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

Look why don't we all just get together and imagine a rat-ant proof feild around this forest? Our combined imaginations should be enough to eradicate any rat-ants from the area and make this a safe, wonderful, magical forrest. Now, does anyone know what tea leaves look like? I'm trying to see if any grow here.

~Irving

I believe most of them are green (when they're growing, that is ), but this being a magical forest and all... (majik, majik everywhere)....

In one of my exploratory rambles in my wolf form, I saw some tea bushes growing on the hillside to the west of the pond. If you take that game trail over there and veer to the left at the first fork and to the right at the second fork, then follow the path around the pond and over the hill, you can't miss them. I think they probably are Magic tea bushes, since they are growing in amongst some teapot gourd vines and kettle plants.

::Straps on pack and readies for adventure::

I shall return! I will not be back until I have discovered the best tea leaves in all of h2g2!

::mumbles:: now, let's see, game trail, left at first fork, right at second fork... or was it right at first fork, left at second fork... um, path around the hill and over the pond...

::staggers off into the distance: http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?thread=39490&forum=26140 ::

For those of you who want to know - the Post article I'd written was accepted and is in the post now anyway.

Thanks for reminding me to look at the post

~Irving

You're welcome

I just updated my Real Audio Player and I'm listening to a station called "Virgin Radio-UK". I never realized that disc jockeys in Englad were just as obnoxious as the ones in the US -- only with British accents.

~Irving

too true
They're all the same, the world over!

DJs are like Bus Drivers - universally EVIL

The commercials are cracking me up. The strange thing is, though, I hear these british accents that the djs have, and then Bob Marley comes on... it's a little strange, from an American perspective. I suppose it shows just how ethnocentric Americans really are -- this seems so foriegn to me, though it's really not that different when you get down to it. Maybe it's the fact I've never been further than 50 miles over either border...

~Irving

I listened to some random Chicago talk station on the net last term... I didn't notice the accent particularly, but the style was slightly different. The thing that seems funny to me is you describing the accent as 'british' where I'd always differentiate 'english' 'welsh' 'scottish' 'nothern irish' and 'southern irish'. I can hear the difference between some American accents though. I suppose I get exposed to more American pop-culture than you do to British.

Well, I couldn't tell you Welsh from English, but I could differentiate between Scottish and Irish, but not North Irish and Southern Irish. Actually, I have trouble between White South African and Austrailian. I could tell Liverpool from London most of the time, though, as I've watched enough Beatles movies for that, at the very least.

Its funny, I can't see how you could fail to hear the difference between Welsh and English... I bet you could, really, you just don't know it.
I have difficulty with White South African and Austrailian too, sometimes. I just don't hear American accents though, unless they're immediately preceded/followed by another one... I just don't notice anymore. Last term, people accused *me* of having an American accent.... surprising me greatly, considering I've spent a total of 12 days in the USA.
I'm very glad to hear that you can tell Liverpudlean when it heads your way. Coming from Manchester, so automatically pretending to hate Liverpool, I have to say that.

And of course there's the difference in accents between North and South - especially Yorkshire. As I've said elsewhere, the Yorkshire accent is a foreign language.

Well, sure, I could tell if I were talking to to people with different accents that they had different accents, but I couldn't neccisarily tell you that he had this accent because he was from Wales, or rather because he was from Yorkshire. I could probably tell you, if I heard someone from South Africa speaking to someone from Australia which was which, but couldn't pick out just one from a crowd. You could probably tell me Southern US from New England, but even I couldn't tell you Tennessee from Georgia. It's one thing to notice there is a difference, it's another to know what that means.

~Irving

PS -- Liverpool is the only English accent I would attempt to immitate for any period of time, as I almost infailably slip up if I try to stick with another. I've been known to slip right out of Irish into Scotish, then I find myself in Australia. I can tell I'm doing it, but I can't always keep it in check.

Make that Liverpool and Cockney.

Good point.

*rides in on Sir Ferrari, who is ambling along and sampling the grass. Lil is not sampling the grass because she is grateful to be breathing almost normally*

Isn't it lovely here? These massive trees are like something out of a Doré engraving, and the mosses are to lie down for.

btw, I'm told by One Who Knows that Ferrari speaks Janner dialect.