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

years ago, I had a "date" THAT looked like a camel - disco and drunk was I

Did you walk a mile to get away from her?

was on a coach. on a bachelors night outto a city 20 mile away

Been up all night, next door has been trimming up the whole house, inside and outside covered in fairy lights, I hate these bloody lights, don't mind them on a christmas tree but the whole bloody house


one hopes for a outage.......

They ought to charge people double - at least - for electric decorations

" inside and outside covered in fairy lights," [Jackruss]

Yes, that sounds extreme. I never hang strings of Christmas lights outside. I use displays of evergreen branches and holly berries and red ribbons instead.

Last Summer I bought some Bird's nest Spruce for a large planter in front of my house. I was thinking of putting red ribbons on it, but it's still kind of small. I will wait for it to grow some more....

Lights still on, been on all day....... and he's really happy about it

Humanity is going to hell, but apparently we are doing it first class

Pierce, I forgive you for talking about hell, but maybe you could explain how you conceive of the universe as including a hell but not a heaven?

Hell is other people.

Right. Heaven could be without people destroying it

I can't disagree with you, but we've made progress. 100 years ago, 1 percent of the world's land surface was protected. Now it's 15%.

A lot of topsoil erodes every year, largely because farmers have to plow to make way for seeds. But some of the plants that those seeds evolved from were perennials like wheat grass. Some dedicated scientists are trying to develop perennial wheat.

Pierce, you can help support this mission. Long Root Ale is made with kenza, a perennial wheat under development by the The land Institutei n kansas
http://hopworksbeer.com/2016/10/03/long-root-ale-a-partnership-between-patagonia-provisions-and-hopworks/

[I know that the link in the preceding post is a commercial one. I'm trying to get across the value of the scientific work. Perennial crops that live five years require only a fifth as much plowing, which could reduce plowing-related soil erosion.

I saw on our tv news teletext about the snowfall in N/Carolina and area

Hope your prepared where you are Paul, if it heads northwards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46504527

re 7792

You had me at "ale"!

It's a win-win-win situation, something that you can enjoy, that's good for you, and is good (maybe) for the planet.

So actually a win-win-win situation



PPP ( = Pierce the Pedantic )

The downside is that Long Root Ale is not available in very many places. None of the places is outside the U.S.

There may be a source for buying the flour and using it for quick breads
http://www.plovgh.com/kernza.html

But not until next year, apparently.

"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord" ok then! how come they didn't see the bloody hangover coming