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

Learning Irish in Germany, characters singing about little boats in the middle of winter... Love it!

Thanks. I love it when everybody mixes and mingles - more fun for all.

I'll never forget that tiny little woman from the Irish embassy in Bonn - I walked into her class and she said, 'Well, I know where your ancestors were from.' Then she handed us all pages from first grade primers! Dick and Jane were now Roisin and Padraig.

Just been speaking to a Spanish trucker, first I've seen for months, happened to have Eros Ramazzotti playing in his cab, both of us singing along in Italian in the rainy UK!

Multicultural multilingual music mixing eh!

Indeed!

Un'emozione per sempre lovely song, first learnt the Spanish version before I realized he was Italian!

And we've been watching this series called 'New Tricks', and have just discovered videos of Dennis Waterman singing from the 1970s...which is weird if you've only seen him at his current age...

Ah, the gorgeous Amanda Redman!

Please say you don't consider I could be so good for you as actual music! Good theme tune though.

Wow a conversation about music, without Bluegrass or heavy metal!

Great instalment, great song.

Forgive me, Dmitri, but never having seen you I would have based my assumptions on your first and last names. I'd assume that in a first grade reader, the characters would be named Apollo and Penelope, or something along those lines.

I don't get the math regarding the preacher. Half the time suggests that he would preach two Sundays a month. A quarter of the time suggests one sermon a month. How does that work out to three Sundays at one church, and four at the other?

Don't ask me. I can't do math. That's what the book said.

Somebody else will have to figure it out.

Oh, and Paul? You do realise that Dmitri Gheorgheni isn't my birth name, right? It's a nom de plume.

You're named after a plum? Wow!

Yeah, my real name is Ted Damson.

Wasn't he in Cheers?

I tend to skate along the surface of life, taking too much at face value. My bad. I thought Dmitri Georgheni was your real name. This had not come up before in any treads I've followed. I wouldn't have realized it without bringing it up. <

Just to be clear, it isn't Ted Damson, either.

Ted Damson will almost certainly feature in the upcoming Henry Letterbox bit of nonsense!

Oh, good! Will he have purple hair?