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

ox has a birthday too! GR, will you share your party with ox?

Amy, hallo *hugs Amy* I think having six legs would be an advantage at the start, but quite difficult toward the end of the game. Maybe we should handicap you and decree that you can only use 4 during the game...

GR, I watched Matina making that cake. I wish you would hurry up and slice it, because it smelled delicious. Devils-food chocolate!

And forgive me if I drop in and out -- not only is Mindspring still a cripple, but Compuserve is playing AOL head games with me, and forces me to say I want to stay connected, every 10 minutes. And then disconnects me without warning anyway. Now I remember why it was the backup and not my main ISP. *crunches down on tostado chips savagely*

*sneaks over to the cake and snicks off a bit of frosting*
Mm.
*also snags a sparkler, doing the old tracing-in-the-air-watch-the-afterglow-trailer trick, spelling out "Happy Birthdays Ox and GR"*

Definitely Los Alamos ought to be notified -- they've had enough forest fires already...
*grins at prospect of being located so close to so much -interesting-weapons technology*

l'm in and out myself, l fear -- being at school l'm at the mercy of prevailing class schedules. Right now l'm sneaking in posts between ostensibly what is a C++ lab...shhh...don't tell...

Did someone say Twister?
*hopes there's a least-coordinated-competitor award*

Maybe l should stick to being the person in charge of the spinner...

LOL
Odra, that could be dangerous, too!

*shares party*
How old are you tomorrow, ox? Or shouldn't I ask . Here, have an early present *backstage pass*

*cryhogenically freezes cake*
Not saturday yet. Birthday cake. Eat cake on birthday!

My hands are freezing now - you should have seen the number of typos I just corrected!

Ok...let the games begin?

Thanks, GR! *eagerly accepts pass*

Er, let's put it this way. I'm really at the point of feeling the erosion caused by the constant pull of gravity.

Let's set the Twister up on the beach. Falling down hurts less, with sand...

*seizes the Twister spinner, grinning like a maniac*

Right, then, everybody! Take off your shoes...

I'm glad somebody else around here feels the gravity. GR, are you having a birthday party on Saturday?

Now: here is an extremely long stick with an oily tip. You light the tip on one of these fine tiki torches and then fling the thing at te wicker man.

*hands stick to GR and stands back, eagerly awaiting lighting of bonfire*

my first simulpost in 3 weeks!!

fire first then twister. If we get sloshed, we'll need a beacon to find our way back from the beach.

The shadow of The Wicker Man is rising up again!

*cuts four minutes of video to the bit where the torch the 'Man*

Marshmallows out, babes. Did we bring them? Oh, jelly beans are also a must. The really expensive but delicious ones - 50p for a small packet is theft but tasty theft.

Stand back peeps...

ooooooooooooooooooooh!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.....

*per Lil's instructions, the wicker man was spiced with treated pine cones, so now great gouts of blue, green and purple flames blend with yellow and orange as the wicker man is covered with fire*

oh wow!

ahh...nice colors!

*runs and fetches marshmallows, graham crackers, chocolate and gourmet jelly beans*

*decides to run a comparative study: toasted marshmallow-flavoured jelly bean vs. actual toasted marshmallow*

*reconsiders and decides instead to run a comparative study: tequila-flavoured jelly bean vs. actual tequila *

Pretty colours!

Camera anyone? It may be online but your imagination can conjure up pics that your friends would envy for a thousand years.

Now, Twister

The securicam is picking it up, luv. OK, twister on the beach, then. Yo, securibot, what's your name?
Chesworth: Chesworth.

OK, Ches, we need you to set up a satellite eat-and-drink center over on the beach.

Chesworth: Right. Where do I put these barrels of phlog?

*grabs another Rolling Rock and follows the others to the beach*

Lil and ox, I am also succumbing to effects of gravity. I wish there was a 12 step program for that. 'Hello, my name is Witty and I'm a sagaholic.'

But look at the silver lining, when we 3 play Twister, we should have everyone else in stitches.

Just you wait, they'll have facelifts on Medicare in the US by the end of the next decade.

Chesworth, you can roll one of those barrels of phlog down to the beach and tap it! I know Odra likes phlog. Now what was the name of that cocktail they invented at the Celery's banquet? Ah. Here comes Matina with the Blue Powder Punch.

How will we play Twister online? Here's a nice flat place above the high tide mark.

*holds her fist in the air*

Baby Boomer Power, man!

I'll be back in a couple of hours. Hope some people will be here to play twister with. We need to make a thread that will entertain the younger birthday lad when he comes back tomorrow!