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

Purchases a for Pheroneous to cheer him up.

Purchases a for Munchkin to wake him up.

Erm

Erm

Yes, it's the new 'euro' monopoly expecially designed to introduce the brits to the new euro notes. So don;t worry!

*think I got away with that?*

Anyone got change for a 500...erm....Euro note?

Erm

Erm

Yes, it's the new 'euro' monopoly expecially designed to introduce the brits to the new euro notes. So don;t worry!

*think I got away with that?*

Anyone got change for a 500...erm....Euro note?

I'll swap you for the Northern Line and a Get-out-of-gaol-free card.

I wonder why that posted twice? How odd.

Hmmmm, I see the euro exchange rate has dived again then

[Zero and X collapse on the floor]

[Zero] Okay, I give up. Should we try teleporting out with him?

[X] Actually, with our luck, he's probably at the Atelier without us having to lift a finger.

Teleportation inside the Snug sounds like a risky undertaking. Will it work on just his Lordship, or will it take the table and chair he's in too? How does it work? Is it a big machine, or special lasers on three tall chromed poles that you set up equadistant with the Earl in the center, or some new fangled thingamabob? Do you have the proper authorization to teleport people within the limits of the Village? I know there is a form.

Why don't you buy me a and we can talk it over....

*Cups hand to ear*
What? Telley Port? Don't mind if I do ..... Don't know the brand, but any port in a whatsit, y'know ....

*Sort of recovered but still looking wobbly*
Umm, I have some Tetley Port. Apparently, according to the label, it is very refreshing when taken mixed in a cup of tea.
*Looks rather worriedly at the contents of the till*

Teleportation..mmmmm
Apparentaly scientists have just recently managed to teleport a photon or some such particle from one side of their lab to the other...
They reckon that in a few hundred years they will be able to transport the likes of beetles and things.. more complicated beasties like, say for example John Major, may take another few hundred years.

So at present taking the train comes a close second, to teleportation as the fastest way of getting from a to c.... I would just take a seat and wait for the technology to catch up if i were you

On the subject of boooooze... i have to say i do enjoy Deuchars IPA, but only in certain pubs--- oh excuse me Mari' you seem to be standing on my foot-- oh thanks thats better-- i say that is a rather pleasant perfume you are sporting-- ahem, cough, sorry where was i??

Oh yes, ...it seems that just as Guiness can taste entirely different from one pub to another, so can just about anything from a tap.
My local, for example, is widely acknowlwdged as the wrong place to enjoy a real ale. Pints that i KNOW to be delicious just taste flat and bland in my local ..sigh...it's just not gong to win many converts to the real ale cause i'm afraid. Just as well it is otherwise a very pleasant place to spend a few hours with some cool folk, and there's always the whiskey, which isnt really location criticle.

Bye the way, does anyone know WHY beer tastes so different from one place to another?? can it really be 'the pipes' or is it more to do with correct storage etc ?

Oh look, there goes my last bus home... oh well.... another round anyone? go on.... mm that floor looks comfy...

Round these parts, teleportation is more like wishful thinking.


If you're really going to sleep on ~this~ floor, well... *looks across at the bartender* Munchkin, you should sell tickets.

Oh dear ..... young w2 seems to have fallen asleep and left most of his pint untouched .... shame really ... it would only go flat if we leave it on the bar ..... perhaps I ought to ..... you know ... purely in the interests of conservation, and all that ....

They were australian.












*Longish pause while everyone thinks about that one.....*
















*Notices people are looking at her as though they were expecting something more....*














The scientists who teleported the particles were australian.

Teleportation, or moving something remotely. Isn't that called the postal service?

Well, I think our young winnoch here definitely qualifies as a Junior League BOF. He put himself to sleep!

*to Zero and X*

So you can teleport people? Why aren't you rich?

See, I told you teleportation was just the postal service. Sending things long distances without making any money.

I hesitate to say this, but whose round is it? Perhaps one last one from the Earl before he leaves?

*dubious* Are the two gentlemen wot settled his bill going to spring for a new tab? And say, could we use some of that money to buy some groceries? We're all out of bacon.

Umm, I didn't think you got bacon from a grocers.
That aside, we could always use this change that seems to have fallen out of the Lord's pockets for a round.

[Zero] We're science fiction characters.

[X] Also, we /are/ rich, sort of. The Global Defense Council gives the Maverick Hunters plenty of money to stop Mavericks from annihilating humanity.