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

"Err. I'm not!" [orcus]

It was a metaphor

Or a semaphore

Or a pinafore.

Or something.



Maybe I'm starting to channel 2Legs?

This has got me thinking about that their standard model of physics.

Now all baryons (protons and neutrons are the more common ones you may have heard of) consist of three types of quark. Up Down and Strange.

Now an increase in strangeness, might cause a problem in the balance of matter causing an implosion of reality.

However... there is a fourth type of quark....

Perhaps an increase in strangeness might result in a counterbalancing increase in Charm

There's a nice thought for the day.

(ignoring the 5th and sixth type of quark Top and Bottom of course)

Might be an increase in bottom too I suppose - provided it's pert - why not?

If I live long enough, do you think I'll see where these discoveries lead?

Think of all the amazing developments you've already lived to see?

We have SUPERCOMPUTERS constantly connected to a WORLDWIDE NETWORK that we carry in our pockets. Nearly any bit of information available at a moments notice, in your hand. I'm not saying we use such amazing devices in a sensible way, but the potential is outstanding.

Yeah, and that computer connectivity isn't long for this world, judging from the many post-apocalyptic novels that have been written lately.

I say this on a website that has its mainframe computers three thousand miles away for me.

We are all quarks flowing through the giant galactic mainframe of conceptual reality then. Hmm. does that make me a strange quark or a bottom quark? in addition to the up and down, is there a suction quark?

Its at times like this I wish I'd listened to all those things my Grandmother told me. - NO idea if they'd help of course, I obviously wasn't listening to them...
so... you think nighthoover's a physicist? interesting,...

2Legs, I don't know you well enough to say whether you are a strange quark. If your teeth resist decay in the face of strong force and electromagnetism, then that part of you probably *is* a strange quark.

Would you settle for being comprised of strange quarks, along with all the other kinds?

My teeth are rediculusly OK. I went to the dentist, about a year ago now... for the first time since.... my Mother probably took me yeh…. about err 30 plus years ago and... asides where I'd just chipped a old tooth where an long ago missing filling had weakened it, they're all, apparently OK. - my dentist says its the pies and bacon that have saved my teeth... - I eat nothing sweet cept some fruit

I wonder what nighthoover's teeth are like?

There's a teeth-cleaning system that uses a vacuum
http://patents.google.com/patent/US4991570A/en

>"Err. I'm not!" [orcus]

It was a metaphor

Or a semaphore

Or a pinafore.

Or something. blush <


err... it was a quote from Monty Python.

Brian: You are all individuals!

Crowd in Unison? "Yes, we are all individuals"

Lone voice: "er... I'm not"

Comedy at its best

I love that quote!

Thanks for sharing.

"so I got stuck here then" is another good quote. I want it on my gravestone

I thought we had discovered nighthoover Saturday night.

William and I left the house, to walk to the pub, and, mere meters (or feet, or cubic scapoids if you prefer) from our front door we encountered a very lost, odd looking chap....
We asked him if he was lost... and he said 'yes".
We then proceded to take him miles out of our way, to an obscure air B&B, in 'the old bakery' - odd indeed.

However, he turned out to be an accountant from Northhampton and claimed to know nothing of 'nighthoover'.

However, in hindsight... is not denying knowledge of 'nighthoover', and de facto denying he was nighthoover, just the kind of thing nighthoover might do?

Luckily we still got to the pub with time to spare, and so I got luckily on the way home we did not meet the one armed man from Norwich, or the Hungarian Tonto/Todor heck, we didn't even meet Disco Kenny

Kindly explain to me why a one-armed man would be a problem, except to himself? Most of us have two arms, but the one-armed man has only half of the capacity to do harm.

Also, my understanding of Disco Kenny is that you aren't likely to encounter him unless you're on or near King Street. Were you near King Street?

Very close to King Street, in the back-streets in one of his favorite pubs - the only problem with the one-armed man, was that he claimed to know me... which he didn't... and carried on as if he was some kind of very well known friend I think the missing arm was the least of his problems no todau last night, but a girl in a doorway did tell us how she'd encountered a pink large fluffy sheep in the town center. and that it was a unfriendly sheep that was last night mind... if only nighthoover was here to help understand such things

I would rather have Nighthoover than a fierce pink sheep.

But at the top of my list is a cherry pastry.

the scarey pink sheep, sounded angry...…. Well the 'lady' talking of it, seemed somewhat.... agressive/out of it

I often wonder what nighthoover would make of pastrys…. maybe we will never know

I expect that Nighthoover would inhale them quickly.