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

If anyone wants to know how to use a £ sign without having a key for it (like on North American keyboards) find the Character Map from your start menu. Depending on which (if any) version of windows you are using it may be under accessories or system tools.

Open the Character Map, click on the £ and drag it to the text you are typing. Or you can copy and paste it.


And that may be useful info so feel free to ignore it.

is there a Tate Modern and a Tate Britain? because i had a class trip to the Tate Britain to see an exhibition on Gothic stuff and it's just up the river from the houses or parliament the opposite way from the London Eye.

i know the answer but i cant tell you cos it would be classed as useful information and i would be moderated...

work it into a useless fact, like the Tate Modern is 5% larger and has a larger number of badger sightings that the Tate Britain, or something along those lines.

I fell over outside Tate Modern, even though it's got a pub right next to it.

I have fallen over very close to Tate Britain.

cockroaches pass wind every fifteen minutes

that'll teach me to log on while having breakfast

Thar's DNA in them thar space....

An entire nebula shaped like a DNA double helix has been found in our galaxy...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0317_060317_dna_nebula.html

twilight zone music

There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

and yet none of them happen to me.

*blink*




did i just say that out loud?...

The second is defined as being 9,192,631,770 times the time it takes for a cesium-133 atom to swap hyperfine levels in its ground state

do I qualify for membership?

There is nothing preventing the common house fly flying out an open window, they are just more interested in their reflections, i.e. another fly.

a "jiffy" is the scientific term for the time it takes for light to travel 1cm in a vaacuum.

The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe



try running that through a spellchecker

how graet is taht?

You've been reading those posters they have in train stations haven't you...

i knew that!

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white