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

If the cap fits wear it...

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Wee sleekit cowrin' tim'rous beastie. O what a panic's in thy breastie (Rabbi Lionel Burns)

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If you don't change the direction in which you are going, you will end up where you are headed


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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die
The Bard - I think - sonnets?

If right - 'ang on a minute.

You are right

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I can't place it, but it looks something like

A beautiful mink (monk?) with your trees and shrubbers green and your beautiful walk seems too charming to be seen.

Nearly - there is another Scottish poet.

That wasn't easy!

Beautiful Monikie with your trees and shrubberies green
And your beautiful walks, most charming to be seen
(William McGonagall)

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Build a man a fire and he will be warm for days, set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life

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Arty, it looks like:

If it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight, how many apples are in a barrel of grapes?

Aye, that's correct
Go!

That makes perfect sense to me

new one:

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if a man speaks in the first and there is no woman to hear him is he still wrong ?

"first" = "forest", but otherwise perfect, Bel

Over to you...

That makes much more sense than what i put

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Lazy bones take all day to get started?

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You know that it would be untrue,you know that i would be a liar

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Like father like son

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