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

And I presume whoever put that picture here calls their mother long distance via an ovoid object that fell out of a chicken?!

Small wonder it never hatched! :o)

Well I've been sitting on the phone for ages now, and the only thing it does is ring occasionally.

I think you're supposed to spin it once a year. The ringing is probably some system nature cooked up to let you know it's ready to be spun.

Exactly how this works is currently the subject of thorough examination. For example, why is the egg connected to a socket via a long artificial wire? And why isn't the chicken? And what's the function of the BT-poeple that occasionaly show up and fiddle with it?
Any interesting results will be posted later on.

..and this leads us to the question (well, not THE question, but quite close ):
What was first, Phone or Wire?
(actually I prefer "Phone or Communication", but communication isn't hardware, and therefore, can it BE?...)

yes, very deep

Actually, I think that the question is: Which came first the Telephone or the Egg? I'm not sure which, because everyone who knows anything about eggology knows that telephones, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and insurance salesmen (Joke) come from eggs.

what about lawyers?

They came from "goo".

And here I thought they came from . Guess I was wrong.

You can't spin a Smarty on its flat axis - it always stands on end, so it's easy to tell the difference between an egg & a Smarty, really.

Only if your a chicken, i suppose you'd be glad if you only had to lay a smartie. At least until they invent a chicken epidural

belgium?

now i understand, a few years ago my telephone mysteriosly dissapeared and in the same day a strange angula bird appeared and has been haunting me eversinse

belgium made it make sense?

pointless fact.....
you can tell if an egg is hard boiled or raw by spinning it(at any time of year) stopping it with a hand and letting go , all very quickly. if the egg is raw it will spin a bit further, cos of the lyquid inside continues to move under momentum. if the egg does not move it's hard boiled. possibly this could be used in some sort of game, who knows(or cares)

If you stop the spinning action very violently by smashing your hand
on the egg you can tell quite precisely whether it was boiled or not.

There seems to be a newly-evolved form of egg that doesn't rely on a wire... Or only needs it every few days or so.

Is this some sign that it's about to "hatch", because it no longer needs its umbilical, and if so, into what?

I'm worried.

And: what with all those eggs/phones with no wire, what happens to all the wires with no egg?

and what about those smaller eggs that some people carry in their pockets (to keep them warm?) which vibrate, or beep every so often.. This sounds like something about to hatch to me