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

Yes you're right Amy.
See http://www.tetrameter.com for a fuller explanation.

Or to put it another way

Vive la compagnie
Vive la, vive la, vive l'amour
Vive la, vive la, vive l'amour
Vive l'amour, vive l'amour
Vive la compagnie

Come fill up your glasses, I'll give you a toast,
Here's health to our friendly and generous host.
Since all with good humour you've toasted so free,
I hope it will please you to drink now with me;
A friend on the left and a friend on the right,
In love and good fellowship let us unit

Glug

I LOVE being right! Here's part of my favourite from Phil's suggested site. (By Anonymous, who seems to have written so many good things.)

When bashfull daylight now was gone
And night, that hides a blush, came on.
Sixe Pretty Nymphes to wash away
The sweatinge of a Summers daye
In Chams fair streames did gently swim
And naked bathd each curious limbe.
O Who had this blist sight but seene
Would thinke they all had Cloelias beene.

http://www.tetrameter.com/anon.htm

Or as the Scots would put it

JUST A WEE DEOCH-AN-DORIS
Just a wee deoch-an-doris, Just a wee yin that's a'
Just a wee deoch-an-doris, Before we gang awa'.
There's a wee wifie waitin', in a wee but-an-ben;
If you can say, "it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht".
Ye're richt, ye ken.

*Decides against reciting Jabberwocky*

*wakes up, lifts head from books*

Ouch! Stiff neck!

Thank you ever so much for your help Amy, Phil, Loony - I love the examples!

Matina, OJ and café mélange, please!

*appears, after never actually disappearing...*
*he's dressed all smartly again...*
*and the m's on his keyboard are dodgy...*

Hey all!

Yeah, you got it, I'm at Work Experience again...thinking of something to do...
Ah...unlimited I-net access during the day!

Big C, don't get too used to it. It's a hard habit to break

Yeah...I've got the gist already!
Like a drink?

Just OJ in the mornings for me, I've got work to do.

Matina, or whoever, some San Betian Seawater, and an OJ for Phil...

Hehe...I love Work Experience...my superisor's away, and no one's watching me do nothing!

Ah, thank you Matina...

*takes a swig to keep his 'working' spirits up *

Always the best kind of experience to have

Where are you and awhat are you supposed to be doing?

I'm where my dad works: Acapella, a division of Semtech.
They design and market telecomms chips and boards...you know, the stuff that's so fast it is never sold to the public...

At the moment, I'm suposed to be working on their Intranet site, but I'm having a nice long lunch-break...

I know the stuff. I've designed and tested chips for mobiles and pagers

Lunch, must be near that time by now.

Had mine...went all over the place...a wobbly bagette...

Trying to decide if it's safe to go out and hoping the whole thing wont come tumbling down around my ears if I do.

Nah...the World's got some pretty decent architecture, you know...
Quite rigid...

Shame the systems I have to admin on a daily basis aren't quite so adequately built. Now it's lunchtime (after spending half an hour fixing stuff that shouldn't have needed it )

I'm sorry...*sympathy...*
But that's the way of technology in RL...

No it's poor design and implementation on the programmers part.