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

Hey... that wasn't very nice... You just take it back!!! Kes is a master of his own spit...!!!

Now, Arutha, you just apologize to Kes, or Sophocles the Cat will attack!!!

Kes is a spitmaster? Sophocles is an Attack cat?
i must stop turning up late at threads....

Kes is a spitmaster? Sophocles is an Attack cat?
i must stop turning up late at threads....

...and pressing post twice

I think we can find it in our hearts to forgive you....

Here we are. Looking at cats, and dogs, and beer, and what else is around. I do hope there is a story about it coming up soon!

Yes, people in glass houses and all that...

Yes, people in glass houses and all that...

I could tell another one of my husband's silly jokes if you like, Englander...

Oh, could you?

*Engländer crawling into his little, conservative compartment of his mind, having a look if he is to shoked of what he might hear. Someone from the "Basic insticts"department of his soul comes sniggering over, and says: LET HER GO ON WITH IT!*

*Gives Engländer a wicked grin*

I'll take that as a "Yes" then...

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A man goes for an interview for a job on the railways and is quizzed thoroughly by his potential employers as to how he would react in an emergency.

"Now," says the railway interviewer, "what would you do if a train was coming in one direction and another was coming from the other direction, on the same piece of track?"

"Easy!" replies the man..."I'd set the signal to red, then the trains would stop."

"Ah!" says the interviewer, "But the signals aren't working."

"Well then," says the man, "I'd pull the lever and switch the points to another track so the trains would miss each other."

"Okay!" says the interviewer, "You pull the lever and the switch is frozen. What do you do now?"

"Well," says the man, "I'd run down the track and switch the points manually."

"Right." says the interviewer, "You get to the points and they're rusted solid and won't move..."

"Alright," perseveres the man, "I'd run back to the signal box, get the red flag out, run up the track a little way and flag the on-coming train to a stop."

"Ye-es..." says the interviewer, thoughtfully. "You run back to the signal box, only to find it's on fire and you can't get in..."

Well, the man thinks for a moment and then responds, "In that case, I'd run down the road and fetch my Uncle Archie..."

"Why on Earth would you do that?" asks the interviewer.

"Well," says the man, "he's never seen a train crash!!!"

*applauds then reaches for another *

This will be realy difficult, knowing what everyone realy means with those new smilies.

Har. Har. What a joke.

I'm going to be really conservative with the new smileys, and treat them like a very strong herb -- too much could overpower what one's trying to say! But having , that's not before time.

[Phillipa]

Thank you for the invite to the new stables, Lil. Let me know when it opens and I'll be there. I have ridden both English and Western, and have taught western riding! I have trained horses also, using natural horsemanship techniques.

I liked the joke, Gwennie! hehe!

*Stoops and pets Sopho.*

I wonder if typing (Y) would get me a martini?

*Sopho closes her eyes and purrs*

Well, if there's to be English riding, I'll come along for a hack. Never fancied Western style ... don't think I could cope with a sitting trot.

You people are perverts!!!! hahahaha...

Not if you stick with the rising trot, dear!

I foresee two kinds of threads when the stable formally opens -- story threads of going on hacks or hunts or cross-country gallops, and real substantive horse-talk.

I think I'm about to turn in for the night -- stayed up very late watching the non-election!

Don't blame you, Lil ... and still no result!

Count me in for the "hacks"!

...perverts...