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

I remember Mark Lamarr saying years ago about television fame, something along the lines of; the nicer a star's persona on tv the more of a shit they are in real life.

The breathless manner in which some of these stories are reported in the media - young kiddies and aged men - I get the impression that the journalists themselves are getting some sort of vicarious pleasure from it.

Try to avoid that kind of journalism. For example, when there is more photo than word on the page, ask yourself why. And if a headline is SHOUTING AT YOU about something, ask yourself why.

Who knew? Can't remember if I posted this before but Jerry Sadowitz was talking about it in 1987 -

NSFW !!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQX3PzZ94NU

NSFW !!!!!

Stuart Hall is a bit of a shocker for me. I loved watching him on It's a Knockout and nowadays I love listening to his match reports. He has a great turn of phrase.

Ok, so today my husband is off work and therefore watching repeats of The Gadget Show on Dave. They were looking at phones and they decided a good way of testing them would be for impressionist Phil Cornwell to phone them up pretending to be celebrities.

You can probably see where this is going. But presumably this isn't as outrageous as a puppet doing the same impression (but without naming the celebrity) on CBeebies.

The great and unexpected result of this was that husband managed to track down the 'This is apple white. We wanted Parisian Moonlight white.' commercial, because after seeing this he remembered it was Phil Cornwell in the ad. I think there was a thread about this somewhere ...

Mol

Apple White??


Shouldn't that be Aplle iWhite?

bugger,

Apple iWhite

> bugger <

Careful now

I apologise fir this one - not my normal reading matter but I do use Yahoo mail and this was in the front page with the headline:-

'5ive's Richie Neville Reveals 'Full On ***k-Fest' With Steps' [woman singers name]'

I couldn't quite believe that I was seeing this. However, the short article includes the following quote from one of the band members about their sexual activity:-

'Abs said it was between "500 to 1,000 and 80% was between the age of 15 to 17"

Not a very bright thing to say at any time, but right now?

Can we expect members of Five to be invited in for a bit of a chat by the boys in blue?

PP.

I have to say when I heard Ian Watkins had been arrested and charged, I was somewhat surprised it was the Lostprophets one and not the Steps one.

I couldn't vouch for the following numbers but some have made the news individually

"Top 15 men who have slept with the most women of all time" interweb 2009

15. Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones bassist) 1,000
14. Magic Johnson (basketball star) 1,000
13. Eric Clapton (Guitarist) 1,000
12. Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead frontman) 1,200
11. Jack Nicholson (actor) 2,000
10. Ilie Nastase (tennis star) 2,500
9. Engerlbert Humperdinck (singer) 3,000
8. Julio Iglesias (singer) 3,000
7. Ron Jeremy (pornstar) 4,500
6. Gene Simmons (Kiss frontman) 4,600
5. Charlie Sheen (actor) 5,000
4. Umberto Billo (Venetian hotel porter) 8,000
3. Wilt Chamberlain (basketball star) 20,000
2. Random pharoah 34,000 (Guinness Book of world Records has proof)
1. Fidel Castro (Cuban President) 35,000

Well.... if they were still in their heyday, there's a couple of them I wouldn't shove from under the duvet. But, then again, when they were in their heyday, I would have been too old for them. Except, perhaps, the pharaoh.

I'm betting Kim Jong-un has slept with every attractive woman in the world.

I have it on good (North Korean) authority, that there was a waiting list.

PP.

How on earth does the guinness book of record have proof?

34000 women is 1 woman a day for 93 years. Given that they probably didn't start until the age of say 14 and they were generally dead by the age of 40 ish.

Thats 26 years 93/26 ~4 women a day for his entire adult life.

Actually I suppose that's doable -I guess you can get your chamberlain to run the country for you

er, quickies

Officially it only counts if the woman reaches orgasm, which would probably reduce his total considerably.


And a lot of other people's too

Yeah, I'm not sure where the interweb bloke got his pharaoh information from. I thought pharaohs were only supposed to sleep with their sisters and mothers etc. Maybe the pharoah was a mid-wife and the person who kept the chronicles got confused