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

"...scarcely worth a FART-HING", indeed.

Ah, I was the thinking of the suggestion that the wind was caused by the waving of trees, and so the way to reduce wind would be to cut trees down.

I see now that I was barking up a wrong 'un.


Geggs

I almost mentioned Windeze earlier as a joke!

I assume that the equivalent here is Beano.

Well blow me down (ahem)

And I was just joking

Do we still score these?

If so, then Orcus gets +1, Mu Beta +3 and Baron Grim +6 (for the heat-regulating arboriculture).

Icy

I think that +1 is pizzle in the ocean of my negative points from previous questions.

But much appreciated nonetheless...

You had me fooled, I thought you were angling for Franklin's experiment of reducing wave height due to wind (atmospheric-not man-made)
I understand he had a home in the Lake District of England and there poured oil on the lake to see if it would reduce the interplay between the water and the air.

boy, that was a short QI.

Should I leave it longer? I don't like to see the natives getting restless.

And I've been busy and thinking un-qi-related thoughts.

hmmm... i think the negative points should go to Mr B Franklin -

>> "When the Royal Academy of Brussels announced it was to fund a prize for 'useful science', Franklin wrote them a letter"

you see, Mr F's apparent preoccupation with flatulence was all down to a basic confusion between geography and agriculture:

ie. mistaking the name of the Belgian city for the vegetable

QED

a-l-s