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

Do not mock German culture. German culture is very important...

...even though I can't quote any of it, or link to it on h2g2.

The NY Times remarks that nobody cares if Goethe was gay:

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/21/weekinreview/true-romance-goethe-is-outed-and-germany-yawns.html

Oh no no no! In fact, nay, sir! On the contrary sir, she protesteth. . I have been awake since 6 am staring at Goethe's paintings. Serious I have. Incredible. ah the gaps! the gaps in my knowledge. By lunchtime I will have read Faust in its entirety. .

When we were young and wild, ah way back when, Chris (spouse) would pick up fallen leaves, when out on a walk, and peer at them intently, whilst quoting Goethe to me. I would stare blankly, and he would say that one day, one day, I would understand. And I would wonder about the direction of my life, , but now but now ah yes! all becomes clear.

my direction of life is:-

Artificial Intelligence is NO match for natural stupidity.
Insanity is not an illness to me, it's a Profession!

haha. the earlybird Prof-osophers are in the house!

Oops, my Post 160 did sound a bit negative, without my usual quota of exclamation points. Sounded like I was going to drink from a fountain of red wine, rather than knowledge. hahah. . Imagine that, a fountain of red wine. No thanks, not at 8 in the morning I was in fact awed. Goethe. OK. Awesome mind. No, Awesome!!!!! Leaves in the park.I got it. Yes!!!!

Funny thing, typography. is different to . Sheesh! this is going to be a good day, I can tell. . So now I shall write Notes and grovel to the powers of destiny and also fate, although I think they might be the same thing, and then go and drink a fountain of coffee, and study typography and maybe geography.

Prof, if insanity is a profession, how can you ever retire?

I cease to breathe

. Just making Notes about these life affirming philosphies. .

OK, back to thinking about polymaths.I never knew the word polymath until I began to study Goethe. Today.

Now I see the ghost of polymaths everywhere. Behind the TV, in the lava lamp. Oh that is just so stoooopid.

I am an innumerate polymath.

haha. poly-math. innumerate. . I think you might be a bit of a polymath, in fact. I'm not. I am so not a polymath. I can live with this, provided I eat enough vitamins.

Be sure to pay attention to the basic food groups: , , and .

'Innumerate polymath' sounds like a variant of the dead parrot sketch.

Customer: "When I bought this parrot, I was told it was a polly math, a mathematical parrot. I was told it could count. But when I took it home, all it would say was 'Sqwauk'.

Shop Assistant. "That's because it's pining for proper maths. You need to give it problems to solve : quadratic equations, calculus, things like that."

Customer: "Even I can't do problems like that."

Shop Assistant."There you then."

I like that one, MVP.

polymaththe square of the hypotenuse is equal to the depth of my seed bowl - therefore! PUT SOME SEED IN, I'M HUNGRY

You guys, , you Polly-Maths. . . Such laughter is good for my neurotic intense soul particles.

a parrot crossed with a lion = squark! polly wants a zebra

A parrot crossed with a lion??? she says, four days later.

I am writing Notes about the number 7 and a ladybird incident. I don't where or why or how. . If it had turned into a story, I was going to take it to the AWW, but ah Notes, you know how it is. heheh.

It starts like this .....

Do you know those days when, for no apparent reason, a particular theme follows you everywhere?

The other day I was followed around by the number seven.

There are, of course, many facts and myths and superstitions concerning the number seven. However, my day was somehow unhindered by these matters. My day had its own way to go. The Seven Deadly Sins had been out all night, and were nowhere to be seen. The Seven Virtues were busy fixing cracked mirrors, and bringing luck to unlucky moments.

All was well on my day of sevens.

Although, there was the ladybird incident.

************* (space for Notes to have a dream about what they are talking about.)

Research:BBC Nature

I am very happy though. I have learned a lot, researching these Notes. I didn't know that ladybirds had seven spots. Some do, anyway. Some have more than seven spots.

OK back to resting my brain

similar to the lady and the colour blue

she went to the doctors to ask how she could get her new partner to be more affectionate with her.
He said wear something the colour blue, but she went a little over the top and nearly everything in the house was changed to blue.
This did nothing for her partner, so she asked him why "blue" didn't turn him on ?
He took his trousers off and said that's whyit "blue" off during the war

Seven spots on a ladybird? Aren't there seven joys of Mary?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnPgq7QV-c4

Yep. That's why Mary's insect has seven spots.

The Physiologus rules.

what??? . hey Prof. . .. .... cheers

(heads back to researching seven spot ladybirds)

What??? . That's weird. I just went off to research ladybirds, and some other strange magic flew in. . Off to listen. Physiologus? Physiologus .... physiologus ........