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

If he ever gets any more legs, he'll be unstoppable.

Either that, or he'll trip over them .

Should that be the case we'll lend him a hand

I thought that was Igor's job.

That's no hand!

Looks like a footlong

A person with twelve-inch fingers has an advantage in playing the piano.

I would attempt to deny everything.... But it'd be a futile exercise; and I don't do exercise

One of the advantages, thinking about languages, of living in a city, such as this, and one with often a lot of overseas students, is the huge range of languages one hears, every day, just walking through the center... Some are easier to figure out than otters.... The one's I've often been most unable to even figure out what language they are, useually turn out to be native English speakers, from the UK, but just speaking with such a strong accent, and/or using such terrible lazy language, and slang, that one thinks they're from some far-off distant land, spaking some obscure dialect of some obscure language... Mind, nothing compairs to 'The Glaswegian Para', who I used to know, many years ago... True enough we only ever met in the pub... but I knew him for years and years and years... Never understood a single word he said...
One kinda cool thing, though, many years ago, was when I was in a shop, near me, just buying some vegetables.... and in walked a student.... and the student was trying to ask the shop keeper for some things they wanted, but was struggling with some of the words they wanted.... so the shop keeper just served them, in French, as it was a university student from France
Mind, despite my best efforts at pronouncing it... I still get laughed at by the girl in the deli counter, at the Polish supermarket, when I ask for what I want, in Polish Seems, although my tongue useually performs well enough, or excellently.... to most tasks I put it too.... trying to get my tongue round prouncing most forign languages, is seemingly beyond me

Are you saying you have difficulties trying to get your tongue around - say - a kielbasa for instance?

Absolutely not! I never seem to have... oddly... any difficulty with kielbaasa and their breatherin damnit.... now I want sausage for lunch

>>Are you saying you have difficulties trying to get your tongue around - say - a kielbasa for instance?

I find it difficult to wrap my tongue around a kielbasa, unless I split them lengthwise into thirds. They are a rather large sausage

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Which is why, I make my baguettes, to length to fit the size of keilbasa I've purchased..... makes the most fabulus... and redicusluly long hotdogs

Footlong s? Yes, I've heard of those

Pah! just* 12" long?! I have, in the past, been known to obtain, from the Polish supermarket, 14" long kielbasa; and my baguette trays can make up to 15" long baguettes... and so had two 14" long, kielbasa, as hotdog, in two 15" long thin rolls, made in the baguette tins, with a couple of onions, fried to add to the filling damnit... now I want hotdogs again

I could do with one myself, actually

But it's late, I'd better turn in

Speaking of turning in, I could do with a turnover

Last night we were served hot dogs and beets. I can only surmise that the cook spilled something on the menu instructions and thought it read beets instead of beans. It's not a combination I would recommend.

It certainly doesn't sound recommendable

Beets go well with *some* sausages, but s? I don't think so

In the region on both sides of the Danish/German land border we have a certain kind of sausages called cabbage sausages (kålpølse in Danish, Kohlwurst in German). They do not contain any cabbage whatsoever but are strongly smoked and supposed to lend their flavour to whatever cabbage they are cooked with.

The region is very interesting from the perspective of a gourmet: It has alternately been Danish and German territory and borrowed eating habits from both sites. Much like Lorraine and Alsace have borrowed habits from Germany and France respectively

Not a fan of beets - although I don't like onions on them either, some good mature cheddar sounds about right to me

What kind of beets? The first kind that springs to the mind of someone living where I do is sugar beet, but you don't eat them. Then there is beetroot . So I assume it's something that grows in the ground, but I can't think of any other kind of beet off hand.