It’s impossible to lick your elbow
Did you know it is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow? I like weird things. Always have. It’s the curiosity factor, I think. And, I’m amused by my fellow earthlings who, like me, struggle each day to connect the dots while having great difficulty getting in out of the rain. (Some of us grapple with that more than others.)
Weird fact: Butterflies taste with their feet.
Connecting the dots: A gentleman went to McDonald’s and saw on the menu that he could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 chicken McNuggets. So he asked for a half dozen nuggets.
“We don’t have half dozen nuggets,” said the teenage boy behind the counter.
“You don’t? The man replied.
“No, we only have six, nine or twelve,” was the reply.
“So I can’t order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?”
“That’s right,” said the youngster.
The man shook his head, and ordered six McNuggets.
Have you tried to lick your elbow yet?
Weird Fact: 35 percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are married.
Connecting the dots: A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When a fellow worker inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM “thingy.”
Weird fact: No word in the English language rhymes with “month.”
Connecting the dots: A lady was checking out at the local Wal-Mart recently, with just a few items, and the person behind her put their things on the belt close to hers. So, the lady picked up one of those dividers they keep by the cash register, and placed it between their items so they wouldn’t get mixed. After the cashier had scanned all of the ladies items, she picked up the divider and began looking it over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to the lady, “Do you know how much this is?”
The lady looked at her, and said, “I’ve changed my mind. I don’t think I’ll buy that today.” The lady paid for the things and left. The young girl had no clue as to what had just happened.
You’ve tried to lick your elbow, haven’t you?
Weird fact: The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Connecting the dots: A good Samaritan noticed a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
“Do you need help,” he asked.
She replied, “I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can’t get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?”
“Hmmm, I dunno, said the kind person. Do you have an alarm too?”
“No, just this remote thing,” she answered, handing over the car keys.
As the good Samaritan took the key and “manually” unlocked the car door, he said, “Why don’t you drive over there and check about the batteries. It’s a long walk.”
Weird fact: Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Scary, huh!
Final weird fact: A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and nobody knows why! Does anybody care?
I told you it was impossible to lick your elbow! You didn’t believe me did you?
(Hope Hines is a television sports reporter and a Nashville personality.)