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

I realise this is a family site but I can't resist telling you that the French slang for fellatio is "faire le pompier" - literally "to play the fireman".

I've just remembered another couple. The German word for nipple is "Brustwartze" or "breast-wart". And then of course these need to be kept in by breast-stoppers ("Bustenhalter") - or bras as they are known this side of the sanity curtain.

Cavebloke, those are exactly the sorts of things we're looking for. Welcome to this lingually twisted forum, me old mucker!

In swedish nipple goes like bröstvårta, which, as you say, translates as breast-wart like the german example.
Bra is BH which is short for bysthållare which translates as bust-holder which I would like to do as a job...

You'd like to be a BRA as a job, Duke? Interesting idea. Not my cup of tea, though: too much hanging around, I reckon.

Well, I thought that since "hang around" is pretty much what I do at my current place of work, I thought it would be nice to put some motivation in it...

I've been wondering about your work, Duke. It seems to me (and put me right if I'm making a gross assumption here) that your work involves a lot of Internet chat. At what point does work intrude?

Everytime the phone rings. Everytime someone tells me to put this and that out on the homepage. Everytime someone wonders where the "H" key is on their computer keyboard. Everytime someone breathes, it seems.
By the way, since you're online, it could be cool if you started your ICQ. I got your message about adding me.

I thought it was. Cor...bloody Twentieth Century, eh?

Yeah. I'm glad it's all over in 6 months...

All over in six months? I'd best put on some clean underwear.

Are you worried you might get a Y2K problem in your underwear?

Where there are crabs there can also be bugs. It's sad but all too true when your undies are fashioned from reversed goatskin.

Ah. Perhaps Vestie has a spare pair? But stretchable latex gives you other problems, like unhealthy humidity.

Apparently cornflour is the answer according to Johanna (see her article in the five latest entries).

No I'm sorry, but latex is just not on for a descendant of the Vikings. It's dead furry animals or nothing for us.

Will a hedgehog do? It might work if you're careful. I saw one on the expressway this morning.
Incidentally, Hedgehog in swedish becomes igelkott, which translates back as
1. One of those black slimy things that hides under stones in the sea and that sucks blood.

combined with

2. One of those hard balls of seed that hangs in pinetrees and such.

Go figure...

My admiration for the Swedes knows no bounds.

Hedgehog undies might be one prick too many....

Eeew. You nasty bloke, you. There might be women and children present.

Sorry. Oh and by the way, the pine thing is called a "cone" in English, so it seems a hedgehog is a seaslug cone. Whacky!

Or, more likely, a leech cone. Still whacky.