@bawheid: terrible

@Kam-Muad'dib: only if they have a spirited British woman!

@Back in Nom Nom Nom: two of them are blue, does that help?

@ChosenPredator: That's what the panicking citizens do in Asimov's story Nightfall.

@blaaps: I've got one that can see!

This is a Science Fiction blog after all

@jeff1dean1001: aka "shifting the goalposts"

@Dented: I love that clip! The guy's face at 0:09 makes me laugh - it looks like someone is coming for him

I have the script of the original play by Milligan and John Antrobus. I often thought my theatre group in London could stage it, but the props list ran over 4 pages (& we were on a budget)

@NullNullNix: ya beat me. so it goes.

@matrixteapot: Before you judge someone, you should always walk a mile in their shoes.

@zerobandwidth: I have a rule that anyone from an organization with the word TRUTH or REASON in its title is full of shit. Seems to hold up so far.

Kristen Wiig - I like her, but she needs to fire her agent

I saw a docu in the UK about how the Chinese Mitten Crab digs warrens of tunnels in the Thames riverbank, causing excessive erosion and dangerous collapse. The locals won't eat them, despite being used to jellied eels and whelks.

@muteboy: ... and for extra points, that film also featured Andrew Keir, who played which Professor in a movie?

@blackoak: And which movie version of a certain time-traveller's adventures did Cribbins feature in?

@bawheid: Awesome. And don't forget - remember you're a Womble!

@bibulb: ISO came up with 8601, and they're the International Org. ANSI used INCITS 30-1997, which I think is a ratification of the ISO one.

@newgalactic: In Iain M Banks' Culture, they don't use planets for habitation, but instead build rings and ships using interstellar dust, which provides plenty of elements without the need to break up or terraform planets.

Lotus had a ski car out: [www.wired.com]