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

Elsewhere they reported that Dirk's girlfriend is named Peaches. Aww.

Time to reprise my all-time favourite joke:

Penguin walks into a bar. Asks the barman,

'Have you seen my brother?'

Barman says,

'What does he look like?'

No "news", and it didn't catch my attention "today", but:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/01/nicolas-sarkozy-political-weathervane

Nicolas Sarkozy is a political weathervane

"In Britain, Sarkozy wouldn't dream of denying having said what had been filmed and recorded in front of entire crowds, for fear of being branded a liar – an ultimate crime, which could cost him his political future overnight."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2109237/Rufus-Wainwright-set-summer-wedding-theatre-producer-partner.html

Rufus Wainwright is marrying. I read this in our local paper because, believe it or not, his future partner comes from round our way.

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Zoo_keeper_shows_amazing_dedication

Chinese man licks monkey's bum for an hour. Amazing.

Man licks monkeys bum!

And finally Esther....

PP

If you're held up in a queue at the checkout it could be this lady signing a cheque using her new 161 word name.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-17939155

Sorry about the no subject, above was posted from pliny (testing) Title is back now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17942091

In short, a national red top gets a cheap laugh at the expense of the new England football team manager by highlighting his difficulty in pronouncing his 'r's in a front page headline.

(Bwing on the Euwos. We'll see you in The Ukwaine against Fwance).

I was struck by the name of this particular difficulty. Rhotacism.

As insensitive as the word 'lisp'.

PP

Mother nature played tricks with Michigan weather- now the fruit crop may be the worst in fifty years.https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20120504/NEWS01/305040033/Michigan-s-topsy-turvy-weather-threatens-fruit-crops?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

let's see if this works
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20120504/NEWS01/305040033/Michigan-s-topsy-turvy-weather-threatens-fruit-crops

"Bald eagle spotted in Whale Cove, Nunavut"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/05/05/north-bald-eagle-whale-cove.html?cmp=rss

There was no consultation, no one knocked on the door. You just wake up one morning, there's a leaflet telling you they are going to put missiles on the roof.

http://www.punchng.com/sports/olympics-missiles-on-london-rooftop/

http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html

Plume-gate.

Assuming you survive the initial radioactive fallout, would you want to live in a post-apocalyptic world?

Not particularly - would I have a choice?


The author has a couple of things to say about the media... then, just opposite the 'Forks Over Knives' advert, he says:
>To better understand the severity of this situation, read these facts about Fukushima reactor No. 4 >which I have assembled from available news sources:<< ...
which is where I stopped reading - but a skim showed he soon headlines 'the media cover-up'.


Some proper facts, please.

It's a spoof though... isn't it?

Well, yes, perhaps. Can't make me mind up - like the best spoofs, it's believable 'cos I have just enough knowledge to make it so but not enough to refute it...

/This link may be slow to load - like maybe 15 seconds/

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=Harley_washes_up_on_B.C._coast_08_05_2012?ref=ccbox_weather_topstories


~jwf~

At the Olympic flame lighting ceremonies in Greece today
a gust of wind extinguished the flame. There was a back-up
but some will see this as a somewhat ominous sign.




~jwf~

I heard that story a few times yesterday on the radio while I was driving hither & thither. Different presenters used the same script and it was quite funny to therefore see the lengths the BBC went to to make it clear that the people involved in the ceremony were actors. Not real High Priestesses, no sirreee bob.

Seriously - in a 30 second piece they pointed out they were actors three or four times.

<<There was a back-up
but some will see this as a somewhat ominous sign.

Well, the first ominous sing happened when Greece entered the EU. Nobody saw it then. Not even considering that the country entered because of a fraud made by Goldman Sachs with the state of the helenic finances. From then on all went happy-clappy for corrupt politicians there and bankers from other EU areas...

A drama indeed, and it´s getting worse each day.