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

Styx, nice to see you around again... *hands the handsome rat some cherries to dunk*

Redhead Lady broken? *comes over and gnaws on crutch*

Styx thinks men's egos be death of planet

You and me both, Styx. Don't gnaw too much, dear, it's aluminum, and might hurt your teeth.

Might be live too...barbecued rat!

heh heh heh
5000 year old corpse making jokes about Styx

Styx lurking everywhere

Hiya, Styx! It is a great pleasure to see you back in the salon.

I just got back from seeing Return of the King. Aside from being a bit numb in a certain area, I quite enjoyed myself. Mr. Moniker thought the teary bit at the end was too long, but I thought it was appropriate.

I have to say I'm with Mr Moniker on that one. I'd rather have had less of the Hovis ad* and then they could have put in Christopher Lee.

(*Hovis is a brand name for a loaf of bread. Their ads in the 1970's were nostalgic "those were the days" soft focus scenes from Yorkshire village life, set to Dvorak's " "New World Symphony".)

Haven't seen it yet, but am going to go next week sometime. Just me, myself and I. I like going to movies by myself. That way, I don't have to deal with people like my mother, who ask questions all the time. Drives me bonkers.

Hey, all, if I could so humbly ask for your input on this entry...A850330

I wrote it over a year ago, and recently came back to it and revised it a bit. Let me know what you think.

I liked the article MR, but I feel that I'm not enough of a historian myself to really comment on it beyond the fact that it felt informative and well presented.

On a side note, does anyone know how to properly configure an Inform IF Compiler Program on a PC? I can't get this darn thing to work....

There was something wrong with that A-number, MR, it didn't work propper.

The Stepson's verdict on the new shower is that is is "cool", which is praise indeed. (Did I tell you his definition of "cool"? "A human radioactive isotope with a half-life of ten years." Now that *hurts*. Though he thinks I am cool. I cannot for the life of me see why, but which I feel flattered by it, which is annoying.)

I am glad he likes the shower. Makes it all worthwhile somehow. He hadn't actually reached the stage of Foul Old Ron where his smell was leading an interesting and independent life of its own, but he had gone more days without washing than I cared to admit to his father. Ben the domestic slut, again.

for Caer.

for MR.

Very late for Titania.

Anyway, he is out buying cigarettes, and then we are watching Casablanca. I am making sure that I take good care of his cultural education. Are those Turners still on, Z?

Oh, and Ben's Stepson seems to cover the bases, no? I am still trying to get him on here, but until I do he might as well be called that.

B

Ah, Casablanca....the best Humphrey Bogart film that spends most of its time in a Cafe in Africa.

"I'm shocked, absolutely shocked, to discover that Gambling is going on here!"
"Your winnings, sir."
"Oh, thank you...."

Ok Ben I shall refer to him as Bens stepson, A also said that he thought that you were cool. I don't think that he's got defination of it himself.

I'm sure their are ways in which you can wash without actually having a shower. I hope that their are.

The Turners are indeed on Ben, I took A on Sunday, but he didn't said he didn't really "get" figerative art. I find that the one at the Baber, which is concentrating on his early seascapes though only has a few Turners, the rest of the gallery is very good, and you usually get an entire room in the gallery to yourself. I almost get annoyed when they are other people looking at My Art . I haven't been to the exhibiton of his works in the Gas Hall in Birmingham city centre yet, but they are still on and I rather fancy going if you fancy a slightly over keen person as company! Oooh and the Edwardian Tea room at the City art gallery is near the gas hall and does a rather nice cup of coffee...

Hey Styx.

I just saw Return of the King. While a good movie, I have issues about some of the liberties Mr. Jackson took with the book.

Courtesy

Yeah, but you knew that was going to happen, Courtesy. I mean, Shelob's supposed to be in the second book, and she doesn't show up until the third film. I'm just wondering if the ending's the same (no, don't tell me, damnit)

I knew there would be some liberties as the entire book could not fit into a movie. I've had little problem with the storylines that have been modified or dropped in the previous movies.

However, the changes made to Return of the King were drastic enough to bother me.

Oh and it ends with .........


you'll get to see it

Courtesy

Thanks for the s. Am having an early night, will feel brighter in the morning I spect.

Styx is an incredibly handsome black demon rat with stunning red eyes. He's much bigger than normal rats and very much bigger than me, which means I can ride in his backpack on adventures.

Michelle won Pop Idol, as predicted.

The Hovis ads were filmed in Shaftesbury, which is in Dorset and nowhere near Yorkshire.

What is interesting about how Pop idol and other programes which involve the public voting for a winner who goes onto become a celebrity. Is that groups of people who have a grudge about which sorts of people are held up as celebrites by the media, tend to vote for a contestent purely because of that.

For instance on Big Brother a lot of people voted for Brian purely because he was gay, as "wouldn't it show that we were a really tolerant country if a gay man won big brother" I was living in an "all queer" household that year, and we all voted for Brian several times because we wanted a gay man to win.

The same thing happened for Alex on pop idol. Up until now all female pop stars had fitted the hetrosexual males ideal of what an attractive female one, and Alex doesn't. Her appearence is basically what todays young lesbians consider to be attractive. Up til Alex there were no women fitting that relatity in the media. When she started to compete on pop idol most of the gay community (that I know) voted for her.

I suspect that many people voted for Michelle purely because they wanted someone who wasn't conventionally attractive to win. I think she's really attractive but I find women off all sizes attractive..

Courtesy, I have a few issues with ROTK as well, but I was absolutly astounded at much of the film. Visually, it is the best film I think I have ever seen.

The Pop Idol calls cost about 25p and they had over 10 million of them tonight.

2.5 million pounds.