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#6 Do you know how to write a haiku?


LINE
 SYLLBLES
 SUGGESTED CONTENT
1
 5
 The subject of the haiku.
2
 7
 What the subject does.
3
 5
 A summerizing punchline.

Example 1
 Example 2
Sunlight on water.
 Black-and-white mayhem.
Dapples the riverbed where
 Bounces among the branches
Hides the spotted trout.
 Hungry for baubles.
#7 Do you know how to say "excuse me?"

Chinese......................................................................."Dui bu qui"
Croatian......................................................................."Oprostite"
Dutch..........................................................................."Pardon"
French........................................................................."Pardonnez-moi"
German......................................................................."Entschuldigung"
Greek.........................................................................."Me synchoreite"
Iranian(Persian/Farsi)................................................."Bebbakhshid"
Italian.........................................................................."Scusi"
Japanese..................................................................."Sumimasen"
Polish........................................................................."Przepraszam"
Russian and Serbian................................................."Izvinite"
Spanish....................................................................."Perdon"
Swedish...................................................................."Ursakta"
Yiddish....................................................................."Antshuldik(t)"
#8 Do you know your lifetime averages? +
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Time spent eating...............................................3 years
Time spent waiting for things..............................3 years
Time spent talking..............................................10 years
Time spent sleeping...........................................22 years
Number of times fingers bent and straightend...25 million
Number of smells remembered..........................10,000
Distance traveled on foot....................................22,500km(14,000 miles)
Length of hair grown...........................................1,000km (621 miles)
Volume of tears shed..........................................65l (14.3 gal)
Weight of skin shed.............................................47.5kg (105lb)
Number of ballons you could fill with exhaled air.14 million
Litres of blood pumped round body.....................380,000l (100,000gal)
Number of cells produced....................................750,000 billion
Time spent on the loo...........................................6 months

#9 Do you know some abbreviations?
  • AKA................................................Also Known As
  • ASAP.............................................As Soon As Possible
  • DVD...............................................Digital Versitile Disk
  • ETA...............................................Estimated Time Of Arrival
  • ISP................................................Internet Service Provider
  • MRSA...........................................Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
  • NB................................................Nota Bena (note well)
  • RSVP...........................................Respondez S'il Vous Plait (please reply)
  • TWAIN.........................................Technology Without Any Interesting Name
  • FIFO............................................First In First Out
  • AWOL.........................................Absent Without Leave
  • BYO...........................................Bring Your Own
  • TBC...........................................To Be Confirmed
  • SWAT.......................................Special Weapons And Tactics
  • SCUBA....................................Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
#10 Do you know what kind of maniac you are?
(Maniac: A person that is obsessed with somthing)
Pyromaniac...........................................................Fire
Balletomaniac.......................................................Ballet
Islomaniac............................................................Islands
Egomaniac...........................................................Yourself
Biblomaniac.........................................................Books
Dipsomaniac.......................................................Alcohol
Antomaniac........................................................Flowers
Graphomaniac...................................................Writing
Dromomaniac....................................................Running
Monomaniac.....................................................One thing
Mythomaniac....................................................Lying
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