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

Erm, so why are they 'squirrel'fish? Or is that just one of the great mysteries and beauties of our planet?

That's what I'd like to know. Jaque Cousteau's dead... and what's French for squirrel anyway?

Back by popular demand...

The new, improved... SQUIRRELFISH!

(Let me know what you think).

Great, when do you submit it?

Hi! Glad you liked it.

Think I'll sit on this one for a while. Perhaps the problem with some of the others was that I was too eager to send them off. Cheers!

The French for squirrel is "ecureil". I know because my mother is a French / Spanish / Portuguese / Latin / Ancient Greek teacher and she likes to babble on at me in strange languages which I can't understand. My favourite foreign language is German. Why didn't she learn that instead of Portuguese?

Merci beaucoup.

Maybe she's just possessed! Just kidding. I'm sure she is a very nice lady; and clever too, to know so many languages.

German was always my favourite too (in school). I took a night school class some time ago. It was great fun. Such an odd assortment of characters. I sat next to a lady who had sung in the Royal Opera Company, Covent Garden (is that right?). She new a lot of the big stars. For graduation, we all went out for dinner at a German restaurant. We were supposed to converse only in German, which was a joke; but it was a great evening!

I enrolled in a bangpipe class, too; but that's another story.

The next semester, I enrolled in the second part. What a disaster! It was a completely different melange. My classmates, this time, were all travelling exec.s and such, most of whom had lived in, or at least visited, Germany. I was in way over my head.

German is my favorite language too(freaky hu?). My mum's swiss german so that's the main reason. Unfortinatly I've only ever done 1 yr of german @ school (It wasn't an option @ GCSE) so I can't speak a word, well I can order a boiled sausage!

There are some really good language CD ROMS available. They are pretty expensive though.

Hmmm, me student, me not spend money. Still my mum is fluent in french and german so I've got no excuses.

Another clever mum! Have you ever come across any chat rooms in German?

Yeah - there's one at Webcrawler. I used to go in it. My best things in German are "Ich bin eine Gummibaum" and "Aargh! Ich habe lebensmittelvergiftung!"

Hi stranger. Where ya bin?

My computer went away. I'm sure I told you that.

You did, actually. But in another forum. I hadn't read the notice. Won't happen again (Contrite).

What ya bin up to? Have you done the video shoot yet?

Isn't it about the time when one should wish someone (else) a happy birthday?

Why, is it your birthday? Wow! If it is then that's really a coincidence cuz it was just mine. From a little thick being.

A little thick being? I imagined you being... how should one say?... more of an upright biped; longish, in other words.

Anyway, Happy birthday!

Mine's not for ages yet. No free stuff for me for a while. Get anything good?

I'm 5'7''. I got a cushion! And a candle! And a CD! I was meant to get more but everyone forgot. So I have to go shopping.

5' 7" is pretty long, isn't it. Sometimes humans just aren't up to the task of showering one with gifts too the extent that is really only most appropriate. The Impish Distributor usually makes up for it. Still, CushionCandleCd sounds alright... Three "C" things.