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

The first casualty of war is obviously pop music. MTV have removed "anything performed by the band the B-52s" from their playlist.

http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief/2003/20030326.html#10

I'm glad I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that, or my laptop might need cleaning.

Oh well, I suppose that Massive Attack aren't popular enough to appear on MTV these days

actualy MTV can play "(meet) the Flinstones" by BC-52's from the 1993's the Flinstones movie.

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(Ooh, nice hearts)

I recently drove through the British Forces Sovereign Base in Cyprus and listened to a bit of BFBS Radio One, the British Forces Broadcasting Service.

They were asking for people to ring in with music requests and song compilations.

We wondered what would happen if we rang in and requested a medley of 'Give Peace a Chance', 'War (What is it Good For?'), 'Billy Don't Be a Hero' and 'Seasons in the Sun'... Doesn't take much guessing though does it...

curious if you ask for "Revolutions" by Jean-Michel Jarre
...it was re-named "Evolutions" when Jarre played in Egypt (Dec 31, 1999 - Jan1, 2000. Revolition is an word on the blacklist in Egypt.

Guys - have you seen a laptop with in it? (Jim probably has) It's very scary!

I did a weeks VocEx at a nearby IBM place, and on the final day, they took me into the repair workshop and opened up a laptop that had had splilt on it, and it had started eating away at the chips!!! If it can do that to silicon chips, what is it doing to my innards!!!

And no - I haven't given it up. Too addicted!!!

*giggles* And there was I thinking it was truth...!

*goes to get head checked*

Lifson- I once spilled Lucozade on the computer in my dad's office (back in the 80s, when I was about six) and the "L" key stuck whenever anyone tried to use it after that until the entire computer gave up and died.

A guy I worked with once accidentally tipped a whole curry into the back of a £20,000 computerised typesetting machine... Whoops!

He was fired by the way, so don't try this one folks!

Ouch!!! That musta hurt!!!
(The company that owned the machine that is!!!)

Yeah, it would just have to be trashed wouldn't it? Even if you got rid of the oil and the food you'd never remove the smell... What an awful thing to do!

But I like curry smell!!!

But not all day, every day, surely!

Actually - recently due to my bad arms and other things, my transformation into Red Dwarf's Dave Lister has been rather rapid and disturbingly accurate!!!

Apparently, one disgruntled BBC employee smashed four studio-camera-lenses with a scaffolding pole. They're worth half a million each...

Eeesh!!! Despite my natural acute clumsyness - even I've never wreaked anything that expensive!!!

I crashed a car once when I was 5. I distracted my Mum big time when we were driving past the seafront, and we ended up shoving the front-end of our Merc into the back end of a Volvo. My Dad ran his own garage at the time and had to do all the repairs. That was a couple of grand to set straight as I seem to recall...