[on being funny] ... the only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be shakespeare. ... and it's no good saying it's something to do with the fact that shakespeare was writing in the sixteenth century. what difference does that make? chaucer had no difficulty being funny as hell way back in the fourteenth century when the spelling was even worse.

[on oz] every country is like a particular type of person. america is like a belligerent adolescent boy, canada is like an intelligent thirty-five-year-old woman. australia is like jack nicholson. it comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. in fact it's not so much a country as such, more a sort of thin crust of semi-demented civilisation caked around the edge of a vast, raw wilderness, full of heat and dust and hopping things.

deutscher titel: Lachs im Zweifel. Zum letzten Mal per Anhalter durch die Galaxis

frag mich nur wie manches uebersetzbar sein soll - der deutsche hitchhiker war mir schon ein greuel.

[sprachspiele fuer kinder] you will need to know the difference between friday and a fried egg. ... the fried egg isn't properly a fried egg till it's been put in a frying pan and fried. this is something you wouldn't do to a friday, of course, though you might do it on a friday. you can also fry eggs on a thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. ...

here are two more things you should know the difference between: road and woad. one is a thing that you drive along in a car, or on a bicycle, and the other is a kind of blue body paint that british people used to wear thousands of years ago instead of clothes. usually it's quite easy to tell these two apart, but if you find it at all difficult to say your r's properly, it can lead to terrible confusion...

koennte Comical Ali erfunden haben. ;-)