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

Oh long indeed live the pickle! Glowing, growing, or otherwise. Yummy!

OOOOhhh I don't want a sicle,
I just wanna see that glowing pickle...

YAY!!! *head bangs* .... my head hurts now...
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dead ford

Oi, did anyone read my post 160 - it was right at the bottom of the screen - or is it just that everyone is enjoying their pickles too much at present?

(As this is 2 Q's in one, do you think it should have 2 '?' at the end?)

I saw and read. Found anyone to test it out? Or are you going to wait & see what the birth rates are in 9 months?

Hmm, my idea concerning pumpkin nuts seems to have hit the World like the proverbial lead balloon!

Well, maybe if they glowed.

and tasted like pickles.......

My daily planner has trivia bits in it and I was reading ahead. This is the bit for Sept. 28:

"When the snapping shrimp snaps its huge claw shut, a bubble shoots out. The bubble's pop is extremely loud and generates a bright flash of light, which scientists have called 'shrimpoluminescence'." (source: Cranium inserts for Franklin Covey Daily Planner)

Vaaairrry interrresting! .

This must be a specialised form of 'triboluminescence' (due to friction) which I've mentioned elsewhere. I initially thought 'static electricity' but this would be nonsence coz the shrimp is in water- and the bubbles are wet anyway

Of course then there's cartoonluminescence where the shrimps powerful claw pinches you and you see stars.

This is probably chelateluminescence (from the Greek for a claw)

Glowing pickles should be one of the great wonders of the world up with the great wall of Bermingham and the pyramids of Bognor Regisa

great wall of bermingham? thats new!
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ford

Sure you don't mean 'Great wall of China'?

No, you're thinking of the great plate of china... a very good insulator upon which to place the great glowing pickle of hootoo.

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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned glowing pickles on the Conversation Forum for the Peer Review thread for 'Pickles' at A2979840.

read the article and thought about it the other day I've not had any pickled anythings in ages, cept perhaps my liver which I've always got with me

not the milk and liver thread again!
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ford