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

A fifth is a quart bottle, usually of wine or stronger stuff .

Well, well, well I've never heard that before! Does it apply in UK or somewhere else in the great universe?

friend of mine had a grandfather who fell off a churchtower...


...on his bike!

true story!

(the top of the tower had been lifted down and lay on the ground for repairs when granddad cycled home from a night of playing cards which had made him - er - sleepy. he didn't notice the tower, drove right into it and fell between the tower and the church wall where he got stuck and had to cry for help for hours before they found him. nothing bad had happened to him, but his daughter (friends mother) hated this story anyway )

They always say in England that the reason there are so many twisty, bendy roads - especially in the countryside - is that the tracks were worn down by those who frequented the taverns & had to make their way home - er, as you say Pierce, - sleepy!

"As the crow flies" does not apply to drunken crows, either

makes me wonder why it's called a crow bar

"There is a popular story that the term crowbar derives from Jim Crow and they were used by blacks to perform menial tasks, and the word thus has racist origins. This is a false etymology; the term crowbar traces to at least 1400; and is not in any sense racist. As they resembled the feet or beaks of a crow, they were first called crow bars; later the two joined into one word.[1] They also were called crows; William Shakespeare used the term crow in many places[2], including his written-in-the-1590s play Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, scene ii:
Get me an iron crow and bring it straight.
Unto my cell. ... "
Thanks to Wikipedia

Well, you did 'wonder' & I can't have you doing that for too long

whatever - as long as there's a bar

What kind of music would they play in a crow bar?

"When I see an elephant fly"?

Men in black?

Well, there's also Peter Pan's song, "I gotta crow."

whereupon captain hook ened out

Captain Hook misunderstood. He thought Peter Pan had captured the crow's nest of the pirate ship.

No, no, it wasn't that Cap'n Hook misunderstood, but he was distracted by Wendy

wendy could have distracted anyone. so could tinkerbell, even if she was a little too petite

problem is wendy was too young and tinkerbell too small

True

There is great wisdom in truth

whose nose is not getting longer

Is there also great truth in wisdom?