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

So, here we are on our mission to swim to Jupiter, on board the Swimming Pool ship piloted by Joanna, which has a Yellow Submarine in it's depths. Only one more forum after this and we'll arrive there, as we have sailed past both Mars and the Asteroid belt, and we are approaching the king of planets. ( continued from http://www.h2g2.com/F26840?thread=49994&show=1000 )

So, being the King of Planets do we have to approach with eyes averted? Is there any other etiquette we should know?

Oh, man...
l left my waterwings on Phobos.
Can we turn back for a sec?

It's okay, we have some spare in the locker.
*gets some out for Odradek*
So, let's carry on.

Can I have some too please. I can't wiat until we get to Jupitar.

}Since I can shift shape at will (which I don't do often), I can grow my own water wings.{

Wouldn't it make more sense to metamorphose into a fish?

}No, I'd rather be recognizable.{


[Mew, in a really cool 3D morph animation, gains fins on several strategic locations as well as gills to supplement breathing and becomes more streamlined for travel through water, whereupon he dives into the pool]

Gratsi, Bluebottle. And they're such a charming iridescent shade of lime-crimson-butterscotch plaid.
l don't suppose you've anything in that storage locker that'll mutate me after the fashion of Mew, though? l'd love a pair of gills for those week-long benders of mine...l could just go swimming in a giant G&T...
Hey. Has anyone thought to analyze the chemical content of Jupiter's (apparent) waters? Maybe we -will- be swimming in a giant G&T...

}G&T? What's that?{

Geraniums & Tulips. Well, if we're to arrive in The Er Yellow Submarine we're likely to spread a little flower power around

Forgive me for misspeaking; l forgot the forum l was in. Jynnan Tonnix, anyone?

}No thanks. I sustain myself with ...{ [mental image which is completely incomprehensible unless you've been to the Rainbow Cloud, in which case it's mostly incomprehensible]

Has this Swimming Pool Ship got a hot tub? l could do with a nice dip in a Jaccuzi...bad back, you know, from an incident involving my jumping down a flight of stairs which l'd rather not recount...

Oh yes, there's a jaccuzi, but you'll have to leave the Yellow Submarine, surface, and then go down the corridor and turn left. Just adjust the temperature to how you like it.

<BB<

[Mew flies down the corridor, turns left, and finds Gonzo, Rizzo, and Pipi la Shrimp. Gonzo is asleep; Pipi and Rizzo are talking into a fan.]

[Pipi says, "Gonzo ... Gonzo ... Build a jaccuzi and we will come ..."]

[Gonzo gets up, still asleep, says, "Must ... build ... jaccuzi!" and walks straight into the jaccusi, into which he falls]

*snags towel and heads for the hot tub, wondering if there will be a general public outcry if she adds some gelatin to the water.*
A Jell-o swimming pool. Lime. What says everyone? Cradled in the warm soothing embrace of gelatinous comfort?

Will there be vodka in said jelly?

Of -course- there will be vodka in it. Whatever do you take me for?

[Mew pokes a button on a control panel. Nearby, a light above an airlock door turns red and a whooshing noise is heard.]


}There. That takes care of that problem.{

}You were saying?{