Mountain Oak Vapors - TRIVIA CONTEST!!!

[lettucehead]

Americans spend more than $5 billion a year on cosmetics, toiletries, beauty parlors and barber shops.

 

[basementcat]

Some humans turn to soap after they die

 

[lettucehead]

Americans spent over $360 million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath.

 

[Uncle]

William Faulkner refused a dinner invitation from JFK’s White House. “Why that’s a hundred miles away,” he said. “That’s a long way to go just to eat.”

 

[morri]

Why would you want to do either?

Why does a chicken cross the road? Because he can. ::::::::::shaking head:::::::::

 

[lettucehead]

Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.

 

[lettucehead]

Chewing gum was patented in 1869 by William Semple.

 

[Uncle]

That thing you use to dot your lowercase “i” is called a tittle

* * * * Well Tittle Me This Then . . .

 

[lettucehead]

Colgate claims "Tooth Fairy" as a registered trademark.

 

[lettucehead]

....... was sold to cure sore throat, neuralgia, nervousness, headache, colds and sleeplessness in the 1880s.

 

[spacekitty]

In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called “Growing Up Skipper.” Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.

I remember that!!

 

[basementcat]

You can now be burried in space

 

[Shannon65]

John Locke's character on Lost used the name Jeremy Bentham, who is a mummy in a London college per a condition in his will that the school could only inherit his money if he was present at all board meetings after his death, lol.

 

[Uncle]

In 1907, an ad campaign for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes offered a free box of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.

 

[lettucehead]

Coca-Cola--sold 25 bottles first year. (For total of $50; supplies and advertising ran $70.)

 

[Uncle]

The little BIC pen logo guy has a name. It’s BIC Boy. Sorry if that’s a letdown.

 

[lettucehead]

During the Prohibition, at least 1,565 Americans died from drinking bad liquor, hundreds were blinded, and many were killed in bootlegger wars

 

[Speedgoat]

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

totally want to try this!

Im seriously thinking of running to the liquor store to try it!

 

[lettucehead]

For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.

 

[AutumnWolf]

I just (illegally) popped in to check out the contest - I almost missed it....geez it went fast - so here's my random factoid -

Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong checking account over the next hour...

Pretty good huh.. Well, not pretty good for those unfortunate account holders but a good factoid...