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

Have you ever been to the wonderful temple of confusionism?

No, never been there

I'll just get a link for you

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I've done the dressing up to confuse people before

Do you have any suggestions?

What, to confuse people?

My favourite was to rename several everyday objects with nonsensicle names (radiators became convectorator, stairs became climuds and so on). Then you get several friends to adopt the same termanology and use it in everyday conversation.

That is damn good!

Arthbard hasn't been about for a while, but you could post it to the page?

Another was to re-invent the local geography to make it more interesting. Every hill, wood and major street was exagerrated and re-named to make it sound like something out of a fantasy. The spinney became 'the great forest', a few bumps in the ground 'the Watford Alps' and so on.

I#ll post it when I get my essay finished

The sink, 'the great and mighty ocean'

didn't go quite that far

If the sink is "the great and mighty ocean", what would you call the tub? "The greater and mightier ocean"?

"The greater and mightier ocean than the sink" I think you'll find. It all gets a bit ridiculous at that stage.

How about 'the major great and mighty ocean'

You mean it wasn't to start with?

Or maybe you could have "The Great And Mighty Ocean Sr." and "The Great And Mighty Ocean Jr."...

(Gamo for short)

"The seriously major great, mighty, and all-round wonderful Ocean".

Well, er, yes, actually.

And so a sink becomes a gamo.

That should be pretty confusing, talking about "a small gamo" and when people ask what a gamo is explaining it stands for Great And Mighty Ocean...

Now that would take a lot of explaining

How would you pronounce gamo anyway?