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

Beeblebrox is not the only frood.

when treese fal in the woods and here is only electronic equipment to here it they stll make a sound

Surely every human except for albinos have pigment in the palm of their hands. Some people I know have very dark palms.
Almonds are radioactive.
Pounds (L) shillings (s) and pence (d) are named after Libre, Sestercii and Denarii- Roman coins which were gold, silver and copper respectively. The 'L' became the modern £ sign.

In Firehouses, staircases are circular. This is because when the horses to pull the fire carts [back in the old days] were kept downstairs they kept learning to climb the staircases...

My bedroom window faces North East.

Steam Rollers don't roll steam

Orange Smarties are the only ones with flavouring [orange flavoured]. This is a leftover from a promotion many years ago where orange ones tasted of orange... and it stayed.
It's a similar thing with Blue Smarties, though these are just chocolate flavoured like the rest... the blue coloured coating was the gimmick here.
There have also been White Smarties, Alien Smarties and Cool Dude Smarties.
A Smartie takes a whole day to manufacture [though obviously they do lots at once... but all the processes involved take 24 hours to complete].
LadyB

Yes, but steam rollers *used* to steam. So did trains and smoothing irons and Margaret Thatcher.

Bean bags are 4 times more dangerous than Meat Cleavers, the former being responsible for over 1,310 accident per year...
LadyB

sit on bean bag - bad, sit on cleaver - good

You have a point... and would probably have a very sore butt.
More likely, the Cleaver is only responsible for 1/4 of the number of injuries...I hope. But who knows? It could be plot between the tow of 'em... Bean Bags *look* innocent enough but are they in league with the Cleavers to wreak havoc on us all in the comfort of our living rooms?
In this house surely the odds go up as we have 2 Bean Bags and no Cleaver???? If there is no Cleaver, can they be in league???
LadyB

It's interesting that, at the mention of "Bean Bag", everybody here immediately thought of the seats. I thought of the smaller and more deadly variety used for throwing and catching in school gyms all over the land...

Well, it was the seats [I assume] that were the cause of the accidents. But if they included those school ones in the research the Bean Bags would probably be far more than 4 times more dangerous than Meat Cleavers - that is my old PE lessons are anything to go by...
LadyB

I once got a school throwing beanbag stuck in the gutter of the school roof!

Our school gym always had several shuttlecocks and balls of various descriptions stuck in the ceiling.

Oy, Use asteixes when you write the word M*****t T******r and by the way the A66, won the price for the worst road, later this week, I'll present information for a vote for the worst New homes on a New Thread.

And to reply to some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one, How?

By the way some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one, haven't we argueed before because you sound fimilia, something like measles or something?

The roads any where near "the angle of the north" (Near to newcastle in north east england,) although it is a good sculpture, i'm starting to wonder how people can drive with their heads to the side (or more frequently, looking behind them)
*wait a second that's useful isnt it*
oh well,

"how do they get chocolate on malteasers?" (that definetly is a usless question)

The Angel of the North is a collosull structure that looks rusty and over looks Sunderland from Gateshead as though saying please accept our gift and then fill it with Newcastle football fans. Later when they drag it into Sunderland Town centre, the fans jump out and cause a riot.

This ofcource is a usefull warning to the people of Sunderland, beware Geordies bearing gifts.

Other listings magazines are available.

Some are probably better