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

Love, who came up with this anyway? Let me tell you, it's wholly a bad idea. Male meets female* and the both get an odd tingling in their bits. Those bits may be their chests, or their stomachs, or, more commonly, their "naughty bits," this odd phenomenon is generally excepted by the greater civilized creatures of this planate as being "love at first sight." Oddly enough, the same sensation is generally excepted by the less-great uncivilized creatures of this planet as a need to vomit. ** Love, as it stands, has caused more wars and death on this planet than any other force in existence; one can be sure that if there is a general fighting over land in medieval Briton, then there surely was some corresponding maid he was out to impress. ***




*Or the other way round, we do live in "enlightened" times.
**Unless it's the sensation in the "naughty bits," then it is a whole different situation altogether that I refuse to go in to greater detail about, just be sure it's not love ether.
*** This is not true