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

Water is the only molecule composed of nothing but gases that is liquid at room temperature.

You got that slightly wrong AbPW, as 'light' and 'hard' are neither synonyms nor oppositres of each other. . The correct jole is 'What's the difference between the lights and the horn?'.

Answer: Well, you can get to sleep with the lights on!

Hmm, it's slightly difficult to believe this as gelatin is merely a carrier/support for the silver salts that react to the light . However, I s'pose it's just possible if different gelatins have different penetrability by light waves of different wavelengths/frequencies .

'correct jole' > 'correct joke'

It's more complicated than that, BigAl. One of the people I used to know at Kodak (now sadly deceased) told me that making photographic film was much like cooking.

It's definitely true, though. I have it on the authority of Edwin Mees, one of the great names of photography (also sadly deceased). Nobody on the planet knew more about the subject than he did.

What about hydrogen peroxide?

Yea I thought that "fact" about water was a bit iffy.

what about nitric acid??

What about it?

its made from gasses yet is liquid at room temp.


isnt it???

Apple was the Beatles record label, John Lennon's wife was Japanese, Ringo is the Japanese word for Apple.

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Linda McArtney

more than 20 different people have been described as "the Fifth Beatle"

the beatles were

john paul george pete and stuart

that was 5 to start with

stuart died pete was sacked

ringo joined the band

ringo was the 6th beatle

how many people claim to be the 7th beatle??????

Jimmy Nichol (sat in for Ringo on tour when he had tonsilitis)
Murray The K (American DJ partly responsible for breaking them in the USA)
Brian Epstein
George Martin
Neil Aspinall
Mal Evans
Tony Sheridan
Klaus Voorman (friend from Hamburg designed the Revolver sleeve and later played bass in Manfred Mann & the Plastic Ono Band)
George Best (according to the Daily Mirror sports writers)
Jimmy Tarbuck (!)
Billy Preston
Yoko Ono
Maharishi Mehash Yogi
Magic Alex (John Lennon's friend who designed the Apple studios)
Harry Nilsson
Derek Taylor
Bert (in the musical John Paul George Ringo & Bert)
Jeff Lynne ('helped out' on Free as a Bird and Real Love by playing what would have been John's guitar parts)

all been described as "the Fifth Beatle" by someone at some point

more on the subject of the fab chappies:

In A Hard Day's Night Norman Rossington is sometimes erroneously assumed to be playing Brian Epstein when he is in fact playing a character based on Neil Aspinall, the Beatles Road manager. John Junkin's character, Shake, is based on Mal Evans.

Mal Evans has a cameo in the film Help where he appears from time to time as the lost channel swimmer, a running gag in the movie. He is also one of the Bus passengers in Magical Mystery Tour.

Victor Spinetti appears in all three films, the only non Beatle to do so.

I have just added this to my collection of quotes:



"Before quoting the Bible to atheists, always ask yourself whether the same statement would be just as effective in your mind if you were quoting Captain Kirk.

If the answer is "yes," then you may be making a good point that people will listen to. If the answer is "no," then you are probably trying to rely on the Bible as something that people will regard as credible in its own right... and atheists, because we are blind to the merits of the Bible, will miss the point."

sorry big A.
my grammar aint all that
so i goes by the old version without the correctness.

According to "The sky at night" the telescope will be 400 next month.

Oh, then it's probably due for a good cleaning by now.