h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

on saturdays, it's perfectly legal to drive as sozzled as you like, so long as you wear a red glove on one hand and a blue glove on t'other.

The webbed feet of ducks are actually made of lead. Their legs actually extend telescopically to 6.5 metres, enabling them to walk along the bottom of ponds. Obviously, without telescopic legs, the ducks would just sink. Lobsters are ducks who have evolved to "breathe" underwater.

The Stig from Top Gear is Jeremy Clarkson's son

no, i'm the stig from top gear.

For all foreign visitors to the UK.

We don't do kissing on the cheek here in the UK. It is considered poor form. It is acceptible to kiss "full on".

PP

No, I'm the Stig from Top Gear



Oops just had a Spartacus moment ...

...strange but true... sparticus was actually from a wee hebridean island, and prefered the company of sheep at nights. also filed his teeth down to sharp little points.

...and I'M the stig.

Dame Ellen MacArthur sailed around the world single-handedly to face head-on her lifelong phobia of accidentally circumnavigating the globe.

On returning to planet earth, Buzz Aldrin took Neil Armstrong straight to a pub and downed a bottle of vodka in front of Armstrong to show who was hardest.

"On returning to planet earth, Buzz Aldrin took Neil Armstrong straight to a pub and downed a bottle of vodka in front of Armstrong to show who was hardest."



people who work in the travel industry are actually all only 'pretend' people, like off that film, 'The Island'

"The word gullible has been removed from the dictionary"

So many people are saying this now that new editions of the Collins dictionary feature a paragraph in the explanatory notes to explain that it is not true.

National Geographic recently discovered a tribe of pygmy chimpanzees that perform line dancing as part of their mating ritual.

The butcher dance is done once every few years by an amazonian tribe.

I phoned that "Mint" show on ITV the other week and won half a million quid on my first attempt. You should all give it a go, it really does work............

On Saturday March 10 for just one hour between 12 - 1pm Tesco will allow shoppers to fill their trolleys with anything and walk out without paying. If it proves to be popular then they will do it again next week.

..in a similar bid to increase business, branches of the royal bank of scotland are offering people under the age of 25, who can prove they have access to family silver, interest-free mortgages and loans of up to £500,000.

The Norwegian warbler sparrow is so small and rare that nobody knows for sure if it even exists.

Thanks to recent medical breakthroughs and an intensive regime of drug therapy, Gary Coleman - the star of Diff'rent Strokes - is now six feet tall.

a recent survey conducted by the BMA concluded that a minimum of 6 packets of crisps and 5 cans of full-fat fizzy juice should be consumed per day to ensure a healthy balanced diet.

Tony Blair is solar-powered

Pandas find it so difficult to breed because, to pandas, other pandas look like cardboard boxes.

Ironically, biblical folk often described the Virgin Mary as resembling a piece of toast.

The sea surrounding Southampton has a slight champagne flavour from all the ship launches that occured there.

Big Brother contestants are usually considered smartest people Britain has to offer and regarded as higher in stature than all but three members of the Royal Family.