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

The Aroma Cafe is open for finest blended coffees and teas, specialty drinks, excellent pastries, interesting conversation and wonderful ambience.

Our orangutan Ook remains unbeaten at scrabble.
Our latest animal (may the menagerie please remain small) is a small gray cat named Diogenes, currently soaking up rays in the window.
The gnus got loose during one of yesterday's tremors, but are safely back in the forest.
The busking sax player, Bahb, has finally come out of the gents and has played good, if strange, music for us.
The transponder in the IIEM (Infinite Improbability Espresso Machine) is being left on until such time as the earthquakes and existential anomalies cease.

No soliciting.

You are welcome in!

This happened yesterday too!!!

Simulposting when Lil is setting up a new thread!!

At least I get a good shot at beiing first in!!

Another first-to-the-forum special for Snata!
And good morning!

*brings in the morning papers*
*sets IIEM on autopilot*

The caretakers will be out and about for several hours, putting their lives in order. Please just place your order with the IIEM, relax.


*Ook and Pierrot settle down to a game of tiddlywinks*

Coffee please, IIEM!!

*Snata sits down with coffee and thinks to himself that there isn't much fun in beiing first-in-the-forum when you're also alone-in-the-forum*

Well, I'm in and out, just now Snata -- business usually picks up at 6 pm BST (about two and a half hrs from this post), when the cheap rate kicks in, in the UK.

I also expect the whole summer to be rather quiet, as many of the regulars are university students.

And there is the fear of Improbability tremors. That may be keeping people home, too.

*pours self more coffee and opens up the Guardian*

You're not alone Snata. I've been playing scrabble with Ook until he went to play with Pierrot.

Just not much to say at the moment. And I keep popping in and out to see if my forum start excisting again.

Maybe tomorrow I have more time. I am usually here around the same time as you. I'll try to be more fun ok?

*Goes to IIEM to get another quick coffee before she has to go*

*strides in cheerily carrying a tenor sax*

Morning, all! hey, Ook!
i'll have a good ol' Earl Grey with lemon, IIEM.

*loiters about waiting for buisiness to pick up*

Afternoon all! Any chance of a coffee before I fall asleep over my revision! And some soothing music on the radio would be magical... Anyone mind if i have a fiddle???

Hi, all.

Just a Kona, black, to go, please. Can't stay at the moment.

*flips [WM] into basket on the window sill and leaves*

Irv was thinking about a jukebox, but decided against it after a jukebox materialised and turned out to be an hostile alien, but that's a whole nother story.

Music -- we have Bahb here with his golden tenor sax. If you wish to fiddle, you'll have to work out a business arrangement with him, OK?

coffee for you, fashion cat -----> c(~)
I see Bahb has his EG tea.

Hello Bahb,I heard about your music. Sorry to miss it again but I have to go again. I look forward to hear it.

Bye Bye.

Hello Fashion Cat. Sorry to hi and bye like this but RL is calling. Meet you later maybe.

*waves goodbye to Lil, Snata, Bahb, Fashion Cat and Pierrot. Hugs Ook goodbye. Think the better of patting Didi and walks out*

anyone wanna see something REALLY interesting?
check this out!
*plays a lilting melody on his saxophone until it starts to glow and finally a little blue luminescent object pops out and begins to hover around his head.*
it turns out there's a fairy living in my saxophone!
everyone, this is Twinkie the Sax Sprite. i don't quite know what she eats yet, but i figure some latte' will hold her just fine.
and one for me as well.

The problem with being new.. your lost before you even start! Who's Ook?? (or should I go with the obvious Discworld connection there?) And as for fiddling with someones sax.... maybe he should play it himself before i start getting involved

Thanx for the coffee, i was just nodding off there!

I go, I come back. I remember your fairy story Bahb and seeing as you are talking about it, a question to you. I was thinking of making my page a sort of tribute to fairy tales, myths, legend folklore. Do you know any more interesting fairies or tales, or would your fairy like to hang out with other fairies? Ask her/him, maybe I can make sure she and her friends feel comforable at my place.

Definately bye now.

whoops! guess i got a little tongue-tied there! well, i suppose no time's as good as the present for playing my sax. fashion cat, you're welcome to accompany me on the fiddle if you like!
*starts in on a nice slow tune, as it is 11:00 am where i am*

I'm so sorry, have I rendered Bahb speechless?

sure, you're welcome to let Twinkie hang with all the other fairies. i didn't know they were so common!
i'm sure i can dredge a few more fairy tails out of this cranium. i'll have to get back to you later, tho, because i'm tired. as i said, it's 11:00 am here as opposed to afternoon.

Well, i suppose i'd better mosey on along now. if anyone wishes to talk about anything at all, swap useless monty Python trivia, or hear some more saxophoning, I can propably be found at Twinkie's Sax Sensation over on my page. just click on my name above.
Come on, Twink!
*scoops Twinkie back into his sax*
i'll be back shortly.
*departs, stopping to considier petting cat on windowsill. thinks better of it and just leaves.*