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

Lanzababy hauls herself out of the hole on the deck. Nonchalently steps away from it and tries to pretend it doesn't exist. Thanks for the Shagbark!

A team of shipwright bots appear and mend the hole.

~`~' Lookout to bridge- ahoy captain. Polar bear to starboard.

Looks left, looks right Tell me, which is starboard again Shagbark?

here is something to help you remember
http://www.happychild.org.uk/acc/tpr/mne/1198ptst.htm
the correct answer is right, although I don't see the bear any more, it may have climbed up the anchor rope and gotten on deck.

yep, that's helpful, but as a doc of very little brain, does that mean right/starboard when you are facing the sharp pointy bit at the front?

Interesting too about the red and green lights. Thanks! Although I don't suppose we pirates bother too much about such niceties do we?

Only if we want to take one of the lights to confuse another ship.

and yes it does mean the prow of the ship where Gwennie (our figurehead) hangs out. I hope she isn't being bothered by that polar bear.

I hope it's not a bipolar bear.

nah, there are no polar bears in the antarctic

I thought we were going to visit . No?
I had my Christmas wish list all written out and everything.

oh, but we are, i was just saying - oh, forget it, here have a

that looks like Greenland out the port window. So we are getting closer

so are the polar bears - and they look hungry

quick throw them some sheep.

any 42X left?

I assume you know where you put them. I'll let you get them out

allow me

*throws in the direction of the polar bears and waits to see what happens *