Talk:Golgafrincham
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Telephone sanitizing is a British euphemism for toilet cleaning.[1]
- Hmm... I must admit that I hadn't heard this. And yes, I'm British, so I suppose this makes me terribly ignorant... Have I been failing to get one of Adams's jokes for all these years? Or... maybe it isn't true...? A Google search turns up no other page that supports this claim, as far as I can see. Okay, I didn't read all the pages, but they all look like lists of cleaning products, or pages that just quote Adams himself. And of course Adams did state that the Golgafrinchans died of something contracted from a dirty telephone, so that suggests that, at least on Golgafrincham, telephone sanitisers did clean telephones... -- Oliver P. 20:07 May 13, 2003 (UTC)
I think it's funnier as a ludicrous job actually cleaning telephones. I've never heard of it being a British euphemism. -- Tarquin 21:58 May 13, 2003 (UTC)
- Okay. I think so too. So I'm leaving the claim at the top of this page until anyone can come up with more convincing evidence that there is some truth behind it. I'll just add a full stop, and put in a link to the reference... -- Oliver P. 22:23 May 13, 2003 (UTC)
