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

Would that be a Wyrm like the kind found down wells that enjoy devouring the occasional baby?

Everything a bit odd is supposed to taste like chicken.

A few years ago, you could buy 'simulated hedgehog flavour' potato chips in Canada. The producers of the things stressed the fact that the flavour really was simulated and no hedgehogs had been harmed. They were quite good... apart from the simulated greasy after-taste.

JTG

'potato chips' = 'crisps'

JTG

Explain.

I vaugley remember hearing of some saint killing the Lindwyrm or something that lived in a river near some English town???

Dunc
Behold the mark of the hedgehog: ##'>

Are you thinking of the 'Lampton Wyrm'??

Here in Sweden we use to kill them with a saw or a large axe and then we drop them in a hole in our garden. After about a week or five it's time to dig it up and eat it. And as you said, hedgehogs taste like chicken.
(If you cook the chicken in the same way)

Could be. What is it?

By the way, the best way to deal with a Balrog is to use a firehose.

Duncan ##'>

Incidently, I was watching "The 10th Kingdom" the other night (tis a series that plays wiht all the old Grimm's Fairy Tales) and the heros met some gypsies, and ended up eating hedgehog. I rather like that series as the writer appears to have read the odd original Grimm's Tale before writing it. It has plenty of the nasty bits, like iron slippers etc.
Also, isn't a Wyrm just another name for a Dragon?

Yes, as far as I can gather. There is a Lindwurm in the German-speaking world, too. In Klagenfurt (Kärnten, Austria) there is a big statue of a long, lizard-like thing which is the local coat of arms and has many tales surrounding it. There are Austrian people on this site who could tell us more.

I have heard the theory that dragons have been passed through the generations as mythical creatures, based on descriptions of the last dinosaurs.

And, more probably, the unicorn was based on descriptions of rhinocerouses brought back to Europe by early travellers. The artists of the time based their drawings on what they knew and the final result was more like a horse with a horn than the original rhinocerous. There are also pictures, I remember seeing once, of elephants, drawn from descriptions of the first travellers. These also looked more like horses with trunks than anything else.

that would be the one.

Cool! We've made the vatal missing link between hedgehogs and dragons over the courese of the last 20 or so postings. This is an evolutionary breakthrough!...

(...or maybe i'm just talking hedgehog droppings)

By the way. I love you guys.

Dunc ##'>

I love your ejog. Very clever. Here's one going the other way: <'##