Random Question Thread

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

On top of your head....

IanS

[Leman]

Anyone spot that I'm not really a Hitchhiker afficcianado. (probably spelt that bugger wrong as well.

[FierceKitty]

Yep.

[Ithoriel]

Anyone spot that I'm not really a Hitchhiker afficcianado. (probably spelt that bugger wrong as well.

Surely you mean H2G2

[d_Guy]

Has d_Guy heard of Arthur Dent?

I think not, nor Ford Prefect.

IanS

No - neither one - and I can't find my towel either.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello all

I'm glad I've got your attention because I've got some Vogon poetry that I think should be recited at this point.....



Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
    Thy micturations are to me,
    As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
    On a lurgid bee,
    That mordiously hath blurted out,
    Its earted jurtles,
    Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
    Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
    Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
    And living glupules frart and slipulate,
    Like jowling meated liverslime,
    Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes,
    And hooptiously drangle me,
    With crinkly bindlewurdles,
    Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
    See if I don't.

Next we have something from Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex...........

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[fsn]

"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."

[fsn]

I've just been looking up Miss Shilling's Orifice.

Very interesting.

[d_Guy]

I've just been looking up Miss Shilling's Orifice.

Very interesting.

You were using the Whitepages, correct?

[d_Guy]

A small factoid* - Lewis Carol practiced the Vogon style and is thought by many to be its ultimate practitioner. Or was it James Joyce? Now I'm confused.

* A very small fact which has a large probability of not being

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Reversion to normal status then ? 

IanS 

[FierceKitty]

The Vogon's a better poet than Chaucer, anyway.

[fsn]

You were using the Whitepages, correct?

No. I was listening to a radio program about women who ought to be famous, and remembered the story of the female engineer who added a thingy into the Merlin engine so that Spitfires and Hurricanes didn't conk out when diving.  I was just refreshing my memory on the story.

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/biographies/shilling.htm

So many fighter pilots had a good experience going down because of Miss Shilling's orifice.   (Should that go in the rude punch lines thread?)

[Leman]

Definitely.

[Westmarcher]

 

Good story, Nobby.

And I bet she was paid washers.