This is not the first time a methane burp has been blamed for an extinction.
ECONOMIST: A geological burp may have led to the dinosaurs�� domination
Two and a half million listeners, the producer says, which causes me to burp up my Wheaties.
Nearly every new menu offering since then has come and gone, with only a burp to remember it by.
The burp could, of course, have been provoked by the eruptions, so the volcanoes are not off the hook completely.
ECONOMIST: A geological burp may have led to the dinosaurs�� domination
The Harry Hill Movie will also star Matt Lucas as the TV Burp star's twin and Julie Walters as his petrol-drinking grandmother.
Best entertainment programme went to Harry Hill's TV Burp, which has now finished, marking its fourth award in seven straight years of nominations.
Nearly every new menu offering since then, such as the McDLT, the McLean, the Arch Deluxe and McPizza, came and went with only a burp to remember them by.
As to what happened to the Palaeocene fauna, the evidence points not towards an errant asteroid but to a giant burp from the oceans, which released a huge amount of methane.
The Thick Of It is one of five programmes to receive three nominations - alongside The Graham Norton Show, Rev, Cardinal Burns and Harry Hill's TV Burp, which broadcast its last ever episode in March.
Some of the arguments he traces are familiar, from various attempts to prove the logical necessity of the existence of god to speculations among more adventurous physicists that the universe got its start as a kind of lucky quantum burp.
But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night.
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