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

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What is Burns Night?

Ah, that Water of life! Sounds good..
Matina, could you bring me a single malt, please.

*discretely fishes out the icecubes*

Everything you may want to know about Robbie Burns:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/burnsnight/index.shtml

My old man and I may be popping to the London meet tomorrow evening, if we get the chance.

If we don't make it, hope those that are going have a brill time!

If there were a black pudding ice cream, how many of you would buy a pint?

A further note on excessive breakfasts -- there's a restaurant in Ruidoso which specialises in early meals for the ranch-hand crowd, and the pancakes they serve there are about an inch thick and a foot in diameter. No joke, I ordered one (Just one, please) and only got halfway through it. It had blueberries in it and I was really sad to have to leave the other half.

Property ownership, let's see, we'll start with phoning a guy to come check out the pump motor on the well, phoning another guy about a straw bale substitute in order to learn some more, then going over there to start collecting junk and sawing up wood. When the snow melts I'll start putting down stakes.

What's this about regionality in DVDs? I thought they were universal!

Burns is this wee man, ken, who comes fae Ayrshire. He wrote aw these fancy wurds aboot a moose, an corbies, an Auld Nick an stuff. Mind you, he wiz a fair yin for the lassies, ken, hauf o Ayrshire's related tae him ken. He wiz dead famous, but noo hes deid and folks huv big shebangs fur him and stuff themsells wi haggis an neeps an whisky. Thats Burns Nicht so it is.

*falls over laughing*

I love people that type with accents!

*hugs Doc Munchkin, runs away*

-JJ

Aye

On most computer DVDs it is the software that denotes the region, not the dvd player, so if you have software that doesn't "lock" after you select the region (most give you three strikes) you can watch dvds from America/South America, Europe, Asia, or Africa.

Funny, my PS2 has no problem at all with allowing me to watch Japanese DVD's.

It doesn't even give it a second thought in it's little computer chip brain, really.

The region issue of DVDs is a particularly annoying one to me. After the DeCSS software that broke DVD encryption became available most companies used that excuse to make sure that they made their software very region specific. While I would gladly pay to have someone ship HHGTTG to me it will not work on my player. I have to wait for a region one release.
JJ Your PS2 may be region free or it may also have the asia region as well as the north america region on it. Or what I have found to be more likely, you have all region DVD's. The anime imports I get out of Hong Kong are all region. If you look at the disc itself it should tell you the region.

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Deep fried pizza?

Deep fried Mars bars?

Deep fried creme eggs?



How is it Americans lead the world in heart disease and cholesterol? I think everyone in the UK is giving us a run for our money!

Someone asked which pancakes I was talking about--American or French. Crepes are nice, but when it comes to a Sunday morning breakfast, the nice thick American buttermilk pancakes loaded with huckleberries and topped by whipped butter and tons of maple syrup with country sausage on the side beats all! Or good German potato pancakes with crispy bacon and applesauce. Now there's a reliable soldier to battle your hangover.

I haven't seen Harry Potter yet.

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American leading the world in heart disease and cholesterol?!?

I always thought us Scots were pretty unhealthy, eating anything dripping in fat.

Congratulations, Lil!

I have never tasted cookie dough, like many of my fellow Britons, because "cookies" were never even heard of in Britain when I was a child. I have on many occasion eaten cake mix, and I remember at one point realising that just butter and sugar creamed together tasted very good, and sometimes used to sneak into the kitchen, get a teaspoon of butter, then mix sugar into it in an eggcup!! Don't think I could stomach that now !

I have never tried Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Yes, I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. It always seems so expensive for how much you get - I think it's about £4 for half a litre here. I'd like to know if it's *really* worth it! The best ice cream I have tasted is my mum's home made blackcurrant. It's really rich, and is made with brown sugar!

I'm off now to make my "badge" for tomorrow , and pack my bag! I'll see some of you there! Quite excited now, not too nervous any more .

Candi.

I'm tempted to get an automatic icecream maker. The only thing holding me back is that it has to remain in the same position due to the coolant inside. I haven't really got space on the work surfaces in my kitchen, we could move but that seems a little drastic!

I first tasted cookie dough when we lived in Berlin in the 70s. We used to shop sometimes on the US base, at the PX. That place was an eye opener to we Brits used to the NAAFI! Anyway I to my Mum to buy some and managed to knick a slice as she was laying them out on a baking tray, the raw dough tasted nicer than the cooked. Our other purchase there that became regular was the popping corn in little foil pans. I used to have to 'export' a bagful when I went back to school each term in the UK! We didn't start seeing it in shops here till about 10 years later.

Name badge, ah yes, I knew there was something I forgot

Rats! Done it again, posted without saying how pleased I am that the deal is all finalised, Lil!

Are you going to put up a dorm block so we can all come and stay?

Morning all. This morning I will show solidarity with Amy. Breakfast will be a bowl of corn flakes topped with a sliced banana, a couple of pieces of toast - topped with Vegimite, the thinking man's Marmite - and washed down with a mug of lemen-infused tea.

Again, in common with Amy, the banana is for potassium replacement. The gruesome details: I take bendrofluazide, a duriatic, for high blood pressure. Alas, the side effects do not include hair growth.

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Looking forward to the meetup tomorrow, Seems theirs going to be plenty of new faces as well as the "old" hands

Jade, I do indeed hear that US PS2s can play Japanese DVDs, and vice versa. However, we Europeans - neglected for the most part by the console titans (and I'm /not/ just talk about Sony ) - can only run Region 2.

That is so beyond unfair! Europeans like Anime too... And from what I hear you guys have got the /way/ short end of the stick on that one, unless you live in France, of course. They're really big on it there.

-JJ