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

{[caer csd] Witty, you were born the same year as me . A party is a completely excellent idea.

There have been quite a few programmes here on 9/11, or 11th September to we Brits. All the major networks have been running them. It does no harm to remember that such terrible things can occur, the magnitude of the events of that day still horrify me.

I think were was no single reason why the attacks were perpetrated and distraction tactics are quite possible. Also the need to demonstrate to their own supporters that they were capable of such atrocities.}

[LIL]
applauds Marv's thread-launch
thinks war is good for business and hates them both
reckons Carmel should start taking notes for the next thread

It sounds like we have a few September babies. I think these salonistas' parents had a good time the previous New Years or Valentines Day!

Myself, I'd like to believe it was a warm May evening in California, the stars were out, the flowers were in bloom...

*ahem* Perhaps I'll leave this alone.

Well, of course, Hypatia! Did you think we could be as suave and debonaire as we are without a daily dose of All Things Considered?

I think anything is possible, logical or illogical, as far as conspiracies go.

On another related tack, I was contacted about 6 weeks ago via e-mail by a former colleague that I hadn't seen nor heard from in over 22 years. We worked for an insurance company that was located in WTC Building 5, which was adjacent to the North Tower. It turns out that he still works for the same company which had since moved to Tower 2.

They evacuated after Tower 1 was hit and everyone at the company survived. We had a great group of friends, all recent college graduates and we socialized quite a bit. Over the last year he spent a lot of time thinking about old times and started googling our names.

...continued after hitting "post" by accident.

Any way, I wasn't prepared for how connected I suddenly felt to the whole tragedy. I can recall so many vivid details about those buildings. And I was so relieved that he was able to go home to his family that night.

The recovery crews found his wallet in January and he donated it the Smithsonian. I thought that was pretty cool.

Witty, I am so not going there. Tomorrow will be hard enough.

Okay, is it just me, or does the conspiracy go on? Today Cheney was moved to "a secure undisclosed location." Ummm, hello? Why is the vice president in hiding, and the president attending a public memorial at the pentagon?

Dick Cheney as president *shivers*

, MR

Does anyone else think that if Bush was really in charge ~he~ would be the one in a secure location?

Hello Everyone
Maybe not the right time for new faces, and apologies for referring back to the last conversation. I just felt I should tell you that I wasn't upset or mad at anyone over the AB thing. If anyone wants the whole gory story, you can read it here :
F76045?thread=205648#p2381693

>The way I feel at the moment, I'm not sure I can ever go there now<
I think MR misunderstood this. I was embarrassed, not angry!

...so you still have a devoted lurker, one among many.
(and of course we'll all be thinking of friends in the US tomorrow)
P.

Hello and welcome, Pinniped.

Honestly I wasn't aware Cheney ever came *out* of that undisclosed location.

[BB]

Making his mark in the new forum.

Anyone over there ever thought that the best thing to do might be to fill in the bunker doors with the Shrub & Cheyney inside.
I'd be even more in favour if Tony Blair was visting them at the time.


Pub Quiz results
Got well beaten into 2nd place (thats 2 weeks running)

However we have a raffle each week in which the winning team get a chance at question to extract £50 from the landlord.
Well we came up lucky in the raffle and the question was.....

In which year did ITV start broadcasting?

For the benifit of non UK readers thats our Commercial TV service as opposed to the BBC on which this is being written

Answer to follow if no one gets it

And this son of a tranmitter engineer is a bit better off tonight
Oh and BTW our raffle ticket no was 42

[LIL]
thinks there should be a contest to named the "secure undisclosed location"
a brothel in Reno
a treehouse in Jackson Hole
on the ferris wheel at Six Flags
...
other suggestions welcome

Ted Turner's ranch.
Ted Nugent's roadie crew.
The Burning Man Festival (look, dude, is that Dick Cheney, or did I eat some bad fungus?)

Welcome Pinniped!

Read the thread you referred to, and was amazed that AB has managed to make an impression so different from his RL self...

The time hole thing happened this morning again! If this continues I'll have to find an impartial witness...

...same as last week: what is normally a brisk 20 minutes long walk from home to train station every morning only took 10 minutes...

...I double checked all my watches and clocks the first time it happened to make sure they were showing the correct time, and that I had left home at the usual time (7.35 am)...

...my previous personal record for the distance has been 13 minutes, but that included running half the way because I was late, arriving sweating and panting...

...and today I wasn't panting, and I wasn't sweating - I was ice cold! I had to stand in the last remaining spot of morning sun on the platform to warm up while waiting for the train!

The trouble is - it wasn't *that* cold this morning, especially not with a bright morning sun in my back most of the way...

*finding inexplicable things like this extremely annoying*

Titania, it's this new space-time continuum with ten percent added lycra that causes these phenomena.

My guess at the ITV start: 1959.

*waves to Pinniped*

It's lovely to have a seal in the Atelier .

{[caer csd] first Pilates class of the new term and I'm already running late. Glad you dropped by Pinniped, will check your link when I get back.}

[Munchkin]
I guess ITV started in 1955.
Names for the secure undisclosed location; Moe's Tavern, Upstairs from the Stargate, The Cupboard under the stairs in the White House.
Todays anniversary; To be honest I am hiding from this a bit. I know it happened, it was a terrible thing, but I don't need TV to remind me of it and to tell me how things have changed and to peek into every nook and cranny, thanks all the same.

I'm wishing I could hide from it, but it's impossible.

Cheney is behind a tree in the rose garden. Under the Lincoln bed. Standing next to Senator Thurmond wearing a false mustache and wig.

[LIL]
hears that minutes are closer together in northern latitudes on account of the cold