SOMETHING VERY FUNNY: VIJAY KAUSHAL.

SOMETHING VERY FUNNY:   VIJAY KAUSHAL. Now this is very interesting, especially the very last statements.          Railroad tracks. The  US  standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.   Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the  US  railroads.   Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.   Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.     Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in  England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.     So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial  Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including  England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.   And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.     Since the chariots were made for Imperial  Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.   So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?' , you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)      Now, the twist to the story:   When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in  Utah      The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.     So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything... and the current  Horses Asses in Washington are controlling everything else                                              ******************************

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This is interesting! ----vijay kaushal

This is interesting!  Learn something new everyday....

 

'Stewardesses'    is the longest word 
typed with only the left hand.

 

And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed
with your right hand. 

(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

 

No word in the English language rhymes with 
month , orange, silver, or purple. 

' Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.  
(Are you doubting this?)

our eyes    are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears 
never stop growing.

The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'
uses every letter of the alphabet.  
(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

 

The words 'racecar,'    'kayak'    and 'level'  are the same whether they are read left to right
or right to left (palindromes).  
(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)

There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

(You're not possibly doubting this, are you ?)

 

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.' 
(Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

TYPEWRITER  is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.  
(All you typists are going to test this out)

 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
    

  

A goldfish    has a memory span of three seconds .

(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)

 

 

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

 

A shark    is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

 

 

A snail    can sleep for three years.  
(I know some people that could do this too.!)

Almonds are a member of the peach    family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that also .  Actually I know A LOT of people like this!)

 

Babies are born without kneecaps. 

They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. 

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.  

 

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

 

If the population of  China walked past you, 8 abreast,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

 

Peanuts    are one of the ingredients of dynamite! 

 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 

 

The cruise liner, QE 2,
 
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

 

The microwave    was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.   
(Good thing he did that.)

 

The winter of 1932 was so cold that   Niagara Falls      
froze completely solid .

 

There are more chickens than people in the world.

 

 

 

Winston Churchill
 
was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

 

 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know more than you did before!!

 
The Rain-Thomas Kinkade

This is a Thomas Kinkade painting It's rumored to carry a miracle!
They say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle.

I am passing this on because I thought it was really pretty,

And besides, who couldn't use a miracle

रोचक प्रसंग: कहने को है बहुत कुछ वृद्ध जनों के पास. ---विजय कौशल

कहने को है बहुत कुछ वृद्ध जनों के पास:             विजय कौशल, हिन्दी: 'सलिल' 
 Oldies Have Something Interesting to share:

 

रोचक प्रसंग:

एक लघु कविता A Little Poem   एक और साल गया बीत  जीवन-घट और गया रीत ठंड-गरम पहले था कम अब अधिक है ठण्ड या गरम..   Another year has passed   And we're all a little older.   Last summer felt much hotter   And winter seems much colder.    अभी कुछ ही दिन हुए हैं यार. जीवन में हर तरफ था प्यार. अब मुझको समझ आ रहा- आता क्यों विगत पर दुलार. There was a time not long ago   When life was quite a blast.   Now I fully understand   About 'Living in the Past'   शादियों में बस्ती थी जान. खेल-कूद, दावतों में प्राण. अब अंतिम यात्रा में साथ- शोक-सभा में झुकाए माथ.   We used to go to weddings,   Football games and lunches.   Now we go to funeral homes,   And after-funeral brunches.    हम पार्टी में भी हैं उदास. खुश हैं एक-दूजे के खास. पोर-पोर में समाई पीर- रातों में कैसे हो धीर.  We used to have hangovers,   From parties that were gay.   Now we suffer body aches   And wile the night away.       बाहर दावत का हो चाव. तृप्ति का हमेशा अभाव. बार-बार शंका की भीत- गोली खा शयन बना रीत.   We used to go out dining,   And couldn't get our fill.   Now we ask for doggie bags,   Come home and take a pill.   निकट-दूर जगहों की सैर. मिल न सके कहीं हमें खैर. वाहन में जब हुए सवार- गद्दी चुभे जैसे हों खार. We used to often travel   To places near and far.   Now we get sore asses   From riding in the car.                                                                   हम जाते थे क्लब हर रात     बिन पिए न बनती थी बात.  अब घर में करते आराम.        सुन ख़बरें बीत रहीं शाम.       We used to go to nightclubs   And drink a little booze.   Now we stay home at night   And watch the evening news.     बेढब है जीवन का हाल.     कह-सुन हो रहे हैं निहाल.      इसलिए हर पल लो आनंद.   जब तक कर दे न उम्र मंद. That, my friend is how life is,   And now my tale is told.   So, enjoy each day and live it up...   Before you're too damned old!   ******************