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

*E drops in at the small hours of morning. Very unusual. Looks very tired and thinks about that horrble day at work yesterday. Thinks that he will have to leave the house i a little over two houres. Wants to be able to sleep. Wants a wants a wants a ... anotherone missing...*

ENGLANDER!!!



::grasshopper jumps away from Plato::

(Dragonfly about ready for SLEEP!!!)

*Tiptoes past Englander, places a few slices of bread on the barbeque for her breakfast and whispers to anyone within hearing range*

Is there any left?

Plenty in the pot ... and a good supply of veg. if you're peckish ....

*pours herself , finds her baby-cactus on the windowsill and hides it into the pocket*
Morning, everybody.

Seth - I am impressed, really. When one is able to ask in a local language it's almost as good as having a with you. Just to let the public now = õlu in Estonian.

*sips *

Lady K - homeless houseplants NEED to be adopted, they hate roaming as they may loose their flowers and leaves when they are forced to move too often. Houseplants need a HOUSE to live in, they want home.
IRL I have several saved and adopted houseplants and though they say that the best plants are stolen plants, I think that adopted plants are even better.

Thanks Kes! *Munches on a raw carrot and a slice of toast*

Hi Hati! I have so many houseplants that our house resembles a jungle and I'm terrible for not being able to walk past neglected plants in supermarkets (they never seem to water their stock), or buying the reduced ones before they get thrown out. In fact, I've cornered our local supermarket's manager before now and complained that his plants all needed watering and then wrote a letter of complaint to their head office as well!

Then they drown everything and kill off the alpines and cacti

Hati : I didn't dare put for in case 'partitive case' only got me part of a drink

Gwennie - I know the feeling. Luckily enough I've got a husband who tolerates my hobby and recently I heard him discussing about making a whole new window in the wall of our house. Sometimes I feel like starting a kind of terrorist organization to rescue all the mistreated houseplants.

Seth - 'õlu' is nominative, partitive is 'õlut'. It is a totally irregular word.
BTW how comes you know estonian? I mean do you really know it or are you just using web-dictionaries?

Seth is disgustingly well-traveled, don't you know...

"Yo Seth! Free bar tonight ."

"Lady K, last place I lived in Canada was Ottawa. Cool city in those days as the women to men ratio was 8:1. That was of course pre word processor days. The late 60's, ah what a time! It was in the Chaudiere club (The Green Door) in Hull where somone told me about Ibezia and I've never been back to Canada since."

"How's your cold Kasia? I have one also. Still the free bar tonight should cheer me."

No, I didn't know that. Even so I don't believe he has been to Estonia.

*E wakes, remembers that there was a fire somewhere in the place, and that flippin` green armchair. And a Terry Prachett. Ignores the smell of bbq and imagines logfire, fir, Glühwein, Christmascoockies, Warm slippers, Choclate-father-christmasses........slowley slouches to the couch (what colour is this one???) drops on it, turns over

I like houseplants, Hati. THey give me something else to care for, something less demanding than a pet (which I've never done well with) and less invasive of personal space, but just as alive and lovable. Right now, I only have an african violet that probably should be moved to a bigger pot. I may acquire a nice creeper before summer ends though, but I don't know exactly what it's called.

Only trouble is, during Uni, I live in Residence, and during summer I live at home. I don't like transporting too many plants around. But if you've got any homeless virtual cacti that need adopting, I'd love to brighten up my personal space with one! I think a cactus would get along well with the dragons, don't you?

Sultandude, I LOVE Ottawa. I mean, I don't know when it was that you were there, but I've been a couple times in the last few years. I love the downtown core, it's so... clean, and just nice. Not at all like, say, Toronto. Where is Ibezia? It sounds Spanish, like Iberia. Isn't Iberia such a cool name for a place?

Multilingual beer ordering capability is currently under discussion at : http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F19585?thread=127443&latest=1 Thank-you for your contribution, Hati - how about Latvian and Lithuanian ?

How about saving your liver and your lunch and NOT ordering a beer!??

OOps... sorry... the mother in me...

The Musemother actually, because if I was a RL mother, there would be a star in the East!!!

::holy sounds::

Hey... Who's snoring and slobbering on my purple couch!??

You can be my mum if you want, D - so long as I don't have to wear bairn's clarts and suck on a cuggie blanket.

Oh yes, and it's beer in my bottle right? NOT ribena

I'll be your mom if you'll be a muse, and I can call you Betty, and Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al...

You won't be doing any of that silly stuff, because... I do not know what you are talking about!!!

Hey... E's on my couch!!! Oh great... I can only hope his slobber won't hurt the expensive purple leather!!! It's all-natural, you know... ::nervous::

And how many poor little defenceless purples had to die to make it, then ?

Oh silly!!! They don't die!!! They shed their skin... like snakes...

Which reminds me... I haven't thought about the CROC HUNTER in too long of a time...

::moves Englander's legs so she can sit on her couch and think about the CROC HUNTER!!!!::