November 17, 2008 20:54:57
The modern meaning of the word "spam" comes from the Spam Skit by Monty Python's Flying Circus . In the sketch, a restaurant serves all its food with lots of spam, and the waitress repeats the word several times in describing how much spam is in the items. When she does this, a gro...
September 30, 2008 20:52:13
THE AMAZING STORY OF TOILET PAPER
The amazing history of TP started back in China AD 1391 when the Bureau of Imperial Supplies began making 720,000 sheets of TP every year. Each seet measured 2ft by 3ft (61cm by 91 cm) and was just for the Emperors. Many years later in 1857 Joseph Gayetty's New York company was the first to pack...
April 2, 2009 19:17:33
The first kiss can make or break a relationship. Besides being an emotional experience, kissing tells our primitive brains much about each other. The more different a man's saliva is from the woman's, the stronger the sub-conscious attraction. And research in the animal kingdom is revealing that...
July 25, 2011 22:57:22
In the checkout line at the supermarket an elderly woman asked for a plastic carry bag. The clerk, a 19 year old college student, told the woman that, in future, she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.The woman apologized to the clerk and expl...
October 10, 2010 16:50:20
Once, as a lion lay sleeping in his den after a large meal, a hungry little mouse crept in and started nibbling on left-over crumbs. One of the crumbs was stuck in the lion's tail. Suddenly, the Mighty lion woke with an angry roar and grabbed the mouse up in his claws. "How dare you steal m...
August 1, 2008 14:20:56
A pencil is quiet, clean, odorless, inexpensive, and lightweight. You can slip it in your pocket and take it anywhere - it is a secret friend and probably the most common utensil of our daily lives. Dozens of them lay around our homes and offices and in our pockets, yet we hardly think about it ...
October 14, 2008 20:31:56
They don’t stay closed. They won’t go up half the time. Pull too hard and the pull comes off! Zippers are probably the first machines any of us learn to use as kids. But who first thought up the zipper and how long ago was that? It all started 115 years ago in Chicago. A...
March 25, 2009 14:29:16
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. There was a...
November 21, 2010 05:09:15
Watch Tim Draw Rudolph - video
A short 3 minute Christmas-drawing video-tutorial set to fun country music called Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer. Watch as Tim draws Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer on the timtim Coloring & Drawing Page . Have fun and start drawing! ...
October 18, 2009 18:02:54
Stare at the black cross in the middle of this drawing. Keep your eyes on the cross and you will slowly see the pink dots be washed away by the rotating green dot! Now, try to follow the green dot with your eye around the circle. As you do, the green dot will disappear and all you will see is th...
March 6, 2013 16:51:46
Rabbits don't lay eggs so why do Easter Bunnies bring Easter Eggs?! And what is all this nonsense about hunting for Easter eggs - where did that come from?! Most people think of Easter as the holy days of the Christian Calendar marking the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But many Easter ...
October 30, 2010 13:18:37
The world's biggest Turkey was the size of a large dog and weighed 86 lbs (39 kgs). The turkey, named Tyson, was raised by Philip Cook in the United Kingdom. It was auctioned for charity on December 12, 1989 for $6,692. Back when the United States was founded in 1776, Thanksgiving was not cele...
July 10, 2010 19:25:37
These symbols or logos are a few of the world's best known drawings. Most of them are what we call "brands". They communicate so much and are so powerful that they can be worth millions of dollars. A brand can be a symbol of power and authority, but is most often a promise - a promise...
January 11, 2010 00:42:51
World's Most Sold Comic! Timtim Visits Mort Walker
Just after Thanksgiving 2009, timtim member Graham, his dad Robert, and I watched as Mort Walker focused his thoughts, took pencil and paper, and began to draw. It was a pleasure to the eye and amazing to see his power of concentration. A minute later he’d brought Beetle Bailey to life...