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

'Look! It looks like a witch riding a pig! Yes it does! Wales is the pig, No, shuttup, Wales is the pig and Scotland is the witches's hat!'

Here's two more, one serious one not so much.
Can you guess which is which?

1. The Royal Canadian Air Force would be happy to lend you theirs:
"Thru Adversity To the Stars"
It looks good in Latin too.

2. "Harry~Roger~Webb"
Which of course is Cliff Richards' real name.
Ian Flemming is whispering in my ear that I ought
to spell it the way people will actually hear it,
"Hairy~Roger~Web", so everyone can see the evolution
from hairy apes ancestors ~ thru to Battle of Britain
~ and on into cyberspace.


~jwf~

Suaviter in Modo, Fortier in Re - "Gentle in Manner, Strong in Deeds."

or Carpe Diem - "Seize the Day". Very appropriate with our live for the moment society.

Per Ardua Ad Astra is the motto of the RAF too, Squiggles

There's legions of opportunity here -

http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html

I particularly like these -

Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri? - Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem - In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags

Another day, another dole-er

Welcome to Britain!..

..when are you leaving?

Britain — it's as good today as it's always been! -

Britain - alright if you like that sort of thing.

A tedious unimaginative bureaucratic federation. Ironically not disimmilar to the EU

Britain - Less than the sum of the parts.

Britain. Less great than it used to be.

Roymondo: >Britain: we've got hills *and* flat bits.<

I was passing some American tourists on a train in Sussex. One of them said: "What did I tell you? Britain's countryside's just dull and featureless."
With not a little hauteur, I replied: "England. Scotland and Wales aren't dull and featureless," and carried on walking.
They laughed.
Just thought I'd share that...



How about "Cradle of the Modern World."

OK, so I don't like it either, but it's the sort of thing they would choose.

Got to share some of these from the BBC site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2007/09/the_friday_challenge.shtml#commentsanchor

Englnd - lnd of Wllm Shkspr

Obesité, Apathé, Hostilité

GB: Keeping the FUN in dysfunctional!

They've got 1000 suggestions there. I did particularly like the idea that instead of a motto, Great Britain could get a sponsor.

Who do you think should sponsor Great Britain - and why?

Any train company would make an ideal sponsor:

"We're unreliable, are staffed mainly by Eastern European migrants and you're only here because you've got no choice..."

Microsoft GB - press alt-ctr-del to restart.

"wipe your feet before entering"

'Never to laugh more at something less funny'

Or..

'Garden centres: you can go to them'

>> How about "Cradle of the Modern World." <<

Yes, it is the sort of thing 'they' would choose but if one is to take this matter seriously at all (not saying we should) it does center on the great and undeniable truth that the British Empire is what set all modern standards of existence in every corner of the globe (with the possible exception of the metric system).

Take GMT as one central example.

And then how about:
"For a Greenwich Mean Time call..."

or:
"Long to rein (sic) over us,
Send 'er Victoria's"



~jwf~

For serious suggestion I like:

Standing on the shoulders of giants

but we'll probably get:

Standing on the shoulders of vertically unchallenged people

Quisvosastrumpocules?


Wotchewlookinat?

RF