Looks uncommonly like a moth to me. The dangly bits result from movement during the longish exposure.

Varun - large bits of the US already use metric - NASA, for a start.

I thought I was doing well at 40 pints!

Clearly driving on the left is correct, otherwise you have to go widdershins round roundabouts, with all the attendant bad karma.

BlessedBlogger - my thoughts exactly. OK, so chocolate is probably safer than many things - asbestos springs to mind - but I'm not sure I'd take the chance. Then again, you don't hear of industrial lung disease amongst chocolatiers, do you?

Perhaps a choccy mouthwash would be safer?

Probably one of those people with such poor social skills that he meets so few women and therefore any woman he meets will do.

Polite disagreement is still alive in uk.rec.sheds, for example.

Ah - that'll be where I got it from.

Sod the intellect, can it play guitar?

Do your neighbours know you call them organic filth?

The letters page in New Scientist a few weeks ago said much the same - it's /like/ a monopole - but not.

Try this...

http://www.lecielestbleu.com/media/pateasonframe.htm

Takes a while to explore all the functions.

If you can't be bothered to play with controls...

http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v5

Exactly my era, and our kids loved it, too.

Can't say the hat looks particularly like the features in the book.

A natural consequence of having a velocity term in the equation for the Reynolds number. I'm surprised that they didn't work this out beforehand.

@felixthecat - that's that compost heaps are for!

We had volunteer tomatoes and onions in the flower bed this year - and even a stray parsnip, presumably from a parsnip top that hadn't finished rotting down.