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

*wanders in, all is quiet. Helps self to coffee. Sits down. Waits. *

Afternoon (Monday) all. Sits on the couch across from Babel. Ponders if his dodgy lungs will stand up to the forum race...

A postman walks by and delivers a postcard from Irving! It has a picture of Phoenix's skyline as seen from the top of Camelback Mountain looking south at night. The entire valley below is bathed in man made light and as result, no stars are seen in the sky. This is exactly what the Astronomers at Kitt's Peak in Tucson mean when they complain about light pollution from Phoenix. The card reads:

Still in Phoenix, preparing for the big road trip. I'm dropping in tomorrow morning to update the main page with a few new regulars and a few new drink specials. I've just been cast in a play and in general my summer is looking great. The play is Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest", and if anyone has any hints on how to sound like a British upper-class Victorian-Era snob, please send them to me at my homepage because I'm playing Algernon.

I've heard tell of some races coming up, so I hope you'll all keep me posted on that. See you all soon!

~Irving

Hi Babel, Hi Looney. It has been a very quiet weekend indeed, but that doesn't do me any harm, because now I'm finally catching up on sleep and seem to need lots more of it!

I think we won't have the races till the weekend, because we'll want a large crowd and plenty of notice for the starting gun. I just read in the feedback frenzy forum that on another forum they are playing a sentence game where each researcher contributes one word with the aim of making a sentence as long as possible. Let's have a separate thread if we're going to do that!!!

*Yawns widely* Just to be ethnocentric, I will start a new thread for Monday at midnight for MY time zone.

I even manage to simulpost when I'm not here!

Thank you, IIEM. That tea was simply exquisite.

Please, sir/it, may I have another?

So... it is just you and me than, IIEM, eh? Maybe it is time I got to know you a bit better.


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LOL! My, you have been busy!

Sorry all, busy catching up on all the fora, and doing some w*** too.
Cool, a postcard from Irv, and a comment, even though he isn't here . Hi Lil. Hi Sporky, another tea coming up ---> c(~)

Sporky, we just don't talk about those things in public. Don't be encouraging the IIEM or it will be down in the gents -- or ladies -- writing stupid limericks....

I keep dozing off, today was so quiet.

But he (yes, I thought it a he, but I didn't want to jump to conclusions) was just telling me how fretfully boring it was. He went on a rant then, going about spurting something like: "Brain the size of a ..." I couldn't catch the rest as I needed a refill on my
~[_]

Lil, you are correct in assuming that the penguin was a relation of Tux, the Linux penguin. It has now been joined by a small herd of Gnus!
Owing to RL work commitments, I won't be online as much as I would like over the next few weeks but I will try to post to the Cafe at least once a day.
Cappucino to go please,IIEM.
BBS
Dr J

Ah well, that's it for me.
*quick tidy up, prior to Lil updating to new forum.
Clears tables, washes cups, cleans counter and lays out the papers of the day. Puts up sign*

The IIEM is on folks, the thread will be updated by Lil later on.
Keep your eyes peeled

Loony, eyes casually covered with lemon peel, glances disinterstly at the fat chicks featuring in the latest issue of "Woman Today" magazine

Make that dilexically

*Puts the v/_\3 on. Has a cup of tea*

Hey Bluebottle, bring that pot over here: http://www.h2g2.com/F26140?thread=57504&post=424126 The latest cafe thread begins there. Dr. John, it's good to know that you're about, anyway.