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

A splendid talent of Koreans is that for riotous assembly. They really know how to do protest marches and the like. Which is what we should be doing instead of sitting around in this place.

Now that you are (almost) familiar with the entire culture of Korea, you might like to look out for a Researcher called 'Sho' (Go to my home page and pick up the conversation 'Would you mind awfully...') who has written a lengthy but accurate diary of her visit there.

It was that very non-BOF thread to which I referred (was referring?).

And sure, what shall we protest? The price of helicopter rides in Cornwall? Blatent destruction of abandoned clay pits in the name of Botanical Gardens? How about the English blockade of Irish rakes? Or maybe musical cruelty to Snughounds? I think I have a protest sign in the boot of the Jaguar left over from '68 that says 'Make luv, not war'...

We wouldn't have to walk too far would we? And can we bring a drinks trolley.

I think that, in view of our host's constipation, I shall not venture out today.

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It seems that while I've been sleeping in this cellar for the last couple of weeks, I have also been wandering round the Snug and joining a committee. Powerful stuff they serve in this establishment- cloning side effects. (Either that or the rest of you are seeing double) Now I have to roam off to Korea?

Don't go there ! You have done nothing to deserve that fate! Stay with us and plot the downfall of the PTB, or the Queen, or even those nice people that live next door! Or just have a and think about it.

The last suggestion is the best - anything else seems to require special equipment.
I spent a merry hour in the chemist's this morning buying support stockings!!! (no, I'm not that old, but they are now advised for long flights and my journey home for Crimbo next week will take nearly 23 hours and thats _before_ we try the transpennine train)
"alleviates stress due to swelling,fatigue,pregnancy...... and similar conditions" What, I wonder, is a similar condition to pregnancy?

-having come back to this thread six times in the past 12 hours and found it still unanswered I leave again quietly not wanting to touch that one at all-

MBRSE is similar to pregnancy.
It's male beer related stomach extension...and I made the acronym up.

However, the Transpenine is the one train unnaffected by the floods, so it shouldn't take any longer than usual...and unlike air travel you can always open a window if you sneeze

Are we spreading panic thru propaganda in rural England or something? What's all this talk of Huntingdon's Korea?

Oh btw there is no condition similar to pregnancy, that's a common misconception.

immaculately put

-tacks WANTED poster to wall-
This here fella is Xolin. He drifted into town a few days ago and has pissed off everybody he met. Hannibal had the same effect on the Roman senate. If you see him in the streets being chased by angry elves and dragonflies bring him down here. Claims to know something about Maths, might be able to help Pheroneous with the bookkeeping. Oh and he knows about stealing those xmas trees from the Cross Porpoise people. He's gonna help us organise a Max Moron fanclub and tell us how to spell antidestablishmenterrianism in German. Das ist gut Ya?
Oh, mines a triple single malt. I had to refuse a woman's sexual advance earlier and I'm thinking of wallowing in pride.

Interesting verb use there "had to refuse"

"wallowing in pride" also sounds one of the more dangerous sexual pursuits. That Walt Disney has a lot to answer for.

This woman, why did she want to give you money up front, so to speak? Do you have a waiting list?

You're gonna have to tell us more . . . and no lion.

Listen good people, if you wish to continue enjoyment of my herbal tobacco, I am going to have to let johnfulton13 and, possibly some of his repulsed girlfriends in on ...But..**Stares at 'wanted' poster. Jaw drops considerably. Silence.**

Yes, I somehow assumed that this pub was cyberbritish (Do they have BOF's in other countries,then?) and therefore an unlikely place to find a wanted poster, unless of the following sort:
Wanted - a lady to do light housework, 3 mornings a week.
Wanted - an odd job man
How did you get it to stick to the bumpy wallpaper?
(sounds a very interesting fella - I think we should harbour him/her/it if s/he..it turns up here)

**Deftly secures hair into ponytail, and removes dark glases**

'Xolin' is probably not his real name. He admits to being a pure math type, the kind who have a mid-life crisis when they realize there are no definitive quantifiable answers to the big questions to be found by crunching numbers. I venture to guess the 'X' is the math symbol for 'unknown quantity' and the 'n' is the symbol for infinite (or similarly huge) factoring while the O and I are obviously Output/Input. Of course the "/" doesn't really exist as a letter in English so he's put up an 'L' between them. Hence 'Xolin'. Quite clever for a mathemetician really. I've not seen the like since Lewis Carrol was told to "get outta Dodge, son". So when he gets here, don't let on you know this, he's had a pretty rough time escaping some heady philosophical discussions with pimply faced teenage angsters before realising not everyone here is as old or tolerant as we are.(Burp,belch,fart)
I bow to your expertise but must ask what is wrong with 'had to refuse' as a verbal structure. Can it be that my neutral Canadian English (that safe place between Yankee adspeek and riming slang) is actually developing a parochial dialect.

I think there may be some ambiguity in "had to" - did you have her at your refusal or did you have cause to refuse her?