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

Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state.

There's no evidence that pirates ever buried their treasure. That myth first came up when captain William Kidd lied about burying his gold during his trial.

Bugger.

Anyone want to buy this authentic Pirate map I got on e-bay?

I'll give you 50 dollars for it!

there's no such word as gullible!!

Just sorting out the title as a bit of confusion is setting in.

within two seconds of me going off track there's always some smarty pulls you back on course.....and that's a fact!!

Surely, every knight needs his Sancho Panza, otherwise he's just tilting at windmills

Taking the Mickey, see



I expect I'm being too useful here so:

There wasn't a charcter called 'Q' in Ian Fleming's James Bond books.

hardly.

Vitamin C 'does not stop colds'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6901405.stm

I had a cold when I was young and decided to cure the common cold. I took 50 vitamin C pills, 50 herbal pills and spent the day sniffing smelling salts as hard as I could until it hurt. My cold was gone the following morning.

So King Arthur didn't have Patsy and Sir Lancelot lacked his trusty Concorde?

Another childish illusion shattered...

The first filming of Casino Royal (a one hour tele-play, part of the US series "Climax!") was in 1954 and Bond was American, Leiter (Clarence) was British. Peter Lorre played Le Chiffre.

Casino Royale, even.

Hey!... Steve K got the quote of the day, for his knowledge of someone else's knowledge of opossum nipples.

Yay!

A group of frogs is called an army

Scorpions can be frozen and dethawed and still be just fine; to the best of my knowledge they're the only "species" that can do this.

Yup. Bring on that wimp Ken Jennings. I'll him.

mountain stone weta from new zealand can freeze and revive. i believe there are other species of insects that can do this as well.

I believe some frogs can do this as well.

I saw a wildlife programme where a frog was frozen during winter and became re-animated in the spring. Is dethawed the opposite of thawed

It's imposible to lick your own elbow- apparently

Oops.

I wonder how long they can be frozen before thawing them out doesn't help.