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

As I said in an earlier post, he probably typed something like "Austraia", and let the spell-checker have free rein over the document.

Or was plagiarizing hurriedly. Let's see, or was tranlating sloppily. Osterreich is the yerman for Austria and Australia is know as OZ...
How do you write Australia in yerman? Just kidding.
I would never trust a spell checker. I know more words than they.
What I truly can't believe is that no one ever e-mailed them about it.
Of course, I may have been the first person to actually read it.
I was reading a site put up by a judge running for re-election in Tennesee the other day. The site spelled her daughter's name three ways: Caitlain, Caitlin, and Caitlan.... Gee, if they'd only named her 'sue'...

Where does that 'Aus' thing come from, anyway?

And the 'tralier'.
Are you deliberately not mentioning the ****ans Tonsil?

You mean, like, in Texas?

Texas tralia parks?
Or ***mans?

I don't know what keeps getting starred out.
My dad used to live in Centralia.

Germans?
Texas is full of 'em. And Czechs and Serbs and Croats and Armenians and Poles and Slovaks and Turks and Afghanis and Pakistanis and Swiss and Bohemians and Azerbizans and Norvegians and Svedes and Danes and Alsatians and Chinese and Burmese and Siamese and Vietnamese and Anamese and a few Welshmen and two or three Hibernians and one Englishman that I know of that doesn't wear cowboy boots.
I hear there are some Irish Jews in Dallas....and some Jewish Irishman in Dublin.

end of digression. beginning of regression.

But that's just plain old Americans, isn't it?

I'm afraid so.

Getting back to the subject (ducks rotten s), Australia and Austria happened to get the same number of gold medals at the Winter Olympics (2 each)

I heard a rumor that there was an Olympics going on...Do they still announce the winners in Greek? Is there a pervasive scent of olive oil over the whole thing? I heard from an old Gallifreyan that it used to be a very exciting thing that could be smelled for miles around. Hmm, I'd missed the . I kinda like the way looks. Is there any cabbage?

I think I'd have preferred the Ancient Greek Olympic Games. The athletes were all male and competed naked. Women were banned from watching because of the nudity, so they used to disguise themselves as men so they could watch. (Sounds a bit Monty Python to me!)

And just think, a Marathon where the winner dies!

All I said was this bit of halibut was fit for Jehovah..

Clunk! Ow!

Now, who threw that rock!

She did, she...He did, he did.

All right, you, back to the back. Now, I want you to listen very carefully. Do not begin to stone until I say so, even if someone does say,'Jehovah'...

CRUNCH

The reason that women were banned from the Ancient Greek Olympics was so they didn't cause any undue excitement in the already tricky naked relay race.

And after the first woman managed to get in disguised as a man, everyone watching also had to be nude.

I take it the Ancient Greeks didn't invent the Winter Olympics too?

They did, but after the great Mount Olympus four man bob braking accident ---->

certain events had to be dropped for safety reasons.

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Oh man, great graphics as well

Interesting. It only takes 199 steps to get from geographical mistakes to Ancient Greek Winter Olympics Bob-Slay Team knob gags.