DID YOU NOTICE?

* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag that got the most mail. 
	First, it's actually an old Canadian flag, if I recall correctly
(the maple leaf is actually quite new... part of the 1967 centennial
stuff, I believe) - it's just so small it's easily mistaken for the stars and 
stripes. 
	Second, the Canadian $2 bill no longer exists, except in our 
memories and collector's vaults.  We now have the toonie coin
(you know, the one that falls apart if you throw it hard, a good partner 
for the loonie...) -Heather the Buzzard 
	And Bill Clark wrote The flag on the Parliament Buildings on the
Canadian two-dollar bill is ... the Canadian Red Ensign, which was a
defacto flag for Canada until 1965 when the current design was adopted.
It has a Union Jack in the upper-left, a red field and the Canadian coat
of arms on the field. See http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/ca.html for an image
of the Red Ensign. 
	The image on the two is VERY small.  One can see that the flag is not
the current one, but other detail is lacking.  Apparently I got the last decent
education left in Canada, as this urban legend spreads easily.  Sigh :--( 

* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
of the $5 bill. The actual Lincoln Memorail does in fact have the names of all
50 states listed across its top. However, the the list of states continues
across ALL FOUR SIDES of the monument, so that even if the level of detail
in the engraving were sufficient that state names could be made out under a 
magnifying glass (which looking at a $5 bill with the naked eye, I sincerely doubt),
only a subset of the 50 state names would be depicted on the bill!- Danny Fahs 

*No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 

*"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters  "mt". 

* There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 

*In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed
on a watch is 10:10. 

* The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing 
cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." 

     Unrhymables: (n+1)th (OK, that's a stretch), sporange (=sporangium),
chilver (ewe-lamb), curple (crupper, butt). 
     Dreamt: I'm pretty sure 'amt' (a German or Scandinavian political
division) is naturalized enough to be in recent unabridgeds. 
     Words in -dous: there are dozens, the shortest probably being 'iodous'.
The next-to-latest *Imponderables* book has a bunch of them. 
     Clocks in ads set to 10:10: I think the Straight Dope debunked this a
while back, along with the claim that the time is that of Lincoln's assassination. 
     Origin of 'Oz': I've seen the claim, but I believe the consensus of Oztrologers
is that the origin remains unknown. He also invented lands like Mo, Ix, and Ev,
the first two, at least, before Oz, and nobody seems to feel the need to
explain those.-Treesong 



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