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

>> don't get me started on starlight express <<

Go on then. What's a starlight express?
But if it's got ought to do with Abba or Madonna don't bother.


~jwf~

you go to a show about trains

you have your note book full of numbers

you have your parka and stool and thermos of soup

and what do you get

a load of oiks in spandex on roller skates singing

and not a diesel in sight let alone a steamer?????

bloody rip off if you ask me

Ah, the children of the children of The Railway Children,
the musical version on roller blades.
Sounds all a bit gay for my tastes.


~jwf~

I think that this is the show for you, Taff: http://mylondonyourlondon.com/?p=160

A film version is available: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203306/

RF

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/4118190/Female-snails-grow-penises-on-heads

.... waiting for the inevitable double entendres ......

On the way, by snail male

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/france-accused-of-racial-holocaust-20100911-155dw.html

Castro: "The last thing one would expect is the news of the expulsion of French gypsies, who are victims of the cruelty of the extreme rightwing in France".

That'll be Castro, former dictator of a certain totalitarian Communist regime with an appalling human rights record then?

Yep. That's even more shame for the French government. I mean, when the UN protests, they're just doing their job, but here...

<.... waiting for the inevitable double entendres ......>

Yes, well. We are better than that.

Or just too slow off the mark today.

PP

Britain's brainiest cemetery

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8984000/8984419.stm

Could bring a whole new slant to University Challenge, "Zombie brain eaters, your starter for 10"

Going to have to hurry you...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11202429

An article about numbers of men entering the Catholic priesthood. My initial response to the title was 'child abusers and pdf.files'

What caught my attention was the Church's new approach to dealing with falling numbers: they tell the devout that marriage is a vocation and if they don't hear anything when they pray (which, obviously, they won't because there's nothing there) they should become priests.

So the Catholic Church has found yet another to dupe the ignorant in order to sustain itself. What a delightful organisation it is.

Seventy years ago today

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100910/wl_ynews/ynews_wl3592

toybox

Sgt Pepper taught his band to play?

Actually, *that* was 63years ago!!!! Scary...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11274481

Cripes, I do wonder how many more would have been killed if the toast had been burnt as well

are you sure the image of jesus in the toast didn't tell him to do it??

Taff, wasn't that Tony Blair's excuse?

More lethal foodstuff...

"Twenty-four students and four staff members at a central B.C. high school were briefly quarantined after a can of sauerkraut exploded Friday in a food science class."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/11/bc-prince-george-sauerkraut-evacuation.html?ref=rss