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

Any Jasper Fforde fan will be very nervous of glowing cucumbers....

Ok... we've got the , now all we need is a pickle to plug them into.

Toxic barbs on a cucumber skin :

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150537855778527&set=pu.6607338526&type=1&theater

They're tryign to kill us! the cucumbers will inherit the earth! quick, run to the hills, and hide in the blue sheep... where'd all the blue sheep go?

I assume that's a sea going cucumber and may glow all on its own.

I wonder how many are glowing... right now

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Now, there's a coincidence

Spare a thought for Gherkin and his true love Piccalili.

10 radioactive substances, including things that glow:

http://chemistry.about.com/od/nuclearchemistry/tp/10-Radioactive-Products.htm

The only one on there I really knew for certain, was the smoke detectors... but I had a vague notion most food had small amounts, and simularly stone/ceramic stuff

Mind, non of it has a patch on my kettle, which I bought from a Rusian I met in the pub... Its great, boils water really* quick, and you don't even need to plug it in I think he called it the Uraniukettle...

After all these years, how did we miss this?

Every New Year's Eve in Mount Olive, North Carolina they celebrate by dropping a giant glowing pickle.

http://www.wral.com/lifestyles/travel/video/11894792/

*faints*

Interesting to hear on BBC 'Breakfast' this morining about a long-lost lucrative vein of 'Blue John' being discovered in Derbyshire. However, they didn't explain what it is chemically. It is 'fluorite' (Calcium fluoride): The usually colourless crystals fluoresce blue when heated, thus giving rise to its name.http://www.bluejohnstone.co.uk/

Does it taste of pickle though?

Workin' in a pickle mine,
Goin' down, down.
Workin' in a pickle mine,
Woops, about to slip down.

I've currently rediscovered my pickle addiction... pickled gherkins.... mainly due to a new stash found at a Turkish, well, Curdish actually, small corner shop... their jars of pickled gherkins, also contain a few cloves of garlic, plus chili peppers... which makes for a pretty-tasty pickle plus I need the electrolytes thesedays I've yet to try them for their glowing ability

[UPDATE]

Some guys in Austin featured Glowing Pickles in this week's episode of The Modern Rogue.


(Brian Brushwood started off as a performing magician and then became a YouTube star teaching folks how to con their friends with bar tricks before creating the Modern Rogue channel.)

http://youtu.be/Y6qh8pllV78