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

aaargh! Have just been reading a swedish review of agricultural statistics, which translates the heading of one table as:

"Poultry, sheep and lamb, and horse slaughterings, (heads)"


and of course - you've guessed it - all I can think of now is The Godfather!

I didn't know the Godfather was Swedish!

Lovly rosy imagery.

-- DoctorMO --

having fun then darling?
How is career-move-planning going?
xxx

Oh hello my darling! How lovely to see you here

Career planning...erm....not much happenin' on that front I'm afraid

have you a career LukyStar?

-- DoctorMO --

She runs Europe from a bunker 3 miles beneath Luxembourg.

Do they eat horse in Sweden? Or are the heads just for decoration?

Sprout

I think it was "head" in the sense of "head of cattle"

i.e. number of.....

Oh, actually, I'm the final of a radio competition to win flights to Stockholm, so maybe I'll be able to go and see the horses for myself. And maybe eat them

I'll just go ask a Swede if Swedes eat horses, or horses eat swedes, or.........

Lucky you! The two times I've been to Stockholm it was minus 10, snowing and dark. So far I've seen the conference centre, two hotels, the railway station and the airport. The last time I went, that great organisation that you and I both work for booked me a room without a window... Talk about claustrophobic.

Stockholm is supposed to be very nice in the summer though.

I suspect horse and swede exist in a perfect symbiotic mutually edible cycle.

Sprout

"symbiotic mutually edible"

Yeah, I really loved Reykjavik, despite its ferocious expensiveness, and I'd like to explore the other Nordic capitals.

I'd resisted ringing in to this competetion, but caved in the end (I really can't pass by a contest!)

Q1. Bramwell and Charlotte are 2 of them - name the other 2.
Q2. Who wrote Loves Labours Lost, 2 Gentlemen of Verona....
Q3. Stratus, Cirrus, Cummulus...what do you call rainclouds?

I only know Q3, Cluminuenibus or there abouts with the spelling

- DoctorMO --

Isn't Q1 types of desserts?

Sprout

Yeah the missing pair are Pavlova and Bavarois

You knew Shakespeare for 2 I expect.

I didn't...

Correct!

The missing desserts were actually Anne and Emily Bronte, btw.

But I didnt win the tickets - didnt know todays starter question

"What do you call a government run by bishops"

A: Wrong.

Not a theocracy then? An episcopacracy?

Sprout