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

If you say gullible slowly, it sounds like oranges.

In the first draft of the first ever series of Doctor Who, the Doctor was a time traveling stripper. The writers had to make dramatic changes when William Hartnell refused.

Mars bars have a secret ingredient that can only be found on Mars.

There's intelligent life on earth.

The interweb was designed by a voracious clan of and they'll eat you if you stay on it too long.

Nac Mac Feegles like to sip their wine very carefully, in order not to get too tipsy.

Sir Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, not only invented the Wellington Boot but is known to have made the first working gramophone using a blunderbuss barrel as the sound horn and a millstone as the turntable.

If you built a snowman on the peak of K2 and stood on his head you'd be higher than the summit of Mount Everest.

^^ That's true. He'd have to be a very big though...

If you play any Beatles record backwards you will hear Paul McCartney fart.

I have just had Mrs PP looking me in the eye, quizzically saying "G-u-l-l-i-b-l-e. G-u-l-l-i-b-l-e."



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The working title of Spielberg's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was "What the F*@* Is That?!"

This thread has been away on holiday in Milton Keynes.

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The move from the beeb beeb ceeb involved migrating the threads individually. For some reason this thread was mislaid onto the Archers board where it was used as a miscreant plot device.

This is the real gullible thread.

If you read your horoscope in the newspaper you'll have knowledge of the future!

I knew you were going to say that.

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OMG The Secret to life, the universe and everything is in post 437!!

If you repeatedly click on the smallest dolphin at the top of an h2g2 page, all the hidden posts will become visible.

Ha! They're all already visible in Alabaster

I always heard- crusts puts hair on your chest. hmmm granny told me that but then again she was a bit mad. She claimed to see aliens land on the garage roof. Perhaps in hindsight all advice from her should be taken with a pinch of salt, however, where did my hairy palms come from da-dum-dum lol