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

Yes. That must be it.

Did you know men can breast feed? It's true; I read it. I wrote it down and then I read it. But no, really, men can breast feed. Ok, they have to actually tape cans of evaporated milk to their chests, but...



(From Bob Saget, from memory)

But... tape them? Pulling the tape must be... ow.

Aside from the bit of shade it gives me against the Texas afternoon sun I don't have a single good thing to say about the oak tree that overhangs my balcony.

The first thing it does each year is drop all its leaves (yes, in spring), covering my balcony.

The second thing it does is make pounds and pounds of pollen that make me sneeze.

The third thing it does is to drop thousands of tiny, round objects that look like acorn cups but are closed, about an eighth of an inch in diameter, hard as bullets, and surprisingly painful to step on in bare feet.

And that bloody squirrel that took a bite out of all my plants (except for this one http://www.worldofsucculents.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Ferocactus-glaucescens.jpg and one that looks a bit like this but with slightly less vicious spines http://www.dariocampana.it/IMMAGINI/FEROCALI3.JPG ) and whose marauding tendencies prevented me from growing tomatoes or any other fruit and veg on my balcony this year lives in it

Actually no - that second cactus is one of these http://www.cactusguide.ir/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Melocactus-azureus.jpg

I'm afraid your campaign against the shorter form of "premature babies" and the doctor title is doomed to fail--I've heard both for as long as I can remember. Granted, my memory's a bit shorter than yours but not by *that* much. Plus, the doctor letters make sense--not all gynocologists are obstetricians, so it's good to know if you need one that is both.

Well I don't like any of them, so there And I think you meant to put this in a different conversation

Mmaybeeee...

Ooh heck. I shouldn't have eaten three helpings of rice pudding

It carries on swelling up inside you, you know. The rice absorbs all the liquids in your body until you turn into a big rice pudding.

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Don't know what made me say that - I luuurve rice pudding and could easily eat three helpings.

Helpings is such a relative term, isn't it At least it was wholegrain pudding rice

Are you sure it wasn't one big helping, eaten in three installments?

No, it was one big helping eaten in one instalment

A picture of new restaurant in London. I hope they make a success of it, I really do. Then maybe they can afford to pay the builders to finish the job http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNVnm-RUEAAwccm.jpg:large

There are few sounds that get me as misty-eyed and homesick as a peal of church bells ringing the changes

Now why would someone from Tupelo be calling me?

Did Google's new typeface and logo break the internet? I feel like I'm on dial-up this morning.

I am on dial-up at home right now, speedwise anyway. Looks like I have to go buy yet another WiFi router today.

Oh bother.

Thanks for the warning.

I stopped using google keyboard long ago.

I'd been thinking of looking in to see if they'd fixed its problems.

God knows they've certainly had adequate time.

This has nothing to do with Google keyboard. Google has just changed they're logos. They familiar Google logo on their search page is now a san serif, scale-able font.

So, those problems may or may not have been fixed.