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

Frenulum is a man-part. Honest! Go look it up!

Oh...and *giggle*

Fanny.

Not only is it a name, but it means butt in America.

So lets say it again. All together now!

Fanny!

You know, the Famous five bopoks by Enid Blyton has characters called Dick and Aunt Fanny...

I DID know that. Also in the Faraway Tree books. Also, in one of the boarding school books, there is a "wild" gypsie called Carlotta.

Shouldbeinbedshouldbeinbed.

*shameful secret*

Wasn't that Mallory Towers?

I believe so! Midnight feasts!!!!

I didn't know boys read Enid Blyton. Did you ever read the one's where those kids got abandoned on mountains and in valleys? The ones with the bird in them.

God. My memory for titles is awful.

The Castle of Adventure and The sea of Adventure

Ok. You read the two I didn't. And I obviously read the two you didn't.

The Mountain of Adventure and the Valley of Adventure.

"I say, shall we crack open some ginger beer and have a picnic out in the most isolated spot imaginable? Paedophiles? No they won't get us, for we have a cockatiel!"

I'm sure the BBC did a TV series of Castle, as my sister's copy of the book had a ppicture on the front, and is emblaxoned with the words "Now a major BBC TV series"

foir emblaxoned, read "emblazoned"

Adaptations were always rubbish.

The only childrens book adaptations that i think realy worked were the Chronicles of Narnia and the DEmon Headmaster (who I've always thought looks strangely like Jack Straw...)

The Narnia Chronicles were AWFUL. The Railway Children worked.

God, this is showing what types of books we read as kids...

I *liked* Narnia.

I actually borrowed the Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe video from my sister the other week (she's a primary school teacher, which she uses as her excuse to hold on to all her Narnia nd Enid Blyton books- and also her justification for owning all the Harry Potter books and the video)

And another one that worked- Moondial.

Maybe I just liked the book too much.

Harry Potter is evil. JK Rowling is a rip off merchant. Die die die.

*has gone slightly mad by now*

"Maybe I just liked the book too much."

Narnia or Moondial?

Narnia. I only briefly remember Moondial.

I've been to the stately home where they filmed moondial- Belton House. My copy of the book is actually a National trust edition...

Ooooooh. Pretty.

Are you taking the P.I.S.S.?

I think you've missed one of the 'Adventure' books. I seem to remember one called 'Island of Adventure'.

Oh, and the BBC Narnia adaptations *didn't* work, IMHO. I didn't actually see much of them, as I prefer reading to watching TV, but we were led to believe (via Blue Peter) that the special effects were something, well, special. From what I saw, Aslan was just a badly animated large model lion. I didn't watch much after I saw that.