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

It's a fish slice because it's designed for lifting a piece of fish out of the pan it was cooked in. The OED gives one definition of slice as 'an implement with a broad flat blade for serving fish, etc.'

If Americans don't have fish slices, what do they use to get fish out of the pan?

See the 5th point of the General Rules and corresponding footnote A57720477

'Spatula'--derived from the Latin for flat piece of wood.

<<'Spatula'--derived from the Latin for flat piece of wood.>>

I bet 2legs could add some more definitions if he wanted to

dogs can't look up .....according to Shaun of the dead

No. That's according to Ed, the lay-about, pot selling slacker Shaun lives with. According to Shaun, and everyone who's bothered to watch a dog, they can.

ok then,but apparantly all polar bears are left handed

also ,did you know that it's illegal to lasso a fish in Knoxville Tennessee

Ah, that was promising, but sadly, polar bears are not all left handed. That's another widely known factoid.

http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/bear-facts/myths-and-misconceptions/

Nor do they hide their black noses when stalking seals.

Polar bears are a subspecies of brown bears (here called grizzlies) so, do they hide their brown ancestry when trying to get on the social registry?

Hmmm... here's something I didn't know. The Arctic is so named from the Greek, Arktikos, "country of the great bear". It wasn't polar bears they were thinking of though, it was the constellation Ursa Major.

Isn't Ursa Minor closer to the North Star?

It may be, but it's not as dominant in the sky as Ursa Major.

At school - a grammar school pretending to be a public school and failing badly, brothers were named major and minor - so there was Sayers Major and Sayers Minor. Don't know what they would have doen with twins, though......

You're right. It also occurred to me that the big dipper in winter sits on the horizon in the evening when most people see it and so would look even bigger.

And colder!!

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air

No. Not unless you get your chocolate bars from the Whizzo Chocolate Company, LLC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU

It's the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. Big Bird's legs are part of the Google logo today.

its not its wallace and gromit