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

Hey Sally. Ani here. Dai and Heavy have arrived also. You can get to my space by searching 'Delwyn's kebabs: a biocybernetic inventory. You can get to Dai and Heavy's space by going to the 'new researchers' section off the h2g2 front page. Dai registered 2 days ago and Heavy today. I registered yesterday. Where is Tim?

Hi Ani,

It's much prettier over here, isn't it?
It took me ages to find the new researchers link. I noticed Eliezer on the list. Jules and Mike have been over here for ages. Don't know about anyone else though.

Should be enough to get some discussions going soon If we start them as new guide entries, that might even attract other folks into them.

Oooh, I just noticed the smiley. If Ian's having can I have ?

Sally

Hi Sally. Yes it is pretty here. And yes I think making Guide contributions sounds very interesting. I am thinking of starting off with an entry on Manitoulin Island which I will request be tucked into the Canada entry.

Yesterday my computer acted strangely and I ended up losing my entire list of links for current events and for faith, both of which were prodigious.

Heavy is a beer brewer. He explained the process to me yesterday. It sounds like fun. Apparently he and the lads eat (sweet) cake with their beer and are not satisfied with the results. Yesterday they had banana cake with bitter beer. (one eyebrow up) Perhaps we can have a recipe contest once more of us wash up on shore. Dai's Mam's 'cakes sound like they are of the savoury (and not sweet) variety. I have never had a butty, but wot the hek. I seem to remember you and Tim like tins. Didn't Cross and Blackwell have a tinned cake?

I have dropped in on Ship of Fools and have applied for membership. No reply. Doesn't look good. Of course I withheld all sorts of info which I thought was none of their business. it doesnt look like a very wholesome site anyway. As opposed to the glorious example of Hitchhikers Guide. (We must start a hairdressers chapter.)

A bunch of us got into some skirmishes on the cmb yesterday. Ronnie's thread on who goes to heaven and Tim's thread on the problem of evil. I am afraid I released the hounds. Just follow the trail of blood and you will end up at my posts.

I did find it very frustrating posting on the cmb. The Mod rules were truly draconian and nonsensical. I mean the very idea of pulling Dai's greek! I got pulled frequently for 'cutting and pasting,' even though I always provided the cite. I also thought that there were too many posters allowed to get away with discriminatory statements. That is why I bivouacked for a bit in the hills. But there you have it: the gloves are off now.

I do not remember Jules and Mike, but I do remember Eliezer. I shall see if he wants to pop in. Have a g'day. ani.

Sally, I don't know what is. ani. I gather it is chocolate, but chocolate what? Shall we have a contest to guess what it is?

Sally: In response to your suggestion that Heavy and I send a gentle hint over to Tim (viz getting a username): I have sent over a horde of bees to Tim's thread on the problem of evil. I do hope they all get along nicely (they may be a speck cranky after their transAtlantic flight, in which case just toss them some barbecued clover).

Tim will find the aforementioned horde very useful in locating (hunting down) Dai. (They have a nose for kebabs.) Delwyn might be a bit startled at first, but I am sure he will quickly forward our visitors to the next available victim (er, zoologist; er Dai).

My theory is that Dai is in hospital having suffered a bellydancing accident at the Institute. (a flying woolly mit) Hygiene, too, I hear is in the ICU recovering from fatal resonance (It's hard when you are that, well, energetic. Er, endowed. Er, both)

Anyway, as I suspect Dai is down at the lip about something and hasn't responded to any of my consolations, I am relying on Brave Tim Good Tim to bring him back to life. Or else.

Hi Ani,

I'm here languishing under my preferred nom-de-plume of FatHippy

So what now, or are you and SWMBO porking yourself stoopid on + + more
TTFEH

Hi Ani,

Well he's here now. If you can't read Tim's typing too well, it could be because of the arm up the back.
I had to convince him to join, didn't I?

I'll keep an eye out for the bees. Can they cope with torrential downpours?

Sally

Do you have a problem with ?

I'll happily deal with your share, if you do.

Just say the word.

sally

Dear Tim. Glad to hear from you and SWMBO.

As for your preferred nom de plume: bravo! I tremble with admiration (envy) in your general direction. I have a friend who mentioned she might like to acquire same, but says it might be very expensive. Are nom de plumes (jocular error in syntax)a lineage thing? Passed along from generation to generation? How does this, er, friend go about being nom-de-plumed? Please advise.

SWMB and I porking ourselves stupid on ? Well, yes. Not stupid exactly; unconscious.

Tim, as we havent had any real conversations for quite some time and you have replied only in a very abbreviated way to my posts, I am wondering if you are any of the following minds:

that I
1) am a complete (and very scarey) whacko;
2) am rude;
3) am moody, sulky, hypersensitive, and volatile;
4) am prone to disappear for long periods of time without notice;
5) am just plain dead between the ears;
6) have wrongfully taken the name of Semi Pelagius in vain;
7) have a split personality;
8) such a lot of fun that you can't squeeze your mouth together to form words.

Beware the test. D-oh! Don't tell him that!

All the best, ani.

Dear Sally. Re your startling observation <>: so I gather. (The bees and I sleuthed your excellent sleuthing.)

I understand that the Vatican is allowing married couples to have the husband's arm surgically (and permanently) bent up the back. (the Doctrine of Once Convinced Always Convinced) I say! What good news that is! Is the surgery 'covered' in Britain? I think we should petition the Beeb to provide a smiley with its arm up the back. What do you think?

Thank you for your neighbourly concern (panic, er, deference to) vis a vis the bees. No need to worry about torrential downpours. They all have umbrellas. Except for Nigel The Lead Bee who has a London Fog Raincoat just like the one Humphrey Bogart wore in Casablanca.

All the best, Ani.

Hi Ani,

The quickest way to get a dose of the Nom-de-plumes is to sit on a cold wall....

As for the options you post, well how about 1 to 7..

Actually I have not been positng a lot of late really - hearts not really been in it for a while. nothing to do with you - just time & space.....

God bless

TTFEH

Dear Sally: I must admit that I used to have a problem with chocolate due to crippling migraines. When I taught pottery at a Jewish resort, however, the migraines miraculously disappeared. Completely. It could have been the fabulous food. But maybe G-d decided to bless me on the basis of my having blessed his people. I wasn't aware of having blessed anyone; puttering maybe. Is puttering covered in the OT?

Actually I never really liked chocolate and would happily pass along my share to my slavering, frothing-at-the-mouth friends.

Recently, however, I have developed cravings for Hagen Daaz Rocky Road ice cream. And I have never looked back. So, no way are you getting any of mine, stop looking, don't even think that thought, in fact isn't that the bees arriving on the horizon? Swoosh, nab, gobble.

All the best, ani.

Thanks so much for your reply FH. And my, er, friend, who is now sitting on the scaffolding outside the Parliament Buildings, thanks you too.

1-7! I would have preferrrrrred 8. But, right then, 1-7 is good. All fun and no torment makes ani a dull girl.

As for your heart: not to worry. You can have an alarm clock installed when you go in for your arm-bent-up-the-back surgery. Just make sure it is not your brew arm because, if it is your brew arm then you will have to also have your head twisted around so that it faces backwards; and then you will have to make some radical adjustments for your feet, knees, and seating area.

All the best, ani.

Good Morning Hip. I am unable to post anything to Dai on the CTMB. They keep on pulling the same post no matter how I alter it. It was pulled twice with a request to completely translate the offending parts. I removed in total the parts which I thought might be 'offending.' Then the post was removed on the basis of being off topic.

My post to you, however, was left intact though completely off-topic (whatever the topic was in the first place), complete with its own foreign word, and -- to boot -- a reference to a place! I've posted a huge chunk to Ronnie's thread on getting to heaven today and am disclined to post anything more. I may go back to lurking.

PS They have some MC games on h2g2! I just need to print a map. I can sort of follow it already but a map would help enormously. Now the rules, I am assuming are complete nonsense. Yet I haven't noticed anyone challenging the invocation of a rule. (Maybe a CTMB Mod invented the game.)

OK, I am twisted and bitter. God bless, Ani.

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