La Petite Syrah, a wine bar and bistro in Nice, France, charges extra for rude customers. People who just ask for coffee have to pay 7.50 while adding a “please” drops the price to 4.25. If you say, “hello, a coffee please.” Then you will only pay 1.40.
There’s a competition called The World’s Biggest Liar held annually in England. Competitors from around the world are given five minutes to tell the biggest and most convincing lie they can think of. Politicians and lawyers are banned from entering the competition because they are thought to be too good at lying.
President Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot was kicked out of Jackson’s funeral in 1845 for cursing.
Brazilian police on Marajo Island ride water buffalo when they patrol instead of horses.
In 1896, the world’s first speeding ticket was given to a British man that was going four times the speed limit. Walter Arnold, who was going eight miles per hour in a two-mile-per-hour zone was caught by a policeman on a bicycle and was fined one shilling, which was about eight US cents.
Residents of the village of Shitterton in England grew so tired of people stealing a sign with the village name on it, that they replaced it with a 1.5-ton block of stone with the village name inscribed on it.
No worries, Lil Kermit. Please don’t feel hated. Just hop slowly past any Cajun/Creole restaurant. They will hastily invite you and your beautiful smile in. You may be leaving in a Lil Froggie wheelchair because Frog Legs is their specialty on the menu.
You Keep Smiling. -Sheila Tolley-
I hope she slithers around in a Magnet-Free Zones. -MST-
You should probably start running now, Hakeem. Run fast and far, like Forrest Gump. You do not want one of the Communist/ Socialist/Democrat Tribes to catch you. They will eat your Box of Chocolates (and wipe their dirty hands on your blue tie as if it were an American Flag.) -MST-
That is a cool idea…but I’d bet the big one in Chicago gathers more TRASH! -MST-
Think ahead, my friends. Keep $100 in your wallet in case you get a craving for a Big Mac & Fries one day. -MST-
White coke was a clear-colored Coca-Cola commissioned by Soviet marshal Gregory Zhukov in the 1940’s. He requested it because he was a fan of coke, but didn’t want to be seen drinking it in public, so he asked for a color to resemble vodka instead.
There is a normal Barbie called The Lammily Doll where the doll has brunette hair, cellulite, stretch marks, freckles and acne. She was also given the proportions of a typical nineteen-year-old.
In 2013, a man in Michigan whose house was set to be demolished switched his house numbers with his neighbor, the crew ended up demolishing the wrong house.
A woman once took part in a search for a missing tourist in Iceland only to realize hours later that she was, indeed, the missing person.
