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

If you goto google an do a search on "Reliant Kitten" you will find out ...

PS if you do that check out the link (about the 3rd one down) to the jet powered one

Maybe I will

did you ..?

Is a Reliant Kitten an actual kitten? Because then it would have to be quite a fast kitten to have such turning circle.

Discovery channel? Nothing useless about watching that, I would be doing it 24/7 if I could recieve it.

The Bond-Bug was only available in tangerine.

Sorry. Make that: Queen Elizabeth II is the great grand-daughter thirty-SIX times removed of Alexander the Great.

The info in that posting was from "That's Amazing", which I got at about the age of eight.

Tom Tully was knocked out in the third round of an 1893 bout at Madison Square Gardens by a boxing kangaroo named Big Frank.

Australia's first greyhound race was won by Bunny.

Greg Chappell was dismissed without scoring seven times in the 1981-82 season, believed to be a record by a first-class batsman.

It takes 7-8 tons of sugarcane to produce 1 ton of sugar.

Horses can only breath through there nostrils.

There's about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

King Henry VI banned kissing in England in 1439 because he thought that it spread disease.

Pelicans breath through their mouths because they dont have any nostrils.

And dogs only sweat through their feet. Have we had this one already? I think we might.

In York it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow, except on Sunday.
In Chester, it is only legal to shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside city walls and after midnight.

Don't ask me why.

Wampus

Treason, piracy with violence and arson in Royal Dockyards are the only remaining capital crimes in the UK.

Furthermore, it is considered treason in the UK to interfere with the mail, sleep with the Queen's consort, or place a postage stamp bearing the image of the monarch (king or queen) upside down.

Brahma bulls purr when they're happy.

Around the world an estimated 16 million tons of rain falls to the earth every second.

The average American eats at McDonalds 1811 times in his/her life.

There are an estimated 10 trillion cells in your body

Pogo sticks were first used by sacrifical dancers in Borneo.

It takes 12 ears of corn to produce a single tablespoon of corn oil.

To produce one gallon of ethanol (corn-based gasoline substitute) it takes the energy equivalent of 1.7 gallons of ethanol.

Wampus

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has a "baseline minimum diet," which is intended to keep a sedentary person alive for one year. It consists of 160 pounds of wheat, 160 pounds of maize, 60 pounds of soybeans, and a handful each of salt and vitamin C. The price to the farmer for the wheat, maize and soybeans is about US$24.00.

The license plate on Corinne Drewery's Ferrari, in the 1989 music video "Forever Blue," reads TEL 808.

That's even more useless than THX 1138, isn't it?

The first practical audio tape recorder was invented after WWII, by a one-engineer startup company called Ampex. The venture capital was provided by singer Bing Crosby.

When Ampex released its first four-track tape recorder, the singing Andrews Sisters immediately bought one, and immediately invented the technique of vocal overdubbing (recording the same person's voice multiple times). The heavily-produced, artificial style that dominates pop music today descends directly from that. All Der Bingle's fault.

There is a town in N.E. Arkansas named Bono. Nobody i've ever talked to there has ever heard of U2.

ZZ Top

Billy Gibbons, big beard.
Dusty Hill big beard.
Frank Beard no beard.

PP