The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Difference between revisions

* [[Cross -Cultural KerfuffleKerfluffle]]: A minor, comical example. During the section explaining how scientists view of the Babel Fish has allowed for the final proof of the non-existence of God, it is said how one can then go on to prove black is white and promptly get run over at the next zebra crossing. In Britain and many other countries, black-and-white stripped "Zebra Crossings" are the equivalent of the (often yellow or parallel lined) American "Crosswalk". Americans, when reading the joke, usually imagine the term as an equivalent to a "Deer Crossing" (that is to say, a place where ''zebras'' cross) which makes for an equally humorous, though widely different joke.