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

Can think of only 2 applications of the flexi-thumb -
Obviously must help in hitch-hiking (not only indicated that you need a life, but maps the route too)
Also - probably allows you to do some rather impressive and saucy 'gusset typing'

ooh #blush# there's a thought!

sorry - Freudian slip - for life, read lift (obviously)

The crucial question is: can anybody out there do anything weird with their bellybutton???
Count me OUT

Mine does a spectacular job of collecting lint, but I don't think that's too impressive unless I collected all of it and re-knitted a sweater.

Adam did, in fact, have a belly button. Not because he was a mamal, or because he needed to be connected to a placenta. As the prototype man, Adam started as a blow-up doll for God to play with. The belly button was the nozzle through which God gave him the breath of life, and since he hadn't yet created the little dongers to plug it with, like a beachball, God just tied him off like a balloon. Had the beachball been created before man, I'm quite sure he would have applied the donger technology. Many a time I've heard him muttering about letting the air out of some windbag or other--especially during election years.

Any further theological questions can be addressed to me directly in the "Mother of God, eh" conversation on my page.

Salut!

How cool is this? I post a silly, but nonetheless deep question, can't access my PC for a bit and come back to find many many more answers to things I didn't know I needed to know! Woohoo! I am rather curious about the 101 uses for navel fluff, so I might trot along there now.

byeeeeeeee

if adam had no belly button and kangaroos have no belly button does this mean that Adam was a kangaroo?

My mate Adam has got a belly button.

He says that he uses it to store salt in when he is eating celery in bed.

Have you noticed how many differant kinds of bellybutton there are?

No.

You never peek then?

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My dear, God made all kinds for a reason. Don't worry about your bellybutton--such an insignificant thing. And guaranteed, you are NOT the only outie in the universe. If that's the only characteristic you have to be embarrassed about, count your blessings. Could be much worse

Hmm, well I don´t believe in God, so I can´t use that. And my belly isn´t the only thing I´m embarrassed about, far from it. I hate my whole body.

Just between us, I don't believe in God, either. Hence my name. But if your body does what it is made for, reasonably well, then try to give yourself a break. It's just the thing that carries you around. They're all more or less the same. It's just hard to realize that, at a certain point in life, when so many superficial aspects have such great importance. I think that bodies are there to enjoy the world through. That's all.

But marsupial fetuses do have umbilical cords before they are born, so they do have belly buttons at some stage of their development.

But the oviperous mammals like the spiny anteater and duck-billed platypus in Ozzieland probably dont.

That is, assuming that the only cause of the belly-button is an umbilical cord. If the cord connecting the yolk-sack to the fetus in oviperous animals, perhaps the Belly-button isn't a unique feature of mammals.

Never mind belly button - where did the extra rib (which was used in the construction of eve) come from? Maybe it was a long one round the lower belly which is why men tend towards beer bellies in later life...or as humans are amongst only very few mamals not to have a penile bone, perhaps "rib" is a mistranslation!

hummmmmmmm.....food for thought. Thanks Duncan! Could be another Peetie God story in that, somewhere

I am called Adam, and I have a belly button. It used to be an outy when I was a kid, and now, as I have been ravaged by lager, I have an inny. Like the Adam mentioned previously, I find it very useful for storing salt when eating celery in bed. I can also use it as a candlestick holder when bathing in the dark.

My friend Marcus has no belly button at all. I kid you not. It is quite freaky when he gets his lack of belly button out at parties to impress the ladies.

- Adam

Grooo! Tummy-tuck?