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

What I found amusing about the television report was the newsreader saying it was "the first Northern bottle-nosed whale to be seen in the Thames since records began".

I can think of two possible scenarios for this:

(i) Records began *today*.
(ii) Some guy started the records on (say) 14th March 1611: "Noe Northerne bottle-nosed wales in ye Rivere Thames today. Forsooth."

RF

According to a news report on More4, the 'records' began in 1913. I don't know what they were recording, but I'd expect a whale in the Thames to be noteworthy.

There have been whales, porpoise and dolphins in the Thames before. This is just the first Northern bottle-nosed whale.

January 19, 2006: "*Still* no Northern bottle-nosed whales...will I never see one? "

RF

"Noe Northerne bottle-nosed wales in ye Rivere Thames today. Forsooth."

"There be whales Cap'n"

Seems to be heading back down river now. Hope it makes it

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4634638.stm

Reb Bull gives you (four months on a prison) wing(s).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4634638.stm

Red Bull gives you (four months on a prison) wing(s).

Well it is not exactly new but they put the whale on a bardge and are taking it out to sea

Flying car spied over Australia on Google Earth

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car/

I want one!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4649618.stm

Village People 'cop' faces prison.

Hey!
Hey!
Hey, hey! Hey, hey!
Macho, macho man...

Can mine have rockets that fire out of the front and special deelies that come out of the wheels and an ejector seat, and be able to close up and go underwater and...*pant* Just too

What you really need when you go to watch a sports event is.....a beer belly!

http://www.i4u.com/article4999.html

During the last few days -

A new species of fish has been discovered in Indonesia. The paedocypris progenetica is known as the mini-fish. The specimen now in captivity measures 7.9mm from nose to tail.

A new planet has been found. It is 5 times bigger than the earth and is 25,000 light years distant.

Unbelievable but true category -
PERSONS OF A SENSITIVE NATURE DO NOT READ ON:
In a small town in Austria four sisters were recently murdered by their father in an family orgy of terror. Yesterday the girls were buried in the same grave - with him. The mother survived and is in hospital.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4659568.stm

There's a video link of the rescue too.

Unbelieveable she survived.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4660644.stm

Oh my f***ing god.

Freaked me out.

The word "photoshop" springs to mind.

The sky wasn't that blue over East London today. Trust me on this, I'm a 'stender.

RF

The words 'forced perspective' spring to mind. It's a low-tech method that the film industry has used for years to make something look big in relation to something else. The 'smaller' plane on the left could be some distance above the larger one. Alternatively, the 'smaller' plane could be closer to us than the larger one, but proximity could make it look bigger than it really is. Either way, as the picture was taken from directly below the planes, there's no way of judging the vertical gap between them.

morning. just found this thread. gonna go get a cuppa and read the BL.

i saw in an irish paper this morning that an 11 girl has been confirmed as the youngest official herion addict in Glasgow. she fell asleep at her desk in school and couldn't be roused.. so they found out that way, and she's now in hospital.

apparantly she, and a group of mates, buy the drug from a female in the shopping centre and smoke it. and didn't see anything wrong with it cos everyone they know does it!!

i fear for my kids. we never had that pressure.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4657268.stm

Not so much the story - more the name.

Young Muttley!



I fear for my kids when I have the responsibility of choosing their names.