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

Care to post an URL?

'Nonnie

Good grief Nonnie you are getting lazy, just down there a bit, the top line in the Ask H2G2 forum.

OK

Here tis, about thrre posts down has done the rounds - two people I showed it to had seen it already.

http://www.h2g2.com/F19585&thread=86212&skip=160&show=20

CH

In fact it's got it's own thread "Notice of Revocation of Independance"

CH

mouse balls, mice ball, mice balls...
..sounds a bit like karl valentin's "semmelknoedel" and "semmelnknoedeln"...nice little sketch. about taking more than one roll (roll="semmel", rolls="semmeln") to make dumplings. i don't know whether there exists an adequate translation or not, but if i'm able to find out, i'll let you know...

SHeesh! Take it easy.. I was half asleep when I read the posting and didn't notice the 'Ask H2G2' part.. and I've seen that about a dozen times so far in the last week (both email and here).

'Nonnie

What if the mice are female?

I wouldn't think a female computer mouse would be very useful.

'Nonnie

My high school got mice without balls so that the students couldn't steal the balls.

JOTD: The best things in life are for a fee.

Hi Tuesday. Semmelknödel immediately sprung to my mind, too - but it's impossible to translate. There's so much English humour which is impossible to translate into German, it's nice that there's some the other way around, too.

We spent ages puzzling over a translation for the famous line (out of HHGG)

Arthur "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
Ford: "You ask a glass of water"

Can you translate that into any other language?

People don't drink water in Germany?

'Nonnie

*lol*
in which of the five books is that? i've read them all several times but i can't remember this one...perhaps it was translated differently?...*g*

The first book, just before the Vogon fleet went into hyperspace for the first time.

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*peers around*

*sigh* -- which box?

'Nonnie