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

>What great luck! Someone must have been watching over you. I visualize your guardian angel standing there with his/her foot on it until you came back.

Did say a quick thank you!

>I once burnt at least £40 , maybe even as much as £50 on cooker by mistake....
Money to burn! I see everyone else had too much class to say it.

Beats my story. Back in the day of pound notes my parents had some under their bed. (never found out why). came home one day to find dog had been peckish.. Quite a few pounds gone .

>The leak has been found.

Glad to hear it.

78 that be floyd, roy harper, Haiti you ought to see my shorts and are they short, there a cut down pair of jeans, and they were six years old in 78,and phil think a waist coat with a cummer-band is the thing to wear with shorts.

Strangly yes but will be replays, the beeb will no doubt rerun the entire series on bbc/4/5/6/7/8/9 sell dvds pay per view and all that you watch out for it.
was something else meant to say, sainsburys and cats, most supermarkets have both strays and cats living in the area that visit mostly evening and dawn, should never move a cat that looks lost with out fitting it with a safty collar asking whoes cat it is.

that was not the other thing it will come to me sometime.

A Mammoth lumbers into the salon.

Hello, Oh this is a nice sort of place.

*helps self to a gross of cinammon buns*

*sits on a sofa, which crumbles benneth the Mammoth weight*

Welcome to the Atelier, Wooly Mammoth

I'm so glad to hear it. I've had enough times in my life when we lived without water to not like to hear about other people having that extra stress in their lives.

Governments are funny that way

lIl, does Chloe have a mammoth sized sofa lying about the place?

Hello WoollyMammoth.

Gallon of tea?

I'm mikerhike, resident non-resident. I'm only ever usually half here, and half missing. Left brain usually stays here, but right brain gets distracted by the vastness of the interweb.

have you enjoyed your weekend?

[GDZ]

If I wasn't extict, and therefore exempt from tax, I'd be a bit put out at the government using my tax groats on something scientifically as unproven as dowsing.

Still I suppose it beats bombing the hell out of that country that's where Godwannaland used to be.

*picks up the large teacup with my trunk and pours it into mouth*

*carefully attempts to put it back on the large saucer*

*knocks both onto floor*

not to worry, there are bots to help with that.

er, what's dowsing?

I think it's attempt to find some water by holding a forced stick... I think it works quite well on small islands.

Hello Woolly_Mammoth

Mr T's had some success at locating underground pipes by dowsing with rods made from cannibalised wire coathangers.
But I agree that it's not an exact science.

Hmm. I remember that word now. Always assumed it was spelt with a 'u'. Which wouldn't make much sense.

Just seen a KFC advert on TV which completely rips off an American TV ad whch was also for fast food, but perhaps Wendy's, or something else we don't get here.

No, it isn't an exact science. Some people use two long wires, one in each hand. I believe that the forked sticks and etc. are merely something to keep your conscious mind busy while your subconscious tunes into your energy body.

Ooh, that does sound remarkably unscientific and magical, doesn't it?

Well, I am not an experienced dowser, but I did dowse for the end of a water line that my husband had lost under a pile of backhoe dirt when we were building our vineyard. He had already dug two BIG holes 24" deep in an attempt to find it, and I offered to see if I could find it. He opined that if I was wrong he was going to have to dig more holes anyway to find it, and if I was right, it would save him from a lot of effort. I did find it, the place I pointed to was within 2" of the end of the line. I used a big quartz crystal rather than forked twigs since I had a crystal and not dowsing rods. Anyway, it was a pretty cool feeling to "sense" the end of the water line.

Good Lord, there's an entire mammoth in here. Hello, Woolly_Mammoth!

We had a friend dowse for a well for us, when we lived up a mountain. It was not a conspicuous success. After a lot of drilling and cussing and trying very hard to be very polite to each other, her brother (who was a geologist with two PhDs in rocks and things) came out to have a look, glanced at where all the trees were growing and how the land dipped here and there, and showed us what he insisted was a good place to drill ten yards from the house. Dowsing lady disagreed, he sneered at her (ooh, sibling rivalry, I don't think), my step-Dad drilled there anyway, we hit the aquifer first go, sister flounced off in an almighty huff. I was very disappointed - she was a sweetheart and he was an arrogant humourless goit, and I was of an age when dowsing sounded ever so much more wonderful than just knowing about rocks and stuff.

Forgive me for being cynical, but exactly what form of energy are we talking about here in your energy body? What exactly is an 'energy body'

After all your entire body consumes engery in the form of Adenosine Triphosphatase.

Is it your peripheral nervous system? Which sensory nerve endings form the energy body. Or is it something you percieve so probably located in the cerebral cortex as part of your homculus.

I agree that there would be some evolutionary advantage to being able to 'sense' water, and some animals seem to be able to find water by instict, so perhaps some people have a similar skill to react instictly to physical signs around us that indicate 'water here' when in fact it's something deep in primative brain.

As an analogy a lot of people are scared of snakes, because in the past there must have been an survival benifit to thinking 'snake = danger = run'. So there must be a survival benifit to thinking 'lots of green tree here = qood place to look for water'.

Any I want to see some better proof than 'it worked for me once' before actually deciding that the above is more than a hypotheses.

Z

How the heck are you?

Hiya, I'm a bit less busy.

I'm now fully regisitered and about to start a new job on Thursday, Public Health, not entirely sure what it is, but no evenings or weekends so it will be fairly dull and low paid, but looking forward to the break!

Welcome back, Z. And how lovely to see a mammoth here, particularly a mammoth that uses groats as currency.

I'm seeing my mum tomorrow and will treat her to lunch. She also insists on seeing the Library of Doom. I'm sure she'll find it fascinating...

Welcome, Wooly_Mammoth.

/* Rubs eyes */

Is that Z? And Hati?
Z, does this mean your computer is fixed?

In 1978 I was 13 and probably listening to Billy Joel, whom I now can not stand to hear.

I just realized that this coming week is the last week of classes.