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

Aardvark is a(/n) dutch(/afrikaans/whatever language it was) name for an animal. Aard is Afrikaans for earth, and vark is afrikaans for pig.

Are you saying that you want to keep score or not?

Is Aden as bad as Johannesburg?

Can you suggest a way to 'keep score' of such a thread? As to your question as to comparing Aden with Jo-burg, can you compare Lagos to Madras?

Oh - and thanks for the insight into the derivation of the name of the antbear - did you really think I didn't know that?

Where did you find that piece of info on the antbear/aardvark?

Somewhere in the back of my head - I think its called memory, isn't it? Is it correct however?

I don't know, I can't remember myself. By the way, have we met?

I don't know whether we have met? Your memory must be bad if you can't even remember your self! Do you remember me?

would someone who is just entering this thread wonder which question to answer first?

Shouldn't you answer the last question first?

I don't think we've met.
Could I be wrong?

Do you mean wrong about the thinking or the meeting?

Can I get back to you on that?

Is this thread still going?

It is but got side-tracked for a while - I think we were discussing the fiscal policies of Patagonia - weren't we?

Who, you and Patches?

Isn't it difficult to have a conversation with someone who can't remember whether they think?

Do you really think so?

What do you mean by "Think"?

Wasn't it Descartes who said 'Cogito, egro Sum'? Could we then not argue that if one doesn't think one doesn't exist? If so, how can one have a conversation with someone who, by their own admission, doesn't exist?

I do exist. I just couldn't remember WHY.

Why do we exist?

Who decides whether we live or die?

What gives them the authority to make such decisions?