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

Celluci's replacement has been named:

'The Associated Press reported that Wilkins had only been to the country once, about three decades ago while he was in the U.S. Army Reserve.'

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/04/27/wilkins-050427.html


Sounds like a real expert.

And thanks for the Truthout link, Taliesin. That's a site I visit every day and I would recommend it to everyone.

> < place where nothing ever happens.>>

> Strangely enough, there are some of us who would love to find such a
> place if it existed

Well if you use places that don't make it on European news event radar, you shouldn't have too much trouble. Greenland seems event free and is a low risk for terrorist attack as well! Has melting glaciers, mind ...

As for Canadian cold ... Been there, done that, and never again if I can help it. Too many long, cold winters under this lads's belt. When you live in Canada, you just get on with it. Once you're away you can't understand how you put up with it for so long. Yes, there is life without 30cm snow dumps and -30c, and I'm not talking about the odd
2-week migration some do to escape for a bit.

Even what Italians call 'winter' here isn't much to my liking. In the region around Rome, winters are like Vancouver - overcast and rainy Dec-Feb. I live in a town overlooking Rome at 950m elevation, so its usually 5 degress cooler here. A few mornings it might get down to around -3c, but usually its 0-5c with highs 5-10c.

The problem here is that housing and buildings are built for the summer 35-40c weather and not for cold. In fact, they are cold sinks and designed to draw the cool in and release heat. I've never been so cold inside buildings during winter as here. Sometimes it feels warmer outside than in. To make things worse, natural gas is bloody expensive. Might as well be burning Euro notes in the boiler ...

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Even what Italians call 'winter' here isn't much to my liking. In the region around Rome, winters are like Vancouver - overcast and rainy Dec-Feb. I live in a town overlooking Rome at 950m elevation, so its usually 5 degress cooler here. A few mornings it might get down to around -3c, but usually its 0-5c with highs 5-10c.

So doesn't living in Vancouver count as living in Canada? How about balmy Victoria?
Those of you who live in the less hospitable parts of this nation are giving the more sensible ones a bad name.
I live in Richmond B.C. We don't do "Winter" here.

Richmond is one of my favourite towns in the country, though. Good choice on habitation.

This one's for you, Anhaga:

Ten herring and nine kippers swam
For Oslo recently.
Tsunamis hit everywhere,
Uprooting pines, drowning atolls, terrorizing Europe.



(I *love* Anhaga's secret code. )

They sound like either anagrams or palindromes. I *know* they're not palindromes, but I'm too lazy to work out the anagram possibility.

You're welcome, Paul.

It's been rather handy. If you look back through my journal you'll find hundreds of lines of that very strange collaborative poem. It seems to be absolutely incomprehensible to Trolls. Initially it can be quite opaque to non-trolls as well. Seems to me that I read something in a vile village that was very similar.

you eventually see
inside the
curtain even rarely through all insidious northern liberal yippies
inclement sources
over nullified embryos
oval forces
take heed efulgent
marshes odiferously reeking exclaim
dire influence for fear involves cutting under lean tennis
of never endured scenes

Gee.... see, this is what happens when the Leader of the Free World©®™ watches cartoons instead of Prime Time television: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-0504290009apr29,1,223093.column?coll=chi-homepagebiz-utl&ctrack=1&cset=true

...and the spin...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/28/entertainment/e155635D85.DTL

(the Chicago Tribune link requires a subscription.)

Why do I find this story a relief?

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/29/polls050429.html

<>

Is that possible? I thought Tories had resisted going unleaded.

Mudhooks, I don't get your meaning regarding the *alleged* leader of the *alleged* Free World watching cartoons instead of television. Where else but television would he watch his cartoons?

"Prime Time Television" not just television!

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/02/canada/battleofatlantic040502

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/atlantic

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/01/atlantic-stamp.html



(where's the smiley?)

Anyway, just thought I'd mention that I welcomed another Canadian aboard awhile ago, an actor - U1530919 . And yes I did direct him to the Canadian Researchers Group as well as inviting him here.

I just found another Canadian and fellow person of the cloth who goes by the handle of Rev. Nick that I extended an invite to.

Yes I had spotted that moniker somewhere in the past while, unfortunately when I was in the midst of other things. So thanks rev!How go things in Tokyo?

*waves* Hi Paul, how's Mon. going otherwise?

I got to work as usual at 1:00 p.m., and found the usual vitriol between co-workers. A house divided against itself, yet it does not fall.