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

I expect she looks taller with the heels and big hair.

Not one scene in the film Casablanca was filmed in Casablanca.

Not one scene in Star Wars was filmed on Tatooine.

Not one scene in Harry Potter was filmed... where are we going with this?
I have a home in Hillingdon, West London and lots of film scenes are filmed there. The meeting room in Barra Hall in Hillingdon was used for the Mayor's office in Chocolat and if you look out of the window you can see Barra Hall park which was used in Bend It Like Beckham. The Civic Centre was used in one of the Superman films and Vine street appeared in a Poirot episode.

Many scenes in Star Wars were filmed in Tunisia near a town called Tataouine.

Reading that article on coca Cola, I asked myself the following:

If coca cola is so called because of the cocaine content, where does Pepsi Cola get its name from?
Is that guy's name really Pendergrast? And how difficult is that to say correctly?

#8466 probably from pepsin which was used as medicine to help digestion.

Pepsi comes from pepsin, a digestive enzyme. Cola comes from the kola nut used to flavour the drink.

Pepsi was one of the first products to have advertising specifically targetted at the African-American market.

Coca Cola invented the discount coupon.

A drink invented a coupon!

It is estimated that in about fifty years time (give or take twenty years or so), Santa Claus and all his merry elves will drown as all the ice at the North Pole will melt at some point during the year.

Heh, that's the theme of last week's Non Sequitur comic. http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2011/12/19

@#8472


...........And at the same time, all areas in Europe under 15 metres above today's sea level will be flooded. You can add to that something else. All that cold water flooding into the North Atlantic will, in all probability, turn off the Gulf Stream current, giving us all more severe winters than we have had since the end of the last Ice Age.


GT

84% of lightning strike victims are male.

It's that bloody aerial again, waving around in the aether.

@ lightning Rod:

King George decreed that all Brit lightning rods should have
a round knob because the Americans were using the classic
Ben Franklin spike type.
'struth.

~jwf~

The dog (female) that played Spuds MacKenzie in the Bud Light commercials in the 80's (US) was named Honey Tree Evil Eye.

How cute.

Polar bears have a dark blue / black tongue. And their skin is the same colour too.

PP

And when polar bears rest or sleep out on the ice
they cover their noses with their paws to render
them virtually invisible.

(Of course they have to close their eyes and keep
their colourful mouths shut as well.)


~jwf~