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

chapstick...a sweet substance indeed.
the only problem being the addictive behavior of applying the smoothing substance at various times in the span of an hour.
chapstick addiction is not understood in the southern/warmer states in the usa- but a means of life to those who have expirenced by living in areas where a foot of snow landing on the ground causes no problem to daily life (and is normal, or atleast expected.)

i never leave home without my tube of chapstick (actually i have moved up the latter to carmex... a hard habit to kick) because i never know when it might be time for another coat.....


use your chapstick wisely......

Does saying "we don't have Chapstick in England" make England a bad place?

YOU DON'T HAVE CHAPSTICK?!?!?!?!?

another thing i'm going to have to stock up on before going there.

but, ummmmm.. there *has* to be something like it? some lip-ointment thing, that is like chapstick, but not quite.... ummmm...

I don't think we have Chapstick as a brand, but there are other types of lip moisturisers called LipSyl and stuff like that.

chapstick (the brand) is the blanket term for anything like chaptick. (like bandaides or kleenexes..or in someparts of the country coke is the term for all soda products..) or something like that..

do people still suffer an addiction to the chapstick (but not chapstick) ?

Yes, it most definatly does make england an evil place indeed. Poor people, don't have chapstick...

poor people..
and it was invented not to terribly long after the wheel... i wonder why they don't have it

we do have stuff *like* chapstick, but I haven't heard of anyone getting addicted to it. We are posh over here - we use the PROPER names for everything! Kitchen paper, fizzy drinks...

I wish I was american!

but no chapstick.


wanna switch? you can be the american... and i'll be british.

I'd love to, but I couldn't that cruel on you.

would that be cruel?

Reasons:
No chapstick
Happy music
Too many tv shows
Jet lag?
errr..
>


The accents?

those aren't that bad.....

in comparision-- having to drive everywhere... no cute mailmen on bikes... bad trying-to-be-funny sitcoms.... weird spellings on things.... jetlag- and more jetlag to get to any cool cities..

hohoho... I found something yesterday!
We were sorting out beneath the stairs when a found a small brown cylindrical tube lying tossed on the floor. It was a







CHERRY CHAPSTICK!



I haven't managed to become addicted to it yet, as it's old and dry, but yes, it does have a luuurvely taste.

((it was brown?? odd))

see- you do have cherry chapstick... it is lovely stuff- isn't it?

It's okay, i guess. I'm sure it tastes better when it's not six years old.

or has been thru the wash a few times..

At least it wouldn't be so dry... What colour are the tubes of chapstick over where you are then? Mine was brown, as English peaople have this awful colour-coding thing: yellow for lemon, orange for orange (duh), blue for original, black for coal, etc, etc.

cherry is red.... yellow is carmex... green is minty.. blue is medicated... and black is plain.

is this toilet paper we're discussing here?