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

Cats and dogs both lick their own (hopefully not each others' ) bums, but only one of those two animals wants to use that same tongue to lick your face too. Which is one of the many reasons I will always prefer cats to dogs.

The biggest problem with living for the moment is that it messes up all the subsequent moments because there are always consequences.

Thereby hangs a tail?

tale?

No, I just had a flash of alcohol-induced philosophical clarity

And I'll let you off using the erm smiley... this time

Whoops, sorry. It just slipped out.

Going back to the 'Why do certain roads get the definite article, such as the Holloway Road, the Mile End Road etc', here's another one.
http://twitter.com/robnitm/status/497703833368137728

That's a particularly interesting one because some people pronounce it as 'Charring Cross' while others say 'Chairing Cross', and if you say 'Chairing', I think you're also more likely to say 'Crorss'.

There's no such thing as a weed, just a plant growing where someone doesn't want it. No such thing as bad weather*, just the wrong kind of clothes.

*Hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes and Death Valley excepted.

Heh... I have a planter on my porch growing two mystery plants. One has broad serrate leaves and the other is quite weedy with small black flowers. This planter originally had my 17 year old ficus that I left out in a freeze. These started growing before the freeze and survived so I just cut out the dead tree and water these every once in a while.

I did have to do some "weeding" yesterday though. A tallow berry tree sapling sprung up some time last week. Once I got too big to climb trees I grew to hate these trees. They're the predominate tree in these parts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadica_sebifera

One thing not mentioned in the wiki article is that the seed coverings that drop are like tiny caltrops. I had leathery feet as a kid from running around on our oyster shell driveway and a yard covered in these tri-pointed seed coverings.

If you want to live a happy and contented life, just make sure there's always some leftovers, preferably savoury, in the fridge. For when you come home from the pub with a skinful of ale and the galloping munchies

"I don't talk very well. I mean, writing, you've time to get it right, whereas talking, it's off the top of your head."
Alan Bennett

Can we all please get over Michael Jackson now?

What, The bloke who used to write about beer?

No, he's usually referred to as The Beer Hunter in these pages.

So who are you referring to?

Seriously?

How serious do you think I am going to be from the middle of the GBBF?

I'm sat here with Moonshine, Chocolate Orange Stout.
6.7% of very nice.