A Conversation for H2G2 Waterworks: The Beach
Here comes summer
I'm not really here Started conversation Aug 15, 2001
*the harmonious music of the ice cream van is turned off in time to play Greensleeves to annoy the sunbathers. After a few attempts to drive along the sand, the van stops, and some muttering is heard from inside. The observant can see the air flicker and then a boardwalk appears. The van starts, stalls, swears, and starts again, and drives up the boardwalk. Greensleeves stops and the harmonious music of the Tibetan Monks can be heard once more. The window opens and an OPEN sign is hung out*
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Bluebottle Posted Aug 17, 2001
Hello! Boy am I hot, and do I need an ice-cream. So, do you do 99s with a flake?
If so, can I have a 999 with a twix in? I really need to cool down!
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I'm not really here Posted Aug 17, 2001
I don't do 99s with a flake in, cos that would be 2 flakes. I can put a twix in, would you like 1 finger or 2?
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I'm not really here Posted Aug 17, 2001
A thumb? 
Whose thumb?
Yours?
*gets out a chopper*
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Bluebottle Posted Aug 17, 2001
Umm... I think I'll settle for that twix, on second thoughts.
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I'm not really here Posted Aug 17, 2001
Ok, good idea.
*pokes twix fingers in the top of an icecream to look like an offensive v sign totally accidently*
There you go, enjoy. 
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I'm not really here Posted Aug 21, 2001
Another one? You're not worried about getting a little chubby?
*hangs out new sign "Free little Chubby Checker with every second ice cream"*
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Bluebottle Posted Aug 22, 2001
Chubby checker? Oh, you want a game of draughts? Okay - I'll by black, you can be white. The winner wins an ice-cream of their choice.
Your move.
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I'm not really here Posted Aug 22, 2001
Ah, yes, I see.
Hmmm...
What colour did you say I was?
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Chris Tonks Posted Sep 3, 2001
Blue.
Bottle. 
*Needless to say the Professor's just teleported on the beach.*
What ho, all!
*Sets up a hovering deckchair, sits in it, and promptly falls asleep.*
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MaW Posted Sep 3, 2001
* A bolt of lightning lances from the clear, sun-filled sky. Where it hits, MaW is suddenly there, steaming a little because his clothes are damp and it's very hot here on the beach *
Goodness, this is a bit of a climate change.
* he rips off his coat, boots, tunic, shirt and hose to reveal a pair of incredibly stylish swimming trunks *
I'm going for a swim!
* he enters the water and splashes over towards Titania *
Hello!
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MaW Posted Sep 4, 2001
* does backstroke somewhat ineptly (I'm not very good at backstroke) *
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Bumblebee Posted Sep 4, 2001
*Puffing along the beach comes Bumblebee, complete with her oversized handbag*
I swear this bag is gaining weight by the minute!
*looks around*
This is a nice spot!
*Handbag belches and expels a deck-chair and a brightly coloured parasol*
OK, give me the rest! Come on now! Open up!
Suntan lotion, towels, floppy hat, sunglasses, magazine, books, waterbottle, sandwiches, cookies, bathingshoes, rubber duck, inflatable mattress, bucket and spade.
*handbag moans and collapses*
Thank you!
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Here comes summer
- 1: I'm not really here (Aug 15, 2001)
- 2: Bluebottle (Aug 17, 2001)
- 3: I'm not really here (Aug 17, 2001)
- 4: Bluebottle (Aug 17, 2001)
- 5: I'm not really here (Aug 17, 2001)
- 6: Bluebottle (Aug 17, 2001)
- 7: I'm not really here (Aug 17, 2001)
- 8: Bluebottle (Aug 17, 2001)
- 9: Bluebottle (Aug 21, 2001)
- 10: I'm not really here (Aug 21, 2001)
- 11: Bluebottle (Aug 22, 2001)
- 12: I'm not really here (Aug 22, 2001)
- 13: Bluebottle (Aug 22, 2001)
- 14: I'm not really here (Aug 22, 2001)
- 15: Chris Tonks (Sep 3, 2001)
- 16: Titania (gone for lunch) (Sep 3, 2001)
- 17: MaW (Sep 3, 2001)
- 18: Titania (gone for lunch) (Sep 3, 2001)
- 19: MaW (Sep 4, 2001)
- 20: Bumblebee (Sep 4, 2001)
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