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

Miss Piggy and Yoda are both voiced by the same person.

Most of Chewbaccas voice was taken from a recording of a vacuum cleaner

Actually it was four bears, a raccoon and a badger.

Oh OK, bur I'm sure there was a vacuum cleaner in there somewhere!

I saw a "making of....." programme so it must be true

Ahh... but I too saw a making of.

Maybe one of the making ofs was from a parallel universe.

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After eating spinach, many people report that their teeth feel chalky. This is not because the spinach does something to their teeth. The small amounts of poisonous oxalic acid it contains temporarily affects the tactile nerve endings in the tongue.

Perhaps we only saw a bit of the same programme each and it was 4 bears, a raccoon, a badger AND a vacuum cleaner!

I'm sure they ran it all backwards too!

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Some people pay quite a lot of money for that kind of thing...

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(The mirror thing has more to do with our mental construct of "right" and "left"...

If you "ray trace" the image in the mirror, there is no difference between up and down and right and left. It is just our concept of our right and left... we think of the mirror image as our self in a manner and there for what we think of as the left side of our face is now on the right of the image... If you were standing face to face with something you might use the phrase, "My left or your left?"... but with an image of ourselves there seems to be a swapping of sides... optically speaking there is nothing special about left or right, it's just in our minds.)

From an article in the Daily Telegraph (UK) on 18th March. "Most women absorbaround 2kg of chemicals (through their skin) through cosmetic products every year".

So much for the Atkins diet then! Just lay off the Clinique and I'll be a waif!

Dammit, I may be pudgy but at least my face looks good!

Count Zero... Thanks.

'I'm not fat...I've just got big cheekbones'

It is physically impossible to vomit underwater

Sharks can do it.

only if they came up for a breather first, or if they got beached. but underwater. nope. technically impossible. even for a shark. even a blue whale after a couple of tonne of dodgy plankton couldn't pewk underwater. it would have to use it's blowhole. maybe a dolphin could. not sure about that as they are meant to be quite clever. i will look it up.