Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

It's reported that more than 10,000 marriages a year now are directly traceable to romances which begin during coffee breaks.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The average engagement lasts 6 months.

 

[imready2]

Hmmm

It's reported that more than 10,000 marriages a year now are directly traceable to romances which begin during coffee breaks.

Would you like to go for coffee? Maybe if we have tea we do not have to get married but have just as much fun getting there LOL

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Would you like to go for coffee? Maybe if we have tea we do not have to get married but have just as much fun getting there LOL

According to a survey, the second most popular reason for having sex is to produce a baby.

 

[MSH2]

According to a survey, the second most popular reason for having sex is to produce a baby.

Okay I can guess at the first but was there a third reason?

 

[imready2]

Change of mind

In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was believed to be an aphrodisiac.

It's reported that more than 10,000 marriages a year now are directly traceable to romances which begin during coffee breaks.

According to a survey, the second most popular reason for having sex is to produce a baby.

Maybe go for chicken soup instead as I think I might like reason number one.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The word honeymoon first appeared in the 16th century. 'Honey' is a reference to the sweetness of a new marriage and 'moon' is a bitter acknowledgment that this sweetness, like a full moon, would quickly fade.

 

[MSH2]

The word honeymoon first appeared in the 16th century. 'Honey' is a reference to the sweetness of a new marriage and 'moon' is a bitter acknowledgment that this sweetness, like a full moon, would quickly fade.

It dates a little further, but i cant remember if it dates back to the Viking era or if it was further back and in the middle east. It goes back to the whole honey being an aphrodisiac thing again. The father in law was expected to provide the new groom with mead for a month, which was suposed to make the newly wed couple as randy as rabbits in the springtime and result in a child. This lasted for a lunar month, and hence the term Honeymoon

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

It dates a little further, but i cant remember if it dates back to the Viking era or if it was further back and in the middle east. It goes back to the whole honey being an aphrodisiac thing again. The father in law was expected to provide the new groom with mead for a month, which was suposed to make the newly wed couple as randy as rabbits in the springtime and result in a child. This lasted for a lunar month, and hence the term Honeymoon

Looks like I need to have a word with that romantic website I found

Oldest Bride
Minnie Munro became the world's oldest bride when she married Dudley Reid at the age of 102 on May 31, 1991. Reid, the groom, was 83 years old.

Oldest Groom
Harry Stevens was 103 when he married 84 year old Thelma Lucas at the Caravilla Retirement Home in Wisconsin on December 3, 1984.

 

[MSH2]

Looks like I need to have a word with that romantic website I found

Oldest Bride
Minnie Munro became the world's oldest bride when she married Dudley Reid at the age of 102 on May 31, 1991. Reid, the groom, was 83 years old.

Oldest Groom
Harry Stevens was 103 when he married 84 year old Thelma Lucas at the Caravilla Retirement Home in Wisconsin on December 3, 1984.

They quite often did not spend it in the home they would be sharing either. Spending it at their father in law's house, or in a specially made dwelling. Which probably results in the tradition that sruvives today of going away for your honeymoon

Yeah, that one did seem a little flowery and written by someone a little......... bitter about the whole thing

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The expression, "tying the knot" dates to Roman times, when the bride wore a girdle that was tied in knots - which the groom then had the fun of untying.

Boy they sure knew how to have a good time back then

 

[fire_breeze]

The Catholic Church formally recognizes a total of 11 Valentine's days: Jan 7, Feb 14, May 2, Jul 16, Aug 31, Sep 2, Oct 25, Nov 1 and Nov 3, Nov 11 Nov 13, and Dec 16.

So Tuesday is Valentine's Day!

 

[fire_breeze]

The Longest Engagement
Sixty-seven years, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
The happy couple finally wed at age 82!

 

[MSH2]

The expression, "tying the knot" dates to Roman times, when the bride wore a girdle that was tied in knots - which the groom then had the fun of untying.

Boy they sure knew how to have a good time back then

Its also Celtic in Origin, during the wedding ceremony, the couples hands are tied together with a ribbon to signify the bonds between them

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

You're on a roll tonight MSH2

For Valentine's Day 2000, a liqueur manufacturer created the world's largest box of chocolates. The heart-shaped box, assembled in New York City, measured 15 feet high by 15 feet wide and weighed some 1300 pounds. It held the record until November of 2002, when Marshall Fields broke the record with a 2,002 pound box of chocolates in Chicago.

 

[Daizie]

Most of the time, a horse has "monocular" vision. This means a different image is seen by each eye so that a horse is seeing two different pictures at the same time. A horse can also have "binocular" vision. Binocular vision is when both eyes work together to see one picture (humans have binocular vision). A horse only has binocular vision when it is looking down its nose.

 

[Daizie]

The largest wedding cake ever made was baked for an Australian couple in 1976. It had 29 tiers and was 15 feet tall!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Bad Omens for Brides and Grooms:

* Seeing each other before the ceremony on the day of the wedding

* Seeing a pig, hare or lizard running across the road.

* Spotting an open grave

* Monks and nuns are bad luck too (they foretell barrenness and a life dependent on charity)

* Cloudy skies & wind on the way to the wedding are said to indicate a stormy marriage - snow, on the other hand is associated with fertility & wealth

* On arrival home from the wedding tradition dictates that the new wife must enter her home by the main door and, to avoid bad luck must never trip or fall - hence the custom of being carried over the threshold!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Sorry girls but the word Bride is old-English for 'Cook'! The word Groom means simply 'male child' so 'Bridegroom' means the male marrying the cook!

 

[Daizie]

The oldest weapon still in use in the American military arsenal is the Mameluke hilt sword carried by officers in the U.S. Marine Corps. The sword dates back to the Barbary Pirate Wars of 1801-1807. The sword was given to Lt. Presly O'Banen by the ruler of Tripoli for the aid rendered by the Marines in the Meditteranean Fleet.

 

[fire_breeze]

There are over 3,000 ethnic restaurants in New York City.

In 1925 there were about 17,000 restaurants in New York City.

 

[fire_breeze]

The country whose residents eat at sit down restaurants the least is Russia - Russians eat at restaurants an average of 0.3 meals per month. Residents of Hong Kong eat out at sit down restaurants the most at 8.7 meals per month.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

When a school of baby catfish are threatened, their father opens his huge mouth and the youngsters swim inside to hide. When danger has passed, he reopens his mouth and lets the fry out.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Millions of meteorites fall against the outer limits of the atmosphere every day and are burned to nothing by the friction.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Miami, Florida is the top metropolitan U.S. city for car thefts, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. New York City and Fresno, California follow.