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

A number of people have thought of doing maps -- I was discussing it back at the beginning of the year -- but Amy the Ant is the only one who has actually put digital pen to digital paper. And then discovered why nobody else has gone there.

Back to the fish. I hope it can be agreed upon that no one candidate can have a monopoly on caring about fish. The Celery clearly cares about fish, and so does Big C. My own running mate, Red Fish, is a confirmed fish, and we both have fish-related issues close to our hearts. Saying that only one candidate gets to care about fish is like saying that only one candidate can run on a platform of campaign finance reform -- everyone runs on that platform, and it looks really good on paper. The fish vote is clearly an essential issue in this campaign. Please don't call a monopoly on it, anyone.

/Red

Masque, no one said they were the *only* candidate that cared about fish.
We were discussing who came up with the campaign ploy first.
And it doesn't matter now because no one copied it...

No one thought they had too. At least I didn't my fish has been happily over at the fish pond and dodging the geese.

boing

Hallo, I thimk I will join in now. If an idea is a good one then why shouldnt more than one candidte support it? Just because someone else thought it up doesnt mean someone else cant support it. And on that not I would like to offer anyone who votes for me and Masque a free curried lamp post.

---RedFish
"Vote for us, only RedFish knows what fishes really need"

I would also like to pont out that being a fish it is very difcult for me to spel as i only hav flippers to type with.

You ought to try being a bird. I have a choice of typing with wings, claws or beak. Wings are impossible because there's feathers everywhere, and I tend to push at least nine keys at once. And because my feathers are so springy I have to push down really hard to have any effect at all. Claws are more managable but completely wreck the keyboard, and scrape off all the letters on the keys so I don't know which is which. I have to use my beak, which is accurate at least, but extremely slow.

Things are better for the enigmatic cockroach than in the days of Don Marquis, I'm sure. archie had to hurl himself at the keys of a manual typewriter, and finally died of the exercise.

Do fish get tunnel carpal syndrome?

I believe you mean "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome". And I think waht a fish gets is "Carp Tuna Syndrome".

By the way, I'm offering FREE WINE to anyone who will vote for me and Red Fish. We don't need curried lamp-posts!

/Red

Pah! I've teleported some of your wine out of your stocks, tried it, and it's an acquired taste, I now conclude...

Anyway, Red Fish, I already mentioned that no one person is claiming the fish idea for themselves! So will you please stop that argument!
Erm, BTW, if you mean what you said, you shouldn't be saying what you're saying at the bottom of your post...

Er... Big C? I don't know WHO'S wine you teleported, but being that my "stocks" as you call them are, as yet, still a military secret, and seeing as my wine, which is magical, adjusts its flavor to the preferences of the consumer, it couldn't possibly have been MY wine. Did it have the official Red Skull emblem on it? Perhaps you got a hold of one of my experiment batches -- I keep those at my user space, and some of them are labled... Including one really bad batch that gives one urinary dysfunction. I hope that wasn't the batch you tried...

/Red

I know it was one of yours, but I don't care which batch. Either way, one of your wines has an acquired taste...
And about a disfunction? Nothing of the sort could happen to me! Do you know who I am? My technology?

And why are you perpetualy in a bad mood? You're always sarcastic! Smile a bit behind that mask will you?!

Global -- and indeed, Intergalactic -- Domination is not as cheery a profession as you might think.

No, you don't know who I am do you?

I am a GalaGroup Overseer, so I know more than anyone about Inter- and Multi-Galactic politics!

So there!

Yes, but how many inter-stellar wars have you deliberately started? I've been setting up a doozy recently. I'm actually the Chief of Military Operations for two seperate star systems, and I'm trying to use them to incite a war between... well, I've probably said too much already. Needless to say, the stress of dealing with the "good guys" is begining to get to me. I think there needs to be an "InterGalactic Dictator Support Group". Anyway, I'm rambling. Why don't you tell me about your job?

Yeesh! I would recommend that a separate campaign be set up for Virtual Dictator of the Universe, and leave this forum for the more immediate job vacancy.

Sorry, Lil. I'm still running for Dictator of H2G2. I think if I wanted to rule the Universe, I'd need a much larger military. You're right though. Topic drift can be a nuisance. Good thing you have none of that in any of your forums...

/Red