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

It's a made-up word.

I thought he was real <./>http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/pugwash/pugwash.htm</.>

Yes, but the sexual connotations of the word were invented, along with Seaman Staines, Master Bates and Roger the Cabin Boy... I've got a cabin boy called Roger but that's just coincidence.

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it t'were a dark n stormy night, an two pirates were sat in a cave, one pirate sed t'other 'You be lookin right pretty the night my dear', 'Arrrrr' says t'other with a right twinkle in ther eye. Nine months later the pitter patter of tiny cap'n pugwash's feet cud be heard. Or so the story goes I'm told.

Re: that galleon... Just because the coin predated Australian trade routes doesn't mean the shipwreck had to.

Another possibility... Sharks? Drowning sailor (not wise enough to not learn to swim) gets eaten by shark... Galleon he's carrying ends up in belly of shark. Shark either swims to Australian coast or gets eaten by others ocean creature that does?

Yet another... Fellow sits in a park in Europe flipping a coin to decide whether to become a pirate or not... Sea bird swoops by thinking he's being fed a nice shiny fishy and swallows galleon. Flies to Australia and dies off shore.

I think this is what's called "tunnelling" in physics.

I'll have you know that only those common or garden Herring Gulls indulge in such inelegant behaviour as swooping and that only my mate the plucky Arctic Tern has the sort of circumnavigational range to support your theory. Us Albatrosses, while admittingly indulging in a bit of opportunistic scavenging now and then, restrict ouselves to the Southern hemisphere. So quark! to that.

Ok... So. Someone stuck a galleon in a message in a bottle then (someone in the southern hemisphere of course since ocean currents rarely cross the equator (I think)).

Or maybe it were an alien who was buzzing the Earth that century.

Or, how bout this... There never really was a galleon found off the Aussie coast.

harrrrrrrrr, me 'arties...
you lilly libbered landlubbers!!!.. (Scar on face,.patch on eye, leather 'ot pants and ruffled shirt tied at waist, fetching waistcoat. enormous...... cutlass.. hat, wrinlglets... ..

i know it's TALK like a pirate day. but i decided that i cant talk like a pirate dressed in my usual work garb.. so....

perhaps i should have rethunk the hot pants... pat is gettin a bit sweaty here beside me and it aint a pretty sight...

we had a pirate , a female, in the west of oirland.. she was a targer.. she had a plether of men and took a castle off the brits into the bargain.. had about 30 men in the castle.. one big long party..

i'm thinking of doing same..... i've chosen me castle .. just getting me cannon and balls together.....oooeeerrrr, brass monkeyes in 'ere today..

shiver me timbers...

dont suppose anyone has a barrel of rum ???

Here's a useless fact...

Our useless fact thread is listed on the front page.

it never is ... (is my hair straight?)

<<...pat is gettin a bit sweaty here beside me...>>

of all the things I have read on this site, ever, this has conjured up the worst mental image, ever. I don't actually know who sweaty pat is, nor do I particularly want to, no offence, and I'm sure he or she is a lovely individual in real life, but 'Sweaty Pat'. ewwwwwwww.

My Bob, the secrets out. Deny everything they can't prove a thing. Make sure you wipe all the surfaces, turn out all the lights and get under this table.

Urrgh...Pat what are you doing under here.

sweating apparently.

Didn't UB40 write a song about that?

'Thers a sweaty pat unner me table wat am I gonna do?
a sweaty pat unner me table wat am I gonna do?
gonna swab that pat thas wat I'm gonna do
gonna swab that pat'

If they didn't, they should of.

There was Spinal Tap's "Saucy Jack".

Saucy Jack, you’re a naughty one,
Saucy Jack, you’re a haughty one."

heh heh

replace the Saucy and the Jack with a Sweaty and a Pat and we've got a surefire hit that goes to eleven

that's what I was thinking.

Sweaty Pat, you're a smelly one...

Here's a new useless fact I just learned... The "yeti" of Bhutan are "migoi" and are only about 5 feet tall.

i knew that!!!

all the terrible things that you thought about sweaty pat are absolutely and totally not exaggerated or overstated


i have a lot to put up with...

front page did you say???

*stands back and poses.. grins a bit too big... (moustache falls off again)..glances to side to see if noticed.. apparantly not.. squirms a bit because hot pants just that bit too tight... grins again and leaves pregnant pause a bit too long.. people are starting to feel uncomfortable......*

AHEM.. useless fact number 2 thousand... one hundred AND EIGHTY!! (darts commentator voice there at the end)..............

there are 2 tiles missing from the roof of the building of the company beside us.......