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

The best lonely hearts are in Loot and Private Eye. Saw a very scary one in the Herald Tribune last week.

This game looks fun. Can I play too?

Citrussy young man who really is a bit unusual but mostly entertaining seeks young lady who has given up not drinking. PS I have lots of dessert wine (surely the clincher there girls).

You could do a haiku

I don't smell (much, but
February urges
rise) - Box 123

Ciao for now sweeties xx

So don't keep us in suspense Binary - what did the scary one in the HT say?

I've certainly given up not drinking - but how young is young, and how much of a lady is a lady?

Hello GCB..

The HT one was from some bloke who sounded like he had a interest in something really gross, or he would no way have to be advertising in the paper for marriage. Really Bluebeards Castle stuff.

I suppose from my perspective, which is tinged with neurosis on examination, young means 'under 30' I'm going to be 29 later this month. Oops.

My favourite definition of what a lady is, came off this nutter South African winemaker chap, Achim von Arnim, who I met last winter. And it was his opinion that a woman could not be a lady without a sense of humour.

I'm going to go and lie down in a darkened room now to get over this hangover....

byebye

BB

Too old again! Buggrit!

I like the sense of humour definition. It rules out so many of the women who try to impress everyone with the idea that they are ladies, and rules in the rest of us who are actually human beings.

What were you drinking?

Get better soon...

The definition of a "Lady".

Ooooohhhhh, I like this one!

This should be a topic we could ALL discuss.....

Hi GCB -

I was bad. I had n pints and a glass of champagne, where n is a large positive prime integer. I suppose it would be possible to go ahead and not carry on like this, but what is the point of doing that?

Its only when you write one of these loneylhearts things that you realise how loaded whatever one says is, and why people use that absurd shorthand like M seeks F for stuff.

I've been considering that 'how young is young' question all weekend. I'll probably rule out the Mae West reply, but b'llocks to it anyway. State of mind and all that.

I hope Sweden (?) is treating you well.

BB

I go with a British band from the ... late 70's? called The Kursaal Flyers. They used to do a song about a bloke who picks up a woman and takes her home, but he lives with his parents, who are in bed by now, so they have to make out downstairs. At some point in the proceedings she needs to take a burst, but he says that she can't go upstairs to use the bathroom cos it will wake up his parents, and she'll have to pee in the kitchen sink. She agrees, and then he says "I knew she was a lady cos she moved the dishes first"

That is wierd, on account of my personally being in jolly Southend-on-Sea, home of the jolly Kursaal, 2nd most famous thing in Southend, behind Southend pier but just in front of the slightly unusual Tots nightclub.

That *is* weird, and what's also weird is that you're not the only person from S-O-S on h2g2. Katsy a.k.a. Esti (ACE)THE KERAZY SKANDAL FAN!!!!!! lives there too. I believe the Kursaal has been pulled down now hasn't it? It'd be nice to think it was still there. I went to the amusement park a few times, and saw some bands there too - an Italian prog-rock band called PFM, and a jazz rock band called Back Door. Yeah, we're going back a while I wonder whatever happened to The K Flyers? Didn't they put out an LP called something like "No Sleep Till Canvey Island"?