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

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Most people misspell Jimmy Savile's name.

Chuck Jones was inspired to create the characters Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner by Mark Twain. In Twain's 1872 book Roughing It, about his travels in the Wild West, he notes that "coyotes are starving and would even chase a roadrunner."

I have not posted in this thread since before The Foop.

An elephant cannot survive for more than 24 hours without drinking.

You can get 200,000 glasses of milk from a cow in it's lifetime.

but only if you have some really good dirt on it

Me too! I just don't get how they have such marvelous memories. Mine's about done.

If you identified with the kids in The Breakfast Club when it came out, you're now much closer to the age of Principal Vernon. -XKCD

I didn't undferstand a word of that.

Methuselah. (PP)

People who use the most words often have the least to say.

Quite.

In Brunel if you idly move your cursor around, you may find that (no new posts) lights up just after it comes up to the bottom of the p but just before it comes down to the top of the t.

Oh, and the same happens with the brackets - down, it touches, up, it's at the level of the underline.


I shall now kettle, for breakfast.

enjoy

~*~The dinosaur with the longest name was Micropachycephalosaurus meaning "tiny thick-headed lizard". ~*~

Was?

Was?

Now look - we are on the brink of inventing sound that travels faster than planes, so stop splitting hairs.

Surely 'was' is correct because the species is extinct?

But the species didn't use that word for themselves. It's one we use for them now.

The might have done...