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

I just have a lot of Opera notes - if I started writing it all down on paper, I'd run out of old envelopes very fast; I need those for other things

Thanks!

Unlike our patron saint and founder, M.Fry, I do shop at Primark!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2TOFpDbUjI

Thanks for that. I'd never seen the show before.
Now I see what all the excitement is about.
It captures that same fun-loving spirit of competitive wit
which I used to enjoy on the old radio program 'Beyond Our Ken'
which (unlike the current telly show) was played here in Canada on
our CBC radio back in 50s and 60s.



~jwf~

You really never seen the real QI Squiggles?

It's all over youtube.

The U-toobs is a universe unto itself.
One could get lost forever in its complex of 'related' videos, like following bread crumbs to the witch's cottage. For me it is a like a buffet table of exotic delights set in midst of a rubbish heap.

While it never ceases to amaze me what is available there I live in fear that one day it will fail to deliver my expectations. Or that my 'standards' such as they are may be lowered to unrecoverable levels of idiocy and detachment. I mean how many skateboarders' groins can you watch being ruined before it doesn't matter anymore?

Such revelations as the QI to which you linked come as delightful surprises and are greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,
~jwf~

Ah yes the weird wide whirled of cyberspace where one can always find quite interesting bits such as:

"Hawaii, a state of the United States, incorporates the Union Jack in its state flag. According to one story, the King of Hawaii asked the British mariner, George Vancouver, during a stop in Lahaina, what the piece of cloth flying from his ship was. Vancouver replied that it represented his King's authority. The Hawaiian King then flew the flag as a symbol of royal authority (his own) not recognising its national derivation. Hawaii's flag represents the only current use of the Union Jack in any American state flag, ironic given that Hawaii was never a part of the British Empire and remained independent until American annexation."

That makes Obama the first President since George Washington to have been raised under a British flag.


~jwf~

Nice one !

Every time I see this thread bob up in my conversations list, I believe it's Clive's guide to some sort of Chinese relaxation stuff