Clarkson Quote

Posted by Ade on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 at 9:31 AM

Some quotes by Jeremy Clarkson should not be read in the office, if you don't want to puzzle cow-orkers by laughing out loud:

People often criticise her (Parker-Bowles) because she's approaching 60, but they forget that Princess Diana was approaching 120 when she went into the tunnel.

Jeremy Clarkson

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Word of the Day: Jökulhlaup!

Posted by Ade on Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 at 3:09 AM
Myrdalsjökull
Myrdalsjökull

This picture shows — obviously — a glacier. What's not so obvious is, that this glacier, like so many in Iceland, has an active volcano underneath it. This leads to accumulation of large amounts of meltwater under the glacier, which spills over and floods a large area of the southern coast every couple of years in a Jökulhlaup. The Lonely Planet guide to Iceland says that it was a couple of million cubic litres (sic!) in 1996… Wow… a couple of million m9 of water! That's a lot!

Coincidentially, what exactly I was suffering from when I drove past there and thought to myself “Who had the stupid idea of putting the glacier on top of a volcano anyway?”, I don't recall. I hadn't even had Hákarl that day…

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