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

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*is shaken an stirred*

Who is the Hootoo Bond imposter!!!!

*red eyes glow*
elections no place for idealism
*tying bryces shoelaces together*

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*Wanders in* Gosh it is quite in here isn't it? how unusal..

How very...

*ponders the spelling of unusal - it doesn't quite look right...*

Unusual
Unuseal?

can any one help me out here?

It's not my fault. I haven't shushed anyone for ages.

That is quite unusual. Posting like crazy all night long and then nothing.

I have never missed an election and I never plan to miss one.

Hypathia - you've never shushed anyone? at all?

I left my plants outside when it snowed last night, (lavender, strawberry plant, laburnum, rosemany and chive) how can I tell if they're damaged?

My way is to see if the leaves fall off or not, but then I'm no gardener!

My rosemary & Lavender is planted in the ground, so they not coming in at all.

Styx try under deli counter...

Z- lavender, strawberry, chive and, I think, laburnum are all hardy and should be fine. The rosemary, though, I'm not so sure about.

So should I bring the rosemary inside then? I'd like to, it does smel nice..

Oh dear I appear to have accidently appeared to have become the schools liason officer for the widening access to medschool project. Oh well

This is nothing at all to do with the job application process that's shortly starting - not at all..

Oh no.

The rosemary might not like getting frozen, so it would probably be better off inside if you expect temperatures below freezing. Hardiness varies with the variety of rosemary, and I think they have been trying to breed hardier varieties, so yours may be okay. But better safe than sorry.

Why would anyone actually come to university at 7pm in the evening and chat loudly to their friends...

*stragnles first year*

Now that wasn't very painful was it.

Z, you asked how people and governments in cold climates deal with the snowfall...(MR lives in sunny southern California, so you probably meant me in Montana, which is okay, Titania gets the two of us confused as well). It is easy. We get snowfall every year, so we're used to it. Budgets are set far in advance for plowing, sanding and de-icer and people are reminded on radio and tv ads to get back into winter driving mode. Of course, a lot of idiots (and newcomers from warmer climates who don't know any better) forget and for the first few weeks of winter we have plenty of accidents. Then everyone calms down and drives more carefully. There's really, unless it is a big scary nasty freakin' blizzard, no such thing as a "snow day" (i.e. no school) in Montana.

Funny, snow storms on the East Coast of the U.S. make national headlines in the news. We get the same weather and you don't hear a peep.

The varieties of rosemary sold in the UK are very hardy, same with lavender. The problem with pots is that the roots can get frozen and should the pots should be wrapped to protect hem, bubble wrap, newspapers, old blankets, carpet strips for example and securely tied round with string.

Oh, for those of you who love live cams, here's a good link to a bunch of cameras across Montana. You can see what our roads are like in the wintertime here:

http://www.mdt.state.mt.us/travinfo/weather/camera.html

Snow day? It's been a terribly long time since I recall having the schools closed due to snow. The last time I remember was a fairly major blizzard in 1986. Even in 1994 when we had over a metre of snow in 12 hours, we did not close the schools. The snow storm that dropped over six feet Christmas day did not effect school mostly because all the schools were allready closed for the week. Even still I made it to work every day whilst driving up Parleys Canyon which only closed a couple of time this winter, so far.