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

Willem, I believe the mayor sculpted it.

I have no idea what kind of grades the mayor got in Biology class.

Two years ago I took the night rain to Rome and arrived there on the evening of December 24th. I left again 7 days later and to my huge surprise I saw only one - 1! - piece of firw*rk while driving through Germany at night. Amazing. I grew up in Germany and remember skies filled with sparks.

Not that i missed it. I was in good company of a well written and a bottle of

Dmitri, I always enjoy your North Carolina stories. They make me feel right at home.

It's those hillbillies. I'm amazed they don't drop possums in the Ozarks.

What makes you think we don't?

Be careful whith what you drop:

http://i.imgur.com/gIGNh.jpg

Okay, Pierce, now that was just gratuitous.

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Ha ha pierce, at least that drop bear is more anatomically correct than the mayor's flea!

Willem is happy.

I'm [hangs head in shame]

I thought about putting up a warning sign - only I thought about it hours too late

I shall try to be more cautious in the future!

You should be. Or the drop bears will get you.

looks a cheap watch

Ahem. Never mind those drop bears. Try polar bears vs wildlife photographers.

Warning: This yahoo article contains very scary pictures:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/polar-bear-attacks-bbc-cameraman-arctic-norway-161459239.html

The photographer made himself a perspex 'shark cage' to film the 'cute' polar bears.

Looky at the big teef.

An Inuit once told a researcher that the only advantage a human has over a polar bear is opposable thumbs. Those bears spent the whole time trying to figure out how to get that photographer out of the box and eat him.

A late friend of mine used to w*rk on a meteorological station in the northeastern corner of Greenland and had nothing but respect for polar bears:

"World's fiercest predator! If we saw something move we would grab our rifles immediately - and if it turned out to be a polar bear we would get ready to shoot if it had noticed us. No headshots, the skull is to thick for that! Always aim for the chest - and hope for the best"

But isn't the polar bear an endangered species, I asked him

"It doesn't know that - and out there YOU are the endangered species!"

I think that's true, Pierce. Personally, I'd not like to run into a polar bear outside a zoo. Like all bears, they're bigger than we are, and I suspect just as clever.

I wonder if they are at all active during the heavy blizzards that frequently hit their habitats? If not they must be very busy hunting when the weather makes it feasible. And if there is nothing else than seals, fish, polar s and the occasional human...

You get the picture

This will have fine tuned their hunting skills to the max

Excellent

http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A6257775

And once again an interesting entry turns into something completely different but equally interesting