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

Usually you bowl by rolling a ball down a lane toward a row of pins. Here you throw a pin at a ball. The balls have some protective bars in front of them, to make the sport more challenging. Most people would not find this sport very interesting, but today is national whiskey sours day, as well as national banana split day. Regardless of you success here, you will get the free drink or dessert of your choice afterward.

The hard part is getting here, as there are leopards guarding the place....

This young burglar association training session starts with a simple combination lock...

Talk about sucking a gobstopper! No way am I trying that one

Never eat anything that's bigger than your head.

HA! I've watch "your" tv prog - diners/dive-ins and drives

Has the N......l s......y A....y been showing surveillance footage of me on television again?

The size of the mealsno wonder "you" need doggie bags

The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe doesn't go anywhere near me, prof. And if it did, I would probably not have any of the big meals on the menu.

"everyone" says "this is the best food for health/diet etc etc" and that's changed over the centuries I'll eat what I want and when I wantand at now 69yrs - healthy eating rubbish!

There's a germ of truth in each of the current dietary theories. I'm not saying this to give the originators credit. Mostly their success is due to the placebo effect. people *think* they're doing something good, and this positive attitude helps them somewhat. For a while, at least. if their food choices square with their individual metabolisms and DNA, so much the better. We're all different.

People who don't want to do a lot of extra work to get the best nutrition can take a tip from Julia Child, who said that most doctors think it's all right to eat a little bit of everything. Foie gras? Chocolate cake? Bouillabaisse? Oui, oui! But not more than a little bit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49551337

what were his parents doing ????

Multiple vitamins taken daily would have helped stave off this problem. I don't know if chips can be fortified with vitamins, but......

There seems to be a modern consensus that multiple vitamins are useless. After reading that story, I beg to disagree.

good few year ago, a child over here wouldn't eat anything but baked beans.
His parents saw doctors etc and the conscientious was - don't worry, he'll all the vitamins etc he'll need, nothing was heard via news media after ?

When Margot Fonteyn was a little girl, her parents worried because all she would eat was potatoes and baked beans. Apparently this worked out well for her.

all these folk that take various vitamins etc each day, are wasting their time and moneyyour body takes whatever vitamins etc it needs and offloads the rest
"you" have enough iron in your body, equivalent to a 1ins nail. So extra iron tabs not needed unless medically needed of course

The vitamins I take have *no* iron in them. If iron levels in my body were too high or too low, my doctor would let me know. So far, he's never mentioned them. The only things he';s cautioned me about are taking in too much calcium or potassium (one of my medications is a potassium-sparing one).

Everybody's different. If I wake up in the middle of the night with a charleyhorse, I gulp down a potassium capsule. Problem solved.

If Charley Horse is there, is Lamb Chop there as well?