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

A proper 70's-style space age disco is hard to achieve these days since the coming of the milk carton. Those silver and gold strips with the holes all the way down them that used to hang like a curtain over the equipment were actually the left-over foil from the machines that capped glass milk bottles...

(Originally posted in the "Keeping warm" thread... )

Gold and platinum are the first metals formed by a supernova explosion!!!

It's hot out.
( Especially in a supernova).

Did you know stone henge is infact not a henge but a circle. it is not a henge as it does not have the External mound and internal ditch tjat defines a henge. now thats useless information

Well I'm glad Time team actually tough him something, the rubbish he comes up with sometimes is astronomical, joking!!!

WHY IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK EIGHT HOURS A DAY, FIVE DAYS A WEEK!!!

- You sleep for about 121 days a year (if you sleep for eight hours)
- You relax, rest and watch tele for about 122 days a year
(leaving 122 days)
- You have 104 days worth of weekends
(leaving 18 days)
-You have a lunch equivelent to 10 days
(leaving 8 days)
- You have aleast one week off
(leaving a day)
-which happens to be Christmas!

Time Team. EXTREME. i actually learned that in my archeaology class

Raining out.

And humid

Re: post 2014

you can find a full list over at the Dullmen.com
http://www.dullmen.com/airport.htm

i do believe that the tail he had was a rather large foxes brush which he had to tuck down his trouser leg , which consequently made him walk in a perculier fashion...

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I am

Sitting

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Feels quite

Comfortable

The David Bowie eye condition is called Heterochromia Iridium.

Duck's quacks don't echo.

Marilyn Manson used to have to use a sunbed regularly to ease a skin problem, and his dad sprayed Agent Orange during Vietnam.

Courtney Love has been diagnosed by some doctors as being mildly autistic.

Joey Jordison (from Slipknot) has a very nice butt to squeeze but you get a better reaction out of Eric Griffin, his Murderdolls bandmate.

Vegetarians inevitably bring conversations about food around to ranting about how "meat is murder".

Syphillus is referred to on some death records as "tiredness".

There is a drag queen shop in St. Nicholas Market in Bristol.

Coca-cola used to contain actually cocaine.

I have 5 cats.

Hows that for useless?

Yeah, when cocaine was made illegal they put caffeine in it and I concour coca-cola tastes like ice cold coffee with added sweatners!!!

Nope; I prefer my ice-cold and sweet; there's no comparison.

I haven't been able to find any of the much-reviled "Vanilla Coke" yet, but I suspect it'll taste like a mixture of Coke and "American Cream Soda", a peculiarly British beverage despite the name consisting of lemonade made with vanilla instead of lemon flavouring. I like it a lot; and if it had caffeine I would probably consider it my favourite soft drink. That's why the Vanilla Coke interests me...

Maybe you would like root beer, Peet.

Boy chimney sweeps (ofter sold by their parents to Master sweeps) started as young as five and were "retired" at about sixteen. Small boys were better suited to climb up inside the narrow soot filled chimneys to scrub the walls.

In order to harden their flesh (to cope with perching inside the chimney) they rubbed the "strongest" brine into the skin (mainly elbows and knees) whilst standing as close as they could to a fire. After their first few chimney sweeps, the boys would get back "streaming with blood". Brine was then rubbed back into the open wounds...

One eight year old boy, forced into a chimney over a just extinguished brewery stove, got stuck and was roated to death.

Chim-chim-chimney Chim-chimney, chim-chim chirree...



(Taken from "An Underground Education" by Richard Zachs, just to avoid legal action)