On 19/04/2007, at 6:14 AM, David Guest wrote:
Jel Coward wrote:
john hilton wrote:
"looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow"
Ford Prefect, HHGTTG
jh
If you are referring to the _old_ Ford Prefect (not sure there is
newer one).
or H2G2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
Thanks David. We all have heard about the 200 words that the eskimos
use for snow, but no one has bothered to enumerate them. I followed
your link..and a few clicks later i found this gem by Douglas Adams
in one of his books....
He had read somewhere that the Eskimos had over two hundred words for
snow, without which their conversation would probably have got very
monotonous. So they would distinguish between thin snow and thick
snow, light snow and heavy snow, sludgy snow, brittle snow, snow that
came in flurries, snow that came in drifts, snow that came in on the
bottom of your neighbour's boots all over your nice clean igloo
floor, the snows of winter, the snows of spring, the snows you
remember from your childhood that were so much better than any of
your modern snow, fine snow, feathery snow, hill snow, valley snow,
snow that falls in the morning, snow that falls at night, snow that
falls all of a sudden just when you were going out fishing, and snow
that despite all your efforts to train them, the huskies have pissed on.
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