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

Ooooo can I join?

Printed on the back of the IRS tax form 1040 return envelope:
"If you are filing electronically, do not use this envelope"

Printed on Tesco's ready meal packaging:
"peel back plastic film before serving"

Ls-120 "super floppy" installation guide
"Errors and omissions expected"

I have been looking for a forum like this for years.

Y'all need to know that Batesville Caskets (those boxes for burying people in) (dead people) come with a fifty year guarantee.

Lil

I'm sitting here drinking a bottle of Coke, and I've just noticed that on the plastic, screw-top lid it says 'Open by hand'.
Oh, I can just picture the thousands of people up and down the country trying to fit the lid in a bottle opener and wondering why it doesn't work.

Some people are just rampantly, blatantly stupid. There are 142,000 hospitalised clothing-related accidents in the USA every year. Think about it. That means, every 3 and a half minutes, an american manages to seriously injure themselves with their clothes.

Wow just the group I have been looking for, please, please sign me in!!!!! My first contribution is the sign that was hung outside a local store declaring: "Mums $3.33/each or 3 for $9.99". I mean what a BARGAIN!!!! You save absolutely nothing. Even more amazing is that it hung there for at least 4 months and no one seemed to notice or care. Stupid.....

Ooooo can I join?

Printed on the back of the IRS tax form 1040 return envelope:
"If you are filing electronically, do not use this envelope"

Printed on Tesco's ready meal packaging:
"peel back plastic film before serving"

Ls-120 "super floppy" installation guide
"Errors and omissions expected"

Please can I sign up in order to save myself from the pointlessness of studying laws that no-longer exist in this country, and to prevent the Sunny Delight advert from existence!

I've been out of it for a while, a bunch of projects, sorry folks.

I've noticed that a lot calenders for next year have a February 29th, but I recall having heard and looked up that all years divisible by 400 were NOT supposed to be leap years. How can so many people screw up like this? (Y2K excluded)

Ah well,
Lord Xeen

P.S:I need some feedback on this one, I may be wrong

Sorry to tell you this you are wrong. The rule is that years ending in 00, eg 1800,1900 2000 are ONLY leap years if they are divisable by 400, hence 2000 is a leap year whilst 1900 was not,.

Feb 29 is the last major date of the so called Y2K bug, the fist being on day 99 of year 99, the second being 9/9/99 the thrird being the actual change of year.

If you are realy interested 1974 was the last year that the days and dates match the year 2000

Carlas

On a bottle of white spirits, covered with WARNING: HARMFUL signs; 'Not for medicinal use.'

I see you took our loophole
your welcome

yes, and it's making me DIZZY!!!!!!!!!

Can you do the same thing if you include the tag in your name?????

Chris

Unfortuanatly not. Apparently there used to be a loophole so you could put HTML in your user name, but the powers that be took that away fairly promptly!

Hello everybody. I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to anyone who hasn't gotten up on my list yet (read: about the last week's worth), but I've been horribly busy. I promise I'll get them up ASAP.

Post-Script: How do you make those spinning smileys and whatnot?

Having recently bought a 3cm long (1.5 inches approx, for those not on metric) carabiner (clip for attaching a climber to a rope, usually. Made of metal, about 12 cm long) to use as a key ring, there was impressed on one side "not for climbing".

Haven't read all that yet. Do it soon.

Yeh, can I join I.C.A.R.U.S.? I don't see why not.

Has anyone suggested Iron Maiden's Flight Of Icarus as an anthnem for I.C.A.R.U.S.? After all it is a kickass song and it's got Icarus in the title.

Howsabout some Harpers Bizarre laws?

Like this one in Maryland USA:
It is illegal to take a lion to the movies.

And in the UK:
No MP is allowed in the Houses Of Parlinment wearing armour.

There's one law in some town in the north of England. It allows you to shoot a Scottish person on sight, so long as it's with a bow & arrow.

Where are you getting this stuff?

The American one was from Bart Simpson's Guide To Life.

The MP one was from UK science magazine Focus

The last one was from either FHM or Maxim.