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

>>...ministers can never, under any circumstance, form a corps in the colony.' <<

Yes, disappointed.
Clearly the Jesuits were more successful than I feared.

Oh wait maybe it's just a typo and corps should be corpse.



~jwf~

Scientists on tenterhooks as 2-million-year-old skeleton takes a bow.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/scientists-on-tenterhooks-as-2millionyearold-skeleton-takes-a-bow-20100404-rlss.html

RE: 8401

I thought it was Papa Doc and Baby Doc along with their henchmen the Ton Ton Macouts that proved the most successful, via fear and stealth, they most certainly didn't present as good Catholic boys

Tie one on...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/04/05/bc-surrey-turban-tying-contest.html

Did the turban contest end in a tie?

Don't they all?

Man goes on anti-meat stabbing spree in the name of vegetarianism

http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2010/04/man-goes-on-antimeat-stabbing-spree-in-the-name-of-vegitarianism.html

Vegetarianism, the born again christian of foods
Eat me or die horribly Sorry veggies, for me it's wipe it's bum and put it on the plate, I love my meat bloody rare or very gamey

Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8604663.stm

It's their defence: "A dead person you cannot carry to Germany, there are too many people checking and security. How can you bring a dead person to Germany?" that bemused me, along with the fact that the taxi driver apparently didn't notice that one of his passengers was supposedly dead. Maybe he even helped the ladies by half-carrying the old guy to the airport doors... although on second thoughts, a helpful taxi driver is rarer than a dead body on a non-crashed plane.

The end of the game?

"The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company Mattel has said."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8604625.stm

Maybe they should introduce a few new 'letters' as well? like @

scr@bbl3 4 h@x0rz

scrabble smileys

W on a triple word score

at the meat stabbing article, the journalist's name is Metzger which is... butcher in German.

New species of giant, fruit-eating lizard found:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZUb-f78C389tRvv1LMWT8VSLIBAD9EU7P880

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7557632/Women-walk-topless-through-US-city-in-protest.html

Women walk topless through US city in protest

Dozens of women walked topless through a US city - and expressed surprise that men turned up to watch.

RF

Can't see it happening in the UK, unfortunately
I'm so easily pleased.

>> Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8604663.stm <<

"He's not dead, he's resting!"

RF

It's one of those inexplicable things about humour, but the fact that he was wearing sunglasses...

Warming of heartmeerkat journalistic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8603585.stm


And someone suggested Saudis don't do April Fools:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8604122.stm

If they're as bad at it as Jordan, that may be for the good.