Quote:robkelk wrote:A propos of nothing relevant to this conversation, I always thought that the fact that every race in Babylon 5 had a dish exactly like Swedish meatballs (which of course was called something different everywhere it was found) was a shout-out of sorts to that...
I'll just say that I'm reminded of that throwaway gag in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (during the B-ark storyline, IIRC) about how every sentient race in the galaxy has a drink called "ginandtonic" but no two of those drinks are the same...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.