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

I also made sure to write it in the bathroom at the bagel/pizza place ... apparently you were a big hit there too, Paul!

So, let me get this straight.
Those places have seedy bathrooms,
with missing bricks and faucets
that are twisted at odd angles,
and usually no paper towels, and
water on the floor, BUT they have
my phone number on the walls...
That really makes things all right.

Thanks a lot, guys.

By the way, I wrote Shea's number
in a few places, too....

Paul is going to become very popular in a very short time. All the phone calls he is going to be getting and all


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aren't the only sinister
animals out there, Tacsatduck.

Rogue have started
calling me at odd hours of the night.
It's almost as if they have been copying
my phone number from those seedy bathrooms.



Maybe they found out that I'm one of the
few humans that know about the
plot to take over the world this year at
Christmas. Even is mostly in the
dark about this. I will have to mobilize the
small band of freedom-fighters to counter
this threat. Wait, I have my facts backward.
My freedom-fighters fight *against* freedom.
I need the *other* band of well-trained
troops, which I can't even name because I
would blow their cover (which is a euphemism
for "I forget who they are )

You know... when I went to the SCOD (Senior Citizen's Opium Den) there were a few there ordering spiked salt licks. Perhaps this might splain it all...

BTW Tacsatduck, there were quite a few there as well.. you better hope they're lying!

So Paul, you wrote my number in a few places? How often do you drop trou for anyone to see it?

Well, 63974 is only relevant here at H2G2,
so the places are mostly here.



You didn't ask, but I'll tell it anyway: my
eye will be okay before long. I can't remember
which eye it was, though, because I was uncon-
scious at the time. I remember regaining conscious-
ness in a dimly-lit bar in lower Manhattan.
Someone (Batty, maybe?) was taking pictures,
which are sure to be interesting, if not festive.
Since I don't remember which eye got hurt, I
take turns closing them

Tacsatduck took pictures of the entire incident. I only took a picture of your prone body on the bench. It was your right eye ... I know, because I had to clean bits of it out from under my fingernails ...

hmmm I know I took pictures only problem is that I have like 18 more shots on that roll I have no Idea where I will use them up but I will try to do it as soon as posible


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Shea - when will you have yours developed? Didn't you finish a roll of film?

I really wish I had bought batteries for my little digital camera.

Did you get a chance to see Dr. Funk on Sun batty? I wish I would of been able to make it but I was asked at the last min for help by a friend.

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I'm picking up the pictures tomorrow! It took a bit longer because I had a CD made. I'll post them as soon as I can and put a link on my homepage and the NE US Researchers page. I'll let you know!

Tacsatduck - no I didn't. I had an "accident"... today my stride is somewhere between a hobble and a plod because of it..

Shea - I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures. Even if it is evidence that I'm not nearly as grown up as I keep telling my mom I am..

Oh, Batty, I'm so sorry to hear about your accident.

I wonder if that lady with the big van and the tiny
parking space came back to hear Dr. Funk?

The pictures are up! I have a link on my homepage, and one on the NE US Researchers page.

Ack!! How much do I have to pay you to remove the one of me looking smashed and toasting the camera???

Not too much ... just $5 ... no questions asked ...

Hmmm.

I know that it's traditional for the
camera to add ten pounds, but I think
yours added more than that in my case,
Shea. Of course, right now I am
probably up a few pounds anyway, thanks
to the turkey and the pumpkin cheesecake
and some other sinful infusations.

Batty, I didn't think the pictures of you
were that bad. It seemed odd not to have
Shea in any of the pictures, but she was
the one taking the pictures.....

Paul - that's why I usually like to be the photographer.. so I'm not in many pictures and I also have a chance to edit those that are posted

Shea - Just tell me where to send the money..