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

Oh my, David. I have just discovered an advantage to living where there aren't any lamp posts.

....and I was probably doing the 'Gasweigan Foxtrot!!'

No lamp posts? How can that be? None at all, in the whole city?

Our street lights are on big old ugly poles.

Oh I see. I thought there weren't any street lights at all.

Well, the wood is softer if you walk into it, I guess.

And they aren't situated where you would normally be walking.

>My father told of a friend of his who used his index finger and little finger (with the other two tucked in) to indicate his "two fingers of scotch".

I'm rather sure I wasn't a friend of your Dad's, Ben - but I've done that

And I've walked into a busstop-post once. Ahem, was looking after other people. OK, girls...

*hands David a bit of sellotape for his glasses - and some ice and some arnica cream for his bump

Lady C, you must really try hummus. Stop by my space and leave a note if you want an easy recipe.

Feeling moderately Easter-ish last night, though I'm not Christian, I decided to watch Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ". Oh my gosh, what a violent, bloody film. The intense depiction of gore is pornographic. By the end of the movie I was emotionally distraught.

Here in the States we have the sort of people who are mightily offended when a nipple (or heaven forbid, an entire breast) shows up on television. They complain loud and long to the authorities. But this same sort gladly took their children and fellow church members to see the gore-fest that is The Passion when it was in the theaters. I don't get it. Ultra-violent entertainment is alright, so long as the good guys win, but human sexuality is filthy and not fit for public view.

[GDZ]

The good guys win? I thought Jesus died at the end.

*offers round Easter egg*

[Wilma]
Still ploughing through 300+ posts in backlog and politely cursing BT for nicking our phone line for 6 days

That was a very violent flick, my kids have not seen it.

I haven't seen it either, but I figured Hollywood might change the end to Pride and Prejudice, but they'd draw the line at the Gospels.

Bagpuss. Jesus wins in a way--he gets a religion named after him.

Cassie loves attention, Hyp, the more the better

Tugboating is a word that Lil uses to describe how cats sit with their front paws tucked in.

>> I thought Jesus died at the end

Well, presumably he comes to life again afterwards - or did Mel Gibson change that bit too?

B

>> Tugboating is a word that Lil uses to describe how cats sit with their front paws tucked in



(Um... why...? - I know the posture you mean, they always do it when they want to look inscrutable, but why "tugboating" - alas my ignorance).

B

[tartaronne ] greets not him (her?)

I've never walked into anything, although once while drunk I fell over from stationary without being pushed.