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

Exuberance? Verbosity? Is anything original? Isn't life a matter of plagarism and getting away with it? As to answering my question - can anyone tell whether the shrub has a brain?

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does the shrub have a brain? Why?

Isn't that the question that a lot of Iraqis and Afghans would like to know the answer to?

Definatly! If he had had even half a brain, do you think that he would have got that part of the world in such a mess?

is it more of a matter of if he has a brain - does he use it?

Can we consider what the world would be like if all males were alike in looks and thoughts? This would also apply to females being the same as each other.

ok that would freak me out....

Can we consider what the world would be like if all males were alike in looks and thoughts? Wouldn't this be one enormous mutual admiration society? And if all women were alike - which one? What if they were all like Maggie T? Would all men then move to a different planet?

They would all be perfect in every way. But, here's a thought, how would you recognise your friends, parents, husband or wife?

Would they want me to?

Would you want to?

Happy Christmas czardene - isn't there a saying 'God gives you your relatives - thank God that you can choose your friends'?

Happy Christmas and happy new year to P.B.S. You are right about friends and relatives. I do not have many relatives left but I have some well chosen friends. Do you think that if I were lucky enough to win the U.K. lottery, I would suddenly have "friends" of whom I did not know I had?

I would have to say a firm yes...Its some law somewhere...The minute you come into money, you start finding new friends, partners, relatives, and people from your past start cropping up!

Why do I get - on average - four e-mails a week telling me that I have wone the National Lottery yet still have few friends?

Why do I get - on average - four e-mails a week telling me that I have won the National Lottery yet still have few friends?

Could it be because you have not collected your winnings? I was asked what I would do about all the begging letters if I won the lottery. I said that I would carry on sending them. Why not?

Can I win a lottery if I have never bought a ticket?
Is not English a stupid language?
Logically, if people from Poland are called "Poles," people from Holland should be called "Holes", also should women not wear evening gowns to nightclubs, shouldn't they wear night gowns?
Logically, if infants enjoy infancy shouldn't adults enjoy adultery? Perhaps they do?
Logically a wise man ought to mean the same as a wise guy but they are opposites, also overlook ought to mean the same as oversee, but they also are opposites?
Logically, if horrific means to make horrible, why doesn't terrific mean to make terrible?
Logically, lawyer are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, an electrician ought to be delighted, musicians should be denoted, cowboys could become deranged and why are not models deposed?
And why is the man who invests your money called a broker? Who does he make broke?

I agree. All interesting questions, the answers to which will stay with you throughout life. There are some other things, as well.

For example, negative prefixes of words that don't exist. Why do we have words like "Un-der" and "Un-kempt"? There are no words like "Der" and "kempt", Even though "der" should be "above" and and "kempt" should be tidy.

So logically, isn't there so many contradictions in the English language that it is simply illogical?