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

Maybe the extra 'p' is significant? If his personal hygiene isn't too clever there could well be a superfluity of 'p'

(sorry)

From convo 87Xth, post 1170, by WanderingAlbatross, re a discussion about soya products and the environment:

"Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned.
Only after the last fish has been caught.
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

- Cree Indian Prophecy

From the 87Xth Conversation – Post 1286

"My upper chests may like to keep abreast of affairs," - Ben

From the 89Xth Conversation, post 1808:

"Sometimes, the day just nips you on the bottom and runs away sniggering." -- Agapanthus

Says it all, I think.

From the 8Ath conversation, post 212:

"Brain burp"

Hypatia

I just liked the expression, rather like the smiley

And that should have been the '8AXth'

I agree with Wilma that Ag described the whole Iraq situation very aptly and elegantly in posting 1762 in the 8BXth conversation:



The reason the Mustachioed One was given the power to become a tyrant in the first place was because he was so good at keeping a lot of tribal and religious ferment firmly (brutally) squashed. You take the lid off the shaken pop-bottle, it goes all over the floor. If you don't want it to go all over the floor, you don't just march in and smack the lid off with a sabre, cavalry officer with champagne style.

Also from 8BXth post 1478 and following

Blue-Eyed BiPedal Bookworm in response to Demon Drawer relating his tale of overhearing a extremely personal half a conversation on someone’s mobile phone that morning.

'I blame it all on the building of the first public bath.'

DD – 'So you're blaming it all on the Roman's then are you?'

David B – 'Sounds reasonable. What did the Romans ever do for us?'

DD – 'The Aquaduct'

Followed by Salonistas including the above plus strangely strange, Montana Redhead, Asteroid Lil, Mr Dreadful, F.G. 2.0 launch in a brief Monty Python ‘Life of Brian’ tangent.

Ag has such a 'pictoresque' way of describing things - this one's from 8CXth thread posting 234:

'the Seagull of Fate is cr*pping in the Sandwiches of Destiny'

8FXth thread posting no. 1138 by Irv:

'DISCLAIMER: IrvWash is not a licensed attorney, any statements he makes should not be construed as legal advice. IrvWash has not yet been admitted to the practice of law in any jurisdiction at this time, and has no experience with law outside of the State of Arizona. IrvWash is qualified only to advise clients whose issues involve Administrative Law, since any idiot can practice in front of an Administrative Law Judge, at least under the laws of the State of Arizona. Please do not try this at home. Side effects may cause drowsiness, sleeplessness, weight loss, weight gain, sudden mood changes, apathy, the sudden use of cowboy lingo, loss of libido, and internal bleeding. Do not use IrvWash while operating heavy equipment, while driving, or while breast feeding. IrvWash has not been approved by the American Drug Association, and is listed as a narcotic in the UK and most of the EU. Please use IrvWash responsibly.'

Now off to crawl back through the current thread to find another posting - now, was it Wilma or Ag?

Woe me - it was actually Teuchter, in 8FX, posting 824:

'When Shrub was banging on in the early days about a particular strategy, I thought he'd named it after some native American "Chocanaw".'

Bleeding brilliant, if you ask me - I can SOOOO see myself using that word...

*disgusted, takes a step back in Chocanaw*

Mr Dreadful, thread 8FX, post 227 regarding noisy neighbours

"It's certainly odd to be having a quiet night in with a nice movie and suddenly have an orgasm coming through your letterbox."

I suspect that sentence will stay with me for quite some time..

Oops... post 1227. Grr.

I want some more of these. Newbies can't be expected to trawl through the lot in five minutes. Can we?????
But I did so enjoy the Story So Far.

Asteroid Lil, conversation 92Xth, posting 421:

'I watched Housewives of Orange County once. Didn't make it all the way through the show. It was vomitocius.'

Sorry, that should have been 'vomitocious' of course...

Posted by Asteroid Lil in 92Xth conversation, posting 811:

"It is said: Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana."

Amen to that.

It's not my line, of course, but it's one of my all-time favorites because the sense keeps changing depending on how you look at it. I first discovered it in "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter.

/* swats at a time fly, but it vanishes into the past */