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

And then there's the old joke:

What do you do if your nose goes on strike?
Picket!

Sea Change
"Because, the entry in the fictional H2G2 about earth is: "Mostly harmless".

So?

SAUSAGE

One of my Dad's favourite jokes:

Dad: "D'you pick your own nose?"

If the victim answered in the affirmative, he'd go "You didn't pick a very good one!"
If in the negative, then he'd say "Well, who picks it for you?"

Another similar joke:

"How does Michael Jackson pick his nose?"

"In a catalogue!"

Because, it amuses me, and no other reason.

Sea Change: Ah ... I thought you thought* that it's a bad move to include a 'mostly harmless'-oid-ish part into an Entry. (BTW, it was intentional, I try** to put a 'mostly harmless'-ish comment into all my Entries)

SAUSAGE

* I thought that you thought that I thought that you thought...
** when the pun works

Hi
I have a little poem

There was a cricketer called Bose
Who was very fond of piking his nose
On a tour of Nairobi
He pulled out a First class Bogie
He eat half
and the rest he froze
HOWS THAT UMPIRE!OK

inocuous --> innocuous
embarassing --> embarrassing
unpolite --> impolite

the dark number could be significantly higher -- I don't know what you mean by the dark number. Do you mean "the real number"?

Can you put a footnote explaining "pathologic" please? I've never heard the word. I've heard of "pathological" but don't know what it means either.

Your harmful nose picking list is badly formatted.

1. Put before it and after it.

2. Remove all the numbers, as the OL will put them in automatically.

unconfortable boogers -- shouldn't it be bogey/bogie rather than booger? Booger is American English.
-- it should be "uncomfortable"

a too dry atmosphere --> too dry an atmosphere

Important in this case, is not to give -- this would be better as:
It is important in this case not to give

will not lack tools remove objects --> will not lack tools to remove objects

Use single quote marks for all the quotations at the end.

diffamating propaganda -- ?? I'm not sure what you mean. Possibly "defamatory propaganda".

a brute barbarian --> "a brutal barbarian" or "a barbarian brute"

pediatrician --> paediatrician

G

Snot very funny!

My wife and I used to regularly visit a nice clean restaurant to have a mid-day meal each time we went to transport our youngest to 'varsity at the start and end of terms. The food was delicious, and the diners similar types to ourselves.
Then one day we called there in the evening and were alone in the place. We ordered our food and started to eat it when the chef came out of the kitchen, walked through the room and out into the car park where I spotted him sitting in his car with his finger well into his nostril, rooting around for a victim! Ugh!
We never called there again!
Strangely though, we couldn't have done so anyway, as it closed permanently a couple of term-end trips later!
Had the word got around, or had he gradually, unwittingly, alienated all their, and consequently his own customers in the self same manner? Goodness only nose!

Thanks, Gnomon, for your comments. The Entry has been corrected.

The psychological versus pathological bit:

In the first case, rhinotillexomania is a mind thing. You'd go to a shrink and treat it in sessions.

In the second case, rhinotillexomania is a disease. However improbable, you might end up in a rubber-cell in a straight jacket, pumped up with thorazine and become scheduled for a lobotomy.

SAUSAGE

"snorting involves high pressures in the nasal chambers and it may injure the nasal septum if not performed properly"

I think it would be more likely to injure the eardrum, by way of the eustachian tube.

And I think it is more likely to harm slightly inflamed sinus cavities.

"Compulsory Nose-Picking"

Do you mean compulsive?

A rebuke: "Any gold up there?"

A fine entry Hell

I read the entry, scan the PR thread, get to the end and find midge made the comment a couple of hours ago that I was planning to make
I'll ask anyway:
Hell - is Compulsive intended rather than Compulsory?

minor suggestion: for EG consistency lose the full stops in abbreviations e.g. > eg,
and instead of 'ca.3-7' use 'between 3 and 7'

If you were considering inclusion of the suggestion that mucus is a good lubricant it is worth remembering that at the point of picking it may be contaminated by dust filtered from the air and be slightly abrasive and gritty as a result. Personally I'd prefer to eat my own bogies (not admittign that I do BTW ) than chew an oyster, which in my experience resembles having a mouthful of phlegm.

Thanks

I added an extra para under 'misc' about mucus being a lubricant, and its function.

Changed all e.g.'s i.e.'s to 'eg' and 'ie'

Added 'Any gold up there?' rebuke ()

Changed 'compulsory' to 'compulsive'

Thanks a lot!

HELL

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