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

But stomach pumping is sooo much fun, specially when they show it you afterwards. Yum!

Help me I'm being attacked by thursdayites

* Dashes in, at the ready... *

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Can you hold on for a few more hours? Maybe they'll be gone by tomorrow.

* Pours a sample glass of slightly cloudy, half-flat and waits... *

tonights nonsense is verse one from "The Jumblies"

If you find you can't wait for the rest look at...

http://www.poetry-online.org/lear_the_jumblies.htm


They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, `You'll all be drowned!'
They called aloud, `Our Sieve ain't big,
But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

For a copyrighted piece, that's quite a long extract... Perhaps you should star out one word per sentence, just to keep on the right side of the Mods...

The extract surely is not covered by the BBC 70 year rule. The author died in 1888.

The explicit copyright info on the web page prohibits reproducing for commercial use only. The reproduced verse here (1/6th of the entire poem) is a 'taster' to entice others to the website. It can therefore be viewed as 'for educational purposes' and not in breach of copyright.

I.ve anywayhas anyonenoticed howeverything always go'es up in price...But theForum, has not gone to a Fiveum, could be interestingmaybe not

things unaffected by inflation

forum
fortnight...what sort of thing is a tnight
today
tomorrow
The Severn
nein

this is promising...a new econommic theory...

they think were mad, but T Blair hasn't thought of it!

6 star- pop group
41's motorway servce foodstops
tuppenny whistle

have you ever thought perhaps this is politically incorrect...perhaps we are perpetuating numberism...what we should say is...


NaN-um
NaN-tnight
NaN-day
NaN-morrow
the NaN
NaN

NaN star
NaN's
NaN-penny whistle

You know, I, for some bizare reason, hadn't even thought of that.

good idea, but would that not make us a NaN NaN state, as in nanny!!

numberism, you can fall down an hole, but you can't fall down an half?

*Falls down a half.*

Bl**dy hell, who left this half lying on the floor?

cluck cluck cluck............cockadoodle do............Thingites 4 ever

Well that's obvious. As if we'd ever stop.

we thingites are guardians of the most , now and forever. Oh dear is that the time? or is it not?

No, that thing you're looking at displays the current heat of the oven. Although in some bizare coincidence the heat in the oven does appear to be the exact same as the current time.

I've had my head in t'oven for 45mins and still can't find hour & minute hands