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

Scottish SPCA helps silly cow remove head from ladder

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-14557204

Heh!

Health and Safety gone mad, reflections of an idiot mass society or a
crafty ruse for free advertising? - An Aircraft Company puts "weep
warnings" before showing films containing emotional content:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3757750/Airline-to-put-weep-warnings-on-tearjerker-films.html

Seeing Jennifer Anniston in that story reminds me;

They're filming World War Z in Glasgow this week, a zombie film starring Brad Pitt (they wanted a city that looked like a bomb-site full of zombie-like locals. Glasgow was ideal). On Monday about a dozen people wearing "Anniston Appreciation Society" t-shirts showed up on the set to boo and heckle Pitt Unfortunately, he wasn't due on set until Wednesday - I wonder if they went back?

Those people really do need to get over it: how long ago did Aniston and Pitt split up?

I always find it a bit strange when you recognise the settings of films - saw Captain America last week and recognised the bits of Liverpool and Manchester they were filming it. It was especially strange to think those places had been the scenes of riots just hours before.

I think Dundee has doubled as Moscow a few times. The Caird Hall is positively Soviet-looking.

As it is normally -

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TGisiI_dI2E/SIuFWP-OVAI/AAAAAAAAADo/sLK4HBbXXcQ/s400/Caird+Hall+-++Feb+1983.jpg


Dressed for a movie -

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/img/photos/biz/photo_2017_wide_crop.jpg

>>They're filming World War Z in Glasgow this week, a zombie film
starring Brad Pitt ... <<

Not another Zombie movie

There's enough of them in Parliament .

Those zombies in Parliament have been there for centuries. But the populace are waking up to them.

And, to tie a number of stories together . . .


parts of 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' starring Brad Pitt were filmed right here in my town, Edmonton (well, I'm not there now, I'm in Hope, British Columbia [where Rambo was filmed if I remember correctly], but . . .). Edmonton was filling in for some place in Missouri or something (Hope was pretending to be some nameless U.S. city).

My local woods can claim Gladiator (2000), Band of Brothers (2001), The Golden Compass (2007), Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (2009), Robin Hood (2010), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2 (2010/2011), and many more.

It's odd watching a movie and thinking "I've seen that tree before".

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It has been twenty years since thw Soviet Union fell.
the more things change the more they stay the same.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-once-almost-a-democracy/2011/08/12/gIQAMriNOJ_story.html?hpid=z3

"I've seen that tree before"

Here's quite a famous one, next to Hadrian's Wall. Sycamore Gap and Robin Hood's Tree ('cos it was in one of the fillms)

http://hadrianswalllive.blogspot.com/2011_02_10_archive.html
&
http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/hadrianswall/gallery_image.asp?PageId=21&ImageId=18

Billions of dollars of research spending leads to the US unveiling
more deadly non-nuclear bombs - the US spokesman Dr DeadFord
announced: "Hopefully, with the reactive warhead, we fire once, look
and can determine a catastrophic kill"
Let the killing continue:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14581097

Well, seeing as how my previous post will probably be hidden for the weekend now, here it is again -

The Climate Change Enthusiasts go into full dingbat mode -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/18/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations?CMP=twt_gu

Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists
Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report

oh do you think they'll send Keanu Reeves to do it?

To do *what*? Or shouldn't I ask?

Village cricketers were hit for six when they discovered their scruffy new team-mate was former Yorkshire and England star Michael Vaughan in disguise.

Vaughan was kitted out with fake hair, tattoo and body padding suit for his game with Goldsborough Cricket Club, based near Knaresborough in North Yorkshire.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-headlines/caught_out_cricketers_fooled_as_england_s_vaughan_goes_undercover_1_3697982

I was recently watching the DVD "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
starring Keanu Reaves as Klattu who was sent to Earth with a message
-start acting like a responsible civilization or the other civilizations in the neighborhood will see Earth depopulated and all trace of humans ever being here wiped out.

So, all those stories about little green aliens were true!

('Klaatu'. Two 'a's, one 't')



and . . . .



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPj29RGJ6u8&feature=related