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

I never did that experiment Lil. I did once once where you got to fling nickels across the room with rubber bands. I got in trouble for that while earning 2nd prize for the science fair.

I thought not.

Why am I not surprised at that Marv?

SC

The Year 7 class I took for Design Technology yesterday had started the year by making a device to shoot pingpong balls across the room, which I think is fantastic. Depite being a trained DT teacher, they made me supervise the class as they copied some stuff out of a text book about hard and soft woods. It's a boys' school. I don't think the DT department know much about the female of the species: they assumed I wasn't qualified .

Rolling nickles? Flinging ping pong balls? I obvioulsy had no fun in school at all.

We did CO2 cartidge cars and rockets, those were fun.

Physics is phun!

We conjugated verbs and other non-fun stuff. There must have been something that was fun. The girl next to me in Chemistry class caught her hair on fire with her bunson burner. Does that count?

Of course it does!

Mr. Clark once jumped on his desk and threw his shoe (a loafer) at the head of Drake Valentine for smarting off in class. That was fun to watch.

SC, veggie haggis is exactly what it sounds like... a vegetarian haggis substitute. Never had any myself but it does really exist!

It's been a real bu**er trying to read a backlog of 120 something posts - I kept getting 502 errors and having to refresh 3 times to get a page up properly.

Wonderful progress on the smoking front, GDZ. You're doing really well.

Had a trip to Oxford today for some CPD - a wonderful interactive presentation on diagnosis and treatment planning for periodontal disease. I'm itching to get back to work.
Saw some of the univ buildings from the taxi window - and want to go back to see more.

Good luck for your exam prep, MR.

Our Chemistry teacher once decided to show us how sodium (or was it potassium? anyway, strange soft grey metal kept in a jar of oil) explodes on contact with water. So we all put our goggles on and she put a bowl of water behind a wee plastic safety screen and dropped a smidge of metal in. It went 'pfft'. For some ungodly reason she then actually listened to the disruptive element at the back of the class yelling 'put a big bit in, miss!'. The resulting bang knocked the safety screen over and blew the ceiling tiles out. We all leapt back and in many cases fell over. Miss was discovered flat on her stomach behind her desk, as she'd ducked a little too vigorously. Amazing.

I built an airplane and a bridge in Physics in high school, and played with H2 gas in Chemistry. Now that I'm in college, we do far much more fun stuff!

I seem to remember doing something with baking soda and vinegar, and building those balsa wood and cardboard rockets. Oh, and using slinkies to represent wave patterns.

A lovely day all the way 'round, so far.

[GDZ]

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> And if you found an alien bible, how would you know it was a bible?

They've got a picture of Jesus on the back cover, but he's got gray skin and weird, black bubble eyes. And three fingers.