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

One of my roomates in college decided that he realy needed a woman. He had a great deal of trouble accomplishing this.

He believed that the way to a womans heart was in the way that he decorated his bedroom.

He bought large potted plants. They were about three feet tall....and PLASTIC.

This attempt at finding love failed.

He then discovered the Lava Lamp. He bought one.

It didn't work.

He bought another. Etc.Etc.

After several failures he decided to ply the ladies with cheap wine. 5$ for a gallon.

He never had a success in four years.

COOOOL... I got a lava lamp tooooo with green bubbles.....
very relaxing and especially useful during summers, obviously because there's not snow in the summer time

Green bubbles in clear liquid? Or..erm.. *holds breath* What colour was it?

Bear: Perhaps if they'd been real plants, blacklight bulbs, -and- lava lamps?

'Nonnie

Real plants probably wouldn't have helped. The black lite was also tried.

His foot odor was probably what kept the ladies away. But that's another story that I'm probably going to write down soon.

green bubbles..... small ones , big ones, but neither lasting very long

bear: my advise is..uh.... not very uselful I guess

Ah, but there is an indoor plant (I'm sorry, but atm I can't remember which one, though I'm thinking it's a fairly common one) that will help with foot odour.. both by using (by rubbing)it's leaves directly on the feet and merely by absorbing it from the air. Then again, going barefoot through the grass will do a fair job, too.. but unless the grass is always green where you live...

Interestingly enough, giving a dog a bath in tomato juice (the highly respected but mythical solution) will -not- remove the leftovers from a game of skunk-chasing. However, our old hound discovered what does.. You guessed it, rolling in the grass. Mother always assumed it was the chlorophyll, and I tend to agree.

KF: The wax was green, right? So what colour was the liquid it bubbled in?

'Nonnie

oh now I see what you mean.,... it was transparent

*grins* I suspected as much.

'Nonnie

I didn't even know there are lavalamps with coloured liquid.
But I still have to learn a lot about lavalamps ......

Oh my yes! In fact, the one I have sitting here is filled with blue liquid and has white lava. Didn't the article explain that well? Any suggestions on how to improve it so that it does?

'Nonnie

Looks like it -might- be getting accepted. Edited version at:

http://www.h2g2.com/A311040

'Nonnie