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

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My husband told the kids about how World War One started... how Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot in Sarajevo, along with his wife and his dog. Immediately, they wanted to know what kind of dog it was... they pestered him about that until he finally exclaimed: "IT WAS AN APRICOT TOY POODLE NAMED SCHATZI!!!"

Everybody in the family still firmly believes that that was absolutely true...

But you didn't get away with that fib just now

Please don't tell me you eventually stopped believing in Schatzi!

A friend of mine once told another friend (who, bear in mind, must have been in her late teens at the time) that the Home Office was a cottage in London. To both my dismay and great amusement, she believed him.

Another (extremely unsporty) friend of mine went to uni at Loughborough. When she told me she'd got in, we had the following conversation.

Me: 'Loughborough? That's a really sporty uni. You do know they make all their students run four times around the track every morning?'
Friend: 'Oh God, really?'
Me: 'No, not really.'

Perhaps I should have let her believe it...

When I was about seven, my sister told me pubic hair was Brer Rabbit's cousin.

She denies it now, even though it's the funniest thing she's ever told me. Women!

i want to hear moreeeeeee

If polar bears were covering their nose with their left paw, and hunting with their right, wouldn't they continuously be falling headfirst into the snow? (and saying "doh!" in polar bear language)

My mum and grandma were both in on a conspiracy to tell me and my brother (when we were young) that if we sat down in the back seats of the car as best we could, it'd make the car go faster. I still remember my mum exclaiming "well the speedo only says 60 but we're going much faster than that! Isn't it amazing! Keep it up kids!"

My friend's mum used to tell him that chocolate was the devil's poo.

The polar bears would descend on their prey from higher ground, so they slide down the glacier, WITH THEIR NOSE COVERED - so they are camogflagued and their prey can't flee.