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

shes a bird as in a duck

and

shes a bird !!!

Bird girl, bird feathers (duck even!) D'you like swimming?
Or are you just after the orange sauce?

Next year's Towel Day, 5.25.12, totals 42. (5+25+12=42)

I was trying desperately to put that in the "correct" (non Yankee) notation... Unfortunately my brain swapped it back and forth one too many times. I got the dots right and then switched order back to mm/dd/yy.

So...

25.5.12

Either way, you know what I meant.

I think you posted this in the wrong thread

Nope, it's still a useless fact. (Although, I was a bit wary of posting anything even loosely maths related here.)

That's definitly a useless fact on the right thread CZ.

Mushrooms can grow in a limited space!

Useless? On h2g2? Will no-one use it as an excuse for partying?

Depends on what part (h)e id ing.

Liz Taylor arrived late for her own funeral.

Some have a coffin fit which delays them.

Many things have been found preserved in amber. Among them are the fossilized farts of termites.

Here's a picture: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/id/24828

Led Zeppelin never released "Stairway to Heaven" as a single.

Weren't Led Zepplin one of those bands that only released albums?

The released 16 singles, but only one in the UK - the release of Whole Lotta Love, which reached number 21 in 1997. They did reach the charts again in 2007 with Stairway to Heaven (on download sales).

Whole Lotta Love was recorded by CCS (the Collective Consciousness Society) in 1970, reaching number 13, and was adopted as the theme tune to Top of the Pops.

In 1874, a foreign head of state addressed the U.S. Congress for the first time. It was King Kalakaua of Hawaii. (Hawaii didn't become a state until 1959)

Has anyone mentioned that Koala's have two thumbs.
On each hand, that is.
I reckon if anyone ever introduces them to text messaging they'll be ace!

Koala's and chameleons... just keep 'em out of the Alamo Drafthouse.

The earliest published reference containing the word omg (meaning 'oh my god') was in a letter in the journal "Memories" in 1917. It reads: "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!"

Despite their stereotypical image as stricly old-fashioned electronics, thermionic valves (AKA vacuum tubes) were in common household use well into the first decade of the 21st Century as the cathode ray tube (as found in televisions and computer monitors) is essentially a giant valve.