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

Oh me! I've been away for so long. Perhaps some of you gave me up for dead. I can assure you, I am not even a little bit dead.

I did manage to watch the Olympics, by the way. Possibly the best Olympics I've ever seen. Australia did an outstanding job. Canada did, well, rather poorly this time around, but I cheered for them anyway. I was just happy we were there to compete. The upside of our less than stellar performance (medal-wise) is the federal government is seriously looking at providing better support and funding for our athletes.

Did I just change the subject? Hmmm. I did apologise for that, though.

Nick!?! Is it really you? We all thought.......but no, we should have had more faith....

By the sacred fangs of the Fort William porridge weevil, it's good to know that the faith is still in safe hands.

Where does he find those wonderful weevils...

Fort William - but not in the porridhe. Whoops. Goidelic spelling of porridge. Probably in the corn syrup.

This is off-topic (as if there were an actual topic ) but I'm just so excited, as I managed to get a playstation 2 on launch day last thursday. eeeee!

Oh, so *that's* where you've been....

Probably, but work has actually been stepped up a notch. Anyway, can you blame me?

I have six PS2 games, but I've been playing "The Summoner" more than any of the others. It's great, kind of somewhere between Diablo II and Baldur's Gate. I can summon all kinds of cool monsters, but I've yet to find a ring that will allow me to summon a weevil. It wouldn't have to hurt anybody - it could just hang back and heal my characters and hand out treats and goodies.

Is anybody else as disappointed in the lack of a Weevil smiley as I am? I got for my Guardian Angel posts, and for my Church of Weekendism posts, but I don't see a single Weevil on there. Someone should have a talk with the people at the Towers about this gross oversight.

I asked Fenchurch for a weevil fishy several times in the past but never got a reply. Sure wish I had a weevil fishy.

I hate to drag this thread back to fantasy, but is the 'New Holiday' all sorted out yet?
I love the emoticon of the Transylavanian 'It's only strawberry jam' Weevil.

I thought it was rather good myself.

Dr. D

By the way, you can blame my latest absence on the Diabolical Disappearing Weevil. They're not really diabolical, they just like the sound of it. How is everybody?

Dr. D

They seem to have been diabolically disappeared. I fear that the Feast of the Ancestors may turn out to be a dying custom.

Or an undead custom?

Apologies for the long absenses. Work, you know. Plus I've had this bloody awful cold. Let's see... nope, I can't think of any other excuses at the moment.

To what region is the Disappearing weevil indigenous? Denmark?

I mean, "absences".

Actually, I believe they come from Denver. However, as they keep disappearing on me, I have not been able to confirm this.

Right, Denver it is. Hello again, Zonker. Hope you had a good Christmas.

Christmas was good! New Years was better. Marzipan Gin might be a weevil's favorite beverage but, Captain Morgan's is mine! I consumed much Captain Morgan's! I had some Iranian Bazooka Weevils present to keep me out of too much trouble.