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

fish cough, and a restaurant filled with toilets was closed down because of too little working toilets. Also on restaurants, one oriental one is based on alcatraz, where guests are chained and have to beg the guards to go to the loo, and one restaurant all the food is roadkill . It is perfectly legal to kill a scotsman in york, as long as you use a bow and arrow and its a sunday. It is taboo for a woman to eat chocolate on public transport,but perfectly ok for a man to do this.

whats a new human

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That's actually been repealed, as per my previous post about silly laws being repealed...

Not fair why do they go and repeal somethinmg like that.

It should be legal to push mimes off of imaginary things anytime.

(Does anyone remember what film this occurs in... The film's hero is walking in a park, stops to watch a mime balancing on the curb "against the wind", watches for a few seconds then approaches and pushes the mime off of the curb. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?).

no idea

my useless fact for the evening.

i have a jar with 192 paperclips in it
4 of them are pink, the rest are black

also, i make a point of eating chocolate on the train...
does that make me a rebel??

or a revel even. haaarrrrrrrr

The best way to get a peanut out of your ear if one gets stuck, is to pour in melted chocolate.....












....they come out a treat











they come

Olympic swimming gold medallist Duncan Goodhew has never vomited in his life.

I have never cooked dinner for Duncan Goodhew.

RF

I think it is save to assume that olympic swimming gold medallist Duncan Goodhew has never vomited under water in his life.

Y.

Safe for you, perhaps!

RF

In 1755 a new director of the Ashmolean museum in Oxford decided to make room for the ever growing collection of exhibits by throwing out and burning some of the older items. One of the first items on the bonfire was a particularly odious and smelly collection of feathers and general bird bits. So was lost the last preserved specimen of the Dodo.

I just read the entire thread! It took me 3 days. I went through physics, puking, sharks, more physics, history, pirates, non-facts, defining a useless fact, crumbling down into chatter, reviving useless facts...and now I'm here.

My useless fact for the day not only includes a statistic but is slightly...unnerving...

98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.

Ta-dah!

Oh and Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms

Kat

i cooked for duncan good-hewie

fecker never turned up tho

Probably trying to get a peanut out of his ear.

The Emir of the Rif, Abdel Karim, had his incompetent Foreign Affairs Minister Si Mohamed Zea Kane fastened to the mouth of a canon which was then fired. Si Mohamed Zea Kane's last words are not known.

i'd love to be 'emir of the rif' it sounds like a monty python title.

i'd say his last words were 'bring me my brown trousers' or was that someone else?



there were 695 invoices billed by dhl dublin to dhl in germany in the month of October...

3 more -

Ireland's entrant Dickie Rock came 4th in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest held in Luxembourg.

Dolly the Cloned Sheep shares her 'birthday' with Jean Cocteau.

The place of origin of the cocklebur is uncertain.

The import of bagpipes into the USA is tax-free.