Posted: 15^thMay 2003

Not a happy week

It was with sadness I read an email which dropped into my folder on Saturday morning from a new friend of The Post. It came from Useless Hound and told of the loss of 'My best friend/husband/soulmate'. Those few simple words summed up her grief more poignantly than a whole epistle. Although new to computers, the internet and h2g2, she has delighted us with stories of dieting and running a flower shop in her column Doghouse Tails and driven us to distraction when her connection played up. If you would like to offer her support at this time, then there is a forum here and a condolance page and the poem this week by Hypatia was written especially for boots.

What is it with this propensity to damage things and create chaos? In the UK there is the ever-present underlying current of football violence. In the Netherlands there is the fascination with bikes. Having had one stolen last year, imagine my dismay when I rolled out of my Thursday night bar and DJ shift to find my bike lying on the ground. The bike next to mine was also lying on the ground. Odd, I thought - I know that I left it locked and secure in the stall. I picked it up only to find that the front wheel had been buckled to almost 90°. The bike next to mine had suffered the same fate. I managed to straighten the wheel as best as I could so that I could wheel it home. This took some time as it certainly wouldn't go in a straight line! There was no way that this had happened purely by falling over. Someone had deliberately knocked it over and jumped on it - probably because it was locked and they couldn't ride it away. So, it's off to the bike repair shop for me.

Now on to happier thoughts. Your Post this week features a bagful of goodies. Amy the Ant returns with her Antics in the cartoon section and members of the CA Team feature in Underneath the Surface. MaW returns with the sequel to 'Future Prefect' which is called 'Only Slightly' - maybe we get a few answers to those questions which have been nagging us since 'FP' ended. Dr Deckchair regales us with, amongst other things, a home-made space hopper and... there are just too many great reads to mention - you'll just have to see for yourself.

ShazzPRME

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  CAC - 15.05.03
  


All the usual and some unusual

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  h2g2 Life
  


How Do They Do That?

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  Running with Scissors
  


'Round and 'Round We Go

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  24 Lies A Second
  


Awix is living in fictitious times

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  The h2g2 Poem
  


'Where is He?' by Hypatia

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  The Edge
  


Whisky and testicle clamps

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  Only Slightly
  


The ground-breaking sequel to Future Prefect

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  Dr. Funderlik's Regular Grunt
  


The Book of Names

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  The Hootoo Home of Today
  


A striking good read

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  Eustace
  


Scandalous

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  Through the Doughnut Hole
  


No coughing in this show!!

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  45 Words
  


Flavius Valentinianus - Emperor Valeninianus II

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  Swiv's Idea of University
  


Fanfares and revision

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  In Other Words
  


To eat or not to eat, that is the question...

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  A Baby Doctor Writes...
  


Clinical exams

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  Directly From the Mother Ship
  


Things is gettin' Sirius

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  Philosophical Phrases 13
  


More from the Philosophers Guild

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  Underneath the Surface
  


The Adventures of Jimmy - Part Two

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  h2g2 Storytime II: Part XXI
  


The heaven and earth show

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  Escape Pod Dreams
  


Waving a stick of pungent incense in the face of a sterile future!

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  Towel Day 2: The Log
  


DD's account of the recent Scottish Meet

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  Cartoon Corner
  


Pungent by tonsil revenge

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  The Bookworm Club Review
  


'Angela's Ashes' and 'Tis, Frank McCourt'

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  Vogon Poetry Corner
  


Marzipan

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  Antics
  


Another Cartoon by Amy the Ant

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  Next to the Custard
  


Reaper's Path

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  The Post Word Play
  


We have a winner...

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  So Long and Thanks For Laughing
  


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