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

I don't believe so. I think they still have the equipment though. WWII was not so long ago that they would have gotten rid of it all.

A surprisingly large number of the folks who frequented the Fort also did Civil War, both back East and here in the West. One of my dearest friends, John Luzader, used to fly out there every summer. (He works at one of the colleges here in Denver, so he had a lot of free time in the summer.)

G7

I have never met him, does he still reenact? I'll keep my eye out.

*Yawn*
I think i'll just fall asleep now, i think i'll have just enough time to stop in tomarrow for a quck dose of caffine before i time warp. I'm sorry i couldn't stay for the limbo contest (my corsets not on yet!!!-smiles at Gw7en)
*slips out, rather that to a corner, to save Lil from job of waking her up*
Goodnite

*comes out of studio, which is her wormhole in and out of real life*

Hi y'all! DD, what did you say in Morse? Lintilla, do you know BluesSlider? He's a re-enactor too, but he's a Dragoon in the King's 15th Hussars and does Napoleonic era stuff.

*wanders over to smorgasbord and starts a fresh plate of goodies* I really ought to list what's on this table under the drinks menu.

It probably didn't make sence Lil I just strung a few dots and dashes together, I then I get challenged on historical accuracy

or Morsical accuracy.

Sometimes when I'm working on an old photograph I get very drawn into that period. Doing Billy the Kid, for example, you see how ill-fitting clothes really were for the common man, even when they were a little flush, as Billy evidently was at the time of the photo. It's such slow work on a really dirty scratched picture that after a while you can almost smell the dust and horses outside the tent where the picture was taken. And those woollen dresses them women wore!

Ugh, those clothes were probably so uncomfortable. I don't know how the women managed to perform the daily tasks of the time in the those get-ups.

Ampton, could you refill my champagne, please?

*appears looking like Death warmed up, from the guest appartment where he has been staying recently*
Right when does this.....Eh?
*checks watch, shakes wrist*
Oh crap!
It's these damn nightshifts, playing havoc with my body clock.
(actually it is the fact that when he got into work 3 hours ago, all hell had broken lose, and he has only now caught up with everything
, and missed QMike to boot!)
Ampton, one champage please and keep them coming. I need this!
*takes glass from Ampton, downs and gets refill, sips more sedately this time*
Evening/Morning all. Sorry I couldn't get here any sooner.

*accepts Y from Ampton, peruses groaning board*

*fills a plate with caviar, canapes and other tasty things*

Wow, this is great!

That's OK, Babel, QMike will be back tomorrow, however briefly. It will be his last day of school, the whole family is packing, and his schoolchums are in and out during the evening, plus he shares the computer with his little brother. So.

It was quite a crowd earlier on, and I kept getting into 3 and 5-way simulposts!

Witty M, I find it utterly incredible at times, what they wore. The pictures of my great-uncle when he was in the Philippines with the US Marines ... long underwear, wool socks,and the brown ships' uniforms for social occasions ... or for everyday work they had long underwear again, blue flannel Army-issue shirts, white cotton trousers and gaiters over their shins and work shoes. He wrote in his journal that those soldiers who could afford it wore "native underwear".

Lil, I'm guessing that the only reason they didn't succumb to some horrible fungus is that everything was natural fiber, no synthetics.

Do you have any idea whate "native underwear" was?

And let me tell you, the whalebone in the corsets can *hurt* when you are doing alot of lifting, carrying, bending, twisting, etc! The layers actually helped both in summer and winter. During the winter the benefit is obvious. During the summer, in front of a big cook fire, you sweat through the bottom layers of fabrics and have a low-tech version of a swamp cooler whenever a breeze blows by. All of my dresses were cotton, in various thicknesses. Surprisingly comfortable.

G7

I didn't think natives wore underwear!
*takes another glass of Y from Ampton, and helps himself from the still well laden table*

Ugh!! *brushes spaghetti off self, rubs wrists*

Some people, and I use the term loosely, heard that Bowie would be played extensively this evening, and commenced to hire a hit out on me. Thankfully they aquired their resources from Don Alfredo; his henchman know not to do any mortal damage to me and thusly I was merely wrapped up in spaghetti and forced to watch re-runs of the Soporanos.

When I find those b******s....

Anywho, Sporky's in the house

The natives on the main island of the Philippines, the Tagalogs, were completely Christianised by the Spanishlong before the Spanish American War that brought my great-uncle to Manila's outskirts. So you bet they wore underwear. If you haven't seen it yet, let's go down the gallery and look at the picture of the 3 Marines. You can see that the Sergeant on the left and my great uncle in the middle have their sleeves rolled up because they are wearing native underwear. Conway, on the right, he's just spent the morning in the field doing rifle drill -- my uncle was sick with dengue and was staying in camp.

So poor Conway is in full regulation dress and is wearing long underwear which included long sleeves, or else he would have his shirtsleeves rolled up like the other two. My great-uncle was 5'6" according to his military papers, by the way. Conway looks to have been about 5'5". this was 1905, I think.

*comes staggering in*

Party?
Hee. And here l was all geared up for a nice quiet evening at the cafe...with nonalcoholic beverages -- that part is important, after last evening in RL -- but instead l find nothing but a continuation of the past twenty four hours' activities!
Ah well. l'll pick up right where l left off.
ls there any sangria? And graham crackers? And duck sauce?

Only half a dozen of us in the room on our feet and we still manage to simulpost. Well, Sporky, in your absence we heard Slipknot and Maiden, surprise, surprise.

I'm back. Missed QMike when he was here, but maybe I'll catch him when he returns. I could use another one of those Venutian Sunrises, and I'll help myself at the food table.

Sorry to interrupt. All I heard was something about underwear?

LOL The simulposting must be a skill acquired when one joins H2G2.

Welcome, Sporky! The turn table is yours!

G7

Hi, Odra, Redbeard & Sporky.

Odra, there's some sort of fruit salad, Pimm's concoction that may approach the concept of Sangria. Why don't you try it?

Odra! Welcome! You've never been here before! Did you look at the floor plan on your way in? The smorgasbord table has everything. 4 or 5 meats, sausdage rolls, veggies, salmon, caviar, cake -- and the bar is over there. The menu is unbelievable, you'll find it under the floor plan.

Shame you haven't met my nephew. He's a wild boy, you'd like him.