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

It's closer to balloon than sphere, I'd say.

Oh. how delisciously simple and simplistic, beautiful in its simplicity and it s pure mathmatical form... i think I know what the answer is ...

sausage?

Sausage sausage, don't tell Sam Johnston Baldrick

Sausage:meat::balloon:air

bobstafford
- yep, that was what I was thinking about and the voice I 'said' 'sausage' in in that post... I make Blackadder refernces far far too frequently.... in fact, my blackadder refernces are stalking HooToo, like... like two giant stalking things...

It is almost as quotable as Shakespeare

Deflation?

sausage deflation?

Surface?

That's the word I was looking for!

Got there eventually.

So 2legs was right, it was a seven-letter word starting in s and ending in e.

But not sausage.

I was confused because to me a surface is a boundary. It is the outside of a volume. But there doesn't seem to be anything like that in your definition.

Well, you wouldn't have wanted me to set something easy, would you?

Someday I'm going to study topology.

I started a Topology course but had to give up through work commitments. I still have all the books.

All of my topology knowledge is associated with rope and ring type puzzles.

If you can actually understand what a topology is, you're half way there.

Sounds familiar. Learning a string instrument, you're halfway there when you can hold it right.

so nearly a sausage.... well... stricly speaking all sausages have a surface... so... as good as I recon in my messed up pseudologic

Sheridan's comedy "The School For Scandal" is about two brothers, Joseph and Charles Surface. Charles is all surface, a reckless bon viveur who makes no pretences, what you see is what you get... Joseph on the other hand is all surface, hiding his vices behind a veneer of pious respectability.