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

...just when you're having fun!

The best hangover cure is never to sober up!

why stop there? go T-Total, and have lots of fun talking to your friends when there pissed.

-- DoctorMO --

'I once tried to get on the waggon, but it was going too fast.'

That quote from a Willy Rushton cartoon. Sadly, DoctorMO, I find drunk people depressing when I'm sober; they drive me to drink. And water tastes horrible without whisky in it.

And Wowbagger, I never said *stop* at eight... it's just that at that point I like to switch to Manhattans. Huzzah, hic*****

I find that people why try and force drink on me, read me wrong. and maby I just (with a bit of force) will comply to the pickle Brain soup factory of the world.

-- DoctorMO --

I am a social drunk, which means that I'll only drink to excess when I'm around those who are doing the same. As spimcoot says drunks lead me to drink.

I believe though, if we were ever to meet in person, that we would enjoy a pleasant afternoon's chat without the aid of alcoholic stimulation.

Mind you, if I'm sober then a whole mess of other nasty habits come to the fore: my poor taste in jokes (not smutty, just very very poor) for one.

Meeting in person Wowbagger? I'll drink to that........ d'oh!

Don't let anyone force you to drink, DoctorMO, that's appalling pub ettiquette on their part. I didn't start drinking till I was twenty. For the three or so years prior to that I was vehemently anti-drink but I suppose I suddenly realised that for the twelve or so years prior to *that* I actually quite liked the stuff. However, there were occasions in my sober years when, flushed with a sort of desperate party spirit, I could act the giddy fool with the best of them. And then had the advantage of instant sobriety and no hangover (but, alas, total recall of my antics).

Wouldn't wish that back, though: I enjoy drink for its artistry, elegance, and subtlety. Flavour is everything. Getting drunk just happens to be an enjoyable side effect. But the same applies to cheese, and that just makes you fat. Isn't it unfair that cheese makes you fat? They ought to reclassify it as a health food.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Hally loo ya!

I realy, (and I mean this with all my words) have no problem with people getting drunk or drinking, I just wish they knew about some of the other side efects first.

-- DoctorMO --

I know you don't DoctorMO, and I know all about the nasty pernicious all pervading life destroying drug that is my drug of choice and I have no answer to it, except to treat it with respect and love.

I may have showen myself to be a bit misleading, my thoughts were not as in check as normal I wall a little sick, so please don't take it in thje way you have, only do you realy know how much your braqin shrinks from drinking? It's all to do with the Ethinol and the fact that it can pass unhindered though the brain tishu, although it would probly help my case if I didn't spell like a drunk m'n.

-- DoctorMO --

Aha, well if my brain shrinks enough it will be able to pass unhindered through keyholes and commit all sorts of unspeakables on my behalf while I sit looking innocent, if vacuous, elsewhere.

Isn't it odd how alcohol will shrink one's brain but leave the ego larger than life. Perhaps it just looks bigger in the smaller space.

And I love your spelling DoctorMO. You once wrote 'board stiff' which I thought was a stroke of genius. Maybe you'll say it was unwitting, but it was genius nevertheless.

Talking of alcohol abuse and brains... do you have an offering for this week spim me old mate?

shazz

Ah, hullo shazz, I was thinking about you earlier...

If you recall, which perhaps, with good reason, you don't (I refer you to your comment above), Feng Shui hasn't run yet. Maybe like me you've raised so many glasses over the last fortnight that you have RSI of the elbow. This year I'm just going to buy a huge vat and a straw.

Of course... how could I forget the infamous Feng Shui!

It is off being blobbed even as I type... somewhat shakily!

I have an idea for next week for you my dear friend... imagine a tulip field full of extremely tall, irate Dutchmen queuing for miles to get thier hands on this new-fangled Euro money!

shazz

Oh that would be good! but I had an idea myself that I may indulge. you could have some people from each of the more well known countries picking up there Euro notes Just think of the Irish

-- DoctorMO --

It has been mostly smooth to start with but seems to have degenerated into a Whitehall Farce today!

I get my go at ballsing it all up tomorrow when I have to run the bar at Het Kasteel!

shazz

What your point of View on the Euro shazz (dare I ask)?

-- DoctorMO --

I think it a splendid idea... but then I still need to send money back to the UK so would love to see it adopted there to make it easier. At the moment I have to pay transfer and exchange fees EVERY MONTH just to send my money from my Dutch account to my English one! CRAZY!!!

Will update you when I've worked it tonight

shazz

hehe, so you know more about this then your letting on

-- DoctorMO --