h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's from Isobel and I've never been able to work out exactly what he sings. But someone who visits this messageboard is bound to know and suddenly the tension is killing me. Help me, someone?


I admire those men who know about mathematics
Who calculate and cypher and compute
I used to think that logarithms were things that scuttled about in attics
And serds (?) were little flowers with square roots
But ?? ??


I also can't figure out the pun in logarithms/attics. Knowing Jake, there's bound to be one.

Please don't keep me hanging on. I'm only mortal and Christmas is a bad time of year for the mentally unstable.

Thanx.

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I think I have your lyric but I don't understand the pun either. Perhaps you have to be a mathematician or an entomologist to know what it means!:

1.Nobody else is loved so well by Isobel, by Isobel Oh, nobody else is loved so well by Isobel but me
She's my rose, my asphodel, my demoiselle, my Jezebel But nobody else is loved so well by Isobel but me

. .................
And surds were little flowers with square roots
But what boots it?

Nobody else is loved etc

2. At geometry I don't excel, my triangles go parallel But nobody else is loved so well by Isobel but me

I marvel at musicians, maestros, virtuosos They're sensitive and deft beyond belief
The only tune that I know well is Ring O' Roses And I can only whistle it through me teeth
But good grief

Nobody else is loved etc.................

3. I couldn't produce a tuneful decibel, not even if I strained like hell But nobody else is loved so well by Isobel but me

Some can swim for miles and dive from dizzy heights From deep and stormy seas they never shrink
I am not amphibious or watertight My function in the water is to sink
But just think

Nobody else etc .............

4. Upon the sea the slightest swell makes me expel one hell of a yell But nobody else is loved so well by Isobel but me

Some men are sophisticated, gay and hearty Polite and poised and witty, they're such fun
I am never welcome to a cocktail party I drink too much or leave my flies undone
But thumbs up

Nobody else etc............

5. I can't hold my whisky well and I've not got many jokes to tell But nobody else is loved so well by ever-loving Isobel
My one and only Isobel, my little Iso-Isobel

All other women I repel Cause I can't spell and I smell as well
But nobody else is loved so well by Isobel but me

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