A tweet this morning led me to
the 20 minute taster tape of Spinal Tap, which somehow I don't think I've seen before. Interesting to see how much stuff was established so early, but also how much got sorted out later (the wigs and Derek Smalls becoming luke warm water rather than antagonistic). It's mildly disappointing in some ways to see that some lines are exactly the same as it feels like the whole film is improvised, but perhaps it was improvised the first time. But more likely they did have some kind of script that they jazzed around with. Anyway it's still magical.
Charlie Pickering (and a few others) were surprised at
the asteroid measuring system of the Daily Mail (though I wouldn't put it past the Mail to deliberately do something this weird knowing that smart arses like us would RT it). The asteroid was half the size of a giraffe apparently, which seems like a metric that I would use in stone clearing (and I may well do so from now on). Was there not something that would be the exact size, rather than relying on the reader being able to slice a giraffe in half in their mind and work out the size, sex and age of the giraffe in question. Presumably they are talking about the giraffe being sliced down vertically as if you cut horizontally the halves are very different sizes. Or is it just half the height of a giraffe. In which case isn't there something that is closer to that height. I think they'er saying it's 10 ft so it's one and a bit Richard Osmans. Or the size of a 10 ft high ladder. @davidrob83 came up with the best answer - Google says male giraffes are 5-5.9m (so say 5.45m average), females are 4.3-5.2m (so say 4.75m). So say an overall average of 5.1m. Half of that is 2.55m which is the height of the Kubota U48-4 Excavator.
