Fun_People Archive
22 Jan
Numbers You Never Wanted to Know...

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 01:01:32 -0800
To: Fun_People
Subject: Numbers You Never Wanted to Know...

From: Daniel Steinberg <dss@opcode.com>
Ret: Numbers You Always Wanted to Know...


>-  85% of women wear the wrong bra size.
And boy, do they get Killer Headaches!
[http://www.empire.net/~psl/Fun_People/1996/1996CBY.html  -psl]
[UPDATE: The Fun_People archive moved in September 1998 to:
	<http://www.langston.com/Fun_People/>  -psl]

>-  Over 50% believe in spanking - but only a child over 2 years old.
And how many believe only in spanking an adult over 21?

>-  85% of us will eat Spam this year.
The other 15% will compose at least one haiku about it.

>-  62% of us pop our zits.
24% of us pop our spouse's zits.
13% of us pop our spouses in the nose when they pop our zits.

>-  37% claim to know how to use all the features on their VCR.
But less than 1% actually know what all the features on their VCR are.

>-  2 out of 3 of us wouldn't give up our spouse even for a night for a
>	million bucks.
But 50% of us would sleep with another woman for a million bucks.  (Guess
which 50%)

>-  66% of women and 59% of men have used a mix to cook and taken credit for
>	doing it from scratch.
While 37% of women have blamed a mix for the failure of a recipe they tried
from scratch.

>-  On average, we send 38 Christmas cards every year.
On average, 15 of them are sent between December 26 and February 15.

>-  20% of women consider their parents to be their best friends.
29% consider them to be their worst nightmare.
Note: -  14% have attended a self-help meeting.
      -  15% regularly go to a shrink.

>-  1 in 5 men proposed on his knees.
>-  6% propose over the phone.
>-  71% can drive a stick-shift car.
Well, *i* proposed in a stick-shift car, but i don't know if that statistic
is relevant.

>-  4 out of 5 sing in the car.
4 out of 5 also pick their nose in the car.  Coincidence?
[I think not!  -psl]

>-  56% of men have had sex at work.
4% with a partner.

>-  The most common fantasy is oral sex.
The most common fantasy is winning the lottery.  Get real.

© 1997 Peter Langston