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

Well, I say "competition". All you win is kudos.

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Captions, please?

This is not exactly a caption as much as an observation.

Merkel:dog::George W. Bush:Merkel

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"The Moon is full, you see."

"There, there, Putin, you're a good dog."

I've named him "Fluechtling"

"Again explain to me this 'doggy fashion'".

This just occurred to me.

Does anyone else remember analogy problems in school? Did they do those in the UK?

I don't even know if they still do them in the US?

You would have to fill in the blank in the analogy, for example, A:B::C:___ which reads "A is to B as C is to blank".


Anyone?

Sure I do. Here are some practice questions for those who weren't tortured by the Miller Analogies Test:

http://www.studyguidezone.com/mat_practice1.htm

They must still do them, there's test prep online.

Oh, for a caption?

'See, I'm not afraid of dogs any more, Comrade Putin. Now, would you like to pet my cat? Here, Simba...'

Merkel to Cameron - I thought you meant Barking in London, not that you were Barking!'

Putin, you are looking a little Ruuffff!

MMF

I always take Fritz to G8 meetings - he can spot a lunatic at 50 paces... ah, here comes Cameron.

I got all but one of them right, Dmitri. The one about Woolf and Thackeray seemed to be a schism of modern versus older, thus Homer would be the right answer, as he was in a previous era than Virginia Woolf.

I can see that reasoning, too, Paul.

I like to think that I could have passed the entrance exam for Mensa, but didn't feel like bothering. H2G2 is probably much fun than Mensa.

{dog speaking}

"I'll tell you what bugs me - the KGB".

No caption suggestions, I'm afraid, except "Gottle o Geer"

But I disagree that a circle is to a sphere what a square is to a cube. That is one answer, certainly, but a cube is also a square projected vertically (or whatever the geometrical terms are) and a cylinder fits the bill just as well.

I think I agree - and the term is 'prism'. Such are the drawbacks of over-simplification.

You've hit on one of the problems with the Miller Analogies Test.

Not to be confused with the 'Miller Test', a legal definition of pornography...also called the 'Three Prong Obscenity Test'...

[Since we're on the topic of Miller tests, how about Miller beer?]

Caption: "They've spiked the eggnog in your water dish again"

I was going to continue my argument with the example of the triangle is square:cube = triangle:prism or triangle:tetrahedron ??

Que es mas macho? Lightbulb or Schoolbus?