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

Yes to what? like or hate?

actually, tell a lie.. i remember having a sample of it once, not by surveyists on the streets or anything.,. but an actual milk-bucket sized sample that i spread on toast once.. what a waste of bread.

Ah-ha. I'm not sure how big a milk bucket is, but by the sound of it you spread too much on the bread. The trick with marmite is to spread it as thinly as possible so the bread (toast is much better) picks up just a slight salty/savoury taste

*GD wanders off to operate his toaster*

Well, pick up a CD.. The inside hole is just slightly smaller than a milk bucket and it's about 4 floppy disks stacked high.

Anyway, i'll try that then
How about a poll choice for not sure, i ask the owner of this contraption! lol

Thats enough marmite for about 4 slices of toast or even more.

As to a don't know/maybe/indifferent column. That would be impossible. Marmite is one of those things that you either love or hate. There is just no middle ground.

Marmite is indeed a love hate thinig.

As already declared I am one of the lovers of marmite, and I have just moved into a new flat so I have two brand spanking new flatmates, and I was talking to one of them about hummus and marmite yesterday, and do you know what? He said to me - "oh, well if people give it to me I am quite happy to eat it, but I wouldnt bother going out and buying one". For minutes I didnt know what to say - he is genuinely marmite indifferent - the only person in RL I know out of about 1000 people in edinburgh at least who are marmite indifferent . I was that shocked I had to go and get a vitamin B12 fix there and then - which was a bit of a bummer, as we havent unpacked (ie found ) the toaster yet.....

marmite, marnite, marnite, yay

Marmite indifferent?
I'm sorry I'm going to have to go and lie down for a bit...

Good idea.

Its like LOTR - one of the things that divides the world in two...

LOTR
Either a) You've read it
or b) you're going to read it.

Marmite
Either a) You've tried it and you like it
or b) YOu've not tried it and you don't know yet...

The rest of the population are figments of the imagination caused by an under Marmited brain....

Unless all you people are figments of My imagination, or we're all figments of say, Abi's imagination!!

Actually, I'm in a philosophical mood again, ever hear the philosopher who spoke,

"I dreamt I was a butterfly, but I wonder, am I now a butterfly dreaming I am a man, or was I really a man dreaming I was said creature?"

Intriguing, when you think about it...

yes. I've got a feeling that was Locke.

maybe it was, the only philosopher type people i know of are:

-freud (and yes, it IS pronounced "FROYD")
-Jung (and yes, it IS pronounced "YOUNG")
-Arsitotle (yep.. that greek bloke)

oh and not forgetting the two blokes out of THHGTTG who may (or may not be) philosophers!

Freud and Jung were more pyschologits weren't they - though both have importnace to philosophical debate because of their theories about the mind etc.

well they were philosophers and phsycologists

Actually Freud and Jung were Trick-cyclists, weren't they??

ah! - but did they like marmite? This is the important question....

The other important question being, "when will the results be updated".

indeed...we are suffering from a serious lack of recent update.

soon maybe ???

alec.

who can tell?

hmm, if you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A643871 and request a marmite cursor, maybe you'll get one. Maybe. just maybe, but don't worry, getting a marmite cursor isn't on the same odds as winning the lottery, i just like that logo: "Maybe, just maybe"

Two thoughts have just occurred to me (and that's a lot in one day):

the isn't quite the same shade of yellow as a Marmite lid, and
the lid used to be a less insipid yellow.
Did any of your parents or grandparents ever tell you about how yellow the lids were in the good old days?

All this waiting for an up to date total smacks of referees waiting until Manchester United score so they can blow the final whistle.