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

How many calories in a fly? How many do I have to eat cycling to work to count as breakfast?

Depends whether they are button or zipper, probably...

I think this article is saying that there are 918 calories per kilogram for a house fly (see table near the end).

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34172/title/Why-Insects-Should-Be-in-Your-Diet/

Deep fried flies are probably not particularly healthy.

And cheeseburger and flies a poor choice too.

Frozen fly yogurt would be the healthy alternative to flies cream.

PP.

Don't people swallow a lot of spiders while they're asleep, or is that just an urban myth?

More urban mythses than myth aka an old wives tail

Are the old wives with a tail something to do with David Ickes' lizards?

I don't have any wife at all, let alone an old one, so there's no one I can ask.

I am lucky apart from a habit of buying some arty farty tat mine is excellent and I would not part with her for anything

Paulh, not only do we not swallow spiders in our sleep, this "factoid" was created by a columnist in 1993 to demonstrate how gullible people were when seeing lists of "facts".

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp

I already knew that, of course, but it's a big world. Surely there must be people who swallow spiders in their sleep occasionally. Otherwise, how to explain some scenes in "Arachnophobia?



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099052/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I swallow a spider for every fly - sort of a desert, maybe, a chaser or a catcher? I don't know why I swallow flies.

Have you conidered your mortality recently?

I know an old woman who swallowed a fly.

I don't know why she swallowed a fly.

PP.

She has gray hair. Perhaps she'll dye.

And, as to the horse?

She'll dye it another color.