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

The beginning of the end of the beginning of the ending of the world will be held on an iceberg floating in the Pacific Ocean carrying two penguins.

Bruce and Tracy are the two penguins so chosen.

It is not known at this stage if Tracy will tempt Bruce with a fish.

And the fish will symbolize ... erm... something.

Being out of breathable substance in the jaws of a deadly preditor as a token of pure bloody sport, probably.

Anyway, what happened to the exploding sheep and volcanos erupting green jelly?

Green jelly is unavailable today, sorry

The end-of-world-jerking-motion meant it was lost overboard

We are currently looking for heroes/jerks imitating/irritating penquins whilst posing in wet suits


Enigmatically, a bottle of mint sauce floats by

Oh look! There's a note inside!

The end of the world.....mmmmmm........

I think it shall be a total eclipse of the sun. It's a popular one.

Didn't your mother ever tell you to beware of mint sauce bearing notes? Next thing you know you'll be sliding all over the glacier with scissors held the wrong way up. You should be ashamed.

Well sure, but hey.. if the world's gonna end anyway ...

Oh.. And the answer to Esti-Researcher 50436's question in the old, slow-loading thread is obviously the sun and moon (well, and the earth, but since that's what's getting dark... ).

Does it happen to be exactly 1 hour after you (Anonymouse) posts that entry do I happen to slightly change my name; I've now cut off the "-Researcher 50436". It's Esti now. Just plain Esti. And well done as well for getting the correct answer to my question in the old, slow-loading thread is correct, but I'm afraid I do not agree with the Earth being the third answer as I think I already said most of its ingrediants. Maybe I should add a few more: iron, soil, lava, erm, *thinks*, chlorophyl, chalk, clay, sandstone, sand, H2O, granite, erm, *thinks again*. I think that's it!

Pluto is in danger of being eclipsed by bigger, stonger planets and therefore losing it's planet status

Oh look. Another bottle of mint sauce. And is that a sheep's leg? Surely not.

I did hear a bang a little time ago

Loonytunes: you are sick. Don't you care? Couldn't you at least give the sheep some help or a little sympathy, either for it or it's family!

Hey look! Another bottle of mint sauce floats by. Oh look! Guess who's inside with one hand flapping helplessly in the breeze!

Anyone care to guess (hint:it's not me!).

BTW, have some sympathy for Pluto. It worked hard to gain it's planet status. Support the poor little thing.

Honestly, some people are so cruel!

If the leg is all that's left, I'm sure it's owner would have been glad for it to share mintsauce space in my ice-berg stranded tummy.

(It's not that I'm cruel, I do love animals... I just happen to love lambchops. )

So—it is my understanding—do lambs!

Hmm... It's also my understanding that sheep do not float well.

Ah, but this one might have learnt to swim, thse who are chosen to be harbingers of the end of the world have to be slightly diffrent...

But wouldn't it shrink?

How far would you like it to shrink? It's already down it's last leg (and nothing more), which would make swimming a bit difficult... not to mention breathing.

Prehaps its wearing water proofs, breathing could be diffilcult though, but thats where anirobic respiration kicks in.

I wasn't meaning to start off a conversation about sheep beiong unable to float. Just answer the question!