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

Plastics.

I'm eather lost or the previous reply needs no further explination.

Plastic, the material of the future! Some day all our material needs will be met by this amazingly versitile material.

plastics....


Donuts... plastics... ...

Weeelll.... Krispy Kreme donuts DO look like plastic... kind of.

Sorry about the unexplained plastics. I love useless facts but I couldn't think of any at that moment. I have so many useless facts in my head but they are not available to me when I need them sometimes.

"Plastics" is a line from "The Graduate" which is, of course, a useless fact.

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At the end of The Graduate when Dustin Hoffman bangs on the glass wall at the back of the church he holds his arms outstretched. Some people have theorised that this was some allusion to crucifixion. It wasn't... the preacher was not happy about the things the film makers were doing in his church... when he found out about that scene he almost put a stop to the filming because the glass was too valuable, a donation from one of the parishoners valued at tens of thousands of dollars. Mike Nichols, the director compromised and promised that Hoffman would only very lightly bang on the glass and that is why his arms are so outstretched. The sound was added in during post production, he's only lightly tapping the glass.

good one!

Here's a good useless fact! I just recently learned that Mike Nichols was one of the original members of Second City along with Elaine May who with him became the incredibly funny (imo) comedy team Nichols and May in the 60s or thereabouts!

People often mistake the MyWebSearch Toolbar for Spyware. It isn't.

don't know if its useless but...

The average human being eats an average of three spiders a year (or month?...I forget) in his sleep.

and Compass before that and Playwrights Theater before that......

When new in New York worked as a waiter in a Howard Johnson's famous for a variety of ice cream. He was serving and old couple who at desert time asked if there was ice cream. Yes. What flavor? Chicken.

The Average House Computer is easily at least 1,000 times more powerful than those that were used to send Austronaughts to the Moon.

Are they australian astronaughts then?

Electric razors buzz in the key of G.

Stainless steel sinks.

Cork floats.

Shakespeare plays.

Otis lifts.

Archery targets.

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I've often wondered about that spider factoid... I'm not sure about it... how did they determine that... I don't think spiders are all that keen on crawling into human mouths.

Otis is often credited falsely with the invention of the elevator. What he did invent was the automatic braking system that makes elevators safe to use. Simply speaking the cable is attached to a spring bar atop the elevator compartment. If the cable breaks, the bar relaxes (think of the leaf springs on a car being pulled into an arc) and the ends wedge against the sides of the elevator shaft stopping the falling compartment.

All that while singing "Dock of the Bay"?

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Nah... whilst singing "Shout!".

During the making of Casablanca, they couldn't get hold of a Dakota for the final scene....so they built a half-scale model and hired every midget in Hollywood to run around underneath.