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

[flips]

It's true!

[flops]

No it isn't!

[flips, flops, then teeters on the brink]

Damn these astable flip-flops! I can scarcely walk in them ....

...indeed

[changes to stillettos]

Ow, my feet! That's the last time I try and walk on knives.

have you tried wellies?

Once, but they were too chewy.

hahdehahdehah...slippers?

slipped down nicely.

do you have a book with these in?

Actually, no, they're improvised, although I admit they do give the impression of ancient jokes dug from the primeval mud, along with the flint tools and the remains of australopithecus.

Its like you read my mind...

Read it? I wrote it!

[laughs diabolically]

well you arent that greater writer then, and your handwriting is atrocious

Yes, unfortunately, that is the case. But you're only a draught in any case.

a draught of alcohol is as good as any other

Ah, a sentiment with which I can most heartily concur.

*is suffering a terrible case of topic drift*

Um ... it's all a part of life?

an ailment that seems to have beset the whole of h2g2!

Is there a cure<?>

No. All topics are related, as Dirk Gently will tell you. Topic drift is a part of how H2G2 models thought ... although I think it would be better if threads could be merged and disconnected into trains of thought, for his very reason. If nothing else it would be a fascinating picture of the human understanding of subjects.