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

*opens the door to the courtroom*


Calling all Sock Puppets to attend the Court... M'lud Fizzymouse presiding!

me goes to bed and dreams how to make a sock puppet convincing(I don't hold much success)

night ladiessweet dreams to you both

Good night Prof, sleep tight.



Any sign of the puppets.

G'night Prof



Sorry, M'lud. I've tried pulling strings, but no-one is coming forward


Curiouser, and Curiouser, even

How very strange ... perhaps we should continue in their absence ..... we'll give them another minute or two.

Give them?

Can't we just take it away from them?


*pen hovers to strike Sock Puppets from the diary*

Let's just find them guilty as charged and throw them in the bottom of the toy box and put it in the attic.

Let that be recorded as the verdict and sentence of this court.

Duly recorded, M'lud!


*padlocks all Sock Puppets in the toybox*


Bailiff??

Where is that man when we need him?

In bed ... I think.



Take it yourself, you'll manage.

I will wait for the super to arrive, M'lud


*strokes her Matt, gently*

Well so long as you don't mind guarding the toy box until the turns up I don't have a problem with that.


Mind you, should there be any sock puppets running about on the morrow you are going to be held personally responsible.

Does Toybox need guarding too?


Aww.... Now that isn't fair, M'lud.... Them Sock Puppets keep on multiplying. I blame the knitters!

Shall we take ReefGirl as our next case, M'lud?


*looks at the diary*

I was going to ask what she's done but she's a knitter isn't she?


If she did the knitting she'll have to do the time.



Oh well .... no point in fussing over it put it in the diary and make sure it's the diary this time and not the dairy you'll scare the cows.

*shoves pat out of the way*


Yes, M'lud


That will be Saturday 8th May at approximately 10.30pm, M'lud



Ooookay!... Who's going to notify RG about it?


*dives under her Matt*

As clerk of the court I think you'll find that in your list of duties.


Terrible lot of shirkers around here tonight.

I'll send it via registered mail, ma'am... and let the postman face her

Good choice .... but make sure you remember to post it - wouldn't want the day to come and go only to find the summons in your shopping bag now would we?

Ummmm.... Yes, M'lud

Extrordinary sitting of the Kangaroo Court tonight in the absence of court clerk and anyone else .... on trial - and it's a quickie - is Heathrow Airport.

It has come to the attention of the court that the airport closes at a stupidly early time for a Saturday (or any other) night - this results in poor passengers - already put-upon by inflated prices and ludicrous exhange rates - being abandoned in a ghost town and left to their own devices.

This does not give a very good impression of our country and leaves my friend stuck in the the no-mans-land between the front door and the departures lounge.

Now let's be having any submission before I find the Airport guilty as charged.

I plead for a life sentence. Or better: longer opening times.