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

Oh, so you met MY mother?

And he lived to tell the tale? A brave, brave man

Not quite - he lived.
And she tells the tale. Over and over and over again...

not as brave as thick headed, i'm afraid

but yeah, i survived - and lived to deny ev'ry word she spoke

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I think of that one, too, every time I see that little pink handbag icon...

Huh? What happened there?

Dear moderators,

the story King Bomba referred to was that of a transvestite who kept a brick in his/her little pink purse. When (s)he and a group of friends were attacked by a gang of (neo-conservative youths of little intelligence), our friend whacked two of them with said purse, exclaiming "You wicked, wicked (insert the word here that you thought might be offensive)!". The rest fled in panic.

He was just alluding to this...

I doubt it's the word "Nazi" that caused anyone to take offence, but the horrible German language

Right. Grammar Police struck because it should have been "boeser"!

Probably because I didn't give an English translation.

sticks and stones
may break my bones
but
a brick may break my...

oh, will you look at that, it's raining again

Makes you wonder who yikesed it, and why.

Wow, the Phantom Yikeser is lurking here now? What an honour!

Well...it was probably taken away because it was a sentence in Non-English without an English translation. Daft as it is, that's the policy, so they were just doing their job.

As for *why* that's the policy and whether it makes sense, that's another argument altogether - but back to the topic of the thread, I love the way the branches and roots of the tree in Clocktrotter don't respect the panel boundaries.

aye, they be anarchistic roots and branches

Best I don't ask for any translations of what's written everytime I lift the bonnet of my car
However I do have a translation of one part: "Achtung! (Audi seem obsessed with that word) Nicht finger stickin dumbkopfen, finger stickin verboten!" translates, roughly I'm told, as "I wouldn't go poking your fingers in there old chap, it's frightfully beastly"
I'm not sure which is worse, my appalling humour or mytotal lack of knowledge of high German

At least one of them is evident...

Touche, well played

"Achtung! (Audi seem obsessed with that word)"

That's because the engineers listen to U2 too much.