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

That's on the wrong thread, isn't it?
Or am I the one that's being a twit?
But what you need, from what I see,
Is an on-line rhyming dikshunree.

Great poem - would that be considered as bad poetry?

So only do a half verse, or three-quarters of a verse. Very bad poems can be made even worse by leaving off half of the last line, or even the

it could ve verseit could be in brail

Throw in a typo, and you could be in Brazil.

I'd like an hand it that

Talking of Brazil - is it true that the country was named after the nut - not the other way round? Can you think of another country named after a 'nut'?

Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe - Rhodes was quite mad, as indeed was Zimbab.

And (Marilyn) Monrovia is the capital of Liberia.


Jab

Saudi

Maybe there are new countries waiting to be born, but they don;'t have names yet. Hazelia, Filbertistan, Walnutovakia, Pecanistan. All those are perfectly good names waiting to be claimed.

And, of course, Almondia.

Can you think of another country named after a 'nut'?

could change Britain to "Profanimalannia"
better after a nut, than gone to the dogs

Was Newfoundland named after the dog?

Maybe Chile was named after a pepper?

I have long held the theory that at the root of ALL the problems in the world are the main publishers of Atlases!

They are the only group of people who have a real interest in countries continuously changing their borders and names!!

Think about it!!

This small group of people - whom everyone assumes, are just working towards education and knwoledge - would go out of business if there wasn't some way that they could create a new 'must have' product!

And who invented the original Atlas? Ayn Rand, of course! Think about it.....

Jab

Actually, she didn't invent Atlas at all, but she encouraged and abetted Alan Greenspan .

I thought it was the Greek gods who invented atlas
http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/atlas.html

Atlas was/is a good guy, and his job keeps getting harder. The heavens get heavier and heavier as scientists discover new galaxies.