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

Remember to inhale.

The first time I encountered a flaming sambucca and wastold to blow it out I managed to get almost the whole contents all over the table - still alight.

Bitter almonds are the wild almonds. Sweet almonds (of which there are many varieties) are usually grafted onto wild almond stock. Therefore sometimes the odd almond from a branch that has sprung from the lower trunk gets harvested with the others.

If you eat almonds in a country where they are grown, you notice an unusual flavour. After a while you realise that the flavour is.....almonds.

Re peach kernels, there was a fad in the 1970s for a "cancer" cure called laetrile, which came from peach kernels.
coated almonds, I <;ove> them... and the smell of almond essence.

Re peach kernels, there was a fad in the 1970s for a "cancer" cure called laetrile, which came from peach kernels.
coated almonds, I them... and the smell of almond essence.

Actually I've noticed that the organic version of anything almondy (Amaretto, the nuts themselves)tastes significantly better than the non-bio one.

Mr. Pink Paisley...

Don't be that way... I exaggerated of course... Most people in my area of Texas don't look like members of ZZ Top... There's just enough of them that Billy and Dusty wouldn't stand out.

Of course, if you do venture into a biker bar around here, well... yeah... lotsa fuzzy faces will greet you.

Thats it. Am gonna git me to Texas. Yee'ha.

Y'all are mor'n welcome!

That would be nice. Mabey someday.

When I'm rich and all grown up.

In some commumities, large, bearded gentlemen are known as 'bears'. For some salacious internet entertainment, google 'bear'

I guess someone lives in the Woodlands in this room.
Apparently one of the more famous astronomers, I think Johannes Kepler, died from a burst kidney because he was way too polite to ask to go to the loo when dining with the King of Netherlands.

All that talk about flaming sambucca reminded me of a quote from Terry Pratchett:

Give a man a fire and it will warm him for a day
Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life!

Reminds me of the trainee parachuter who asked the instructor "If my parachute doesn't open how long have I got to open it?".

The instructor says "The rest of your life".

Or the visually impared sky diver who knew when to open his chute when his dog's lead went slack.

Teh iron in your haemoglobin, in your red blood cells was created in the centre of a long dead star, (at least four and a half billion years ago). We are children of the stars!

We're All Light.

RF

All electrons you're made of have been around since the first seconds of the universe. And they're still there, working like they should, no signs of wearing out...

Not all the helium on the world has been around for a while (much of it is quite recent stuff due to alpha-decay of radioactive ores). In any case, the earth's gravitational field is not strong enough to hold it back, so everytime a (birthday party) baloon is lost, I have to think that the helium atoms in there are just starting a *loong* journey...

HELL.

Lostit... Not the Woodlands, Galveston Bay.

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