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

VV - because people like me will come along and say none of your body was 'designed' at all! And then others will come along and say 'Oh yes it was!' and we will descend into a pantomine.

BTW, surely if you have never chaffed 'there' then this proves it works?

Azahar what part of you is Canadian Indian? Does much hair grow there?

well okay then, human fingernails will also grow and grow and grow (kind of like a beaver's front teeth) unless they are worn down. What is the use of that? I mean, it does make sense for the beaver.

az

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actually they're there to protect the end of your fingers (although why they keep growing I'm not quite sure....perhaps it's got something to do with them breaking all the time)

* gets emmery board out and commences filing *

is it becoause its meaty?thats a bit of a stereotypical view then!women are not allowed meat or they will seem like men!

do you mean you've bought it on a tape i.e not video tape? if you have then i have no idea! i've watched it on videotape and it was ok on that, and i have it on dvd and thats great quality, but i must ask you...cake or death?

footbacon,

WHAT?

az

Bornonthe,

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Firstly, my name is spelt with a small 'a', thank you very much. Secondly, that is a really stupid question.

az

ohh bol****s!
wrong thread...sorry!

Footbacon,



That's happened to me too! Never mind, you're amongst friends.

az

actually no it wasn't the wrong thread! i'm just used to doing it though! that was in reply to Trin Tragula, on the last page...

is it true that your head hair and your nails keep growing after you die>?

footbacon,

As far as I know the head hair and fingernails grow in a last spurt at the time of death.

az

yeah, that's what I thought.

Blokes tend to have more obscure names, hence people thinking you're a blokw. Plus you've got a blokey sense of humour. People think I'm a bloke until I mention otherwise, or they meet me (a big surprise to some at the summer meet

Mind you, you shouldn't have really assumed that I assumed you were a bloke just from asking about armpit hair - you may have been female and fond of keeping your pits warm in the winter

anything wrong with female armpit hair?

az

on me, yes.

curious, how is my humour blokey? i've never been told that before

Footbacon,

Often men will tell you that your sense of humour is blokey for two reasons - either they like it or they they feel intimidated by it.

I'm now worried that I posted a whole thing on body hair on another totally inappropriate thread!

Ah well, what the f**k.

az

Head hair and fingernails do *not* grow after death. The corpse's skin may shrink slightly through dessication, giving the appearance that the hair and nails have grown *slightly*, but the difference is generally too small to be noticeable.

I believe the myth of hair growth after death sprang up, or was reinforced, after some woman (forget who) was exhumed. When her coffin was opened, it is alleged that the coffin was full of luxurinant hair that could only have grown after she died. This is impossible nonsense.

it happens to the best of us!

Facon - your sense of humour is quite daft, it seems blokes have a more daft sense of humour than girls. Especially as people grow up, maybe it's because girls mature quicker than men that they stop being daft sooner, which is a shame. However, this is only my own theory

The obvious downside to anyone having hairy armpits, male or female, is that it contributes to smelly pits. After a while the smell becomes unpleasant, and nobody likes unpleasant smells, whether others can smell them or not.

I did wonder about nails - being as most animals have them, presumably to help protect their feet, especially when tripping up over annoying logs in the path. I wondered why we hadn't lost them, at least on our fingers, as we don't walk on our hands any more, and was amazed for a moment thinking that evolution must take absolutely aaaaaages (longer than I'd previously thought), but then remembered that we need our fingernails to open drinks cans and the like, so of course they wouldn't have evolved out of our bodies after all.

I remember writing the posting, now I can't find it! eeek!



az

isuppose i've always just preferred to think of things in a daft way rather than taking it seriously..."quick! the psychioatrists are coming!!!"