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

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It's owl right, Pierce. You need fear no longer....

"Has anyone seen our ship, the HMS Peculiar?"


Nope, I'm not looking for Noel Coward. I was just wondering where our favourite is. I've not seen her around for almost two months.

Anyone heard from Batty lately?

"Has anyone seen our ship, the HMS Peculiar?"
It sailed away across the bay,
And we haven't 'ad a smell of it since New Year's Day.
heave ho, me hearties,
yada yada yada,
We pooled our money, spent the lot,
The world forgetting, by the world forgot
yada, yada, by the you know what,
Has anybody seen our ship?

yadda-yadda
Hauling on the bowline we sang that melody,
as all tough sailors do when they're far away at sea.

Seems like a nautical theme has crept in.

"What do we do with a drunken sailor" is another golden oldie. Strangey enough, that aprticular line is part of the preamble to the song we just heard.

'What do you do with a drunken sailor?"
So the saying goes.
We aren't too bright, and we're none too tight.
Great God, you don't suppose?
We've lost our way, and we've lost our pay,
And to make the thing complete,
We've went and gone and lost the bloomin' fleet.

Has anybody seen our ship.......

what shall we do with a drunken sailor
leave him be until he's sober

i miss too

Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Side Are You On?"

Yup good ole Bob has something for every occasion.
It would be nice if made an appearance again.

maybe we can lure her with and ?

Maybe with some veuve chococliquot?

Maybe she's searching high and low for Henny Penny's eggs?

I hope that thyroid trouble didn't come back.
She could lie sick somewhere, and we would never know .

maybe she's on a date with one of the gargoyles or flonkeys?

I opened up our local weekly paper and there was a two page advert
announcing the grand opening of Batty's Nurseries.
Mystery solved. is alive and well in north Wales.

A batty nursemaid must be a general.
The future empire lies within her hand.

i used to have a batty

luckily she was also very naughty

Why am I not surprised by that?

Ah that must be Betty who used to feature in one of the threads.
I wonder what became of her?

She decided to franchise her operations.
There's now a Betty on every sixth block in the Western Hemisphere.

i'm sure i prefer batty

I do too, but there's only one of her, and I'm afraid for her is we try to stretch her too far.

you mean from one side of the pond to the other? yeah, could be

but there's enough of her to go around

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