Squid and the Whale, The – DivX Version (Normal Quality), DVD (Good Quality), PDA Version, iPod/iPhone Version
17 Noviembre 2009
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IMDB rating: 7.70 Plot: The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife (Laura Linney) discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family, leaving two teenage sons to forge new relationships with their parents. Linney’s character begins dating her younger son’s tennis coach. Meanwhile, Daniels’ character has an affair with the student his older son is pursuing. |
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Actors: Kline Owen,Daniels Jeff,Eisenberg Jesse,Baldwin William,Benger David,Berkman Bo,Kaplan Matthew,Kaplan Simon,Kirsch Matthew,Schrank Ben,Comedy,Drama,
Animal facts. Star if you like them!?
Slugs have four noses.
All polar bears are left handed.
In a life time, the average person eats eight spiders.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Giant squid have the largest eyes in the world.
All porcupines float.
The world record for sitting in a cage filled with scorpions is 21 days.
Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.
Humans and dolphins are the only mammals that have sex for pleasure.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
It only takes monkeys 10 seconds to mate!
An octopus’s testicles are located in its head.
A duck’s quack does not echo, and scientists have no idea why.
A pig’s orgasm lasts half an hour.
Mozzarella cheese is made from water buffalo’s milk.
Lions can mate over 50 times a day.
The giant sloth sleeps for 17 hours a day, yet dreams for only 70 minutes of that time.
Left undisturbed, a detatched porcupine quill will work its way into human flesh at a rate of 2.5cm a day.
When toads vomit, their reflexes are so strong that they bring up not only their stomach contents but the stomach itself!
Cats can make over 100 individual vocal sounds, whereas dogs can only make 10.
An ant removed from its ant hill and released several kilometres from home will find its way back by its sense of smell.
If you scaled up a barnacle to human size, its penis would measure the height of Nelson’s column!!
Hippopotamus milk is bright pink.
The world’s smallest insect is the fairy fly, only 0.2mm long.
Cheetahs can go from a standing position to 45mph in two seconds.
The Anopheles mosquito that carries malaria is believed to have been responsible for half of all human deaths, not including wars and accidents, since the Stone Age.
Dogs have 17 muscles in their ears so they can turn them in several directions to pick up sounds.
Chamelons and sea-horses can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time which enables them to spot predators more easily.
When feeling nervous, some octopuses will eat their own tentacles which then grow back later.
A giraffe can last longer without water than a camel.
A crocodile has so much acid in its stomach that it can digest steel.
The female black widow spider mates with up to 25 partners a day, eating the male afterwards.
Soon after birth, crab spiders start eating their mother’s limbs. They then survive on them for several weeks.
A blue whale’s tongue is the same size and weight as a full-grown African elephant.
The emperor moth starts life with a large tongue, but the time it has reached maturity, its tongue has shrunk away to nothing. Unable to feed, the moth eventually dies of starvation.
A rodent’s teeth never stop growing .
Crocodiles can grow up 50 new sets of teeth in a lifetime.
Cockroaches can hold their breath for 40 minutes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Polar bears can smell a human from 20 miles away.
Starfish haven’t got brains.
It’s impossible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down stairs.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
A blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
Tarantulas can survive for up to 2 years without eating.
Mother tarantulas kill 99% of the babies they hatch.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.
Ants can survive for 2 weeks underwater and they always fall onto their right side when intoxicated.
Great Danes come from Germany, not Denmark.
A quick read through and I have 5 that are NOT true
1. All polar bears are left handed
A study to determine handedness in bears was conducted in 1902 by a British naturalist. He concluded that there was no handedness in bears.
The origin of the story that polar bears are left handed apparently derives from the anthropologist Richard Nelson who enquired of the natives of the arctic region. The Eskimo have good reason to study the behavior of animals in their environment carefully. However, natives are also infamous for exaggerating and telling tall tales to outsiders.
Many studies into handedness in a wide range of species have been conducted and largely the results show a more or less even L/R split. Certainly in Polar Bears, (like all bears) that are not particularly dextrous, there is no good reason to favour one side to the other as specific dexterity is not a necessity. The evidence exists for no L/R inclination in Polar Bears.
In short, this is simply a widely circulated meme.
2. In a life time, the average person eats eight spiders.
An old-wives tale. Whilst it is entirely possible, the idea that everyone has a ‘quota’ is a myth.
3. A crocodile has so much acid in its stomach that it can digest steel.
It is not the volume of acid, it is the strength and consistency that matters !
4. A blue whale’s tongue is the same size and weight as a full-grown African elephant. ( I notice you have also said "A blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.")
The largest of Blue Whale tongues weigh an absolute maximum of 3 tons with 1.5 tons being a much more common and typical figure. These weights are more comparable with a rhino or hippo.
5. A duck’s quack does not echo, and scientists have no idea why.
Really ? They have no idea why ? Ridiculous and incorrect ! They do echo.
nurnord | Oct 05, 2009
wow!! thanks
Sneha | Oct 05, 2009
There are several items in the list that are either wrong or inconsistent. Therefore doubt has to be placed with the whole list.
Whale tongue weight equal to elephant weight.
Whale tongue weight greater than elephant weight.
Duck’s quack.
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fizixx | Oct 05, 2009
Where did you got those?
seiku~ | Oct 05, 2009
Half of those aren’t even true.
People do not accidentally swallow spiders, that’s a total myth.
Humans and dolphins aren’t the only animals to have sex for fun. Chimps and bonobos do, too. Bonobos are called "the free-love apes" because they mate so often and with so many partners.
A duck’s quack does echo. It’s a myth that it doesn’t.
It isn’t the amount of acid in a crocodile’s stomach that makes the difference, it’s the strength of it.
The female black widow spider may on occasion mate with up to 25 partners, but not every day and not every female by any means. They also do not always eat the male afterwards – often, the male escapes.
Mother tarantulas do not kill 99% of their young. Any animal that did that wouldn’t last long.
All birds can see the colour blue – birds can see into the ultraviolet spectrum, which is invisible to us.
Professor Frink | Oct 05, 2009
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