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

Right, the rules:

1. Read this posting. If you read any of the others, you lose.
2. Your subsequent postings must be completely unrelated to the subject matter of any other posting and follow no discernable pattern at all, otherwise you lose.
3. The last person to make an irrelevant posting wins, and shouldn't really ever post anything again anywhere.

This will be good practice for other threads...

Has everybody seen my photos of the London h2g2 Summer Party? You'll find links to them scattered all over h2g2, so I won't include the link here.

The Chinese (Mandarin) name for China is Zhong-guo, which literally means 'Middle Country'. The Chinese naturally saw China as being at the centre of the world. This probably stems from theirs being the most isolated of ancient cultures, and, for centuries, the most advanced.

The English name 'China', comes from the Chin dynasty, the first to unite all of China, who ruled from 221-206 BC.

The "WD" in "WD-40" stands for "Water Dispersant".

Legally, "LIVE" in the corner of a TV picture just means that the content is no more than 15 minutes old. It does not mean "unedited".

Many plastics are actually only plastic during the manufacturing process, and are rigid and brittle by the time they reach the consumer.

I have a 37" multisync video monitor (35" viewable) lying in pieces behind me, waiting until I can locate an NTE2533 transistor to fix it.

As far as I know, Akira Kurosawa never made a light comedy musical in his entire career.

An Afghan family are preparing to be deported after being forceably removed from a Mosque in the West Midlands. (Quote from BBC news)

Hmmm,interesting so far. But remember,the more information you post, the more likely it'll be relevant to something. Oh and I forgot the fourth rule.

4. The creator of the thread acts as referee and reads posts to check for relevance.

But of course, nobody read that...

The Philips CD-R80, as the packaging claims, is a "1~32X compatible 80min/700MB disk". The packaging goes on to claim "superior data integrity and reliability through advanced CD-R technology".

HTH to all those asking.

Liam.

In 1974, the 'great' Leeds United team reached the final of the European Cup. This was the culmination of a decade of perseverence and guile of a very talented bunch of footballers.

Unfortunately, they were cheated by a dodgy set of Germans and a blind refferee. *Last sentance was pure opinion and therefore should not be moderated!* It is also the opinion of It's all too much..... that most refferees are blind, and most Bayern Munich players are dodgy.

During the game, a superior LUFC outfit scored a perfectly good freekick, through the genius right boot of Peter Lorimer. To this day nobody - not even the Germs, know why the r*f disallowed it. Later, Eddie 'the last waltz' Gray completely bamboozled Beckenbaur, who brought him down for the clearest penalty in footie history - NOT GIVEN.

A dejected Leeds side conceded a dodgy late goal, and lost. LUFC have never won the European Cup. Despite winning the Uefa Cup several times, they can never truly claim to be Champions of Europe. Not that I'm bitter or anything........

The town of Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, Western Scotland, is generally considered to be the most picturesque in Scotland and is frequently pictured on the covers of guide books. With its multicoloured houses along the seafront, it is certainly nice. Despite having both a Womble and a talking cat named after it, the name originally means "the Well of St Mary".

My middle name is Robert.







That's it.

Although I've already had to disqualify myself, I will of course still carry on posting, since no-one knows this as they aren't reading the other postings. However,

5. As referee (I definitely didn't read the comments earlier) I'm the only one who's allowed to do this. Otherwise, chaos will obviously ensue.

Sorry. I couldn't help reading the earlier postings out of curiosity. Damn. And I was doing so well.

Never mind - what I've lost in participation, I've gained in knowledge. Fascinating about the WD40........

Dog biscuits.

Unless you are Scottish () you probably won't know this but the Scottish Bowling Team have gone in the huff because their captain can't carry the flag at the opening ceremony.

That's alright, you can carry on playing - I didn't read your last posting

Ooh, thanks!

Crab Sticks contain bugger all crab.
They are now officially known as Crab Flavoured sticks.
Or 'The scurge of Whitby'.

i want to apologise to everyone for Dirty Vegas' Ghosts track - its a big pile of poo

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

And Alex Trebek looks naff without a moustache.

I have just been told (2 minutes ago), that the bank of England was founded by a Scottish person, and the bank of Scotland was founded by an English person.

Sounds possible. I think.

(BTW, this has nothing to do with the other Scottish post which, of course, I didn't read. As shown by the fact that I received this information from an independent source AFTER I didn't read that post. )

You seem to be getting the idea, Garentee

The saxophone was invented in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian instrument maker, in an attempt to improve the Bass Clarinet. Sax's original sax was enormous! He walked from Brussels to Paris carrying this beast to present it at a trade fair - sure enough, he managed to win the contract for the supply of these instruments to the French Military Marching Bands. In the 20th Century, the sax became more the instrument of jazz and swing, with such notables as Charlie Parker.