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

Thanks for the explaination Coely.

So I am trying to figure out how to waterproof my digital camera for the trip. I want to take pictures, but I also want to be sure that I protect my camera. ANy ideas how I can store a sensitive electronic device from the possibility of getting wet on the raft?

*excited s coelacath*

I *miss* your contributions to the Atlier! and your advice on smells of rotten egg..

Oops - sorry Coely - I'm sure that those of the Salonistas that managed to 'get it' are in majority, so... I'll just live and learn, OK?

I never expected to find being mentioned in the Atelier! So, do you guys think Rooney will go to Newcastle or Manch...

(Security bots hastily eject Ormondroyd from Atelier)

I enjoyed the Molesworth, Coley!

B

*sends bots to retrieve Ormondroyd*

I think Everton will hold out for 26 million for the boy Rooney. I wouldn't give you £3.50 cos I think he'll do a Gazza.

I love molesworth. I also love football. Come to think of it, I love Coely, too.

I'd visit a camping store you should find they have gortex/latex type backs that might do failing that ,if its one of those smaller ones ,durex covers there quite stretchy. should prove effective.

(Dusts self down, stares rather crossly at bots)

Yeah, I think you may be right, Amy. When a er is so exceptionally dumb that he's not allowed to give interviews for the first year or so of his top-flight career, you have to wonder about his ability to cope.

You really should join The Virtual Supporters' Club, you know: A243677 .

>>Well, hens are crap at flying anyway, you rarely have to clip their wings.


Many years ago when F and I lived in Tyler, TX, we had some friends who owed F $50 and couldn't pay it back. He didn't care and wanted to drop the whole thing, but they felt bad about it and decided to give us 3 baby chickens. They were the pretty banty chicks and I'd always wanted a banty rooster, so I decided we should raise them and make pets out of them. They turned out to be two roosters and a hen. We named the roosters Stretch and Cecil and named the little hen Dorothy. We didn't clip their wings and let them run around the yard at will. They roosted in a crepe myrtle tree at the corner of our patio, so I know they could fly.

Well, Cecil was fairly normal but Stretch never did learn how to crow properly. He sounded like he had laryngitis all the time. We wondered at the time if he was gay. Both roosters grew bright, long tail feathers and had feathers between their toes and were generally very handsome chickens.

Dorothy was a nice little hen with speckled feathers who liked to have her head petted and would sit on your lap and eat out of your hand. But she did have one tiny pecularity. She didn't like the gas man. The gas meter was at the edge of the patio and the limb where the chickens roosted was located just above it. Every month when the gas man came to read the meter, Dorothy would fly up onto her tree limb, wait until he was bent over writing down our meter reading, and then she would crap on him. She never did this to another living soul. Well, one time she did crap on Penny, our Blue Tick Hound, but it was after Penny chased her away fron a water bowl so we figured she had it coming.

Which reminds me - the outflow pipes for the dishwasher were left unstoppered at Rainbow's, and the outflow from the sink was leaking when we pulled the plug.

I *knew* there was a reason why I keep condoms in my handbag!

Mind you - when we went to replace them, we found that the folks that shop at Waitrose obviously get sex more regularly than the folks that shop in Tescos. In Waitrose they come in 12s or 18s. In Tescos you can get them in packs of threes.

B

Simulpost, I was replying to ltp.

I love bantams - so much nicer than full size hens.

B

Perhaps I shall join after Salt Lake City gets it's football team for MLS next season. I fully intend on going to the first game and hopefully becoming a fan of the game again. I watch the world cup every few years and I try to get the odd EPL game on tv, but I can't really get in to any particular team.

Marv, try a zip-lock freezer bag for your camera. Or two of them, just to be extra safe.

Thanks for the literary reference, coely. If it's any comfort at all, I spent today in a cleaning frenzy, too. Daughter #1 is having a party on Saturday and we are having family friends over on Sunday. <---- loobrush

*Eyes glaze over at the mention of *

This last bit of Atelier cross-talk contains the most surreal coincidence. The team I have supported for far too many years is Bradford City - nickname, 'The Bantams'! There's even a cute little bantam on top of the club badge!

You're so fancy in the UK. In the Ozarks, they're plain old banties.

We refer to a short man with a big ego as a strutting banty.

*doesn't dare comment*

Shall I tell you whose husband is a strutting banty? It rhymes with welldungus.

But is that strutting banty as handsome as the one pictured at the bottom of this page?

http://www.bradfordcityfc.premiumtv.co.uk/club/view/page/0,,10266,00.html

That's not you, is it, Orm?