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

they also can be used a simple toys, and thrown at other people.

That should be illegal.

it is so much fun.. that it should be...

throwing beermats is fun?! Have I missed something?

i'm not sure.. if they are the little things i am thinking of, that are small circular things that don't exist over here... made out of cardboard- they are like the paper equivalent of a frisbee....

you don't have beermats in america? Oooh... Well there's not much point in having them really other than to advertise as no one but mothers use them.

yeah.. they will put down paper napkins underneath the glass... but there is nothing like a beer mat (or even the same idea of drinking, at least in comparision to germany) except coasters that grandparents seem to have at their houses.

People collect posh coasters over here. Some of them have a small hollow in the centre where the glass/cup/mug/beaker is meant to fit but it's stupid really as they're all different sizes and the dip is way too small. They make nice ornaments, though - especially the floral ones!!!!!!

what is the purpose of coasters? and doesn't having a hole in the center of the coaster defeat any sort of purpose it might have had?

Yeah, but try telling that to the manufacturers!

there has to be some purpose- maybe everyone forgot what it was.

they're too wrapped up in the designs. but those aren't beer mats. Beer mats have another urpose - testing out new pens. Or to pass on secret information to others in the pub about others in the pub. Or to play writing games on, like noughts and crosses, or for drawing naughty pictures on for the next people to visit the pub.

"noughts and crosses"???

so they have the artistic purpose- of doodling on them... or getting the numbers of cuties.....

Noughts and crosses - the way of passing time with a grid rather like this:# where each player marks a "O" or a "X" and aims to get three in a row first. I believe you call it "tic tac toe" ?

yeah- we call it tic tac toe but i don't know why.

do you have a game that people sit in a circle someone is 'it' and the person who is it goes around taping heads.... (duck, duck, goose)

yes. fun, isn't it?!

yes- it is.... and it isn't called duck, duck, grey duck- correct?

I dunno. We called it "dub dub in" or summat.

different parts of the us call it a different thing (duck duck goose vs duck duck grey duck) and both sides think they play it the right way.. (duck duck goose is sooo much better)
i had a point- but i lost it...
hrm

is duck duck goose is better, the more correct name of the game?

I don't know.


Just a thought...
If you **did** force a beer mat down someone's throat, what would become of them? Would they have to quit their job for lack of a voice and be forced to join the Royal Mail? Would they become small, shrivelled up, prune-like vegetables? Would they be made to sit around all day watching American sitcoms with bad jokes lacking punchlines (those are what most of them are over here, no offence America)? Or would they just run into the toilets and wait until the beer mat emerged from one end?
Hmmmmmmmmm....



Just a thought...