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

That's the one thing Ireland has got going for it. We don't have a two party system anymore.

Come on the Green Party!!!!

Oh Here is some hilarious Irish political scandal. A few years ago the environmental spokesman for the Green party was found to own shares in an Oil company! How delightfully funny.

Talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk, eh? We've got a lot like that.

Although mostly ours are busy trying to convince people that their idiot schemes are somehow virtuous. Like, it's a good thing to send all your jobs to India. And, you don't really want affordable health care, it's bad for the country. Stuff like that.

Oh, and, everybody needs to buy a huge SUV, even though petrol is three times what it was a few years ago, and you can't afford to get to work.

I drive the world's smallest car, no lie, and it gets 40 miles to the gallon, and I'm still trying to find a job close to home, so I won't need to buy gas all the time.

Hydro Carbon slush my man, the way of the future.

Which scifi writer was it came up with the idea that people would drive around in cars with chicken coops on top - because they ran off bird droppings?

I dont know, but I really wouldn't like to smell it's exhaust fumes.

*band in the back ground plays a drum roll and a symbal splash*

Allright you guys back there clear off... yah I do mean you.... yah... go on now....

*band leaves*

Right.... oh yah, personally I want to drive a car that runs on marjuana oil, I saw it on a programme on enviormently friendly fuels. That would be one ... crazy ... exhaust.

Really? That's unbelievable. It's proof of the existence of God, that is - and it's proof he has a sense of humour!

You could make the whole town high, and save the environment at the same time.

This could end war, and poverty, and disease, and world hunger...well, maybe not world hunger, but...

*mops overheated brow*

You just made my day.

Did a bit of checking up one it and sadly it is Hash... but the non-narcotic type. Shucks!!

*Shakes his fist at Gods general direction*

Aww...just when it was all beginning to make sense.

The search for meaning continues...42...'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?'...nah...

Did you know that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington grew hemp - which it is now illegal to grow in the US, even though there are a million uses for it, including to make cloth out of?

And there is some suspicion they might - gasp - have *smoked* it?

http://pdxnorml.org/7_presidents.html

But wouldn't Georgie Porgie's teeth have gone on fire?!?!?

Oh, the wooden ones?

Actually, his teeth were made of hippopotamus ivory. Must've sounded like a billiards game when the old buzzard ate.

Hate to be a burst bubbler, but what's wrong with owning shares in an oil company?

We still need oil.

Now a tobacco company . . . I sold all those a long time back.

A tidbit -

Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.

We could grow the gas. And the cars.

http://www.rense.com/general67/FORD.HTM

well I never.

See, you don't have to be a conspiracy nut to find things like this annoying.

Btw, it has been experimentally determined that the stuff will grow in Tennessee if you just throw it in a ditch. My uncle did that once when somebody gave him pot seeds. He didn't want the stuff, so he threw it in the ditch. Then my grandmother said to me, listen, you're a college student, go tell me if that's what I think it is, and I'll pull it up before the Revenooers show up.

According to one source I found, in the 18th Century it was illegal in Virginia *not* to plant hemp. So there.