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

That's right...*rummages around for a song to suit her mood*

"Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits"

*looks in*
I love that song!

BTW we are sitting on the veranda and observing the shooting stars. Some is available too. I thought you might want to join us...

Oh I love that song too!!! YEs, I think it would be lovely to join you, let me get my coat. *rushes for coat and follows Hati*
Hey bird!! Common!!!

*knocks*

*hears some music*

*leaves for the next room*

*wanders in in hope of finding some warm place*

Now, there was a storage of... warming drinks here somewhere...

*starts opening the closets and scaring the *

Here! Such a relief...

Is that RED RUM?

No, definitely not. There's a limit to everything.

ah, good

I think it's actually glögg.

And the room is quite red indeed. But I didn't choose the decorations here. Then again, red is supposed to make people feel warm. If it fails, we may always start a fire in the fireplace. Provided that we have enough (back)logs to burn.

Been a while, innit?

*sits down with *

A while indeed. And I don't mean those last few days.

.. yes, well, there's no dust on the yet

Now, that would be a disaster.

So, what's with life, universe and everything? I hear there are bears and lions running loose in Ohio, euribor is under investigation, Greeks still don't want to w*rk, Marx is dead, Lenin is dead and I don't feel well either.

yes, most of the news is rather depressing, isn't it?

apart from the news in Ohio?

Those are very depressing:

Sheriff's deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals — including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions — in a big-game hunt across the state's countryside Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide in what may have been one last act of spite against his neighbors and police.
Six others — three leopards, a grizzly bear and two monkeys — were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo. A wolf was later found dead, leaving a monkey as the only animal still on the loose.
Those destroyed included six black bears, two grizzlies, a baboon and three mountain lions.
"It's like Noah's Ark wrecking right here in Zanesville, Ohio," lamented Jack Hanna, TV personality and former director of the Columbus Zoo.

Good old Jack, always ready with a comment

I still don't understand why didn't they use tranquilisers for shooting the beasts.

My guess is: They don't w*rk as well as they do in films and with this huge number of beasts it would have been hazardous

I was asking myself the same when a Bengal tiger broke out of it's fence in my little town a few years ago. He was also shot

if it'd been hippos they'd be calmed down with a few s

They work well, they do. When our polar bear Franz got loose in the zoo, they shot him with tranquiliser. He died shortly after that.
But still, killing bengals is sacrilege.