Twisters Fact Of The Day and Riddle Thread !

[Twisteruk]

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. HL MENCKEN (1880-1956)

[ThomasGrant]

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. HL MENCKEN (1880-1956)

Ahh, the Origin of Species...

Who is smarter?
Ape or Man?

Man has the technology to not only destroy our species...
But that of thousands of others as well.

What does an Ape have...
A banana..

Tastes good.
Is good for you.
And wont destroy the planet any time soon.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

link:://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

[ThomasGrant]

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

link:://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

[ThomasGrant]

Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is...

link:://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

[Twisteruk]

And its getting bigger !

[Twisteruk]

There are about 8,000 named varieties of apple. More than 40 million tons of apples are produced in the world each year.

[Twisteruk]

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963)

 

[Twisteruk]

The world's largest producer of apples is China. The Chinese never give apples to invalids because ping, the Chinese for apple, sounds a bit like bing, which is Chinese for illness.

[Twisteruk]

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)

[Twisteruk]

If you want to make an apple-pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. CARL SAGAN (1934-96)

 

[Twisteruk]

Apple-pie beds have nothing to do with either apples or pies. The expression comes from the French nappe pliee, meaning 'folded cloth'.

[Twisteruk]

With an apple, I will astonish Paris. PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906)

 

[Twisteruk]

The word 'apple' derives from the name of the Roman town of Abella (now Avella) in Campania, Italy

[Twisteruk]

The average American eats nearly twenty pounds of fresh apples a year.

[Twisteruk]

An apple is an excellent thing - until you have tried a peach. GEORGE DU MAURIER (1834-1896)