A Conversation for Ask h2g2
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
The Groob Posted Aug 28, 2007
Fossil hunter Richard Leakey reproaches Houston museum for using 3.3 million year old skeleton as a "prostitute"
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6257fb56-5aa2-4b5f-9443-4b07eb36d250
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
plodrog Posted Aug 29, 2007
Pick the bones out of that!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3876401.stm
Arms before poverty. Those that have it want it protected before giving it to others? Cynical as ever.
p.
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
Ballynac Posted Aug 29, 2007
This really made me laugh.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSHER94722820070829?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
I love that his prosthesis made him unduly sensitive to the weather!
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
badger party tony party green party Posted Aug 29, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6967474.stm
He added that there were many interesting applications for adhesive suits, in areas ranging from space exploration to defence. The work could also aid the design of gloves.
Can someone please forward this to the England goal keeping coach.
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
A Super Furry Animal Posted Aug 30, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6970468.stm
Why, exactly, was this minute's silence being held? He had no connection to either club, so far as I can see.
RF
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
The Groob Posted Aug 30, 2007
404? Wossitallabout RF?
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Aug 30, 2007
Brits 'addicted' to cheap flights
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6970730.stm
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
A Super Furry Animal Posted Aug 30, 2007
Gosh, that was a quick one...it only appeared about 5pm.
The story was that a one minute's silence was held at a football match between Millwall & Southend United, because of the death of an 11-year-old in Liverpool. It was apparently "ruined" by some Millwall fans, who (quite rightly IMHO) wondered what the duck was going on.
RF
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
Ballynac Posted Aug 31, 2007
She may have been a gerat lady (open to debate) but why is she still the front page story???
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6971415.stm
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
Xanatic Posted Aug 31, 2007
It seems the campaign to get people to stop with drink and drive is working. This woman realized herself that she was too drunk to drive home. Instead she let her five year old son do it for her:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BFZ2UAFPVB13NQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/08/31/wdrive131.xml
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
taliesin Posted Aug 31, 2007
"There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/08/30/sci-web.html
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Aug 31, 2007
'Experts are debating whether the web is the work of social cobweb spiders working together, or a mass dispersal where the arachnids spin webs to move away from one another.'
Rubbish, it's one giant behind it all, can't you see?
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Aug 31, 2007
Ever wondered *where* those test bombings took place?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/30/btsc.chance.nukes/index.html
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Aug 31, 2007
http://www.the-fly.co.uk/story.aspx?id=467
Supergrass bass player Mick Quinn has broken his neck while sleepwalking.
I hecking love Supergrass, and he's a fine, fine purveyor of melodic, couterpointy bass lines.
Get well soon dude.
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Sep 1, 2007
'Military scientists tested mustard gas on Indians'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2160245,00.html
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
Alfster Posted Sep 1, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6971328.stm
Um, no shit Sherlock!
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
SilviaWordsworth Posted Sep 1, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6974110.stm
Makes me want to grow a beard, just to compete
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
Maria Posted Sep 1, 2007
A British( he was on holidays in the south of Spain) was taken to hospital
he was discussing about football with some friends
and he did a rude gesture with his arms (one hitting the other, donĀ“t know the word, but it is very common and means something like
k off!! He did it so vehemently that with his own fist he beat his eye fell off the stool and hit the floor.
Although he was very he kept the smile and laughed at himself Btw they were two English and two scottish men.
The gesture is called "a cut of sleeves" in my language
Key: Complain about this post
'What news story has caught your attention today?' thread
- 2181: The Groob (Aug 28, 2007)
- 2182: plodrog (Aug 29, 2007)
- 2183: Ballynac (Aug 29, 2007)
- 2184: badger party tony party green party (Aug 29, 2007)
- 2185: A Super Furry Animal (Aug 30, 2007)
- 2186: The Groob (Aug 30, 2007)
- 2187: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Aug 30, 2007)
- 2188: A Super Furry Animal (Aug 30, 2007)
- 2189: zendevil (Aug 31, 2007)
- 2190: Ballynac (Aug 31, 2007)
- 2191: Xanatic (Aug 31, 2007)
- 2192: taliesin (Aug 31, 2007)
- 2193: Titania (gone for lunch) (Aug 31, 2007)
- 2194: Titania (gone for lunch) (Aug 31, 2007)
- 2195: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Aug 31, 2007)
- 2196: Researcher U197087 (Sep 1, 2007)
- 2197: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Sep 1, 2007)
- 2198: Alfster (Sep 1, 2007)
- 2199: SilviaWordsworth (Sep 1, 2007)
- 2200: Maria (Sep 1, 2007)
More Conversations for Ask h2g2
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."