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

*This is said just as Affy is walking out with a very nice looking, obviously finished Penny Whistle. He looks at it, sighs, and then turns back to the work room*

*The sound of jack hammers, cement trucks, and theremins can be heard*

Sorry.

*sounds of a washing machine and a blender. GL pokes his head out.*

It was a bit hard to hear your order, but we've got the bowl, the popcorn, the marshmallow and the carrot. What was the fifth one? Good idea, by the way, disguising them as food.

I think she said Flagon. You know, like what you'd drink Ale out of in a LOTR book?

er...um...yes, flagon. That's it.

And along with those five, could you also make a mole, a unicorn, a martian, a dragon, and a parrot?

That'll give me ten, so that I can start placing beacons around the space/time system. Should prove handy in a pinch.

*Affy emerges from the work room with the penny whistle, the bowl, the popcorn, the marshmallow, the carrot, the flagon, the mole, the unicorn, the martian, the dragon, and the parrot*

There ya go! Ten time beacons, and an instrument to steer by. Sorry for taking so long, though. Tough week at college, IRL.

Thanks! This'll come in handy. I'm joining up with a superhero team called CHOPPERS, so I should probably drop one of these off at their base. Maybe the Dragon. Or the Flagon....

CHOPPERS, eh?

GL, are we still members with CHOPPERS, or are we in our own comic book now? I haven't gone to a CHOPPERS meeting in ages.

CHOPPERS, eh? Affy and I are both members, but not very active ones. We were instrumental, though, in the legendary fish wars.

You know, as it turns out we're setting up a kind of mock fish fight. A kind of training mission, as it were.

Ah, the fish fights!

Of course, back then we still used the original fish. <-This one just doesn't feel right.