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

Amy, the taste of snipe is actually more like crow than chicken. With a hint of weasel.

Zeppo - I hope you'll be available for the hunt. If not, I suppose my Annie will have to do, though she's somewhat uncomfortable around webjellos. I'd hate for her to bite Lil's guest.

[On the monitor from the Cottage]

I really am very distressed by killing things for fun so if this is all a big joke please put me out of my misery now or I won't be able to sleep.

By the way, I really think you should do something with that bomb. *nods towards the coffee table*

Amy, your kind heart is showing.

*she takes Amy aside and confides quietly* First, there is no such animal as a snipe, so we won't be able to shoot one.

On a snipe hunt you take a somewhat gullible person *read webjello* into the woods, hand then a gunnysack in which to carry the snipe once caught, then leave them alone on a pretense of some kind. Of course you never go back and the unfortunate "hunter" has to find his way home by himself.

It's a rite of passage in the midwest. I thought it wouldbe an appropriate event for someone like James Webjello-Bottomley III.

Ah, yes. A snipe hunt sounds grand! I myself, have led a number of these as a scout in the BSA. In fact one of my closest friends went on one with me and boy did we bag a great Snipe!

The only hunt I shall be embarking on tomorrow is for my travelling companion, the Earl of Lucan. We had a little cross-country race on the way here and he never caught up with me. Don't know where the old fellow could have got to. My horse will be rested and ready to work in the morning, so I shall be looking in that forest hard by the grounds of this place.

I say, it's a bad show not to have a billiard table. How's a gentleman supposed to amuse himself after dinner?

You there, a glass of port if you will. *gestures at Matina* Where are the cigars kept?

*adds "billard table" to the list of woodshop projects*

Yes. well. The boy apologized, although I am still feeling a bit hurt. Perhaps I was a bit too rash.

[Munchkin, technically not here]
I often wonder how much anti-American sentiment is due to Europeans being upset at no longer being top dog. History has moved on but too many of us can't seem to get our head around it. Some dress up and say "wot" a lot and others actively take it out on innocent Americans. Of course, in the days when Britain was top dog you could shoot people for giving you hassle.

*feels foolish*

But there are snipe in England, you see. They're birds. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/birds/birdpages/25.html

*feels relieved that, by extension, Hypatia probably doesn't eat weasels either*

I had a dream there was a two-headed badger in my house. At least those don't exist. Not to worry about the snipe hunt, though Amy - they traditionally involve catching the snipe in a pillowcase without guns.

/* Cardboard Zeppo stiffens with his nose pointing at the package, one paw raised, and his tail straight back. */

Preferably a pillowcase your mother is not especially fond of.
[jr]

[on monitor from Cottage]

Would a pillowcase be effective against that bomb? The bomb that Zeppo is pointing at. Good doggie!

Well, I certainly stand corrected on the snipe issue. I'm really going to have to get out more.

Not long ago I told someone that there are no nightingales in the Western Hemisphere and was told that he had seen one in a forest in Canada. Maybe what I need is a birdwatching class.

Please be careful Zeppo! Am bringing pillowcase with grass stains (it's a long story) to use with the bomb.

{MTG}

[{Courtesy}]

[montana]

Any thoughts, MR (and anyone else interested in church matters) on the recent actions by the Pope in regards to:

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1033848744110

*looking very discouraged and de-enthused on monitor*

Can someone please ask Affi or Garius to order the bots to move that package to the crater and open it remotely?


FG, have you read the book "In God's Name" by David Yallop? It's an investigation into the not-fully explained death of Pope John-Paul I. It's also an expose of Vatican finance and the anti-liberal forces that put the current pope in office.

FG, I've always thought the whole canonization process somewhat strange. Reminds me of the Roman Senate voting to make Julius Caesar a god. Wouldn't a person make himself/herself a saint by the kind of life he/she lives? And if you're a saint, wouldn't you have enough humility not to care whether the Pope makes it official or not? And since the miracles are supposed to occur before canonization, the power to perform them would have to already be there - without the title. To say nothing of the fact that some recognized saints weren't very saintly.

FG, I've always thought the whole canonization process somewhat strange. Reminds me of the Roman Senate voting to make Julius Caesar a god. Wouldn't a person make himself/herself a saint by the kind of life he/she lives? And if you're a saint, wouldn't you have enough humility not to care whether the Pope makes it official or not? And since the miracles are supposed to occur before canonization, the power to perform them would have to already be there - without the title. To say nothing of the fact that some recognized saints weren't very saintly.

Sorry for posting twice. Dang button!