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

Hello mr bottle!

I am entirely grateful for stumbling upon your page through the likeness of some birthday fnoodle or other which i found whilst jumpskipping through the scarily virginal cyberland that htwo gtwo is for me.

I am introducing myself slightly because of your more than fascinating introduction (sorry i haven't got around to reading your plentiful articles) but also because of your impressive badge list. Very, very impressive.

You are aware, i am sure of jenny robins, owner of fred the cheese and various aliases upon this mighty kingdom. she tells a wise and virtuous story of how her story telling powers developed from your 'Fish called Honda' story. and then i copied her stories. So you indirectly inspired most, if not all of my rambling semi-attempts at literature. Poor show, old man.

Anyhoos, should like very much to hear from you,
entirely indebted,

Alex George

Ah - someone else born in January then? My birthday's the 18th.
Yes, I know Jenny & Fred The Cheese - haven't seen her in ages! So, what do you enjoy rambling about? Random rambles, or themes , such as trees?

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Yes, though it's not that unusual. I guess about one twelfth of the world is born january sometime. rambling through hedgerows is fun. i'm not sure whether i am more random or thematic. a bit of both, but perhaps more random.

Are you aware of a Mr. Frank Key?
he writes good stories.

trees are great aren't they?
without them i'd imagine we'd all die of carbonous oxide poisoning. nowehere for squirrels and monkeys to live...the list is endless.

gooday

You're right - but only 1/12th of the population are lucky enough to be born in January, which is very sad.
I haven't met Frank Key yet, but I'll look out for him.
I like trees - I've climbed many, and drawn many, in my life. I must admit that my favourite are oak trees - you can't beat a good oak. With red squirrels in. What could be better?
Although monkey-puzzle trees come a close second.

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You're right - but only 1/12th of the population are lucky enough to be born in January, which is very sad.
I haven't met Frank Key yet, but I'll look out for him.
I like trees - I've climbed many, and drawn many, in my life. I must admit that my favourite are oak trees - you can't beat a good oak. With red squirrels in. What could be better?
Although monkey-puzzle trees come a close second.

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I love trees too. I mean all those leaves, WOW!! In fact my cat likes trees soooooo much he keeps running into them because he's so astounded by there size and beauty.

I was thinking about it and especially around the millenium there were a lot of people trying to have the first baby of the new millenium. I should imagine that a proportion of couples wanting a new born aim for the new year as a birthdate, and end up having a baby born in either january or december.
re-evaluating, i suspect that 1/11th of the population are born in january, but you are right, this is still far too few.

Ooh, i am with you on the oak trees, i used to know a nice big oak tree which split very near the botton, so even though it's diameter was a easily over a meter, it was still easily climbable. Oooh red squirrels. Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh. Can't mention them in my presence without a disparaging remark towards those dastardly greys whose inbreeding, sleeparound, whorelike activities have extinguished the beautiful reds (squirrels not communists) in my homeland.

Alex

there's nothing like a nice big tree, especially in season, when there are those nice big leaves on them to create a cool shade from the heat of the warm summer sun. ahhh leaves and sun. that brings back memoirs. and memories.
Unfortunate for your cat though. I hope he is never seriously injured. I'd imagine that if you ran at quite a pace towards a substantial tree, you could quite easily fracture something.

He is a stupid cat. He chases those inferior grey squirrels which happen to run up trees......at the last moment....but the cat kept going....straight into the tree. I now know y persian cats have flat noses!!!!

Does that mean Manx cats have no tail because they run backwards?
Luckily we have lots of red squirrel where I live on the Isle of Wight.

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No that's from the vet's making mistakes when neutering. Oops. sorry if that's not in good taste.

Ah! I used to think it was because their tails got run over by all those motorbikes...

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No. But geese are more fun around traffic. They tend to attack car tyres, now that's fun to watch especially on a quite busy road. Doint' worry tho cos no geese or motorists were hurt.

Not hurt? Where's the fun in that?
And what about the tyres - do they get a say in this?

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No but I'm surprised that no beaks got bent!!! I mean tryiung to attack a tyre on a moving car.....Ouch!!

When will the world be tyred of mindless violence?

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once civilisation has collapsed....maybe

i'm just surprised more cars aren't destroyed by the geese. if you had some way of controlling them, they would be a pretty handy weapon in war; i can just imagine a flock (or whatever the technical term be) of geese charging over the trenches to a herd (or whatever the technical term be) of armoured trucks full of war-hardy soldiers.

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It wouldn't be very affective. There beaks bounce straight of the tyres. The only time they gave anyone a puncture was when they pecked a nail out of a tyre!!!

i stand corrected. there is much i can learn on the behaviour on geese. maybe you should write a guide entry on it. that would be very cool.

alex