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

Yes it means this man is a politician, doesn't it?

A West African Pidgeon? Are they the ones in Trafalgar square wearing the little red yellow and green beanies?

That reminds me of an Adam and Joe sketch where they were interviewing some poor unsuspecting MP.

"Are you a member? *snigger, snigger*"
(Cautiously) "Yeees."
"Who's the biggest member you know? *snigger, snigger*"

Pfffft, those are whe West *Indian* Pidgeons.

Ahhhh

irie irie, seen, my mistake

*chups*

Member -politician the analogies are similer in many languages and invariaably correct.
Until a few days ago, if you typed f**kwit (but spelled properly) into Google, the first site was John Prescott.

Well, as of right now the first entry to mention a proper name (fifth full listing) is "Reader says George W Bush..." is one.

But I thought everybody knew that!

Yea, but it's nice to see it confirmed by an impersonal web thingy like Google.

The it should really belong in a different thread called "Absolute Facts"

If you bump into a solid object enough times it is theoretically possbile that eventually your molecules and the object's molecules will be in exactly the right places to allow you to pass straight through.

Not really... not considering nuclear forces.

I did actually read that in a serious textbook.

Teaching science entails teaching a series of evermore specific lies.

here did I read that?... here I think...


---goes to find the entry.

I think I've read that entry.

Here it is: A685055

Hoovooloo wrote it.

Very interesting.

You can make a 9mm cube from the foil wrapper on a 2 finger KitKat.

Dear Mr. Ross,

Do you have too much time on your hands?

No a little foil cube, very useful

You can only double (fold in half) a piece of paper 7 times.