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

Today is Swaziland Independence Day

There are only 110 days left until Christmas.

I had a large Emu flogging Hamsters in my dream last night!

my T.V is a Sony


And i dont mean TransVestite


Luke

Napoleon Bonaparte had a medical condition which made the whites of his eyes yellow.

Surely that made them "the yellows of his eyes", then?

dont shoot till you see the yellow of thier eyes.

doesnt sound the same does it

Luke

Saying 'It made the yellows of his eyes yellow' just struck me as being a little obvious. Is it a tautology, though?

IF the whites of a childs eyes seem bluish then it could have brittle bone disease. More obvious though is the fact it will be in a wheelchar and be very small...

Eating too much fast food makes you obese and unhealthy.

Obvious, yeah. But apparently no-one told the litigants who are suing McDonalds. Maybe we should put up billboards of really obvious facts, just to make sure we're not leaving any of our slower brethren behind.

How about putting bords on lampposts saying in large red letters: "Look out, walking into lampposts is detrimental to your health". Otherwise people might start suing the municipality for putting lampposts in the wrong places.

Or brightly coloured signs painted on the footpath saying: "Watch out for the cracks! Tripping on cracks and breaking your leg can be detrimental to your health!"

Maybe 'detrimental to' should be changed to 'bad for'...

I often walk into lampposts.

The problem is that I'm blind in my right eye, and have no peripheral vision in the left, coupled with the local council's propensity to paint lampposts the colour of wet concrete so the don't stand out from the pavement as you approach them on a typically rainy afternoon in Aberdeen. I tend to crash into them with my right shoulder, and be in some considerable pain for a day or two afterwards.

oh my go god im post 1833

So I higher than you with post 1834!!!

and with post 1835 I would like to point out that my friend Alex has Gilbert's (pro. Gilbear) Syndrome which is a liver disease that makes his sclera[s] yellow.

Sclera is the name for the white part of your eye

Liam.

Just like Napoleon! (Well, hopefully not *just* like him...)

Major Henry Spalding left his immediate junior Lt. Chard in charge of their post at Rorke's Drift before leaving for the day, with the words: "Of course, nothing will happen, and I shall be back again early this evening."

That evening 4000 Zulus attacked the post. Spalding stayed away.

http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/

Yes, but the zulus were armed with spears and leather sheilds while the British army had slow firing riffles and bayonnets. The reason they won was that they were significantly larger in number to our forces, 4,000 vs. 400. You figure out, whose is going to win!

(Grand Admiral Zapdos, defender of the British armies reputation)

Answer, the ones with the still working machine guns...

The Chinese Consulate, ( Visa section) is at Dennison House, Dennison Rd., Rusholme Manchester.
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