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

Nope.

Clue: consider those islands...

Oh bugger it -

NIagra Falls.

Iguacu? It's got two big islands in it and it's relatively accessible since they put that bloomin' big dam there.

Ach, Vip beat me to it.

Now now... coy... McCoy... The Bones Falls?

Vip....in a barrel

Where angels fear to tread...

Niagra Falls.

Not that one - this is all natural.

Not that one either.

That'll teach me to hold my tongue.

Taff, like the Dodo, utterly fearless.



"Do it in a barrel."

"Never (be) obvious", I say. They never listen.

Victoria Falls? Stanley Falls? Livingstone Falls? Blue Nile Falls?

Re: coy - that was my invocation to be bold or interesting, and pace Vip, NOT obvious!!

Iago was closest when he mentioned Lord of The Rings in this regard.

Closer still.

Victoria Falls is correct.

ell, one assumes that there is an Orinoco river somewhere, so I suppose it's whatever the waterfall on the River Orinoco is named.

That better not be too obvious. ()

And the Alan Davies method strikes again.

So it wasn't the world-renowned Hardcastle Falls?

I'll wrap this up now then.

From the Zambia side (for some reason, tourism is way down in Zimbabwe ) after clambering onto and maybe having picnic on Livingstone Island*, don your swimming trunks and dive off into the small naturally formed lagoon called The Devil's Pool

Now the water here is definitely still flowing and *will* try to carry you over the edge, however it does so very languidly, and added to this, the lagoon has formed a natural rock wall, that you bump into, arresting your progress before you fall to your doom.

Not very far away, the water from the rest of the Zambezi river discourages at a ferocious rate, The Livingstone himself found so spectacular but in The cradle of the Devil's arms, it is as Iago noted, very, very calm.

These videos serve to make the point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26O5miWH0Cg&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu5nlu4IBN8&NR=1


The time to do it is apparently in the dry season (Aug-Dec), when the river is at it's least powerful, presumably in the wet season, the water is enough to overwhelm even the Devil.

One has to wonder who first discovered the unique properties of this lagoon and what they thought they were doing at the time...

Points to follow...

* http://www.afrizim.com/Activities/Livingstone/Picnics.asp

Not The Orinoco Vip. (Wrong continent)

I did consider klaxoning every placename mentioed in the Enya song, but I think we're past that now.

The clue (which wasn't very good, I'll admit) was the FLOW part of Orinoco Flow.

I messed around with various constructions of devil's pool and livingstone before giving in and just choosing that on the basis that it has 'flow' in the title, which I figured would turn people's minds towards how fast the river was flowing.

QI - The Orinoco Flow
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Correct (+3)
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Toybox (42) - "Places where the current is less strong."
Iago (51) - "Calm Waters around Islands."
Iago (73) - "Victoria Falls."


QI Bonus (+6)
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Toybox (49) - "The Hairy Ball Theorem


DGI Bonus (+1)
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Taff (20) - "Enya / Orinoco Flow"
Toybox (39) "Use the water" (Honorary IGP award. )


Klaxon (-5)
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Robyn Hoode (4) - "Stay out of the water."
Taff (6) - "Wombles"
RF (18)- "Use a hang-glider likes in James Bond."
Taff (35) - "Make sure the drop is really shallow."
VIP (63) - "Niagra Falls"
Taff (66) - "Do it in a barrel."


Elf Bonus (+2)
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Clive




Total to be added or subtracted.
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Taff -14
Robyn Hoode -5
RF -5
VIP - 5
Clive +2
Iago +6
Toybox +10


Bobbing along merrily with a inflatable dinghy of points in Toybox with +10. Not far behind swimming furiously in the current in the bronzed figure of Iago with a warm and healthy +6, but going over the falls today with his feet tied to an anvil shouting WOooooo HOOoooo!! it's Taff with -14.

Before we get carried off ourselves, we'll depart and leave you to consider this:

“Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.”

Goodnight.