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

11) No, one is usually sufficient, although one has a number of parts.

Just to get all questions on the same page
It's vegetable......

1)Would I want to eat it?
1) not unless you are a termite

2) Would it fit in a shoebox?
2)yes it would

3) Would it fit in a matchbox?
3) no

4) Is it purely decorative
4) no

5) Does it get "used up" in the performance of its normal function?
5) No it can last and last depending upon treatment

Does it have any moving parts?
6) not moving of thenselves, but can be moved

7) Is it designed as a tool to manipulate something else?
7 Absolutely not

8) Is it commonly manipulated by a tool of any sort?
7) if you call a hand a tool

8) Is it most commonly found outdoors?
8) only if left there inadvertently

Is it a container of some kind?
9) it's primary purpose is not a container, but it does hold things

10) Is it flat, i.e. much thinner in one dimension than the other two?
No it isn't flat

11) Would you normally own many of them?
11) No, one is usually sufficient, although one has a number of parts.

13) (There was a numbering screwup between 7/8... ) Would it be found in the majority of British households?

Is it used to move liquids?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


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13) possibly, if they have children more likely, and if they are of eastern european descent, quite likely.

14) it is not designed to hold liquid, but could at a pinch I guess

15 is it a toy?


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15 YES

16) Do the different parts fit completely inside each other?

I think I know what you mean, Peet, but there's a logical incongruity there somewhere.



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I know what I mean, and I can't see any inconsistency yet...

Some of the parts might fit into one or more of the other parts but they can't all fit into each other unless they are made of some flexible material. Unless you mean can they interlock?



Who started this business anyway?

Ah, you mean the incongruity in my question... Sorry, I'm not thinking entirely straight at the moment.

Ah, yes, I should have recognised you weren't your usual self today.
I would offer you a loo brush or a refreshing if I didn't think it was a bit offering virtual refreshments.





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Yes the individual parts fit inside the whole, and they fit inside each other

oh dag on it what are those things called
the toy that is a group of people one a bit biger then the next that fit in each other...

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Yeay!! you are absolutely right Congratulations

technically it's called a Mamushka Doll however they now come with all sorts of different people painted on

Oh dear, there was I thinking it was a box of wooden blocks or something.

Well done tacsatduck.

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ah...ok so that means it's my turn ummm
ok it's one of those vegtiable type whoyas


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is it smaller than a matchbox?