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

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Had you had any peppermint before, like in toothpaste? It is a well-known counter-indication*, which would explain why the homeopathy didn't work.

* I wonder who's the genius who came up with that one

so, I was trying explain to my daughter what a 'bullroarer' is and I thought 'You Tube!' After a quick search I thought that there was a video of an Australian Aboriginal fellow using one and I thought 'well, this'll be a guy who knows how to use it'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kf_RYVt2XQ&feature=related

Imagine my surprise.

Luvverly!


I've got one of those things (no string), from a visit 30-odd years ago. A woomera, too.

I'd love to know what they use for strings - all my tries broke, too.

Well, I'd have tried 'roo ligaments if I were needing a new bullroarer string.


I think my enjoyment of that video may have been coloured by a certain current ex-spousal situation.

1. Yep, makes sense. I'll try that maybe.

2. No comment

>>Had you had any peppermint before, like in toothpaste? It is a well-known counter-indication*, which would explain why the homeopathy didn't work.

* I wonder who's the genius who came up with that one<<


Oh noes. I had a Peppermint Mocha I had at Starbucks before I went to the overdose.
I think my toothpaste is cool mint...

The incomparable Jane Vasey and the Downchild Blues Band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCR1KDxAnZ4&feature=related

Tragically, this talent was silenced by leukaemia in her early thirties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TvNh1eSuJ4

One of the most powerful insights in the history of science, Mendeleev's observation of the patterns in the properties of elements, and what he made of those patterns, led to a incredibly reliable and accurate predictive tool - the periodic table.

And Tom Lehrer made a comedy song out of it.

Note that he wrote the song in 1959, so many of the ones that were not discarvard (sic) at the time have since been added.

I made this vid because it was itching in my head to get out...

England 59 Italy 13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwUcbeJwg0

Twiglet



That vid is very Nitrogen Erbium Dysprosium.


(yes, I know I've done this gag elsewhere as well...I just like it...)

Doctor Who: The Eleven Timelords
"A small audio-visual tribute to eleven great Doctors/Time Lords..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvbsefkcDWQ

Doctor Who: No Blinking Allowed
"In the video/montage, the TARDIS takes us on another journey down Memory Lane...

We start with that memorable moment when the Ninth Doctor introduces himself to Rose and then carry on through brief moments of the Ninth Doctor and Rose era, the Tenth Doctor and Rose one, that first encounter with Donna, and the Tenth Doctor and Martha one up to that dreadful time when the Weeping Angels hold the TARDIS while the Doctor and Martha are trapped in the past..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiNF4kavi5k

Star Wars: The Original Luke Skywalker?
"This time, we're travelling through Time And Relative Dimensions In Sillyness as we find out who is/was/will be the original Luke Skywalker..."

If it's on YouTube, it must be true

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s8Pi7vzyIA

A small thank you... I posted that Tom Lehrer video on Sunday. In the three days since it's received nearly five THOUSAND views. Eek!

When hard work pays off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWO0f4mSI5w

Mr. Mclauchlan is something of a legendary songwriter here in Canada. This song is one in these days of worries over starvation and food security we should all be singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJbO0quK-cU&feature=related


Thanks for the meal, farmers of the world!

Thundercats the movie (!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb50GMmY5nk

Escher's waterfall: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/02/18/video-of-eschers-impossible-waterfall-a-la-rube-goldberg/

This has probably been added before but in case it hasn&#39;t I shall post it anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWn_1yOFpfU
The hitchhiker&#39;s guide to the galaxy has this to say on the subject of daleks