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

In fact, this is *now* the 6001 facts thread

No. Now it is.

And now it isn't.

The title *now* reflects the post number

In fact it never really was.

Xiory is a fast post.... a fact

the last post was the product of the first primes through 13, excepting 5.

I could give that in mathematical notation, but that would be useful, so I won't.

not-so-bald-eagle is a consistently cool champagne drinker.

My favorite prime number is 37. (That should interest no one, not even you.)


However, today I was listening to my newly arrived CDs of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy BBC radio series and couldn't help but note that Marvin (in his dying moments near The Message) states that because of all the tedious tasks he's been asked to perform for our heroes, is now 37 times as old as the universe...

Earl of nil's favorite number appears to be composite, an integer less than two, or not even an integer.

Apparently I was wrong.

Dettol annoys 99.9% of tv watchers,.....Fact

I'm sitting alone in the office waiting for someone else to arrive and offer to make me coffee.

PP

The facts that post 6008 and post 6015 are useless are similar in the nature of their uselessness from my perspective.

Steve has now arrived and now I have coffee.

PP

I have to take out the garbage and recyclables in about 45 minutes.

The facts in this thread range from 'useless but interesting' to 'useless, boring and banal'. Most of the threads on this 'page' fall into the second category.

Now that *was* interesting