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

i hope you realise you aren't making sense. and i sincerely hope you are seeking psychiatric help in relation to that.

if the comment on cat urine was placed out of context... you get an award

might i recomment a mental facility where i'm sure you will be very comfortable?

Hey there all,

Fraid I don't have many interesting facts, more interesting corrections.

Sesquipedalian was said to be coined by Horace for "words so polysyllabic they seem to be a foot and a half long".

With the cricket chirruping, how long do you have to wait? A minute? Its lifetime? Until it stops chirupping? In which case I suspect that the temperature will always be 5 degrees celsius.

Also, how do you make a black light?

And the biblical verse thingy appears twice.

Having read this week's I suspect some, if not many here of owning Schott's Original Miscellany. But I'm going to go ahead anyway.

There is a longer word than that in this weeks , but it's scientific. It is the full name for Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlmense strain (incidentally TMV is the most common plant virus and not restricted to tobacco, despite the name. It mainly affects tomatoes.) It is:

Acetylseryltyroserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolyserylglutaminphenylalanylleucyserylserylvalytryptophylalanylaspartyprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminythre


etc etc for 1,185 characters

Right here's the full name:

Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenyl-
alanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanylaspartylprol-
ylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinylthreonylserylser-
ylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutami-
nylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylgluta-
minylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyltryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylpr-
olylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylv-
alyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylas-
partylprolylleucylisoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylpheny-
lalanylaspartylthreonylarginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutam-
ylvalglutamylasparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonyla-
lanylglutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspa-
rtylaspartylalanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparagi-
nylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylg-
lycylthreonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl-
phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreon-
ylserylalanylprolylalanylserine.

Also, King Theinko of Burma (931 AD) was killed by a farmer whose cucumbers he ate without permission.

hi! roadkill!
fancy seeing you here...actually, fancy seeing ANYONE here...

It was linked in the post.

really?
who knew, eh?

When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole".

Yes, or "Bite the wax-filled donkey".

And when KFC's slogan ("Finger lickin' good) was translated it came out as "Eat your fingers off!"

did you know that there are more than 1000 islands in the
WHOLE WORLD, and quite a lot in Stockholm's archipelago!!!!!

opps sorry for lowering the standard of this thread to virtually anyone, and just to set it straight, english IS my first language

Sparta used not to be an island, but then they put a canal between it and mainland Greece, so now it is.

wow. that's the greatest story ever told...
i don't feel like contributing anything today. i am just going to stand here and maliciously BE.

Human attention span is roughly 20 minutes, after which, take a break.

if you don't study for maths tests, you fail. badly.

Only a short break. Then get back to work. With a glass of water.

I don't know where to post this but I took your online IQ test and it said that my results are going to cost me 10 bucks.

Sorry?

well I think I would have had met all the requirements to "join" this thing or whatever except that I didn't get any results.

I think you already have, just by posting.

oh ok...