Brisbane
A perfectly reasonable exlpanation.
(Such as the one offered by a person with gurgling cough which has nothing to do with the fact that they smoke fifty cigarettes a day.

Chicago
The foul-smelling wind which precedes an underground railway train.

Glasgow
The feeling of infinite sadness engendered when walking through a place filled with happy people fifteen years younger than yourself.

Halifax
The green synthetic astroturf on which greengrocers display their vegetables.

Hastings
Things said on the spur of the moment to explain to someone who comes into a room unexpectedly precisely waht it is you are doing.


By Douglas Adams & John Lloyd, 1983

(More to come)