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

Well, I don't think I could bring my computer with my copy of the HHGTTG text-based adventure game on it. My roommate'd get awful upset if I went awol with our computer *G*

yes, but think of the hours of endless adventure and fun your roomie wouldn't be able to go through if you didn't?!?!

He wouldn't care if I only took HHGTTG, but if I took the computer, then we'd be in for it *sniggles* 'sides, it's his computer..if'n I don't behave I get my internet privelages confiscated.

Bah!



It's all good, i think it would be sort of fantabulous if someone brought a comp - a true h2g2 addict...

I might try to make up a t-shirt....if i have time....hmmm....sounds like a master plan....

at least i wont be wearing a hawian shirt from a mates bucks party this time

That's an Idea...I might wear one of my Hawaiian shirts!

Uh oh.....hawaiian theme sydney meet?? I'm scared...

Mwahaha...Fear the Hawaiian... ^.^ Pineapple cruisers, Hawaiian pizza..Hawaiian shirts *G*

As we are (mostly) Aussies here - can I share with you the limerick I made up this morning?? AT 8AM I MIGHT ADD!!

John Howard is visiting the Queen
And it really can clearly be seen
That he saw Tony Blair
And he'd rather be there
Than here at home looking at Simon Crean


Ta-daaa - What do you think???

Hawaiian theme?? Does that mean that I have to add pineapples to my bag?? Or maybe just get a lei??

*keels over laughing* GO Feisor! You so funny ^.^

Hrm..If you're getting a Lei, can I get a Lei?

I want a lei too!!!...please!!

Love the limerick Feisor....too good...

hmmmm......this hawaiian thing needs to be nipped in the butt before it gets out of control (and affects reality!! - mainly as i have nothing hawaiian)....

Speaking of which, where did that expression come from? "nipped in the butt"?????......darn...now i'm going to be thinking all day. I try to avoid that as much as possible

I don't know about your version, but 'nipped in the bud' literally refers to cutting a bud off before it has a chance to flower, seed, etc., and hence gets extended to stopping something undesirable before it goes to far

nipped in the butt sounds a lot more painful

As for the hawaiian theme, already been done, albiet not through choice.

Bah. Regardless of what's said I'll be wearin' a hawaiian shirt and drinkin' pineapple cruisers....I wish! *snicks* I'll prolly end up sober coz I'm just so gosh-durned poor right now ^.^

poor cheesecake.... Well, if everyone who turns up buys you a drink, then i'm sure that you'll have no problem turning squishy on your own!!

Groovy...one of my friends mailed me and had it written "butt", and i'd never heard that expression before, so i was wondering where it would have been derived from!! I guess she meant bud...thank you!!

I recently (finally!) found out where Pop Goes the Weasel was derived from! So that made me happy.....

Aww..Thankoo Shrillian ^.^

I need to ask..Where DOES 'Pop goes the weasel' come from? Because to me, it just ends up sounding kinky...especially when you're not too sober and singing it *G*

Well, it orginated from a place in England. City road, used to be the tailoring district. And by the end of the week, the tailors would all run short of cash, so they would go and pawn their iron presses (weasels) in a building (?) called The Eagle, until payday, and then get them back...

as the song goes:

Up and down the City Road
In and out the Eagle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the Weasel

cool, huh?

It's funny trying to find out where the little nursery rhymes come from....you know about Ring-aRing of Rosies?

Oh yes..that's been an old favourite of mine for many years. It's rather surreal when a junior primary teacher sings that and the girl-child in her class pipes up with the fact that it's derived from various bits 'n' bobs during the plague *G*

Hi everyone, I guess I'm lucky, I already have a lei to wear.

Ring a ring a rosie is about the plague,

Rosie is the colour of the spots you get,
a pocketfull of posies refers to the herbe people carried around to avoid infection
a tishoo a tishoo, sneezzing all fall down - dead.

How about Mary Mary quite contrary?