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

*pours *

And they have temporarily disabled the smiley again.

How are we supposed to survive if we don't know where our towels are?

Quick Menza I need a very very very very large

They made a and now its gone again

We know where our towels are - the moderators have stolen them.

And lighter fuel is a far superior drink to meths.

<BB<

Do you think the moderators stole the 's too - so that they had somewhere to store the s?

* downs a suspicious tasting G&T and waits for another *

*pours *

Here you go, and hopefully all the smileys will be back after the update tomorrow.

Thanks Menza

I needed that

*wanders casually in and sits down at the bar*

hi Menza, the usual please

*checks watch*
Hello Ændr, long queue for the toilets was it?

unless your watch has years on it, I've returned in minus two months and seven days from when I left...

/me hugs DrE

urgh. This computer is *very* confused.

And so am I.
Still....

How have you been? Indeed, where have you been?

To "How have you been?", well I've been well, ill, well, very ill, better than ill but not well, run down & stressed, stressed & run down, well-ish, ill, well but tired and stressed and am currently mainly stressed.
How about yourself?

To "where have I been?" mainly sitting behind a computer in Oxford with jaunts to Innsbruck, Bracknell (at least once a week), Nice, Liverpool, Cambridge, Montpellier, Hull, down the side of the country on a sailing barge (great fun), Turin and Oxford.

To "why haven't you been *here*?" erm, I was busy and then I forgot about h2g2 totally.

To "why are you here now, then?" well, I'm supposed to be writing this thesis thing*, so I am procrastinating and doing displacement activities.

[*Driving of the annual cycle in lower-stratospheric tropical temperatures by localised breaking of synoptic-scale waves, if you must know. If you want to know what that means, you need to see a doctor.]

AE

Ah, a comprehensive answer.

I've been here and there. Here being Falkirk, there being Newcastle. I look at it as not so much the end of a relationship, more gaining a virtual ex-wife. If you see what I mean.

Any chance of a here?

I'm still waiting for my usual.
AE

*scratches head, strains the memory and pours a *

orange juice?!

ginger ale... (_)

AE

I knew I would get it wrong.

*pours nice fresh (_) from his finest stock*

thankee kindly, sir

*adds another equation to her thesis*

Hmmm, that's one they missed out of the new range of smilies.

Is this a I see before me?