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when the emergency number 9-1-1 in the united states was first implemented, people accually called asking for the "eleven" (11) key location.....


there is only one species of marsupial native to north america.... the opossum

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The Dave Clark Five was the first British rock group to come to the US. The Beatles were the second group to come to the US.

There are slight differences between Cockney and Australian Accents that only a person with a trained Ear can pick up.

Gauge 12 is a bore daimeter 18.52mm

Sometimes I forget to pee.

It's a scientifically proven fact that everyone in the universe likes at least one song by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

There is an inverse correlation between how long someone's rant is and how much sense they're making.

The Beatles were the first band to have a #1 UK hit with a song they wrote themselves. The song was "Please, Please Me," released in 1963. The second band to do that was the Zombies, with "She's Not There" in 1964. Ron Argent, the Zombies' organist and chief songwriter, wrote that song when he was 18, and he was 19 when it went to #1.

The Beatles' first UK single, released in fall of 1962, was "Love Me Do" which was only a minor hit.

The Beatles where first played on US airways in December of 1963. By then the British press had already coined the term "Beatlemania" and the term was used in a big media blitz to promote the Beatles stateside. Their single "I Want Hold Your Hand" was certified #1 in the US in January 1964, selling 500,000 copies in 10 days.

The Beatles had 20 #1 hits in the US, with over another 30 more top 40 hits, over only 6 years.

The Beatles originally were a "Merseybeat" band, a style of pop-rock music influenced by English skiffle and and American R&B that evolved around Liverpool adn teh Merseyside county in the late '50. By the mid-1865, they had evolved well beyond their early Merseybeat sound. Many Merseybeat bands, including the Beatles, got regular gigs in Hamburg, Germany, where they honed their performance skills and tested new material.

The Beatles came up with their name because John Lennon liked the name of Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets. He liked the idea of naming a band after "musical incests."

John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met on June 15, 1957 (I was born on the same day, 14 years later ).

Between 1967 and 1970, CCR sold more full length albums than the Beatles, even though many people thought the Beatles were more popular.

The Beatles' last album is really Abbey Road, which was recorded after Let It Be. Due to production complications and other hassles, Abbey Road was released before Let It Be.

LOL - I don't think I'll ever be able to hear a Beatles song without laughing now!

The Cockney accent and the Australian accent sound totally different!
Maybe it's easier for me coming from London. But I reckon almost any Brit would be able to tell the difference.

Or did you mean "There are slight differences between Cockney and Australian Accents that only a person with a trained Ear can pick up ... as opposed to the many big differences between the two that are bleedin' obvious"?

Now, comparing Aussie and Kiwi accents is another matter ...

All the alkali metals are very dangerous near water.

Also, if you balance the equation for photosynthesis, you get:
<b>6</b>Carbon Dioxide + <b>6</b>Water --> <b>6</b>Diatomic Oxygen + Glucose

Therefore, photosynthesis= the equation of evil!

Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are the tallest Building built yet both towers are 1,483 ft and have 88 stories.

Martin Luther King was instrumental in the formation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The text of his "I have a dream" speech can be found here: http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html

Because I mispelled "insects"? *sigh* I do that a lot. I once wrote a long post in another forum about the different behaviors betweent wo types of insects, and spelled insect "incest" in every spot.

There's other words I regularly type instead of the word I am thinking. For the most part I know to look for them because it's always the same groupings of words my brain mixes up, like "also" and "always" - I often type one when I mean the other. And it's not even a simple misspelling.

I can tell tehdifference and I'm no Brit. I've been around a lot more Aussies though, so a Cockney accent sounds very distinct to me because it's less familiar.



I can't speak of CockneyRebel, but I suspect there are things that probably sound similar but are in fact different.



Oy, you're telling me. Ever p*ssed off a Kiwi by confusing him with an Aussie?