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

Precisely.

The main character on monopoly boards and cards is named "(Rich Uncle) Milburn Pennybags". The policeman that sends you to jail is "Officer Edgar Mallory".

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Well, what kind of useless species can kill itself by holding its breath?

Hmm.... An oddly philosophical question.....

Liberal MPs?

It's good to see the London potato futures market is up this week

http://www.potato.org.uk/department/market_information/potato_weekly/index.html

here's a useless fact, The website for giving blood sounds like it's run by vampires; who else would want the url www.blood.com?

Michael Caine can't stand Chinese food.

(He served in the Korean War and the smell of the Chinese cooking used to drift over the British lines)

Does he like Korean food?

Mexican waves go anticlockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

I had to look up "Mexican wave".

It's physically impossible for a Mexican to wave underwater

'sright, Icy (@7091) (-by the way, that is a Capital Apostrophe)

They start here, on the west coast and roll out to sea. Unfortunately, on arrival at civilisation in east Australia, they can't tell the difference.

The first product ever scanned for sale (UPC) was a pack of gum sold at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio in 1974.

If you measure speed in terms of body length, a centipede is faster than a cheetah. In the time a cheetah runs 5 times its body length (5 x up to 4.5 ft), a centipede can run 10 times its body length (10 x up to 6 inches).

I could give you two ways to tell the difference between a centipede and a millipede. Unfortunately, one is potentially useful and the other is needlessly cruel.

Not only that but a cheetah can only move four feet in the time it takes a centipede to move one hundred feet.

->Tumsup

Th original of the song adapted for use in the current Go Compare adverts on UK television won a Congressional Medal of Honor for its composer, George M Cohan.