The site seeing vessel named 'The Minnow' has been sunk shortly after leaving Hawaii when it was hit by a Howell torpedo. Missing presumed dead are Captain Jonas Grumby, first mate Willie Gilligan, the movie star Ginger Grant, a professor named Roy Hinkley, a farm girl named Mary Ann Summers, as well as Eunice Wentworth Howell, and the owner of the Howell Torpedo company Thurston Howell the 3rd. The company has said that in light of the accident they will no longer be selling the torpedoes. Though they spent millions setting up the production line, only 50 were sold to date. A company spokesperson has stated that they were flubbergasted that such an accident could occur stating 'Who knew a torpedo could sink a ship?' A search for survivors was called off after a freak storm set in.

Thought this was going to be about the Malaysian elections recently, or even maybe the Pakistan ones ... but, it's about something unimportant that doesn't matter.

Must be that Wainwright Coast to Coast walk in Northern UK, it's only 293km long. Means some would be Astronauts are standing in the water! :-)

15,000 years ago ...

Linguistic expert: And what is your name?

Primative man: I Ug!

Linguistic expert: That can't be right, Apple have a trademark on that!

Useful for looking like Megatron or Fearless Fly ... or combine the two and be Fearless Tron or Mega Fly.

So people can work from home so that when anything blows up killing everyone on site, you're not there! Do you want to vent gases? Hmmm .... yes.

To add to Crimson Avenger's comment, the sad thing is, all Bibles that I own, either don't have that 6000 years old thing in them, or if they do it is in the preface or an appendix and they categorically state that it is included for 'historic reasons' only ('historic' not meaning for the study of history, but 'historic' meaning it had been included as a preface or appendix in previous editions), and that wasn't considered accurate in any way shape or form. But, I think a lot of people don't read what's stated and just look at the pretty pictures and conclude that it is considered 'gospel' as it is 'in' the Bible.

George Takei will be making an hilarious appearance concerning it on Jimmy Kimmel later tonight. :-)

Build a Dyson Sphere already!!! Out power consumption will need it by the time we finish building it!!! :-)

It might be received well. The Naga (snake) is a symbol of protection through most of South East Asia and I believe India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nga http://www.rugusavay.com/myth-of-naga-hinduism-buddhism-mythology/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucalinda Snakes in Asia are usually considered good. A snake in the roof (thatched) is good for keeping the rodents down and stopping food (rice grains) being stolen and eaten etc. Of course, it could make a person trapped in rubble wet themselves. Depends how religious they are I suspect.

I think we should name it Pluto ... after Mickey Mouse's dog. I heard that name wasn't being used by a planet any more.

Solution seems very simple. We wait for the coming of the great white hanky and it will all get cleaned up at once.

Last time I booked a cert exam through Pearson Vue the earliest date it could give me was over a week from when I booked. So, last 3 days out is a very short period of time prior to taking the exam, and anyone doing that may end up in a situation where the earliest date is after their cert becomes redundant. So, agree, it is stupid, but is also human nature to a certain extent to leave things to the last possible minute. I've been trying to book a cert exam for the last week and haven't been able to book it, and I'm not in the USA, so it affects the whole world (because, well, it all goes through the website in the USA). I don't have a cert running out, so it is more of an annoyance for me. But, yes, the summary is exaggerating the extent of the 'outage' as well, the website is up, but time outs a lot when trying to book. Pearson Vue say they are taking some registrations etc, just their system is having difficulties.

Make her learn English, it's the most cromulent language around and will embiggun her to greater things. :-)

Reminds me of an old poem.

There was an OTEC from Nantucket ...