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

Yes well common sence and Hello have never really seen eye to eye have they?

Maybe that's because everyone is too distracted by the sight of men in skirts to notice

I personally would avoid the blokes in skirts, hairy legs have never done it for me.

You'd be alright they're long skirts...kinda like sarongs I think

You may want to try getting in or out of my car in a skirt before concluding that it's really such a good idea - I think one of Lotus's design goals over the years has been to make this progressively harder to do elegantly.

Actually an overcoat seems to work quite well as a way of avoiding ripping one's trousers, and also overcomes the problem that Lotus never really quite got the hang of designing heaters that are of any practical use when the roof's down. (I love being out in it on those gorgeous but freezing autumn and winter days where there's not a cloud in the sky, and don't let anything so trivial as hypothermia put me off!)

Ummm... maybe they thought that no-one would be foolish enough to attempt to drive a convertable car in it's converted state through snow storms and with the heaters turned on

But I know what you mean as the Porsche boxster seems to have that problem too...although I can't see myself in an overcoat

I don't drive it in snowstorms... Elises basically have two modes of travel on snow: (1) Straight on (regardless of which direction you point the wheel in) and (2) Spinning. (You can fit winter tyres which makes it a whole lot better, but they're different sizes, so you need a whole extra set of wheels. I take this one step further, and keep the extra set of wheels bolted to an extra car...)

But even at this time of year the evenings are now too cold to drive it on a motorway with the top down without wrapping up warm first. (Compare this to my friend's MGF, which has a heater so effective that you can make the car uncomfortably hot with the roof down on a motorway in the middle of winter! Still there has to be some compensation for being such a poor attempt at a sports car. ) I'm surprised Porsche didn't manage to do a better job on the Boxster - that's definitely a 'lipstick and nail gloss' kind of a car.

I don't even have a car.

Neither do I but it does mean that we can wear skirts without getting them caught on the doors
Maybe you should get a chair with wheels too...then we could launch Formula Chair and race

I have a chair with wheels.

Well there we go we can race then...if you write to the FIA and get Mosely to approve it then I'll write to Jenson Button and get him to race on my team, you can have Jacques and then we'll be all set to make our fortune
And just think if it takes off (bad choice of words there considering my chair driving skill) we can fit little engines to them...aaaw it'll be so much fun

I think you'll find the wheels on those chairs will need to be grooved before the FIA will consider letting you race them.

There is a big grove down the middle of mine.

*I had to turn the chair over to them though.*

I'm sure there should have been a "find" in there somewhere.

Ah but next year you'll need 8. And they're taking steps to reduce downforce, so actual sitting on the chair will be outlawed too.

I have grooves from running over stuff...
And I can't believe you had to send your chair in for technical checks before we've even introduced any technical regulations
*thinks carefull then starts giggling*
I wonder what response we'd get if we wrote to the FIA and suggested office chair races to them

This Floor Is Bumpy.
I Keep Hitting My Head.

Try using a chair, it has wheels.

With grooves...and if you hit the bumps at the right angle then you can almost take off

*hears words echo around her head*
So this gliding, is it like hang gliding or like the Anne Robinson hovering on "The Weakest Link"?
*decides to continue this train of thought*
Have either of you seen "The Weakest Link"? It's so good, 10 past 5 on BBC2 every week day but be warned you may become hooked on it as I have so far publicised this programme to about 15 people and every single one of them has turned into a serious fan and have even started leaving work early in order to watch it...Oh and before watching you should also be aware that there were complaints about it in the Radio Times as Anne Robinson keeps making the contestants cry

Sorry, I don't get home till after 6.