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

All of my family have artistic tendencies except me as I'm the only one who knows how to open the dishwasher door!

I'm not sure that the dishwasher is a legitamate area to construct a sculpture...unless, that is, the racks have been removed....

I'm very artistic and inventive at squeezing as much as possible into my dishwasher - does that count?

I have to admit that I don't have very much experience at filling a dishwasher. The only dishwasher I have ever had access to was inoperable. It ultimately ended up being a recepticle for empty beer cans and other similar things.

I have also found that when enough is loaded into the appliance the weight seems to cause the machine to fall out of it's space under the counter. A friend once suffered a minor wound due to this.

Obviously you are trying to break new ground in the field. A sign of a true artist (perhaps).

Good luck and beware angry appliances.

Thanks. Maybe I'll win one of those prizes and get an Arts Council award next year.... beats dismembered animals in formaldehyde!

I would have to consider dishwasher sculpting a different field - while you still have to maximize available space, you don't have to worry as much about the balancing part.

Don't count on winning any awards... the good artist never seems to get their due. I (unfortunately) speak from experience.

Oh, I don't know about the balancing thing - I mean one has to be very careful once everything in crammed in to remember to open the door carefully when the machine has got everything nice and clean! A bit like packing suitcases to go on holiday really....

So, are you one of those people who goes on holiday with "everything but the kitchen sink"?

What do you mean "but the kitchen sink"? Don't you take yours then?

yes, the kitchen sink could prove to be the handiest item on holiday. especially in Mexico.@

Oh, goodie! I'll remember that the next time I go off globe-trotting! My hubby always says I can never travel light so now I'll have the perfect excuse and blame you! (Ta!) ;-

When in Mexico, DON'T DRINK THE WATER.

Unless you want some exotic illness, that is. In that case, drink as much water as you like.

yes, iknow what you speak of. i drank the water in Acapulco, and suffered its effects for three weeks. oh, but what a great time i had while there (new years, 1989). for two glorious weeks, i lived like a mexican.@

Acapulco or anywhere else on this globe, take cranberry juice with you and drink it; it will help mask the tummy ache until you can find your doctor. but don't dare sculpt any dishes there. your chef d'oeuvre will not only move, after a couple of nights,it might move on you.

I thought cranberry juice was for PMT... I do some really good dish sculptures when I'm afflicted with that - they're all over the floor!

I was once told that if you drink Peruvian dishwater you might develop X-Ray vision. We made an attempt with Massachusetts water chased with a bottle of Bushmills but all we developed was a rash.

And double vision too???

Not only double vision but it inevitably progressed to swirling vision.

You can drink almost any water if you put enough whisky in it (but don't put water in the good whisky, please - see various postings on on whisky threads) I knew an Englishman in Ethiopia who subsisted on avocadoes and Irish whiskey and I got through a jungle trek in Cameroon with only one bottle of water between three of us "You were supposed to bring it.""No, you were" ad inf
My own essentials are Solarcaine (for burns and bites),a long book for passport queues and a bottle of the hard stuff for anything else and yours?