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

Hi Lighthouse


I like your favorite saying. Most of the time I try to live like that. But have never been able to put it into three simple statements. May I 'adopt' the saying?

tartaronne

Hi there Tartaronne!

Nice to meet you

Of course you can adopt the saying although I cant claim its mine to give away - I am not sure who said it first but it was not me!

* puts the in water *

So how would you answer the other questions?

Hi Lighthouse

Nice to meet you, too.

Found you at Windforce twelve abaft the Beam - Pierce the Pirate introduced me to h2g2.

What obsessions do you have that you can talk about in public?

Communication. The importance of being able to play and fool around. Necessity of art which maintains the doubt of self-sufficiency.

How would you describe your taste in music?

Tough one! Music which provoke the senses.

Who would you most like to be and why?

I would like to be myself - with some more wisdom, skills and acceptance of faults and weaknesses . But sometimes Modesty Blaise. Confident, capable and inventive. Independant, unorthodox and
selfassured. Cool, calm, collected - and sexy. Absolutely no complications with family and children.

Any questions?

Tartaronne

P.S. As you might have noticed I got stuck with my introduction as well. Had to choose a name very fast (or it chose me?)- wrote about my first visual in the small French village (I'm Danish)- and it requires pages and pages to explain why..

I have to stress, underline and emphasize that it is the character Modesty Blaise as described in the books of Peter O'Donnell - not in the film.

The film was shown in Danish television three days ago

Hi there Tartaronne



Sorry its taken me so long to get back to you. Any friend of Pierce's must be a great person. As I am sure he will tell you I am not here as often as I used to be

Great answers to the questions

You are so right about communication - it is so vital to everything. Having fun - compulsory in my books!

What sort of music provokes your senses? I love all sorts of things and to an extent it depends what mood I am in but there is noting better in my opinion than going to a live music performance and watching and listening to people having fuin making music - does not matter about the style of the music

I dont know the character Modesty Blaise - film or books but she sounds fab I would not mind being like that - so far the only one I make is no complications with children Still I guess its a start!


Do you have kids?


Choosing names is really difficult isnt it - its one of the first things you have to do and you dont know what anyone else will have chosen or how they will react to what you choose. Mine was rather on a whim too but I am sure they do choose us to an extent and certainly I have met some great people as there has been something that caught my attention in their name.

What is the town in France like?

I hope you are enjoying yourself here.

Light

Hi Light

*Any friend of Pierce's must be a great person.*
He *is* difficult to match. But I’ll do my very best

*flash-back to 90th birthday-party with four non-existant guests and a lovely butler*

Communication: I’m a journalist. And I like to wonder and know. And to smile and laugh.

*What sort of music provokes your senses?* I like different kinds of music. The blues is one favorite. When I’m sad and when I’m happy. Rocksongs and -ballads with good lyrics another. Voices that make my hair stand on edge. Music that creates images in my mind or make my legs twist in want for dancing. Ethnical music, newly composed classical that demands a close listening and a fresh mind. In two days I’m going to a concert with a group I haven’t heard since the 70’es: Vanilla Fudge. I have been singing since I was twelve - in school choirs, church choirs, classical, rhytmical - and in folk, rock and blues bands - strictly amateur. I have played the recorder almost as long - in my youth baroque music - and now everything that
goes.

Modesty Blaise - an advanced female ‘James Bond’ - but with much more personal texture. A character in crime fiction from “the cold war”. The author has imagination, good varied an inventive language (sorry -
don’t quite know how to express this in English) and a zany sense of humour.

I have three kids - 29, 15, 13 - and a grandchild of 1½ months

*It is difficult to choose names*. I started chatting last year and used my first name. And was intrigued by fanciful nicks. Yet, I like to fly under my own flag. Tartaronne is (or was) a five-farm village in Central Massif, France. The family lived there three weeks during a summerholiday - I was sixteen - and that summer became a turning-point for me. I grew up I suppose it could have happened anywhere at that age.
I have been here (h2g2) since December - but time limits my participation. I enjoy reading the threads, though, but am a bit shy to join in when people seem to know each other very well. I like the fun - but also the serious bits.

Tartaronne

So now I know why I haven't seen you around - in this corner of h2g2. Best of luck and plenty of fun and happiness .

Tartaronne

>*Any friend of Pierce's must be a great person.*

you are quite right. both you and tartaronne are great persons


>He *is* difficult to match. But I’ll do my very best

oh, come on, tartaronne. i'm not 'difficult to match' at all. you do it all the time. fact is you 'outmatch' me all the time

long time since we had some and

Almost a year - and four to go

Here - have some while we wait

*cutting down on and *

er, i'm cutting down on and




so i'll just snatch the

*snatches back and feeds the dog with it*

Must keep you healthy for the next years

milk and tomatoes?

Lovely, isn't it

i prefer with this time of day

And now it's soon time for and ?

s back to w*rk

oh my god, don't tell me you will soon be sleeping with the

did someone make you an offer you were foolish enough to resist?

I'll apply for a <word&mindtwister-smiley>

I was referring to your midday diet. Not my 'alleged' alliance with suspicious Italian types