IrrwkesIYoo/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6Y8vQNw-dXY/RdJVeW_u9AI/AAAAAAAAABY/IrrwkesIYoo/s320/1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5031177713783600130" /></a><br />The other day I was involved in an engaging "battle of wits" in the form of a team trivia contest. When asked how we performed, I would prefer to dodge the question like a skillful defense attorney or seasoned politician might. Let me just say that our team may not have won "the war of the propeller heads", but we would have kicked some @#^ in a tournament of "rock, paper, scissors".<br /><br />After being humiliated, we consoled ourselves at a public drinking establishment (at least then our shody performance in intellectual concerns could be rationalized). We decided that <em><strong>we</strong></em> were not so dumb, in fact it was the <em><strong>questions</strong></em> that were dumb. Here is an example:<br /><br />Q. What does a crocodile or alligator swallow to help it do dive deep and stay underwater?<br /><br />A. Steve Irwin....(ouch, bad joke) <em>- even I thought that it was in poor taste </em><br /><br />The real answer was stones. I have eaten some strange things in my time (I even licked a cactus once, because I lost a bet); but I would never consider eating a stone. I suppose diamond smugglers or drug dealers have been known to ingest the "odd bag" of rocks; however I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of any transaction involved in that sort of nonsense.<br /><br />Here are some other strange animal trivia facts (please feel free to add your own in the comments):<br /><br />1) 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year...maybe it's time to call Jenny Craig.<br /><br />2) A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.<br /><br />3) A capon is a castrated rooster. Ouch! Cock-a-doodle-do to you!<br /><br />4) A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time. Don't try this at home.<br /><br />5) A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't. But the monkey can get ready to go out in 20 minutes where the chimpanzee usually takes hours (just on the hair).<br /><br />6) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. I wonder how much ice cream that would be?<br /><br />7) A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time...And those eggs don't come "hard boiled" either!<br /><br />8)A polecat is not even a cat; it is a nocturnal European weasel...And here I thought it was a European topless dancer.<br /><br />9)A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second...That beats Peter Piper, anyday!<br /><br />10)A zebra is white with black stripes.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20502769-3750161254888569694?l=thebionicbuddha.blogspot.com'/></div>BionicBuddhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708566533549693096noreply@blogger.com5