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

I've started a few in my time but interest seems to die out quite quickly.

OK... so I am confused now - Galigan is it then a useful thing and you're going to do it - or

Cheerrful Dragon, is it a useless thing and don't bother coz it'll be rubbish?


how am I going to sleep tonight?

about urban myths? i'll have a look later. if someone wants to start one then go ahead.

... wouldn't it be useful if twelve UM threads suddenly got started?


(no caps..)

W

I'm (not) ashamed to admit I've started a few urban myths on the internet. One of them got into the national press.

Noone answered you on that???

They've all gone down the pub... 24 opening t'night

* whispers, leaning closer: pray, tell


W

fish cough
polani is the language used by the early illegal gays. bona means good
the world wide code to warn of terrorist threat is bikini
10 downing street's last private resident left in 1735. his name was mr. chicken.
speaking of which, the first person to call a scared person a chicken was shakespeare
when shakespeare was 46 he was commisioned to make the king james bible. check psalm 46, 46 words from the beginning is the word shake, 46 words from the back is spear.
spencer perceval is the only prime minister to be assassinated in 1812, americans seem to do it whenever the simpsons arent on...
conkers are scored by adding totals, a one-er that beats a two-er is a three-er.
in italy, james bond is known as mr.kiss-kiss-bang-bang
only one continent has never known war and that is antarctica
kentucky fried chicken had to change its name to kfc because it doesnt use chickens anymore. it now uses blobs with no beaks no feathers and no legs and it is fed through a tube

Carried away after a meeting with Maharashi Yogi, Barry White once got stuck in the yogic position and needed medical assitance to help uncross his legs.

please tell me that's an UM about the kfc
actually i dont know where there is a kfc here in dublin and i cant remember ever eating in kfc but still......

we could turn this thread into a useless urban myth thread..
cos it's already established as a thread for interesting tho useless facts, we could just carry it on..?

There is a man, (not scots) that can vomit underwear underwater.....

his name is being witheld because he doesn't want to do it in public, so we just have to take his (and his pet dog fido's)word for it that it can be done

personally i dont believe him

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Actually the bikini code is used to warn of nuclear threat, it's so called because some of the earliest nuclear tests were carried out on the Bikini Atoll.

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Nope. The King James Bible was written by committee to solve the arguments caused between the Puritans and the Anglicans over which bible was best, but King James himself had final veto over what went in it which is why so many of his own prejudices seeped in to the text.

killjoy
i rather liked the shakespear story

"in italy, james bond is known as mr.kiss-kiss-bang-bang"
Actually, it's Japan where he has that nickname.

"when shakespeare was 46 he was commisioned to make the king james bible"
The King James Version was commissioned following the 1604 Hampton Court Conference between Anglicans and Puritans. It's known as the King James Version because he was the instigator, not because he had any involvement in it. Oh, and the people who worked on it weren't Puritans. They were 'scholarly and pious men', headed by the Bishop of Gloucester.

A sunday edition of the "New York Times" consumes 63000 trees!

All together now - OK, but can it vomit underwear.

The KFC thing is from an email hoax. Kentucky Fried Chicken changed the name to KFC in 1991 for several reasons. They were expanding their menu to include many non-chicken items. They wanted to de-emphasise the word "Fried" and they were following a trend of businesses switching to acronyms (IHOP)..

(Do they have International Houses of Pancakes any where else? How international are they?... curious.)

International House of Pancakes? Never heard of 'em.

It's probably like our "World" series.

brings to mind a joke
paddy englishman
paddy irishman
paddy scots man
paddy welsh man
sitting in a pub discussing their new babies (by co incidence all born around the same time)

paddy english man stands up to 'wet the baby's head' (not sure if you call it that outside of ireland.. toasting the baby)

I CALLED MY BABY GEORGE, AFTER OUR NATIONAL DAY
AYE, says paddy scotsman
I CALLED MY BABY ANDREW, AFTER OUR NATIONAL DAY
OH YES LOOK U.. said paddy welsh man..
I CALLED MY BABY DAVID, AFTER OUR NATIONAL DAY..
....

.....

they all looked expectantly at Paddy irish man.....

ERM... PANCAKE.....

Andrea from Irish pop group The Corrs got the inspiration for their hit song "Leave Me Breathless" after a prank where her brother hid her asthma inhaler.

The transexual association considered suing Marvel comics because they thought that the name "X men" was disrespectful to people who had had a sex change.