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

>>so we can get back to proper cynicism<<

See? that's why we need yesterday.

What you want is tomorrow for proper optimism.

...or is it the other way around?

*through chewing* I could argue both ways. Choose a side and I'll take the other.
*licks fingers*

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow...

*takes more*

Here's the thing about today. You can't make different choices just to see what happens - because there's no comparison yet. But yesterday - you can do that.

*Stops researching and interviewing for RL assignments*

Thursday is the day with long hours at county offices. (I have 11 articles with a deadline Sunday for a paper dealing only with county politics).

Now at almost 18:00 in Denmark I am a little peckish. Different kinds of cheese would be lovely.

Hubcaps you say, Leo. I don't think they have a pattern. Just plain silver coloured.

>> I love ya tomorrow<< - tomorrow is another day closer to death . Shows our different ages, doesn't it. .

Never mind, I plan to grow up yet and design and live the perfect life.

*Wanders off to the buffet*

You can't really compare until you see how it pans out, and you won't be able to see the long-term effect of yesterday unless you live today, tomorrow, and possibly even next week. If there's a phoenix waiting to rise out of the ashes of yesterday's catastrophe, you'll never get to see it. Besides, it was a no-win situation, and you'll just bungle it again, albeit in a new and creative way.

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Besides (totally irrelevant, I know), you'd get stuck in a never-ending loop of "what-if", and get left behind in yesterday while we're all in next year. </></> And you can be sure next year is going to be awesome.

*joins tartaronne pecking at cheese*
They must have a pattern to how the silvery stuff is placed on the wheel and the bolts in the silvery stuff. I'd recommend you take another look, just to confirm. And if they have no pattern: how many steps go up to your flat?

*notices label on the cheese Happy_Nerd brought*

Happy, would I be correct in guessing that you may reside in the second most northerly coastal county in California? *she asks from the most northerly*

My hubcaps look kind of like silver daisies with a Cadillac emblem in the center.






OK, I cheated--I can see the car from the window next to the computer desk.

Okay, Leo. I'll take your quiz.....being a personage of sorts....if not an Italic

1. What colour is your toothbrush?
White

2. If you had to choose between an all-paid vacation to Oz or an hour with your favourite politician, which would you take?
Oz. Definitely. I spend too much time with politicians already.

3. Which skin do you use to view h2g2?
Alabaster, of course!

4. What do you actually do all day?
Deal with nutters, mostly. You know Truman's old saying, "The buck stops here." Well, in my case, the nuts stop here. Hummmmm, I do all the accounting, taxes, budgeting, purchasing, public relations and administrative/supervisory hoohah for the library. There is no time left to be a librarian.

5. If you could go back in time, which period would you choose?
Provided I could go just for a peek and then come back, I'd visit ancient Greece. Don't want to go anyplace in the past and stay. I like my modcons too much.

6. What does your tea cup look like?
I am currently using a porcelain mug with a sheep on one side and a rooster on the other. I normally use a Garfield mug at work, but it's gone aol.

7. Your favorite band, please.
Santana

8. Describe your relationship with your cellphone.
I threw it away. After I stomped it.

9. Would you visit h2g2 if you weren't italicised?
N/A

10. If you could protest one thing in the world right now, what would it be?
Quizes


11. Do you think Canada is important? (er, sorry. local rivalries.)
Canada?

12. Would you prefer to be too hot or too cold?
Too cold

13. Why don't you write entries?
I have staff for that.

14. Would you prefer to watch 2legs or Jacqueline dance?
Neither. (Tries to imagine them dancing together then remembers this is a family site)

15. Do you have pictures on your desk at work? Of who?
Yep. The great nephews.

16. What was the last thing you googled?
DVD floor displays

17. How many of the above did you answer honestly?
None

18. Did you answer 17 honestly?
No

19. How about 18?
Yes

20. Would you like some more tea?
Earl Grey, please

White toothbrush? How neutral. You one of those people whose tissue boxes match their bathroom color scheme?

<- Earl Gray

I'm not italicised or otherwise notable, but I was going to do this anyway except I was a little pressed for time earlier. I know you've all been waiting....

1. What colour is your toothbrush?
red - as I mentioned earlier

2. If you had to choose between an all-paid vacation to Oz or an hour with your favourite politician, which would you take?
Oz. So I could visit Frenchbean.

3. Which skin do you use to view h2g2?
The only one they had when I joined... GOO!

4. What do you actually do all day?
I work very hard at looking like I'm working very hard while in reality I'm playing on h2.

5. If you could go back in time, which period would you choose?
I think colonial America would be interesting, but I don't think I'd want to stay there. I'd have to ride a horse before I came back, though.

6. What does your tea cup look like?
It's made out of white styrofoam.

7. Your favorite band, please.
Journey is my standby, but in more recent times it's been Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

8. Describe your relationship with your cellphone.
It's like my pinkie toe - it's an appendage I take everywhere with me but I don't use it for much.

9. Would you visit h2g2 if you weren't italicised?
I would even visit h2g2 if I *were* italicised.

10. If you could protest one thing in the world right now, what would it be?
Forced Overtime. Ask me what I'm doing right now.

11. Do you think Canada is important? (er, sorry. local rivalries.)
Well, without it the NHL would be pretty crap, so I guess in that respect it's pretty important indeed.

12. Would you prefer to be too hot or too cold?
Too cold.

13. Why don't you write entries?
Total lack of inspiration.

14. Would you prefer to watch 2legs or Jacqueline dance?
Can't I just dance?

15. Do you have pictures on your desk at work? Of who?
No, but I have a little cartoon of a cardboard cutout sitting at my desk, which is all my superiors really want, anyway.

16. What was the last thing you googled?
Senile Vestibular Disorder.

17. How many of the above did you answer honestly?
A few

18. Did you answer 17 honestly?
No

19. How about 18?
Ummmm.... no?

20. Would you like some more tea?
Long Island Iced Tea?

1. What colour is your toothbrush?
blue

2. If you had to choose between an all-paid vacation to Oz or an hour with your favourite politician, which would you take?
Oz. Take the family.

3. Which skin do you use to view h2g2?
Brunel, I've grown to like it over time.

4. What do you actually do all day?
At the moment, bugger all - I'm in between jobs.

5. If you could go back in time, which period would you choose?
The Cretaceous, to see what colour dinosaurs REALLY were.

6. What does your tea cup look like?
It's blue and has a baby and daddy whale on and the words 'World's Greatest Daddy'. I got it for father day before my daughter was born...how she knew I don't know.

7. Your favourite band, please.
Foo Fighters

8. Describe your relationship with your cellphone.
A love hate one. Yes, I love to hate it. ha ha.

9. Would you visit h2g2 if you weren't italicised?
um, if I were I would, and if I would I was, where? Weren't I? Oh god.

10. If you could protest one thing in the world right now, what would it be?
Higher pay for medical professionals and lower pay for "celebs".

11. Do you think Canada is important? (er, sorry. local rivalries.)
um, as a land mass, fairly.

12. Would you prefer to be too hot or too cold?
Too cold, then I can put more layers on. I can hardly strip off my skin if I'm too hot. Plus I think I'd tend to smell like bacon if I got overly heated.

13. Why don't you write entries?
I've written enough, thank you very much.

14. Would you prefer to watch 2legs or Jacqueline dance?
I'd close my eyes and listen to the music.

15. Do you have pictures on your desk at work? Of who?
No. Just in my wallet. A desk at work? oh dear.

16. What was the last thing you googled?
Orange Pekoe Tea.

17. How many of the above did you answer honestly?
All of them. Really.

18. Did you answer 17 honestly?
I think so.

19. How about 18?
18 what?

20. Would you like some more tea?
No, I'd prefer a pint of now.

I have a tisue holder in my bathroom covered with my wallpaper.

You haven't put it on your trash can, too, have you?

Of course not! That would be just silly.

My light switches in the kitchen are covered with the border paper. Does that count?

Tissue holder? What tissue holder?

ohmg!
"It's ok... it's only tissues... it's ok... don't make issues out of tissues... it's gonna be ok..."


I never would have pegged you for it, but hey...

"Of course not! That would be just silly."

Grandma did that. On the trash can. On the hamper. She even glued cutouts of the pattern on the mirror.

1. What colour is your toothbrush?
Well, I just checked and indeed, it is green.

2. If you had to choose between an all-paid vacation to Oz or an hour with your favourite politician, which would you take?
Favorite politician? You gotta be kidding.

3. Which skin do you use to view h2g2?
Alabaster. It's pretty.

4. What do you actually do all day?
Eat. It's really time consuming. Breakfast at home, mid-morning snack around an hour after arriving at work, brunch during the morning doldrums, then lunch. Then there's afternoon snack and lupper, go home, supper, after-dinner snack, evening nosh, midnight snack...

5. If you could go back in time, which period would you choose?
Excellent question.

6. What does your tea cup look like?
I don't have a teacup except some super-fancy painted bone china business my grandmother bequeathed me and I've never looked at since saying "thank you". I like mugs.

7. Your favourite band, please.
They all get rotten after the second successful album.

8. Describe your relationship with your cellphone.
An excellent one - it doesn't exist, I do. We have no issues.

9. Would you visit h2g2 if you weren't italicised?
If I were bold, subscripted, or embossed, I'd probably be here. Not sure about strike-throughed.

10. If you could protest one thing in the world right now, what would it be?
The MTA

11. Do you think Canada is important? (er, sorry. local rivalries.)
Canada... canada... rings a bell, but I can't place it. Get back to me.

12. Would you prefer to be too hot or too cold?
Hm. I suspect cold, but might give a different answer in the winter.

13. Why don't you write entries?
I *do*!
When I feel like it.

14. Would you prefer to watch 2legs or Jacqueline dance?
Jacqueline, I think. More grace.

15. Do you have pictures on your desk at work? Of who?
No. I don't really have a desk. Just a desk where I sit. I mean, it isn't really mine. These things happen when you work off a laptop.

16. What was the last thing you googled?
AFA Excellence in Care

17. How many of the above did you answer honestly?
15

18. Did you answer 17 honestly?
Yep.

19. How about 18?
That too.

20. Would you like some more tea?
Not really. Chocolate milk is more my speed.

*drops in from a-far, having seen some of the comings and goings ... sets up the absolute latest in the ACME_Self_Directing_and_Super_Duper_Discrete_(with pasta-making attachment)_Hoover_Deluxe ... and engages it in the patented Ultra-Silent-and-Non-Intrusive mode ...*

*grows wings, and flies off to England*

*waves to Nick* Have a great time!