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

Ah....but do we know that we din't know that they were standing five hours a day...or do we know that we didn't not know that we knew....?

Ah this is an easy one. We knew that he knew that he didn't know that they stood for five hours until he knew that he was aware of the situation that he had previously not known about. So he must have knew not to know that he knew that he knew. Simple really. Watched the 'debate last night and found out that the Italian prime minister is now called, wait for it..."Servio Bellathoseguysknew" Amazing how things can get lost in translation especially from English to English!

Well, it's a fact, Rumsfeld is barking - so is Ashcroft - I wonder if they're all mad?

This is starting to sound like a different thread.



Table salt (NaCl) had 'perfect cubic cleavage'.

Had?

I hope it still does.

I'm not into cubism myself. Much prefer nice rounded curves.

is a twat really a pregnant fish or is it only a swear word refering to female genitalia?









dont i just wanna know im sick of ppl saying im calling them a pregnant fish its just childish

Fish don't generally get pregnant. They usually lay eggs. But there are some types of fish that bear live young. THere's certainly no mention of this meaning of the word 'twat' in the h2g2 Guide to British Swearing A753527.

Had = has... I think my typing fingers have a cold.

This is what Bartleby has to say about it:

NOUN: 1. Vulgar Slang The vulva. 2. Offensive & Vulgar Slang A woman or girl.

A famous linguist differentiated between "The T-word" and "The C-word" thusly:

"The first is more fool than knave, the second more knave than fool."

Twatt is a place on Mainland Orkney, and also a name.
Many years ago I got talking to and drinking with a chap of that name at an Open University summer school. He assured me that it wasn't unusual to get a drink out of a Twatt.

excellent thanks guys i no longer have to listen to people sayin so im a pregnant fish then hahahahaha *imitates shotgun cocking and BOOM*

When someone is given a new kidney, they don't take an old one out, but stick the fresh one into the front side of the body, leaving the person with three kidneys, two in the back and one in the front.

I don't know if this is news to anyone else, but I found it pretty freaky.

i don't think thats true... they have to connect the new kidney up to the pipes and wires, so since they have to disconnect the other one why would they leave it in there...plus is there even space in the front for another kidney....im not calling you a liar just asking for a little proof (in the nicest possible way of course)

and on with the show...did you know that the statue of liberty has size 847 feet? well there you go then!

He was a cunning linguist!

thanks for the link to the sweasrd entry brilliant it was

It is true; I think it leads to a much less traumatic operation. I think the old kidney is p0robably just slowly re-sorbed.

Well, I know it sounds freaky!

It was in the New York Times, here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/health/05kidn.html,
but you have to be registered.

A quote:
"People getting transplants rarely have their own kidneys removed. Instead, they wind up with three kidneys. Cutting one out would involve additional surgery, which is not done unless there is a reason for it. So the transplant is tucked into the pelvis, usually on the right side in the front of the body, instead of in the kidneys' natural location near the small of the back.

A vein and an artery from the kidney are stitched to the patient's iliac vein and artery, and the ureter, the tube that carries urine out of the kidney, is sewn to the bladder."

Aina - That is correct.

To remove the old kidneys is more invasive, as they are at the back of the body. The new kidney is hooked up to the bladder and blood vessels nearer the bladder. It can be put in on the left or right hand side. You then have to take immuno-supressents twice a day, every day, to prevent rejection.
Mine extra one is on the left, and has been working well for 12 years now.
It's the rest of me that is now falling to pieces.

Watermusic - (transplanted)