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

I regret to admnit unfamiliarity to Woodhouse, as all I know is, that I've heard the name before. But my bet is, that it beats the complex if colourful lives led in a Salman Rushdie story or the no less complex if more fantastic lives of certain J R R Tolkien characters.
But then, perhaps a short story by C S Lewis could set us all up nicely? At least most of them end up pretty neatly for most of the people involved. (Unless you're a witch, naturally!)
You other people out there, whaddaya think?

You're not familiar with Wodehouse (Note spelling)?! Shame! Or rather not, maybe. Lots of peoplae aren't. He's the kind of author you either read all of, or just one.

Kimoto, It wasn't just the witches who came undone in his stories. He didn't like women. When the girls become attracted by make-up and nylons they are totally written off.

Wodehouse is now linked with the Nazis - who can we trust?

I'd quite like to live in a world inhabited by characters by Alan Bennet.

Wodehouse has been linked to nazis since 1941, and this issue emerges every once in a while. Nothing new under the sun...

Does that make it OK?

It has always been ok, because there is no known link between Wodehouse and the nazis other than him being tricked into doing some five radio broadcasts about his imprisonment. That's it. I can understand the british authorities making such a tally-ho about it, but nothing of a worse nature than this have come out of any research. So yeah, I believe old P.G was a good guy. A stupid guy, yes, but good.

I gotta go look up this Wodehouse-chap. Now you guyz have made me interested!
Perhaps at Amazon or at the Gutenberg Project.
But what's so bad about being a (GOOD!!!!) character in a J R R Tolkien story? Most good guys survive. And some of them get to see Galadriel.

Because in a Tolkien book it takes forever until you actually get some work done. Tolkien was what we in Sweden call "ordbajsare", which nicely interpreted means someone how uses a lot of words in describing what could be described in (a lot) fewer words...

Okay, how about being a good guy in a Dostojevski-story then? At least some of those people lead some interesting lives as they go...

That I might like.

Like a familiar of the Karamazov-family? Not themselves, even if the patriarch Karamazov does seem to be a cheerful chap before he is killed. But a spectator of the events? Not a peasant, naturally. Somebody of esteem? Agrafena?
BTW - What's so F****** cool about ICQ anyway?

Woah! Was that a consealed swearword?! Right, can't have any of that here!
ICQ is cool simply by it being yet another thingy that enables us to alienate ourselves from each other. Imagine having this lovely tool to help you in your efforts to avoid personal contact with all your dubious friends. Wonderful. Add the fact that you can make a whole bunch of new, dubious friends. What, Vestie?

You talking to me?
ICQ - well I think its so good because it is so simple. It is normally set up so that whenever you go online it turns itself on.
It tells you who else is online among your ICQ acquaintances and you can drop them a short note to say hello or whatever and it's instant.
They can reply in the wink of an eye in the normal way or you can request a proper chat (including more than just the two of you) which gives you a screen where you can see what they type as they type it.
Is that what you wanted to know? Oh and it's free!

There's "slake", but that's a bit old-fashioned.

We've had it before and I'm still not convinced by "Slake him," where you may have used "Feed him," for food.

It does sound a bit like your suggesting some sort of violence be committed upon his person when you say 'slake him' - either that or its a new swearword.
Hmmm interesting possibilities -

Slake you!
Slake me!
Well, I'll be slaked!


;^)#

And I wouldn't want to inttoroduce a new word for violence into the language. We've got enough as it is!

I think it has more potential as a proto-swearword

;^)#

Slake you! Slake you all! BWAAAHAHAHAAAA!
Something like that? Kind of has a mad-scientist-ring to it, does it not?

I was going to just type "No" but I know that winds you up
Yes there should be a ray or a foaming test tube in there somewhere.