The answer is actually …. 42

According to astronomers, the Milky Way galaxy weighs 3 x 10 to the power of 42 kilograms.

Now we have the answer, what is the question?  Oh, hang on, thats been done before.

I think I need a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster before I go to bed.

VB - For a hard earned thirst, you need a big cold beer

But why the hell drink VB (Victoria Bitter)?  Drink some decent beer for a change.  I haven’t drunk VB regularly for years, and on the odd occasion I do, find it as rough as guts.

However, many people do drink it, and there’s been a bit of a storm in a teacup this week over the company’s decision to reduce the alcohol content of VB from 4.9% to 4.8%.  Social responsibility behind the decision …reducing the level of drunkenness by VB drinkers?  No way, it saves the company something like $10m a year in excise taxes.

Is anyone going to notice the difference in alcohol content?  You’d think so from some of the commentary in the media, but really, you’d need to drink one more beer for every fifty to get pissed the same.  Given that you’d do well to get through that first 50, the 51st is really neither here nor there …. mind you, 50 (or 51) VBs is not only an assault on the liver, brain and other internal organs, but also an assault on your taste buds.

Had to laugh about what the guy from Fosters Brewing had to say about the change:

“I think I’d be lynched if we changed the taste of VB,”

Not by me …horse’s piss is a taste that they could very well change, to something resembling decent beer.

Looking out my office window

and this:

Beats looking out the window at other office buildings! Or carparks, or traffic.

Pizza’n'porn

 Interesting combination!  Porno Pizza in Winnipeg, Canada, uses porn as a marketing ploy, putting a pornographic picture on the bottom of their pizza boxes, which is revealed as you eat the pizza.

Question - do they deliver? (and do they have an offshoot business in pool cleaning?)

Bill Gates - consigned to poverty

Micro$oft founder, Bill Gates, is no longer the world’s richest person.  That ranking now belongs to Carlos Slim, a Mexican telecommunications tycoon.   Slim is worth an estimated $67.8 billion, whereas Bill has to make do with a mere $59.2 billion.

A 27 per cent surge in the share price of America Movil, Latin America’s largest cell phone operator controlled by Slim, from March to June made him close to $8.6 billion wealthier than Gates.

Yet another totally pointless product

I’ve seen these in the supermarket recently and thought that they are about as useful as tits on a bull.

Frozen jaffles? I mean, who can’t get two slices of bread, put some baked beans, ham and cheese or other filling between them, and then toast them in a jaffle maker/sandwich press. Jaffles are a convenience food, something you make for a quick meal or snack, perhaps a way to use up some leftovers. Some bright spark at Four’n'Twenty has seen a market niche for a convenience food version of a convenience food. Wow!

Don’t know if this is just me, but I’m battling to see the appeal of what looks to be baby spew jaffles on the package. That doesn’t resemble in any way, shape or form what I understand a baked bean jaffle should look like.