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There are many other things to do with microwave <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Funny things to do with your microwave
I tried some tricks like putting lightbulb and CD. Looked awesome, especially with 200Watt lightbulb <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />


I think, umm, I hope, I've eaten none spiders yet. Am I not average ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Snakes who have the genetic mutation of having been born with two heads have a hard time eating, because the two heads generally fight over which gets the food.

Baby songbirds seem to learn how to sing from the adult birds of their species, and if they are raised by other species, they don't sing the same as their ancestors. They often make strange warbling noises, but may also learn the songs of other species. In the latter case, they can pass these songs on to their offspring.

A friend of ours accidently left a fork in the bowl when he put in the microwave oven. He came back to find the inside of the oven cut in two given the fork acted as an arc cutter with all that energy about.

I'm sure they needed to upgrade anyway...

I once ruined a microwave by boiling water. The thing started smoking! Guess I didn't notice the tiny gold paint that was on the mug. Oops!

How many microwaves did you ruin Egin?

Hey Egin, did any of that ruin your microwave. I've always wanted to try stuff
like that with my microwave but I've been to afraid of ruining it. Then I
would be mad at myself because I'd have to buy a new one. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Did the cd and the light bulb really look like the pictures they showed on the
the linked site?

Egin are you sure you haven't eaten any spiders. Rember you are suppose to have
done it while you were asleep. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Fact -> Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

Fact -> Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

Fact -> A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

Fact -> Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I hope it never happened to me, since I'm so afraid of spiders. I wont think of that when I go to sleep!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I always sleep with my mouth closed. And I wonder who was in charge of counting that???

-The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

-Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

-The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

-Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

-Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

Hmm for those ppl travelling to Iceland and feel guilty for not being allowed to tip, Australia will make you feel most welcome and please you may tip to your hearts content <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

In Vienna, giveing too much tip was concidered insulting...

Übereil

Here is some trivia in honor of Valentine's Day

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Amnat Puttigo of Pattaya, Thailand, won a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" by holding his wife in his arms for 10 hours 49 minutes and 15 seconds in Valentine's Day Contest

An estimated one billion Valentine cards are sent each year. 85% of all Valentine cards are sent by women.

The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.

Starfishes do not have brains.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
do.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Polar bears are left-handed.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of 7 football fields.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or
right to left.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

1. Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

2. The mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of abusing is named 'Janet Jackson'. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" />

3. Panophobia is the fear of everything. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

4. At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

5. A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.

Also closely related to hypochondria? (Hypochondria: an irrational and incorrect belief you are constantly ill.)

O yes. The yearly bath.
I forgot I take mine in january. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

O well,
better luck next year.
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I have a aunt and a sister that both have the "disease". My aunt is not allowed in any clinic in her neighbourhood anymore, because there is nothing wrong with her and still she always wants to be treated like a halfdeath person. Now she is actually sick, she has colon cancer. From all the medication she took during her life. My sister is still young, but she is heading that way too with her addiction too painkillers and all sorts of medication. I see the "disease" more like a way of getting attention. They always want to be in the middle of attention at any price. Sad, isn't?

My microwave is still working. I don't see any harm in trying that trick with CD and with lightbulb, but there are some precautions I made:
Take a glass of water (half) put your lightbulb with it's metal part into the water !important! metal part should be inside the water, all the rest - glass part of bulb could stay out.

With CD, take the same 1/2 glass of water, put CD on top. Water is for moisture, must have. If you follow these simple instructions you owen should be safe, but I can't guarantee that, so try on your own risk. And your CD-s and in most cases bulbs will be wasted! And don't keep your owen working after all effects are gone. CD's and bulb can start melting - that's bad.



If I would have been eating spiders while I sleep I wouldn't have woke up at the morning hungry <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/stupid.gif" alt="" />


Today my friend told me a joke. - Do you wanna see your wife making MonaLisa smile - ask her where is your salary and how could she spend it with one day. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />


I have heard that earlier, before that people used dogs with long fur to clean hands yikes. Another thing that people started to wash hands after microscope was invented. Hehe they finally saw all those lil critters <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


Seth, seriously, I didn't know that. Thanks.

In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!

All polar bears are left handed.

Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.

A woman's sense of smell is most sensitive during ovulation.

Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with bloodalcohol levels exceeding .08!

Ahhhh, Egin, you mean if I try these and it messes up my microwave, I can't
blame you? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Some humming birds' wings flap at a rate of nearly 100 beats per second.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. (Now THERE's a creepy
thought.....)

Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland) was Scottish.

The average serving of broccoli (not a favorite of a certain "conservative"
personality, but one of my all-time mega-yummies) contains twice the vitamin C of
an average-sized orange.

Just as the orbit of our planet around the sun is not a circle but an ellipse (a
"flattened" circle), the earth is not completely round: the distance from the
earth's surface to its center is 40 km more at the equator than at the poles.
This is because it is spinning, so that it flattens out around the middle.

Americans spend over 4.5 billion hours each year stuck in traffic that's going
nowhere in any particular hurry.

On an average day, American drivers eat up nearly 7 billion miles of pavement?
roughly the distance to Pluto and back ? getting where they want to be. In the
process, they consume enough oil to fill more than 150 supertankers.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />