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

"rather than the gentleman's whiff of the stilton"

Jeez

Struth

I can't believe that.

Anyhow. Shakespeare:

Shakespeare is given credit for. introducing nearly 2000 words into the English Language.

His Juliet was aged 13 in Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare and Galileo were born in the same year.

Shakespeare died on his birthday.

Shakespeare had a vocabulary of 28000 words whereas the average person today gets by on 10000.

I have more then 10,000 words most of them my own

Jack Ryan, an electrical engineer, played a major part in the design of the MIM-23 Hawk surface to air missile.

Later on, he co-created Barbara Millicent Roberts - otherwise known to millions of children as Barbie!

That accounts for the size and shape of her chest.

hey Count Zero, when you see ground control on tv with all their computers, working away furiously, are they actually all just surfing the net, and posting on the BBC website?

As I have had clarified to me in an earlier post, toast falling butter side down, has in fact, got nothing to do with the weight of the butter/jam/marmalade on it.

I've just entered a competition to win a pink laptop by guessing Paris Hilton's height.

I've put 'Lower than a snakes undercarriage'


*Awaits laptop*

It's physically impossible...

No no, wait for it, it's worth it.

It is physically impossible to make clockwise circles with your right foot while drawing the figure 6 into the air with your right hand.

Y.

Physics ain't got nothing to do with it...

Neurologically speaking though... yea, I can't do it.

I've just done it.

You call that a "6"?

Well, thanks to Big Al and A18299820

There is Polonium in cigarette smoke

The Tyrannosaur clade was the first group of dinosaurs to have binocular vision.

Better known as Depth Perception.

Or, from the point of the prey "Death Perception"

Elaborate please.

So were earlier dinosaurs cycloptic? Or were their eyes so far apart that they were more peripheral?

The latter. Binocular vision basically means that both eyes face the same way.

Darn... I was imagining a lot of little one eyed lizards roaming the earth.

The average human being at rest has a power requirement equivalent to that of a 100W lightbulb. Or, presumably, any other piece of equipment with a 100W power requirement.

In 1997 Katrina and the waves won the eurovision song contest for the U.K. with the soulful ditty 'Love shine a light' (Lord luv a duck would be more apt)

In the lead up to this tour de force there was a competition to decide which song should represent the U.K, presemted by Dale Winton, and entitled 'The Great British song contest' (Notice how we are Great Britain when conducting a domestic competition)

The British public almost pulled off a sublime piece of work on the unsuspecting BBC and those Europeans when voting for 'Yodel in the canyon of love' by Do ray me and Kerry. 10,000 votes difference meant it was, unfortunately, beaten into second place.

As all of Hootooland will have instantly recognised, to ' Yodel in the canyon of love' is a euphamism. Oh what joy if the whole of Europe and the BBC had been forced to give airplay to a song which was primarily extolling the virtues of.......how shall i put this?.........Cumulonimbus.(Or the Irish airline if you prefer)