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

I'm a big fan of 'garden path sentences':

The cotton that sheets are usually made of grows in Egypt, but the cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississippi.

Carbohydrates that people eat are quickly broken down, but fat people eat accumulates.

<<'...and then the chapatti became lodged behind the skirting board.'>>

Another wonderful mental picture!

<[Chomsky's] concept of innate, generative grammars>

I think a Morecambe and Wise TV sketch had something like, "The pink crocodile leaped over the purple sofa"

Frank Zappa put some wonderful words together...

try reading the lyrics for "Broken Hearts..." sometime.

Curiously enough, Zappa's just been mentioned in another convo...and there I mentioned that I prefer Beefheart: 'A squid in a polyethelene bag - that's fast and bulbous, baby'

I love it!

(oops) misquote

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag. That's fast and bulbous, baby. Got me?.....also, tapered.

There! Glad to get that clear! Apologies for any confusion caused.....

When Peter Beardsley was a teenager he had no teeth yet could eat a packet of crisps by chewing with his gums.

if you cut an onion in half and rub it on the sole of your foot about an hour later you'll taste it in your mouth (i only found out about this today and i'm now going home to try it- i'll tell you tomorrow if it works- bet you can't wait)

The experiment might be more accurate if you get someone else to rub it on your foot. I can see it now...

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How does that work?

Now..I'd heard that about garlic - but I'm sure it will work with other aliums.

Foxes kept in captivity have to be fed cotton wool sandwiches to maintain their digestive balance.

I hope they get a cuppa to wash them down.

Aright, here are some useless facts making the e-mail rounds, just arrived today:
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
How's that for useless?

Very nice.

Possibly, the flavour chemical is fat-soluble and permeates your skin to enter the capoillaries and is then transported in the blood stream all over your body, including the mouth.

Certainly, if I eat onions I can smell it on my skin/sweat for at least 24 hours afterwards.

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Is that true? I thought it was a joke (on MV's birthday convo.)

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Why? Is it to replace the bunny fur and chicken feathers?

I've found out I haven't got tennis elbow..... I've got golfers elbow

Epicondylitis.

And, yes, to replace bunny fur.

The intestines of rabbits are too short to digest grass properly. They have to eat their own droppings to give them a second run through.