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

Ah Kes, would that be an Australian accent I detect there?

mari-rae, I daresay the basements will be giant spider free. They're all off auditioning for the role of Shelob in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

*insert explosion sfx here*

I think those aircraft are getting into range!
Down we go everyone!

*Hastily drives inot the underground bunker and hurries all BFG's off the vehicle and into the Brewery*

I think we should just drink ourselves insensible for a few days and raise many a glass to the memory of the man who inspired the founding of this group, not to mention this site and countless friendships around the universe.

Pours and in profusion and commences the proceedings with one of the lesser-known examples of Vogon poetry...

shazz... some has gone out of the universe...

there's a wake at my place if anyone's interested in getting plastered elsewhere


followed by


Mixing my drinks immediately will do it

Hear hear. He deserves some of our time. Cease fire declared for a while. Here's to DNA! We met through him ...He was great!

*A stream of rather subdued Demosians, weapons left outside, join the party and commence to toast the man who inspired their very existance*

shazz

A sudden silence falls over the room as a thin wheezing, groaning noise fades into existence... rather like the sound of a Yale key being scraped up and down piano wires. Then, a mere split-second later, a blue box begins to solidify in a corner of the room - about seven feet tall, and prominently displaying the words POLICE BOX. As the blue light on the roof stops flashing, the door opens... and out steps a young man dressed in an American air force uniform, circa 1940. The Great Waldo Pepper has returned.

"Hallo folks... finally managed to track you down! I see you all migrated back here from the 'board - just a pity I've been missing all the fun! We should've started a survivors' club - maybe if you know any of the other 'board people you can drag them over sometime?
"I guess I picked a rotten weekend to come back, huh? Oh well... Barman, four pints of lager..."
He lifts a pint and slaps down a five-pound note on the bar. "Keep the change."

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Yep, it's a heck of a weekend.

Welcome Waldo!
Once we have recovered from our elongated drinking bout I am sure we would be pleased to join a 'survivors' club
Neat transport btw... that may come in handy when these drunken Demosians turn nasty again!

*grabs more and is pleased to note that it tastes remarkably like Old Peculiar

shazz: the creeps slowly back.

*Mixes some PGGBs, using mainly borrowed ingredients*.

Try one of these - in memoriam.

*gets the horrible feeling someone's smashed his brains out with a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick*

Make the next one a double

Although I have not recovered from yesterday's wake, I will join you in that

shazz

*The lowers The Jolly Roger that flickered from the tallest antenna and empties a barrel of rum*

He was great. I will always remember him. He became a part of my life. Like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and John Lennon.

...Graham Chapman, Jimmy Stewart, John Pertwee...

Why is there no ?

Peter Jones, Harry Secombe, De Forrest Kelly... and now Perry Como
All gone... all missed!
*Raises her beer in silent salute*
shazz

Very good question, Wowbagger! Very good indeed! *hands Wowbagger a crate of * Will this do?

*Raises a heavily laden hand containing several glasses of and hic-coughs*

Don't forget Dermot Morgan too (alias "Father Ted")!

And Brian Jones. As I recall it, he was the first loss to my generation - which in turn reminds me of Keith Moon, of course

Kirsty MacColl... Gene Roddenberry... John Denver... Robert Heinlein... Carl Sagan... Oscar Wilde... James Dean... Elvis Presley...

The list is endless
These days my bookshelf, CD rack and videos are starting to look like the Book of the Dead *sigh*

ROFL as does mine.

Hoe DARE people keep dying!?! It's... it's... unnatural!

Personally John Denver isn't missed...but each to their own

Kurt Cobain on the other hand...

*apologies for my absence. I can't seem to get in from home for about the last month only from work like now)