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

Hootooers have a favorite 2Legs.

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Jesus was a Capricorn. Don't know if he had a favourite leg, though.

Not true - if you study the historical details in the Bible, it is apparent that Jesus was born in the month of September.

The reason his birth was 'moved' to December was to make the heathens forget about celebrating heathen rituals like the winter solstice.

Google for jesus born september and you'll find a lot of articles on the subject, some with details.

So it was Jesus who was the Virgin, not his mother

(yes yes, you're supposed to say Virgo in English, I know.)

I wouldn't have made a silly comment if I'd thought anyone would take it seriously.

So you think he *did* have a favourite leg?

>>I wouldn't have made a silly comment if I'd thought anyone would take it seriously.>>

Well, how's this for a useless fact along the same line (Christians trying to cover up heathen holidays):

During the summer solstice celebrations a pole was raised. The Christian missionaries thought it looked too much like a phallic symbol, so they added a horisontal branch to make it look like a cross.

After which the silly heathens added a ring to each end of the branch, thus making it look more like a phallos than before :

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/2609369163_520398b03a.jpg?v=0

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Race car, typed backwards, spells Race car.

I had a feeling my post might be removed.

I think that may be the very first ed post of this thread.

Both "octopuses" and "octopi" are acceptable plurals for "octopus".

This is in case you had got your "-puses" and your "-pi" mixed up...

C.L.

At the risk of posting something useful, octopi is not an acceptable plural for octopus. The name derives from Greek oktapous, not from Latin. The alternative to octopuses is octopodes, as the creature is also known as an octopod.

Decapods (or decapodes) have two more legs than octopuses (or octopodes):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoda

That octopi/octopodes thing is going to be useful to me one day, so thanks for it but that does mean it's a bit out of place in here.

From information boards in the stuffed animals section of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum:

- Largest penis relative to size: Barnacles.
- Longest sperm: Fruit fly.

They obviously haven't seen my father's new chihuahua puppy when he gets "excited".

At the Hunterian Museum, they have penis bones from a walrus and a weasel. I never even knew they had bones! Someone must have nicked mine.

The weasel's one looked like a tiny, wee fishbone, but the walruses one was *MASSIVE!*

Which possibly explains the old song:















You walrus hurt the one you love...

The octopi/octopodes thing may be useful, but surely it's redeemed by the 'derived from Greek, not from Latin' fact.

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You may or may not be interested to hear that some biblical scholars have surmised that Eve was actually made from Adam's penis bone. This accounts for why men have no penis bone, men & women both have the same number of ribs and the scar that runs along a man's scrotum is the material evidence of the procedure.

They put the confusion down to a mistranslation - there is no actual Hebrew word for penis.