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

What job do you likely do if you regularly indulge in echolocia, are not afflicted by lycanthropy, kneel down a lot and, whenever practical, to lie about the weather?

More to the point why are these things important?

There are klaxons, naturally so be bold, preferably interesting but never obvious!

Good luck

Before I go ahead and do it, is it considered bad form to google echolocia and lycanthropy, or is figuring them out part of the QI?

I have too many points so a bit of klaxon clearing is in order.

You would be forecasting the weather by observing the social habits of dragons on moonlit nights.

Vip at the risk of another few klaxons I have guessed that echothingy is to do with bats and lycowassname is werewolfism.

be the pope

Good point -


Google and Wikipedia are forbidden!

Forcasting the weather?

Pebble -5

Moonlit nights DGI +1

Lycanthropy is yes, were-wolf-ism.

Not bats,

On the whole people tend to kneel before popes, rather than the other way around just as Popes tend to lie a lot these days as we are discovering especially when it comes to covering the rape of the choirboys, but rarely are they dishonest about the weather.

kow tow to the emperor

Who do you have in mind?

Well, I can help a little ....

Ecolocia is a condition where the sufferer constantly repeats what is said by others.

It can sometimes occur in some autistics.

That's true.

echilocia - not too sure - isn't that echolalaism or something?

Anyway, you'd perhaps be addressing Beelzebub or Mephistopholes or He Who Shall Be Nameless, in the process of outputting a few unwanted residents, with the aid of B,B & C - and not spelled out, note.

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Ecolocia is a condition where the sufferer constantly repeats what is said by others.


Reminds me of the crowd at Woodstock and the Fish cheer.
"Gimmee a D"
"D"
"Gimmee a U"
"U"
Gimmee an N"
"N"
"Gimmee an O"
"O"
"Whats that spell?"
"Dunno"
Whats that spell?"
"Dunno"

I blamed the teachers

"with the aid of B,B & C - and not spelled out, note."

Chicken! anyway who would exorcise the beeb?

Rod,

>isn't that echolalaism or something?<

With the sole exception that that isn't a real word.

Echolalia.
I cheated.

No, you are correct. I was feeling all superior for a moment, then I realised my spell-checker had futzed up and not caught one of my errors.

Echolalia is the correct spelling!

Actor?

Is it something to be found in a specific country (but not China, apparently) or is this regularly done anywhere?

Now, let's see -- echolocia could be useful if you work in an environment where mistakes are big. Say, surgery: "Scalpel?" "Scalpel." "Forceps?" "Forceps."

Not being a werewolf -- now, truth be told, that could be useful in pretty much any walk of life. More so if you deal with sharp silver stuff?

Kneeling down a lot -- plumbing, definitely.

Lying about the weather? Who on earth would need to *lie* about the weather Someone who works in tourism and needs to attract people to their remote place by promising constant sun when in fact they have no idea?



So the answer is: a surgeon plumber who uses silver instruments and works in the tourist board of a remote and rainy place.

I like how your mind works toybox.

Let' just deal with a minor note of unpleasentness first.

Actor. - 5

>>Is this regularly done anywhere?
It is regularly done in lots of different places.

>>echolocia could be useful if you work in an environment where mistakes are [common]<<
I think that's probably worth a DGI +1

>>Not being a werewolf<<
Well the whole turning into a wolf thing is largely inconsequential because IT ISN"T REAL - but what would someone who thought they had lycanthropy be unable to do?

>>plumbing, definitely<<
Not even close.

>>Lying about the weather? Who on earth would need to *lie* about the weather <<
Indeed, intriguing isn't it?


>>So the answer is: a surgeon plumber who uses silver instruments and works in the tourist board of a remote and rainy place.<<
No it isn't.