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

You remember that film where the hero thought it was the exotic stranger who'd saved his life, only it was the faithful, unassuming sidekick all along?

You don't remember? Well, if they haven't made it yet, they damn well ought to.

I'm sure there's a Georgette Heyer story along those lines. That you could adapt. Bound to be. I'll look it up for you next I'm at the library.

Jolly decent of you, faithful sidekick

I have no idea what you two are talking about, but I think there was an episode of Happy Days where the hero thought it was the exotic stranger who'd saved his life, only it was the faithful, unassuming sidekick all along.

Two episodes. Ah hell, all of them are basically the same.

Wo Jodan
Neither have we, probably.
Pin(What is a sidekick, anyway?)

He adds a kick to your greatness, while standing at your side.
Now, it might seem like the name 'sidekick' came from this, but it's actually derived from Latin - seidkicka, seidkickae, a feminine noun.

In Roman government, a consul's sidekick would warm up the Senate with his antics.

And that is the origin of both sidekicks and American Vice Presidents.

If you'd said Greek (which has at least got a few k's in it), I might have believed you

Would you have believed that the Greeks had consuls?

The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine!

Actually, wasn't that a Sherlock Holmes story, where Holmes thought he'd been resuscitated by the gypsy girl and it turned out to be...

I think I just walked into something.




Holmes and... - not a picture I needed to see

Waz(UGminer, AssEd, occasional CACCer, warmer-up of Senates, it's all rolling down hill. Probably to Florida.)