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

We apologise for the badger.

The following badger has occurred: an unknown badger has occurred.

RF

Badgers? We don' need no stinkin' badgers (spit).

All hail the Almighty Badger.


...or you will be reborn as a weasel.

A badger once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some favre beans and a nice chianti ...

It was the day my badger exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my uncle Badger quietly snoring to Badger's mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to the sett.

RF

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Badgers, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad.

Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Mushroom, Mushroom

the snake was added later on I guess

i want 2 cancel this badger what 2 do

"There is no dark side of the badger really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

When Mr. Bilbo Badger of Badgers End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement.

Badger's End? F19585?thread=7376691&skip=0&show=20#p93799766

No-one can make badgers feel inferior without their consent - Eleanor Roosebadger.

Carpe mustelid, quam minimum credula Mustela putorius furo! (Seize the badger, put no trust in ferrets)

This above all: to thine inner badger be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any badger.
William Badgerespeare

Remember always that you have not only the right to be a badger, but you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosebadger

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than your badger.
William Falcon-ner

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the badgers you stroke.
Robert Louis Badgerson

The one unchangeable certainty is that badgers are unchangeable and certain.
John B. Kennedy

which brings to mind ...

"Ask not what your badger can do for you, ask what you can do for your badger."

"The Badger, who wore a long dressing-gown, and whose slippers were indeed very down at heel, carried a flat candlestick in his paw and had probably been on his way to bed when their summons sounded. He looked kindly down on them and patted both their heads. 'This is not the sort of night for small animals to be out,' he said paternally. 'I'm afraid you've been up to some of your pranks again, Ratty. But come along; come into the kitchen. There's a first-rate fire there, and supper and everything."

Oh, no, hang on...

Non plaudite. Modo mustela jacite (Don't applaud, just throw badgers)

RF

When I was one, I had just begun,
When I was two, I was nearly new,
When I was three, I was hardly me,
When I was four, I was not much more,
When I was five, I was just alive,
But now I' a badger, I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be a badger now and forever

Latin for 'badger' is 'meles', so, assuming it's 2nd declension, the accusative plural would be 'melites'

How to win friends and influence badgers ...

"The one unchangeable certainty is that badgers are unchangeable and certain." which also reminds of ...

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to badgers, because as badgers know, there are known knowns; there are things badgers know badgers know. Badgers also know there are known unknowns; that is to say badgers know there are some things badgers do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones badgers don't know badgers don't know "

Mr Dent, have you any idea how much damage this badger would suffer if I let it run over you?


This must be badger. I never could get the hang of badgers...

What? 3 Badgers? At lunchtime?

Drink up... the badger's about to end...



Either die in the vacuum of space, or.... tell me how good you think my badger is...



I suppose you'll want to see the badgers now...


Sorry... this could go on a while, those books have got so many good lines!

And from Book 4, can anyone remember the classic line -

"Did he, to put it in a nutshell, badger?"