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

Apparently drinking more aqua pura is good for about anything that ails you. But isn't drinking water when you have a hangover supposed to make you drunk again? Or is that an old wives tale?

Whenever I watch movies and tv programs made in the UK, I have trouble sometimes understanding dialects. In spite of speaking English - well American, at least - it is hard to understand a heavy Cockney accent and nearly impossible to understand a character with a Scottish accent. I do better with Irish, probably because it's more familiar. Imagine what a non-English speaker learning the language has to contend with? It isn't that I have trouble with unfamiliar phrases, I can't understand a lot of the words.

I have trouble with Scottish. Scots English is near incomprehensible to outsiders anyway.

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Old wives should be careful with their tails so nobody
trips over them.

I wish it did.

What should young wives do with their tales Paul H?

Pan!

*tucks the Holy Tail behind her to keep it safe*

did I miss much?

*retuns from the b'log, head still spinning*

Obviously I did. s and curing headaches with strippers apparently..

I have eaten a pastie before.. the uh.. pies, not the uh.. other stuff.. you can also get them at powwows. Native Americans call them meat pies at the powwows.

Nice to see you again Pan .

Awwwww and it's so nice to BE seen!



Today on The Ellen DeGerneres show, actually everyday, the chap from
England who spins records for her show tells a new British word. Today
...*looks at time...*er, yesterday it was: 'Piddle' as in it's
going to piddle down today = sprinkle She said, "Piddle is what
my puppy does on the floor."

Oh yeah. I don't use that one more often, I opt for the coarser version.

Ah, the Scottish accent. When I go up there, which I do on a regular basis, it takes me a good few hours to understand the accent again. It leads to conversations like this in the taxi:

Cab Driver: Hey pal, did ye hear abit tha Celtic match lest nicht?

Me: *smiles back at him thinking 'it's only 10 minutes to the hotel'*

CD: Ach aye, it was roogh. Tois fellers were chibbed in a pub efter tha gam.

Me *grinning 'nine minutes to go'*

CD: Ur ye up in scootlund oan business ay pleasure?

Me: *enlightenment* Business!

CD: Will ye be stayin lang? what's tha weaither loch doon sooth thes time ay year?

Me: *oh sh!t, 8 minutes to go, please do stab me*.

Just to give you a jist of the accent, we have a kids programme(note the extra 'm' and 'e') called Balamory. In the title song there are the lines "Here is Miss Hoolie to tell us a story" and it rhymes.

I'll forgoe the backlog but it looks like pasties has been mentioned

Liam.

That would be Batty's dept.I go for full throttel nudity.

Liam! Thank you for making me laugh!! I can't tell you what that ment to me!

Full-throttle nudity is fine with me.
My favorite bottomless restaurant is Bertucci's.

Two items of useless information about Cornish pasties:

1) They were originally miners' meals, and were made up with savoury filling at one end and jam at the other - a complete pre-packaged meal. (No, I don't know how the miners knew which end to bite into first ).

2) There is a fish-filled version of the pasty, in which the fishes heads are left protruding through the pastry. It's called a "star gazy pie".

The last bite of your Cornish pasty should be thrown down the mine for the piskies.

Liam.

.... which is the effect of the coal dust on the brain.

Now here's a good word for you: manky.

This is used in describing anything that is off or mouldy, diry clothes, carpets, food etc.

Even the weather or body parts, for instance; manky feet, they could be really smelly, covered in verucas, fungal infections or all three.