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

Oh, I get it! *developing into crazy high-pitched hysterical laughter*
But they are all dead!! *laugh* they are all... *laugh* ...they all kill themselves! In all the tragedies! *hysterical laugh*

Yeah, I know, I was in a production of Antigone

We studied this one... I actually formed the Association of Victims of Greek Tragedies after that class, in Hebrew the full name was a pretty nice acronym of Antigone.

Oh the tragedy of it all. The only classics I know I’m afraid is some myths and everyday life stuff, Greek education and so on. I can do some Egyptian but I’m starting to forget it all…….. But my & Jack are trying to organise a trip out to Egypt at Easter.

Cool, why don't you drop by Israel while you're there? *onlyhalfjoking*

I'd like to go to thebes, neatly linking all of the above as there is a painting on one wall, circa the time of Ramises III, which looks dodgily like the description of the ark of the covenant and I want to see it. plus I like classical culture.

So do I, but there's a limit. I mean, Homer's works are definitely masterpieces, but when you read them there comes a time when you start thinking "okay, I get it, you love metaphores and analogies, but could you please just GET TO THE POINT?!".

They all do that if memory serves correct

Woah, Culture!

Homer seems the worst. It seems like he cannot get from point A to point B without at least three analogies in the middle. "And the people of troy scattered, like sheep do when the sun is down on the trees, and the shepherds come and drive them and their dogs are running around on the grass..." stuff like that. Drove me nuts when I was reading it. Virgil got a bit better later in Aeneas, but still had some very long very dull parts.

I've got a very long very interesting part

I bet that's what you tell all the guys.

I tell a lot of girls too

My milkshale brings all the boys to the yard
and their lives, are better than yours
dum dum dum dum but i'd have to charge

ohh we're back on the kereoke

Snakebite - some kind of voodoo
Midlife - crisis upon you
Uptight - Babylon rages
Do apes cry rape when you rattle their cages?

Ooooh, baby baby, it's a wild world (tadadada tadada)
It's hard to get by just upon a smile (tadadadum-dadadum)
Oooh baby baby, it's a wild world (tadadada tadada)
And I'll always rememeber you like a child, girl...

*mutter ~~a very long intersting part indeed, gee peoples humor gets lower and........~~ snigger*


what was i talking about before? oh yeah egypt

walk like an egyptian....

ahum!

i think we decided on abydos, giza, luxor, abu simbel, valley of the kings and queens....err....a sort of three day nile cuise....cant remember what else

"...a sort of three day nile c[r]uise"

with the emphasis on cruise?

And I refuse to sink so low as to make a joke about the valley of the kings

Egypt? How did we get here?

round the iberian peninsular, straight on till greece and then hang a right and it's right in front of you