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

Well, I must have missed something, let's have your stories from the Spring Onion


GW

Okay, here's one.

In my mad dash to get out of the bowling hall and to the bus stop I neglected to retrieve my boots from behind the cash desk. This quite sizable error was revealed to me when when as I ran full-pelt around the concourse towards the Orient exit the a-for-mentioned bowling shoes I was still wearing, lacking any traction whatsoever, almost left the ground and I very nearly went head first into one of the very large plant pots that lined the doorway.

For the sake of a few cheap laughs I here-by stake myself-upon the alter of Pride.

Clive.

It appears that Babel-17 can get himself into trouble at a meet without even being there - Other Person followed his instructions carefully and passed on several s and s from B-17. I declare B-17 to be a "tart by proxy" and demand a retrial.

*sniggers*
Those of us who stayed up til it was light may have some interesting anecdotes...

Though I state for the record now it was not my fault the bowling machine broke as the guy told me to press the reset button when I was off requesting Britney
*thinks*
Though this now prevents me from stating for the record that the random trash music played at the bowling alley was not my fault...
*hums*

It will be of no interest to you whatsoever to learn that a few weeks ago I knackered my right wrist lifting a heavy bag of cement. It was rather painful and stiff, the practical upshot of which being that I could no longer scratch my back properly.
I don't know how other people do it but if I have an itch in the small of may back I reach up with my arm behind my back - palm facing outwards - and then rotate my wrist through not quite 180o degrees to reach the itch.
It has been this one and only movement that has not returned to me since the incident with the cement.

However after hefting size 12 & 14 bowling balls around the arena at yesterdays H2G2 Manchester Spring Onion, my wrist feels quite bizarrely an awful lot better! and before you ask, yes, I can now scratch the small of my back.

Which just goes to prove that this site is not only a healthy excercise for the Mind but it also conferrs several bodily benefits as well.

Clive.

Did you come back to collect your boots from the bowling allay? Or do you still have the bowling shoes as a momento?

*grins*
We were supposed to use certain numbered balls? Hmmm...clearly I picked the shiny pink one for it was an ummm...errm...8

But it must be said that having had all of 2 hours of sleep last night h2g2 can also have the opposite effect

Yes that's true.

I used the shiny pink one because it was pretty. There was a very nice bluish-grey one as well but it disappeared half way through when we suddenly experienced a shortage of balls. What happened there?

In the blue-lighting phase I picked up a peachy pink one by accident. It was very heavy and I dropped it. Apparently it rolled off and nearly killed a small child but I didn't see that bit. Perhaps someone else can describe the incident.

*slumps*
I think me falling asleep on the kitchen table was probably not a good advert for future meet ups

*laughs*
I can explain the incident really well! Think of who you got the initial comment from about the ball hitting a small child... right got it? *has urge to say multiply it by the first number you thought of and divide by 4* That should answer it The phrase is generally used to describe anyone we don't know...like my comments about random people and random houses?

Oh good. But I was much more careful after that because the peachy pink ball broke two of my nails.

I know, I broke 3 of mine on that, it was a mean ball...and did you see when I started using the swirly chromaflair red one that was way shinier I got some 9's and stuff and when ever I reverted to the mean pink ball I failed miserably?
*that's her excuse an she's sticking to it*
Of course that could have been due to the change in music

There was bowling?
I only got as far as the but who won the bowling?

The pink ball was very light. It was necessary to give it some welly.

I think Croz won in our group but I don't know about the other two groups.

Me, Me, Me !!!
Apparently I scored 125 and therefore won. All I can remember is throwing the nice swirly dark blue balls into the gutter and breaking a nail, but apparently I was more successful than I remember

Congradulations! don't think I should actually drink anything else tonight have to do w*r*k tonight

*grins*
But we got double figures though didn't we Amy, which is a vast improvement on my track record at least

And I nearly won by default as in the 2nd game I came very close to getting 42 but for the first time in about 4 bowls I was unable to score just 1 point

I managed to win the last game on our lane but the previous game I did come bottom of the pile.

Whereas on the 3rd game I was managing to confuse people by seemingly being second and then everyone managed to get half strikes on the last ball so I ended up last again