Just like in TVs and movies, due to insistent public demand, I’m bringing you another fraction of our fun stuff. This is as based on my initial article where we played paper, scissors and stones on facts of our everyday lives. Again, seriousness and a high level of severe intensity are strictly prohibited for our main quest here is to inform and have fun at the same time.
As a student, I was privileged, as part of our Journalism subject, to cover various kinds of real human emotions. I was also made to research on some of them. Those that depict angst, romance and drama are some of the human feelings that I worked on. But like everyone else who has this “kid” in me, I never let life’s seriousness take over by shooting and adding some of the “kid” spice once in a while in every serious thing I do.
To start our Fun Facts for Kids, let me take you our nearest Courthouses and Courtrooms where seriousness can be sometimes painted out with a smile or a chuckle perhaps. And by the way, these courtroom drama (or funny acts?) excerpts happened in real life. The letter “Q” means the question. It originates from a lawyer, a judge or from somebody in authority. The “A” is the response given by the person being asked. (the witness, the suspect or the one under oath)
Q. What is your name?
A. Ernestine McDowell.
Q. And what is your marital status?
A. Fair.
(how about Friendster’s “Its complicted”?)
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Q. Mrs. Jones, is your appearance this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
A. No. This is how I dress when I go to work.
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Q. And lastly, Gary, all your responses must be oral. O.K.?
What school do you go to?
A. Oral.
Q. How old are you?
A. Oral.
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Q. You say that the stairs went down to the basement?
A. Yes.
Q. And these stairs, did they go up also?
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Q: Did you see the defendant bite off the victim's nose?
A: No
Q: Then how do you know he bit off the victim's nose?
A: I saw him spit it out.
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Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July fifteenth.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
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And here’s one of my favorites….
Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in the voodoo or occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo?
A: We do.
Q: You do?
A: Yes, voodoo.
And you think lawyers and Court Judges are way too smart? Well, I guess this is a better time to re-assesses your conceptions. They too have their share of “smart lapses”.
Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year old, how old is he?
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Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?
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Q: Was it you or your younger brother who was killed in the war?
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Q: Did he kill you?
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Q: How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?
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Q: You were there until the time you left, is that true?
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Q: How many times have you committed suicide?
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Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?
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Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
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Q: What is your relationship with the plaintiff?
A: She is my daughter.
Q: Was she your daughter on February 13, 1979?
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Q: Was that the same nose you broke as a child?
(lect.law.com, skrause.org and tnsf.ca)
Convinced enough? There are actually piles of court transcripts evidencing these fun facts and it’s really nice and entertaining to oftentimes, “kid” around on it. We’ll deal with those on our next episode.
I also happen to find some fun facts about kids in the much serious world of religion. Christianteens.about.com tells that the Roman Catholic Bible has its own version of fun facts:
Number of Bibles being daily distributed in the U.S. alone: 170,000;
(You’ll love this one kids….) Number of promises in the Bible: 1,260;
Number of commands in the Bible: 6,468;
Number of questions in the Bible: 3,294;
Words in the Bible: 773,692;
Words in the Old Testament: 592,439;
Words in the New Testament: 181,253;
Number of times the word "God" is mentioned: 3,358;
Number of times "Lord" is mentioned: 7,736; and,
Longest Word in the Bible: "Mahershalalhashbaz" in Isaiah 8:1.
Here are some fun facts about the Islam / Muslim religion, according to azharazian.blogspot.com:
Majority of the Muslims are not based in the Middle East but a great number of them (approximately 184 million) can be found in Indonesia; and,
The Koran (Catholic’s version of the Bible) and some of its verses speaks that man is equal to woman. How equal? The word “man” appears in the Koran 24 times, and the word “woman” on the other hand, has the same share on the number of appearances-24 also.
Our Buddhist believers also have their own rendition of funny facts about Buddhism. Religionfacts.com lists some of them:
They believe in reincarnation or the “after-life” (DOTA and Mario Bros.’ makers might be practitioners of Buddhism); and,
They don’t believe in the existence of the soul. (Have not been to any of the Ghostbusters movies, absolutely!)
More interestingly are the funny facts for kids that I gathered from all over the world. Although some may be that trivial in nature, finding the funny ones are quite easy and of course, fun. Below are some:
US figures says that an average American uses and consumes about eight batteries a year. (Does that include cars’?)
Fashion gurus as they are, did you know that there are about 80% of women in the world who wear bra in the wrong size?
Talk about “backstabbing”. Statistics tells that over 50% of all attacks begin from the rear side.
With the wave of technology, there are now radars specifically designed to detect motorcycles.
Popeye’s spinach has more iron content per calorie compared to meat. (That’s why he loved it so much!)
There’s more iron in Camel's milk than cows (Camel milk please…).
Swiss people munch more chocolate than any one in the world. (Swiss’ sweets?)
Iraq’s international airport now has Burger King, it’s first.
Science says that a lightning has an unnatural way of traveling sideways.
Engineers argued that the diesel engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil. Then, it should be called “Peanut Engine”.
Apart from Google’s Maps, Earth, there is also a Moon?
The Italian airforces uniform were originally done by the famous designer, Armani. (Now, that’s really a fashion statement!)
Wine contains 0% cholesterol and has no fat. (Cheers!)
That there are more than 20000 brands of beer in the world. (Another ‘round please!) At any given time frame, there are about 0.7% of the world's population that is believed to be already boozed. (Again…cheers!)
Aviation experts say that the ever-reliable parachute was initially invented before the plane. (Chicken or Egg?)
Originally, DC Comics’ Superman doesn’t fly. (Maybe Batman does.)
Analysts state that more amount of money is spent on mom’s garden compared to any form of hobby (You can ask your mom if you want).
In faraway places like the South Pole, the sun does not shine for 182 days in a year.
An island in Thailand is actually named after James Bond. (Wish there was Johnny English…)
The actor and heartthrob, John Wayne actually made more than 200 movies all his career.
Food connoisseurs say that there are about 8,500 Indian food chains and restaurants in the UK. (What? Where?)
(This one’s for my friend…) Chess’ longest recorded game consisted of 192 moves and there are, according to chess experts, actually 318,979,564,000 doable ways of commencing your first four moves.
There are approximately 1.3 million vehicles in Metro Manila. (I should know…..)
MS Word has accepts the word “Wal-Mart” (Now, that’s a marketing strategy!)
As the weather is always fine in Hawaii, there is no Hawaiian word equivalent or synonymous to the word “weather”.
Sleep experts say that people can't sneeze while sleeping.
Our favorite means of transportation, the taxi. The word “Taxi” is spelled the same manner in the English, German, French, Swedish, Dutch and Portuguese languages.
Islanders have their own myths and beliefs about Santa Clauses parents (how ‘bout friends in the block?).
When you press “F” in your phone, don’t be surprised if you’ll hear a tone similar to the dial tone of a normal telephone. (Try it!)
Historians tell us cheerleaders were originally all men. (Were they made to carry pom-pons?)
“Abstemious” is a word that actually contains all the vowels in the correct order (self-explanatory).
The Chinese people at funeral wake burn paper-money so that the dead person will be rich in the after-life.
Another “chess piece” of information…The word Checkmate is actually Persian phrase which literally means "the King is dead".
Music lovers, take a load of this…Paul McCartney's Birth Certificate was auctioned in March 1997. The Beatle certificate was sold for US $84146.
Party-goers, you’ll love the next info…Every day is a holiday somewhere in the world.
French Fries did not come from France. They are originally from Belgium.
The country Cyprus has a map on its flag. (So, you won’t get lost, I guess.)
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy (I never knew ‘till I knew).
And here’s one that I liked: there is a place in Norway called Hell. Their postcards for tourist reads: "Welcome to Hell". The Norwegians also calls the road that leads to Hell as "highway to hell". I’d rather go back….
So, no matter how old you are or how complicated your life is, there’s always a funny fact or two that brings out the child in you.
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