Maybe he has so many drugs in his system that he's developed a paranoid fear of gnomes and heard rumours they were gathering on the equator.

Etch a Sketch. 1950s. That was prior art on many levels. Not that you could write PRIOR ART on it. It would be more like RBIQB_ABT.

It's good to see the US military finally getting over their prejudice against soldiers who are 'Optionally men.'

Having been driving on a UK motorway illuminated at night when all the lights have failed through a fault, it can be quite surprising and scary, as your eyes have grown accustomed to the brightness and so it suddenly looks very dark. Then again, on a dark isolated road where your eyes grow used to the dark, even dipped lights can seem blinding (especially halogens).

So I think it should be a case of all or nothing. Either all lights on or all lights off (even headlights), in the latter case, everyone could just wind down their windows and play very loud music.

I see what you strawberried there. Good horse.

Are you seriously telling me this wouldn't stand up in court: http://www.sleepdictionary.com/legal.html Damn. That lawyer owes me those two beers back.

Anonymous Coward? Doh! Now, if I'd given a penguin a quick hug before posting then they might have spotted that I wasn't logged in and done that penguin thing that they do, whatever it is that penguins do to remind you that you haven't logged in on /.

Tidy as you go.

If we build even more of these ships and tether them all together, then we could drive the containers across the ocean.

The week after that: Obama invited to a drive around Dallas.

"Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe." -- Douglas Adams

How gullible are you?

I bet a robot told you that.

A big one with glowing red eyes and blood dripping from his brushed-Titanium claws.

Absolutely, but it's the very fact that Guido was a failure that is the sole reason he is still celebrated.

What's the big deal about Columbus in the States?

He never got to America first, never set foot on mainland USA, was trying to prove it was quicker to get to India by going the other way (he was wrong) and he introduced small pox to kill off the few remaining tribes who hadn't been shot... sorry, liberated.

And as for that bet about the egg, he blatantly cheated and even nicked the story to begin with.