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

Can you define "nice"?

Isn't it the part of southeast France that biscuits come from?

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Do you mean the biscuits which some people think are nasty?

Are you thinking of the dead-fly-flavoured Garibaldis?

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What number are we on?

We're on 10306 aren't we?

Don't you know I am not a number, but a free man?

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Are you sure about that?

Are your toes webbed?

Would I swim better if they were?

Would you swim worse or sink like a rock?

Sim lorse or swink wike a roc?

What were you drinking of?

Winking yof drat where?

Don't Rocs fly, not swim?

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Why not ask Sinbad the sailor?

Whas it it?

Does a Roc taste like chicken?

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' 'minds me of Harlan Ellison's treatment on the 1957 grade B classic, "The Great Claw" aka "The Giant Claw", in which, among others gathered about the carcass laying in the streets of New York, a pair of Rabbis were debating on whether or not it was kosher.

That's the question: is it kosher?

http://thane62.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/the-giant-claw/