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

but you can replace them with sellotape, so that's all right then.

Sellotape is also handy for amteur tree-growers. Should your fledgling plant suffer a breakage or bough, quick application of sellotape keps the sap inside and if your lucky the branch will continue to grow and eventually split the tape that had held it in place.

Tom Lehrer also wrote "magic -e"

<... He turned a dam (sic) - alakazam!
into a dame,
but my friend Sam,
stayed just the same....>

There should definitely be a guide entry about Tom Lehrer, but I only really know the songs & one radio interview I once heard any volunteers?

I had been reliably informed that the things on the end of shoelaces were called flugelbinders. Presumably this information is so useless its actually wrong.

I meant "silent -e" of course - sorry

One can only guess at the relationship between flugelbinders and flugelhorns... wonder what a flugel is?
There could be a collaborated guide entry on Tom Lehrer... any takers?

count me in - for what good it does. I might still have the tape of a radio interview with him that would be good background. I'll see what I can find. How does a collab. entry work?

Bit like peer review, I think... not really sure, but I imagine we'd start a conversation based on the entry and say what should be put in it. Don't know whose space it'd be on, though.

I'd explain, but that would be useful, so I won't.

Oh, you monster!
(I've asked the Authorities anyway... who have more paper than you.)

I've started an entry with a little of what I can remember.

Mandragora: I've included you as a researcher. I hope this means you can edit the article too.

It's http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A599781

if anyone fancys helping

Ugi

Heintz ketchup leaves the bottle at 25 miles/year.

Eagles see better than humans on clear days, but humans see better than eagles on foggy days.

More Americans lose their virginity in June then in any any other month.

Kentucky Fried Chicken's Col.Sanders was actually born in Indiana.

Joe Heisman (from trophy fame) coined the word "Hike". (used in American football)

Pound for pound - hamburgers cost more then new cars.

Thomas Edison invented Wax paper.

Oi!! Did I hear someone mention my Name?
I'm no Idler - i'm just too to update the myth is all....

And calling me Inert ... that's .... just ... not ... ... tru.........

According to Giunness, the longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted for 65 years. (that's just got to suck)

Also, in Antarctica sometimes the sunsets are green.

Elephants are the only land mammal that cannot jump

Which is why a kangaroo-elephant crossbreed would luckily never work.

How can they be green?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A352513

Same concept I believe.

20,000 Leagues under the sea, is actually half way to the moon.....

Surely halfway to the moon would be 20.000 leagues _over_ the sea?

Well I was thinking 20,000 Leagues would be out the other side of the world and halfway to the Clangers....

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