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

Good - - - - morning - - - nobody about? Hello Ook, how're you doing big guy? *Ook Ook*

Wowbagger - hello - haven't seem you for awhile. Coffee please IIEM. Gee, its quiet in here. With this time zone thing I usually manage to miss everyone. Well, I just had a conversation with my cat, the only being around IRL, so I'm used to it.

Jinglelingle,
Hello, hello! how is everyone. aw nice little setup here. oh you must be Ook. Yes I think I'll have a coffee IIEM. With a little sugar and cream please. Hmm still not many people here. Must always catch this place at a bad time. *sips her coffee*.

*enters bearing carton of donuts and today's papers*

Good morning y'all -- oh! Hello Agony Aunt and Wowbagger! Wowbagger, how goes the cartoon strip? It's good to see you. I'm glad Bluebottle was here to give you personal service.

IIEM, one Ook special please. Here you go, blue boy, enjoy your breakfast.

Now, jr was telling me about some bot parts. Where ... ah. *pulls out a tray with an array of odd shaped pieces in an unfamiliar alloy* Hm. I better be careful about chain-of-evidence. *pulls out her CLI Snowzar and lays a coat of ice on the tray, completely covering the contents, then wraps it in a teatowel, quickly unloads the donuts from the carton and replaces the contents with the frozen tray*

I'll be right back.
*nips down the stairs to the tunnel passage*

*stops on way out* Sorry dream we simulposted! I'll be right back.
*heads out*

What an odd position to be the new person here. *shrugs her shoulders and sips some more coffee* I suppose I could chat with this interesting blue fellow. Why hello Ook how are you today! Aw not much of a talker. well I suppose I could enjoy the silence how ever so sweet.

Hmm... how does that snow thing work? MH or something else?

Latte please IIEM with cinnamon sprinkling

well hello, Arnia or Joe wich ever you prefer. lovely day is it not? Oh wow someone has finished off my entire cup of coffee without my knowlegde! imagine that! I'll have another the same IIEM

Joe to most, Joe aka Arnia to those who wish to be formal

*returns*
Sorry about that -- it was possible evidence. Icing it and wrapping it up in front of witnesses seemed like the best thing to do. I gave it to the chief bot at CLI to store in the lab freezer there.

Joe, I don't know how it works, but Affi or Garius could tell you. It has a whole range of settings from hoar to permafrost, and you can set the duration of the effect too. I put the parts on permanent, which means, of course, indefinitely until antidoted.

Dream, Ook plays tiddlywinks and has never been beaten at scrabble.
*changes filters on IIEM, cleans the shiny surfaces and waves hello to the fish*

I have to go deal with real life till tonight, but I leave you with the IIEM, Ook, and plenty of donuts. Have a nice day and see y'all later!

Me being as unformal as i am I'll just call you Joe So do you come here often? Actually I've been here twice but it seems as though when I show up everyone leaves. Maybe just a coincidence.

I occasionally appear but I spend most of my time hanging about outside the doughnut stall.

*Glances at her digital watch, then recalling she doesn't have one* Oh dear well i really must be off. Can I get this in a to go cup? well by golly someones drank it all again. twice in one day? wierd! Yes i'll have another. * grabs her cup and Jogs out* By all!

*stops in the doorway* It was truly nice meeting you Joe. The real world is calling and sadly I must answer! *begins to fade to a shadow leaving behind merely a faint memory*

*Strides in, trips over. Or maybe I didn't, perhaps it's only a bad memory*

IIEM, green tea and the Sunday papers please.

Nice to see things becoming more crowded.

Hello Lil, the cartoons are in deep deep hibernation atm. I'm hoping they are not in too deep a sleep and may come back out blinking in the spring sun. Could be a while though.

Hello there Mr L'Tunes.
*puts down the paper conveniently at the sports section.*

I think it would be improper to trade our usual patriotic banter at such a place, don't you?

*Washes up and puts the v/_\3 on*
Happy Sunday all

Happy Monday all. Guess this would be an opportune time to get rid of the Sunday papers. Especially the ones with the embarrasing news about Australia's win in the rugby.

I wonder how much the Aussies paid the South African referee?

Sips tea.

*tries to find a spare kettle*

*enters from back porch*

Man, I haven't been here but once all weekend. Real Life has seduced me once again. But I can see I'm not the only one to have had a life. It's been extremely quiet here, in almost all fora.

I wonder whether any customers will be hurt by the Verizon strike?

*wipes down counter* Ook, hello up there! Hungry? I brought you a watermelon! It's on the back porch. Don't spit the seeds outside, collect them and we'll plant them a ways off. I'm not struggling through any magic melon patch to get in the back door. *Ook clambers eagerly out of the rafters and goes for the melon*

Joe, given your tastes in beverages, would you rather not have a chemistry lab than a kettle?

*A large green hawk soars into the cafe. It swoops down and lands on an empty table.*

*It glares around the room at the people*