quote: Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer completely honestly. Annie asks David if he would marry her again if he could have the time over again and David confides that he misses his freedom and so probably wouldn't. Later that day, an official from the town where they got married calls to see David. He explains that owing to a state boundary dispute, all couples married between 1936 and 1939 in the county where not legally married. David decides to have fun with this fact, but unbeknown to him, the county official calls to see Annie too and disaster results.
It's the same name, but it doesn't sound like it's a remake.
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quote: Curiosity killed the cat. And I just filled all my tires with curiosity.
That doesn't seem to make sense to me. It did last night, but now it doesn't.
Curiosity killed the cat.
I'm with you so far.
I just filled all my tires with curiosity.
Doesn't this say you filled your tires with whatever killed the cat? Like in Air or something? Shouldn't it be that your tires killed the cat for the joke to be correct? Or that your tires or car are "curiosity"? Basically, what's curiosity in the statement?
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Did you know that the city name of Montreal came from the fact that the mountain in the city was names Mount Royal?
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Did you know that there are four chemical elements named after the small Swedish village of Ytterby? They are erbium, terbium, yttrium, and ytterbium.
Did you know that, aside from a five-year period of Nazi occupation, the Dutch throne has been held continuously by women since 1890? They are Queen Wilhelmina (1890-1940, 1945-48), Queen Juliana (1948-80), and Queen Beatrix (1980-present).
Did you know that Rio de Janeiro was once the capital of Portugal? It happened in 1808 when the Portuguese royal court fled Portugal for fear of invasion by Napoleon, and remained there for thirteen years. This period marks the only time in history when a European nation was ruled from a city in the Americas.
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quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: Did you know that "Flushing Queens" is the name of a neighborhood in New York and not the name of a gay plumbing company?
Sure you did.
Everyone who watched "The Nanny" knows that!
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Did you know that Constantinople became Istanbul when the Turks asked farmers when going into the city where the road they were on led and the farmers replied "into the city" which, in Greek, is eis tan polei.
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quote:Did you know that "Boca Raton" means "Rat Mouth"?
No it doesn't, although this piece of urban lore is often repeated. Ratón does not mean "rat"; it is a false cognate. Ratón means "mouse"; rata means "rat".
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*dryly* Clearly you have never lived in a place infested with mice. Mice are only cute when in a cage. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Rats make very friendly, intelligent, cuddly pets. If you can get over the tails. I didn't think I would be able to, but I fell in love with my family's first pet rat.
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quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: Did you know that "Flushing Queens" is the name of a neighborhood in New York and not the name of a gay plumbing company?
Sure you did.
Everyone who watched "The Nanny" knows that!
OH yeah!
I own the first season on DVD.
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