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

If you still have your good humour, you could sell ice cream.

Well I'm armless, is that funny, is it

LeGray's anatomy. Everybody got bones, some are funny yeh. You need most of them, I think. Cos ya couldn't lean against a bar, unless ya got bones.

Bones are made of hard stuff called calcium, I didn't say I was a chemist, they are soft on the inside, got some soft stuff in them. So they are a bit like chocolates.

Don't taste as good though.

the funny bone is connected to the ancle bone

ther ancle bone is connected to the bone head

The ancle bone is connected to the auntie bone, and the jaw bone is connected to the taste buds.

Dem bones, dem bones gonna rise again,
Gonna exercise a franchise again,
Gonna tax us up to our eyes again,
While sittin' 'round on their thighbones

Chorus:

The country's in the very best of hands,
The best of hands, the best of hands.....

brilliant

one of your own, is it?

... .takes another bite of . ... . whilst listening to the friendly banter surrounding her... . .

Nope, it wasn't one of mine. It was from the musical "Lil Abner," as sung by Edie Adams, Stubby Kaye, et al.

ah, i see

never knew much about the finer arts of the USA me

"Lil Abner" never rose to the heights of "fine arts."

ah. he was too short, right?

I'm short of a

In the comic strip I think the adjective 'lil' was a jest. That guy was one of the biggest characters in that funny paper.

He seemed to be as big as his parents put together, with big muscles and very agreeable features all around. But for all that, he was still in Dogpatch, Arkansas.

you can see what he looked like at
http://www.lil-abner.com/cappbio.html

Somewhere in my closet I have an original cast recording of the "Lil Abner" musical. Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics for some very nice melodies.

i remember lil abner. his strip used to be in one of our serious newspapers years ago. in the 70's. i think i remember one of the other characters at that time was spiro t. agnew, am i right?

i dunno i dunno.... but here is an interesting tidbit...

Andy Capp, the cartoonist for Li'l Abner, has a cameo appearance in John and Yoko Lennon''s Imagine (if thats the name of it) video where they have a Love In in their bed for peace... he comes in and gives them holy halibut and at one point insults Yoko as a woman... which definitely puts ME off of him for good... unless someone can prove to me he was just playing devil's advocate as per some prearranged thingie atwixt John Yoko and him...

He came off as oldschool very oldschool good old american boy ...most assuredly displaying the characteristics of what we were rebelling against in the 60's....

true, according to wikipedia, who also tells another anecdote (and a LOT of other stuff!): in a televised face-off, either Capp (on the Dick Cavett Show) or (more commonly) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne (on his own show) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl. Zappa is said to have replied, "You have a wooden leg; does that make you a table?" (Both Capp and Pyne had wooden legs).

sounds like zappa to me!