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

Top British soldier has misgivings over Afghanistan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7929785.stm

So do I.

Rearrange the following words to give a well-known phrase or saying:

Shit. Sherlock. No.

Not current, but still ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7139492.stm

When teenager Joanne Raine had her boyfriend's nickname "Roo" tattooed on her stomach it was supposed to be a sign of her undying love.
The 19-year-old from Darlington paid £80 for the Chinese artwork in 2004 and was delighted with the results.

That was until she showed it off in a Chinese takeaway and found out it actually spelled "supermarket."

She probably said to the inker "I want it to symbolize my love, where I go to get everything I need, my sustenance, all my physical needs...."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7929799.stm

Some of the responses are pretty funny

Two military personnel are shot dead and four people are injured in a gun attack at a County Antrim army base.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7930837.stm

It never went away.

If they said that this was a video from SETI I would believe it.

http://deepseanews.com/2009/03/tgif-strange-twisted-octopus/

Why would anyone get something tatooed on themselves that had no meaning for them?

Gorbachev must have thought Reagan was an absolute idiot: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,506791,00.html

Another victim of Chinese illiteracy:
http://tinyurl.com/5shwy4

The Max Planck Journal? Hmmm... I see an opportunity here for the next generation of sub atomic physicists. If string theory has gotten too tangled to follow, a new paradigm is in order. 'Hot housewives in action' just might do it.

There's a British expression, "as thick as two short Plancks"

-In physics, the Planck length, denoted , is unit of length, equal to about 1.6 × 10-33 centimeters.- Wikipedia

Short Plancks indeed

Obama hints at talks with Taleban:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7930865.stm

A place for hungry as well as ordinary punters...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4942966/The-Hospitalis-Restaurant-in-Riga-Latvia.html

Still hungry?

RF

I haven't been able to keep up with this thread so can someone tell me if you have already covered a story I noticed today on a German website. I can't find any equivalent on an English language site, so I'm a bit unsure that it's not a hoax.

It seems to have appeared first in a Spanish newspaper "ABC".

The story goes that it has been discovered that Christopher Columbus wasn't actually called "Christopher Columbus", but Pedro Scotto, and was a part-Scot.

So what will the (Harry Potter) film director now call himself? And what about all those places named after the 15th century Spaniard? (e.g. Columbia, and was British Columbia also named after him? What about all the Plaza Colons in Spain???)

Scotland to take over the world

Here is the piece of news. I don´t know about that historian. He says that the family of Colón comes from the scottish lineage of the Douglas

http://www.abc.es/20090308/cultura-cultura/colon-llamaba-pedro-scotto-20090308.html

Silly joke:
Plaza Scrotto

It says here http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/explorer-columbus-named-pedro-scotto-20090309-8skn.html that he had red hair.

Maybe it was just a Jimmy Hat:
https://orders.mkn.co.uk/mime/footballshirt/worldcup/sscotlandtartanhat.jpg

"Teenage pupils should be given an extra two hours in bed to boost their learning abilities, a Tyneside head teacher has urged."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7932108.stm

Ri-ight