> > Please post lots of important relevant information about yourself so we can form totally incorrect mental images of you. [...] your favourite quote from the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
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> Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know!
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> "Never throw the letter Q into a privet bush."
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> Trav"figures that it would be the most useless quote of the whole trilogy"holt

Heh. There seems to be SOMETHING about privet bushes, and hedges, which amuses the British funnybone to no end. No idea what it is. All I know is that my very proper British neighbour speaks disparagingly of the privet hedge bordering another neighbour's property. I recall that, for presumably the same reasons, J.K. Rowling underscored the banality of the Dursley's muggle lifestyle by having them live on "Number four Privet Drive." And now here's Douglas Adams slamming on privets, too. Perhaps Tubba or Beasty can fill me in on the joke.

Wolf "Oo! You shall...Bring me a PRIVETRY" spirit