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

In the words of your counryman Rolf Harris *Oh how we danced on the night we were wed, we danced and we danced...for the room had no bed!*

Ooops- *countryman*

You're a wise and sagacious man, aren't ya, zoomer?

*even though this won't make sense once Apparition changes their tag*

...what we need is a mop...and a bucket...

cl...I do believe you've been one-upped !

See *Irony* on Apparition & my spaces.

How *do* you change your tag?

click "preferences" just above logout of the left of your page.

At school, I recited a rhyme to the effect that:
The common cormorant, or shag/lays eggs inside a paper bag,
and I won some kind of competition or other.]
Two questions:
An Australian tree?
Does your name make anyone think of carpet? Or the other?
(Okay, that's 3 questions...)

Re changing tag: Thanks! I will be much more interesting soon.

Wow, I wish I could do that. The last time I was really interesting everyone else present was drunk.

What is in a name?

Bush by any other name would still flunk kindergarten

Re growing more interesting: Jimmy Buffett says becoming witty and charming is the first stage of drunkenness (or at least you think you are).

But staying in context, I named myself this mainly because I lurked for months before joining and decided a direct Hitchhiker's quote would be funny. Well, it was either that or Zaphoid's Third Arm, but then I /really/ would have everyone thinking I'm a bloke...

Odo – well that’s for Bishop Odo who was William the conquers half brother. Because he was a priest he wasn’t allowed to spill another human’s blood, so when he rode into battle he fought with a large wooden club. I was nicknamed Bishop Odo by various members of my form during my first year at secondary school and the name stuck to me up until I reached the sixth form.

The Bishopness bit came after I went to the Birmingham hootoo meet earlier this year and a couple of researchers were surprised that I was actually female.

The Bassaleg bit – well that’s a tower where I’m teaching a band to ring.

Bit of a long one that.

Harpo is a nickname, corruption of my surname.
Not Marx, 'cos Harpo Marx was Silent.
Groucho is on my personal space to remind me of his surreal lines
The rest is my 42ism