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Originally posted by subcontrabass View PostCorrected link: http://www.snopes.com/holidays/chris...a/reindeer.asp
Antlers are very curious structures altogether. Unlike the horns of other ungulates they are solid bone, and growing bone is very energy consuming. That may explain the fact that the females shed after birth in the spring. If they had the burden of finding the extra food necessary for bone development the unborn young would suffer, so they leave it until later. It's quite common for deer to chew their shed antlers, which helps them to retrieve some of the lost calcium and other minerals.
Incidentally they have special projections rather like dew claws on their feet to act as anti skid devices, that's why they very rarely fall off the roof.
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I unwrapped a present early. I got a belt full of watches. I shouldn't have opened it. It was a waist of time..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Remember those David Beckham jokes? Apparently he said recently that it's easy buying presents for Victoria, which prompted the revival of this one --
Vicky gave him a thermos flask to take to his training sessions. She said "It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold" He went off to training and showed a team mate
the flask. "It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold " 'What have you got in it ? " said his mate " Strong hot coffee and a choc ice "
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A chap at an international athletics meeting went up to a competitor and asked - 'Are you a pole-vaulter?'
'No', came the reply. 'I'm a German. How did you know my name was Walter?'Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan
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