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

I think the reason so many middle-aged people have pot-bellies is so that they will be spared the knowledge that their pubes are going grey.

If we accept that we have armpit hair to trap pheremones.. and it makes sense that we have pubic hair for the same reason. Then do we excrete a lot of pheremones from our scalps? Does that explain head hair?

That's for keeping us warm.

I think this pheromones nonsense is, well, nonsense. I, mean, have you ever smelt a 'naturally' smelling bush?

Sooo attractive...

By 'natural' do you mean unclean and unwashed?

Yes. If that's what pheromones are like, then I can do without, thank you very much.

I *think* that pheremones aren't actually smellable by the nose.

Nope, that's right. You smell 'em with your ears. Spooky but true. That's why you get hairs growing out of your ears when you reach my age.

Vesty you know full well what I mean!
We smell them on some animalistic base level which we aren't aware of.
Gawd knows what the hair growing out of your ears is about.. perhaps it couldn't be bothered to make grow all the way to your scalp?

You could be right. But as a friend of mine once said,
"God only made so many perfect heads and the rest he covered with hair."

Going bald is natures way of telling you to stop having any more crap haircuts.

It's not a bald spot, it's a solar panel for a love machine.

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JOTD: Don't you hate it when they verbify nouns?

DOTD: Aibohphobia - fear of palindromes

You've done them already.


Why don't women have a piss in the morning?

Have you ever tried to peel apart a grilled cheese sandwich?

Yeah, but it was the same day.

Why do they put braille dots on drive-up ATMs?

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

Why is it that when you transport something by car it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship it's cargo?

Why isn't phonetic spelt the way it sounds?

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JOTD: I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

Actually, pheromones *are* detected in the nose, but not by the same organ as other smells.
The vomeronasal organ (Jacobson's organ) is responsible for pheromone detection, and is located at the bottom of the nasal cavity, above the palate, whereas the olfactory bulb, which is responsible for the normal sense of smell, lies above the nasal passageways.

And the all important:

Why is it that if a man does something polite for a woman he's being chauvanistic, but if he doesn't chivalry is dead?

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JOTD: 5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions

By the palette? SO eating lots of strong foods - ie Onions and garlic and spices.. does this bugger up your ability to detect pheremones?

It is in the nasal passageway, not the mouth - see diagram at :

http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/staff/jacob/teaching/sensory/pherom.html

However, eating lots of onions and garlic may well bugger up your chances of getting close enough to someone to detect the pheromones in the first place.

Do onions like the smell of onions?

More to the point, how come you never go bald in the aformentioned body parts?

I do not like having to shave everyday, a bl@@dy nuisance.