Shortest English sentence using all the letters of the alphabet

August 25th, 2008

You already know the longest name, the longest English word, the hairiest family and many other stuff. But this time around I want to share with you guys, the shortest English sentence ever using all the letters of the alphabet. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. A complete English sentence must have a subject and predicate. You cannot have a complete sentence without them. Thus coming up with the shortest English sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet is not an easy task. By the way, a sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet is called Pangram. Such sentences are also called holalphabetic sentences. Further to clear up things, the shortest complete sentence using all the English alphabet is not “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” which is stated by WikiAnswers. The fact that it is not the shortest is because [...] Continue Reading…

Why there is no Vodka drinking contest? When there is all other drinking contests?

August 25th, 2008

I am sure most of you know that there is Beer Drinking Competition but have you ever heard of some Vodka drinking competition? Even though Russians love drinking Vodka and not only do they love drinking Vodka actually an individual consumes about 15L of Vodka a year. Being a cold country, one would say what else they can do? And I agree on that part, but the actual question remains answered why there is no Vodka drinking competition? Well here why?A bar in Russian town of Volgodonsk actually decided to hold a Vodka drinking competiting in 2003. Why in Russia? Well as I said Russians are famous for their Vodka consumption. The winner was to get a prize which is not known to anyone to this date some say the the prize was more Vodka for the rest of the year. The competition started and the winner actually consumed [...] Continue Reading…

World’s Hairiest Family

August 24th, 2008

You have heard of Werewolf? I bet you have, everyone knows the word and it became popular with the ever so popular movie X-Men, my point is not that, believe it or not these pictures are real and there is actually a clan in Mexico called The Ramos Gomez Clan and they are exactly like the pictures above. Now mind you they are not Werewolves but the clan is suffering from Hypertrichosis or in layman’s term “werewolf syndrome” which causes thick hair to grow over the entire body. 95% of the body covered by hair.
According to Guinness World Book of Records, this Mexican clan is the hairiest  family in the world. In fact two of the family member are very well known around the world as they travel everywhere to perform their shows. They are known as Brothers Larry and Danny Ramos Gomez, according to what I read at [...] Continue Reading…