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

It took me 13 hours to finally get the joke in post 18 Sporadic?

Well,you got it, in the end. That's what counts.

I never know when I will suddenly get the point of a joke that I heard decades ago. Thirteen hours is not bad by comparison.

humour started when Neanderthal man invented the wheelas "they" could only gruntWHO ? named it "wheel" then

Easy they all decided thats what "wheel" call it

'there was probably a word “kwekwlos,” meaning wheel, which is the ancestor of “kuklos” in classical Greek, of “kakra” in Old Indic and – because K shifts to H in Germanic languages – of “hweohl” in Old English, itself the ancestor of wheel in modern English.'

from http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/science/new-light-on-the-roots-of-english.html

Kwekwlos is kind of a mouthful. I'm grateful that the word got streamlined into wheel along the way.

Bob!
I love it!

If they ever reinvent the wheel, can I have one with chocolate glaze and sprinkles?

Don't forget the runflat marshmallow filling.

Marshmallow axles might not be very effective.

Maybe when covered in dough and roasted over a campfire to create a hard shell?

If you like stick bread that is well done and marshmallows that are not black/on fire, this is exactly what you should try.

Sometimes I like marshmallows, and sometimes I don't. The same goes for donuts and bagels.

etc

Whale meat again! and Wheel meet again! Adaptations of a WWII song

Donut where? Donut when?

Oh! touché

I donut have any idea what you mean.