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

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Frankly, any source that gives a *definite* pre-19th Century spelling for an English word is talking out of it's arse.

Hmm, definitely feeling better. Stop picking on my OED it's not it's fault and it's been hanging around me for a few years now. In it's defence what abart the Latin one then.

I'll give the Latin a look when I get home.

I just love all this talk of ... scabbards.

If you pick them they never get better.

*drum fill*

dogs have ears..

So do walls........that's why i won't eat their pies.

I've told about 2 dozen people that it's impossible (barring Guiness World Record-length tongues) to lick your elbow; only one of them has been able to resist trying it immediately, and he twitched for about a minute with the effort of holding back


On a more topical note, the call of the male Emperor Penguin sounds almost exactly like the trumpet of an elephant.

This is a very disconcerting thing to hear when standing in Edinburgh Zoo.

In Edinburgh Zoo the Emperor Penguin enclosure is next to the Elephant enclosure.

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It's not impossible, it's just that most people aren't flexible enough to do it... when they said on Brainiac that it was impossible they were inundated with photos of people licking their elbows. None of them had abnormally long tongues.

i find that i have managed to resist the urge so far today...


and i've not tried to lick my elbow either..

Useless facts courtesy of Nick Fur-bally on the LBC:

1. The RSPCA has taken to playing music to upset pooches.... wait for it... they are paying them music by... Bach Apparently it calms them down (catatonic state, anyone?)

2. A businesswoman in NZ has offered the Kenyan state 40tons of dog biscuits to feed their starving babies with.... Her logic: she feeds it to her kids.... They are reporting her to the Race Commission.

The world's gone bonkers -

W

I take it you're not into classical music, Wilma.

As for the dog biscuits... well, they're full of vitamins, full of goodness, full of marrowbone jelly.

Dog biscuits are yummy.. didn't do me any harm..
specially the black ones, they make your tongue blue

Chow-chows have black tongues. Now, if black dog biscuits make your tongue go blue, does this mean that chow-chows have eaten a lot of blue biscuits to make their tongues go black?

Oh no, Mr D, oi loikes classical moosic just foine - just couldn't bear the "d"readful pun, 's all

and you ladies can have my little to join your club of dog biscuit eating s. I have to keep them on the "high" shelf now
W

Bach... I just got it.

My grandmother used to tell me to never stick anything smaller than my elbow in my ear. Same result, a contorted little kid trying to do it.

I've had real problems with my present job, somebody told me to watch my back. Plays havoc with the neck.

Being told to 'look after yourself' has the same effect.