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

Good day all. My boss just gave me the shortest review I have had in months. I don't know if it was good or bad.

i hope that it is good...

On the subject of the punk song comebacks: they work well but not as well as some "comebacks" that I've seen.


Drama Teacher: Okay, that's it for a day. Get out of here, go home, and remember that I never want to see Tom again!
Tom: That's okay, because I can get along with you just fine.
DT: Tom, I hate you, come back tomorrow.
Tom: Hate is a choice. I don't choose to hate you back.
DT: *Stunned silence*
Tom: Bye! Have a nice day! *Leaves*
DT: THAT'S NOT FAIR!


I had to stay after to help with some set construction stuff, but the drama teacher spent the next fifteen minutes about what constituted about "fair" in a put-down exchange. It's going to be an interesting drama week. We start 4.5 hour long rehearsals this week, and we perform on Friday and Saturday! I can finally get this darn Harvey out of my life.

Galen, yes, it's pencil. Thanks to everybody for the compliments -- I think it was Hati that wanted to see a wrought iron bonsai...

Slipped my memory earlier to say to Candi, OK! What was your name badge, then?

Affi, Matina is obsessing. She had baked 10 trays of mbougatses before I ordered her to stop! Are you about to play a rabbit?

Nice pic Lil
There was something I wanted to ad from the backlog but it's now as usual totally slipped my mind! Still got my first job lead today. A web hosting company wants to do a telephone interview in a couple of days.

Lil - my "name badge" consisted of lots of wrapped sweets pinned all over my top, plus a couple of lollipops in my hair! You can just about see one of the lollipops in one of the pics of me and Titania, and if you look carefully you can see a sweet on the one of me and Pegasus from Munchkin's roll that I posted the link for earlier

BTW, I gave most of the sweets away by the end of the night, and the lollipops went to Bluebottle and Alien tourist. Just a bit of useless information for you there!

[:x] Congrats to OP.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Sweden's first Olympic medal!

What a nail-biter! 15 km Women Individual (checks dictionary - and hurls it away, frustrated) *mutter* Damn inadequate...*mutter* waddayoucallit - ski & shoot

After watching 'Magda' (Magdalena Forsberg) missing 2 shots at the last range, there was a from all Swedes watching - there goes the gold - and the silver!

In one of the last uphill sloapes I think I shouted as much as her coach: Faster! Faster! You can still take the bronze!

Watching her finish was thrilling - and she made it! She made it! Less than 6 seconds before no.4!

I was just wondering how Affy & co name the bots here a CLI, especially Matina? * helps (him/her/it)self to a mbougatse(sp?) *

Biathalon I believe is the sport Ti. Hmm I wonder how many medals my little ole' nation has...

Biathlon it is, Marv.

Results:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/x/f/frame.htm?u=/r/2/res/res_BTW015101.htm

Very nice picture Lil - I'd like to touch that cat's back, especially if it's sun warm...

...and Candi's name 'shirt' was very colour coordinated - everything matched perfectly!

*calming down, not usually getting this excited over sports*

Ti, if you click on Forsberg's name in the link I gave above, it gives a nice bio of her.

Greenwich, the painted hall, a quite spectacular work of art, the brain child of one Simon Thornhill, and is either a baroque masterpiece charting the colonial rise of Perfidious Albion, or depending on the quantity of port consumed, the most elaborate topless bar in the western world. There are apparently, although I have only ever managed to count 25, 37 breasts on display around teh hall. Cue a link to GLs earlier comment on Horatio Hornblower and paucity of nether garments, although, I am not sure if we should take a Rigby and Peller moment here in deference to teh salty old Tars for whom the magnificent display was supposed to take their minds off their 'straightened circumstances'. Spare a penny for an old ex leper! And of course, The Trafalgar, another fine public house. So many pubs, such a small bladder. Sigh

Thanks Witty - you're right, it is a nice bio...

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Sailors (today's equivalent of ableseamen) at the time of Trafalgar earned £12,000 pa in modern money, in the Royal Navy, before any prize money was added. A piece of info I picked up during a tour of HMS Victory last month. So they could have afforded grundies if they were available.

Lil, you've caught the angle of Vinnie's back beautifully.

Caer, they were also at the mercy of autodidactic ( I think that is the word I am after) captains who stopped them pay for food and clothes, and who had power of life and death over them. So it was not unusual on paying off for the poor seafarers to be handed a fraction of their wages, with the rest going into the pockets of the hierarchy. Bit like a modern capitalist Corporation! Not that I would wish you to think that that I harbour any sympathy for matelots, one slings ones hammock and lies in it!

Or you were hit over the head and slung into the hammock to wake up at sea after a night out.