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

Ah thank you Google and "Bark 1971". It's Jefferson Airplane albums

A Launch 1966 - JA TAKES OFF
Marcel's cushion 1967 - SURREALISTIC PILLOW
A Tri-plane 1967 - COVER PIC AFTER BATHING AT BAXTERS
Atomic explosion 1968 COVER PIC CROWN OF CREATION
Alien child 1969 - BLESS ITS POINTED LITTLE HEAD
? Mugs ? 1969 - VOLUNTEERS
The outer skin of a type of plant 1971 - BARK
A Pirate 1972 - LONG JOHN SILVER
A flying lizard 1974 - EARLY FLIGHT (pterodactyl ON COVER)

I'll start digging out pics of the Collins sisters will I?

Doh! As the world's greatest Gracie Slick fan I shoulda got that one. Must admit to some admiration for the Chantywrassler knowing all those albums; he musta been but a wee sprout in those heady days when I was 'acid-bathing at Baxters'.


~jwf~

Congratulations Chantywrassler,

A Small Package Of Value Will Come To You Shortly.

If anyone wants to checkout the answer it's all here.

http://www.airplane.freeserve.co.uk/lyrics.htm

Seamus

While I'm sitting excitedly by the door waiting for my valuable prize , I'll either pass away noisily or try and think up some question for tonight.

Don't know anything about them jwf, first track I heard was The Damned doing White Rabbit

One word to link the following (not that one) please

A member of the Norwegian Armed Forces
An air-to-surface missile
A ship which took part in the war of 1812
A Canadian film version of a fairy tale
A naughty song from 1973
A Town in Tasmania
A Monty Python Sketch

Should that lot lead to the desired outbreak of confused apathy I'll add other clues at various odd hours and/or make those ones easier.

Anyone getting the answer from those clues has bribed me.

No bribes are, were or will be offered or accepted from this researcher .

However, the original film version of "Heavy Metal" comix was produced and voiced by the likes of John Candy and several other SCTV regulars so that's probably the Canadian fairytale. We aren't big on fairies here, and Beaver are probably what spring to mind first when someone mentions tail.

So 'metal' may be the common denominator here...
But I can't proove it yet.

jwf

Based on your guess ~jwf~ then the 1812 ship will probably be the USS Constitution nicknamed old ironsides

Canadians....Monty Python.....naughty songs....


All together now!

I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK, I sleep all night and I work all day

Damn, no one bribed me.

Nice one Luckystar, you can now add "hang around in bars" to that song link, but four wrongs don't make a war bulletin.

I like the concept of a Canadian fairytale featuring the ugly duckling who was transformed into the even uglier vulture.

The US Ship involved with the one below does have a modern namesake, but I think it's a tourist attraction.

One word to link the following:-

A member of the Norwegian Armed Forces
An air-to-surface missile
A ship which took part in the war of 1812
A Canadian film version of a fairy tale
A naughty song from 1973
A Town in Tasmania
A Monty Python Sketch
Beers, American & English (ignore p**h)
A Glaswegian delicacy that's not usually deep-fried

ohh, Mars bars!

That's two words!

So's heart attack

A member of the Norwegian Armed Forces promoted in 2001 despite his death soon after promotion to sergeant in 1987.
An air-to-surface missile
A British ship which surrendered to the USS Hornet the war of 1812
A Canadian film version of a fairy tale
A naughty but inventive song from 1973
A Town in Tasmania
A Monty Python Sketch involving a domestic explosion
Beer ads, American & English (ignore p**h)
A Glaswegian delicacy, not usually deep-fried, invented in 1932
A member of the Rocky cast who sparred with a senator.

I absolutely refuse to have anything to do with yet another thread contaminated with these repellent Antarctic vermin.
(Reckon that the correct date for the Hornet's engagement with Pingu was 1815, BTW)
Pin
(...come to think of it, anyone seen that plasticine lately?)

Good God - there really is one in Tasmania!
Didn't know the 1973 song, but sure enough, here it is :
http://www.lyrics.ly/lyrics.php/Zappa+Frank/Roxy+And+Elsewhere/Penguin+In+Bondage
Still unsure about the "domestic explosion", but there was definitely another Python reference :
An [unmentionanle]'s brain is smaller than a man's.
If you make the [unmentionable] as big as the man, then it's brain is still smaller than the man's.
...But, and this is the important point...it's bigger than it was before...

(how sad are those of us of a certain generation?)
*sighs*

So, the answer is....

...no, still can't bring myself to say it...

Yeah, the war of 1812 did seem to drag on a bit didn't it? Maybe the war of 1812 got all the headlines and the fisticuffs of 1813-1815 were consigned to the obituaries pages.

What if I say "Linux"? Will that help your speech impediment?

While I'm waiting on Pinni cracking

A member of the Norwegian Armed Forces promoted in 2001 despite his death soon after promotion to sergeant in 1987.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_377042.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4241252,00.html

A British ship which surrendered to the USS Hornet the war of 1812
http://www.maritime-scotland.com/penguin.html

A Canadian film version of a fairy tale
http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0083182

A Town in Tasmania
http://vcserv.seas.smu.edu/tastour/nw/penguin.html

Beer ads, American & English (ignore p**h)
http://www.staceysgifts.com/anheuser-busch/bud-ice-penguin.shtml
http://pda.ananova.net/news/story/sm_272851.html?menu=news.story

A Monty Python Sketch involving a domestic explosion
http://www.humorlinks.com/python/sketches/ThePenguinSketch.htm

A Glaswegian delicacy, not usually deep-fried, invented in 1932
http://www.ubcareers.com/about/pen.asp


A member of the Rocky cast who sparred with a senator.
http://uk.imdb.com/Name?Meredith,+Burgess

...and here's something to see if anyone is still awake
http://www.geocities.com/msadscan/msad-800x600.jpg

*beep* Incoming telepathic message from Pinni....

"A brick wall. A brick wall. A brick wall. A brick wall. A brick wall. A brick penguin. Damn! Damn! Damn!"

Over to you or I will set a Joan & Jackie picture question.


http://home.clara.net/sadler.home/balti/vids/penguin.mpg
http://home.clara.net/sadler.home/balti/vids/penguin2.mpg

*taps foot*

This'll hurt me more than it hurts you, but....

http://www.chondroweb.com/fineGTPs/joancollins.htm

Apart from the genuine aversion to hordes of morons in dinner-jackets stinking of guano, there was another reason for not answering, quite, kind of.
Only I won't be on line much for about a week, yeah?
So why did I...? Well, right, fair comment, but it didn't look like they were going to get it, so I thought I'd be helpful, OK?
Yeah. A prat. OK. Probably.

Yeah, OK, like...sorry...I'll make it up to you. Have a .
Meanwhile a foot-race. OK?

No-one else?

OK - here's an easy one for you:

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Fill in the first one and the last two in this sequence, please.

?
Lion
Dog
Dog
Lion
Bear
Lion
Dog
Bear
?
?

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Hint: It would be possible to continue the sequence after the last two here.

B