h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What a shame! We have a bird called a cuckoo, it just doesn't do that 'cuckoo' sound. We associate that call with cuckoo clocks.

My grandmother had a cuckoo clock. My dad bought it for her in 1945 when he was in Germany with the 95th Infantry.

My grandmother's cuckoo clock wouldn't cuckoo. We kids asked why.

'It drove me crazy!' she said. 'So I throttled it.'

"we" are "killing off" many species of all lifeforms

and as always - humans are slow to learn

as the saying goes - shutting the stables doors AFTER the horse has bolted

Tell me about it. They've brought back the buffalo, but the passenger pigeon is gone.

Anyway, going now. Have a good night!

All I can say is :- the wrong people are "running" the planet

Some of us have the answers! But not the power to instigate them

I "see" putty has cemented his dictatorship for another term

I bet! That those who hate him can get a world record for the most people to hate one person

This is possible.

and Godzilla and Frankenstein, putty and fartBut ? which is which

I dread "history lessons" for kids in the future

You and me both. For a long time, I WROTE history lessons for kids. Starting around 2005.

We already had problems with Bill Clinton.

Oh, and one time, my boss said to write something about what Harry Truman said about Richard Nixon - but 'keep it clean'. Now, President Truman did NOT like Nixon. Also, he cussed a LOT.

I said, 'That's going to take a lot of editing...'

I wonder where the saying "famous last words" came into assistance ?
Because there seems to be more now than in the past!!!

plus! The ones now, are more "gaffs" than famous

Oh bugger!

I'm getting the "usual" -
Gateway time-out Error code 504

So going to hit the pillow

Catch you later ok

sleep and dream well both and hope the weather is kind over there

People used to think someone's last words should be profound, or poetic, or maybe prophetic...they'd even collect them.

They'd visit famous people when they were dying, just in case they said something 'oracular'.

I think there's less of that these days, and with good reason. It's not a good age for admiring people.

Sleep well!