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

Little Bo Peep had a *phenomenal* peplum, I'm told.

Of course. She had one of those crenelated skirts.

One time she got caught up in it and she sang...

Pleats release me, let me go...

Ah yes - the ones with a martingale under them to keep the shape.

Or is that freemartin?

Surely he's the fella what plays Dr Watson?

No, I think that's Eamonn Holmes...

An alimentary error.

Like Walkers novelty flavour crisps.

Shouldn't that have been one sentence with a colon in it?

Personally, I think peplums were invented by fashion designers to give skinny-assed models the illusion of womanly curves. Normal women look hideous in them.

Has anybody tried the Walkers mystery flavours?

I think A is chicken'n'peplum

I'm liking the words in this thread.

So far I've had a little word thrill from "nugatory", "martingale" and "crenelated". MMmmm. Tasty.

I'm prepared to bet an exponentially increasing amount of money that you knew you meant "farthingale", by the way, another word I've always liked and always liked to mispronounce.

'So far I've had a little word thrill from "nugatory", "martingale" and "crenelated". MMmmm. Tasty.'

Somehow I can't *not* read that sentence in Stephen Fry's voice.

Try it in Morgan Freeman's

That's because I typed it in Stephen Fry's voice.

If the whalebone cage-y thing under a crenelated skirt is martingale, the one under a peplum must be a martinet.

Just a thought.

I was given props the other day for using the word 'nefarious' in an e-mail. I *always* use the word nefarious'. As in 'nefarious porpoises'.

And a peplum that only flounces at the rear portion is a plectrum.

Where's the button for that? I know Freeman's voice uses the > tag, but I don't seem to have a Fry setting on this keyboard.

Ctrl-Alt-& sets phaser to stun, yeah?

It's not a setting on my keyboard. It's a setting on my hands.

"I know Freeman's voice uses the > tag"

What we could do is what most impressionists seem to do when they want to indicate whose voice they're using. We could begin sentences with 'I'm Ed Milliband...' (or whoever)

That was one of the things I liked about Rory Bremner when he first came to prominence - he didn't do that. Specifically because he didn't NEED to - it was immediately obvious who he was "doing" because his impressions were actually accurate, unlike practically every other impressionist ever (other than Steve Nallon, who sounded more like Margaret Thatcher than Margaret Thatcher did most of the time).