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

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Thats suspiciously sensible advice from somebody who claims not to be sensible.

Welcome aboard Duffy! I'm always delighted to meet someone who's silly walked in the same sand as John cleese. As for the element of potential confusion about h2g2 and computer-related work: rest assured, what goes on around here is almost bound to be more fun... unless your line of work is converting computers into jelly moulds.

JTG

Hi Dr E Vibenstein
Hi John-the-GURU.

Thanks for droping by and saying hello.

Ah, Weston beach where the sea is brown and the tide so far out that you need hiking boots to find it.

Silly walks are my attempt at not stepping in dog poo that litters the so called 'clean' beach for half the year.

Weston is the arse hole on the edge of the Somerset coast. Or do I hate it just because I live there?

Well I hate it too and I've only been there once.

Still, forty thousand caravaners can't all be wrong. Ah, wait, yes they can.

... but what a name! Anyone with a broken Latin translator can easily imagine scenes with flying horses at the mention of it.

JTG

More like plodding donkeys on the sand.

Well, I was there once, and I liked it.
Mind you, I was four.

I bet it was the donkeys.

JTG

Yes, it was.
Or was that Scarbrough?

I don't know, I wasn't here then!

Scarborough IS a hole. Not as bad as Bridlington though. Or indeed any east-coast British beach.

Where I come from, that's fightin' talk. We have beautiful beaches at Redcar and Hartlepool. Come to think of it, perhaps you've got a point.

I just spent a week on Cape Cod (Atlantic coast of NE USA), where there is more beautiful sand and sea than you can shake a stick at; but, in a perverse way, it really made me miss the beaches of Skeggy, Cleethorpes, etc... where, if memory serves, such civilized amenities as whelks, pints, and chips are scarcely ever more than a stones throw away, and kids automatically transform into expert sandcastle builders the moment their plastic sandles hit the beach. Don't tell me that's all gone.



JTG

Never had whelks.

Now sandcastle building, I remember when I could be bothered to re-do a tower a dozen times until it looked right, though the biggest project I took part in was when a bunch of us dug down until we reached the really soggy sand, then, realising this was pretty deep (about 3' I'd guess, depending on how old I was), enlarged it and covered it up with driftwood and seaweed.

That really soggy sand you found was probably the discharge point for an underground sewage outlet! Nice

There are some quite nice Scottish beaches... well, once you go past the nuclear power station at any rate!

Good to meet you Duffy! I'm an angel, and I go around, doing what EV did above, but on a very unofficial level! Its good to see you settling in so well! I definitely hope to see you around soon...

The beaches near me are all crap cos they are on the Thames.

Thank you Fashion Cat.

Very nice to meet you, in fact, I havn't met a bad person yet!

hehe... they are very hard to find around here actually... I've been here a few months, and although I'm no-where near knowing everyone, those I do know are generally a good bunch!

Not one bad apple in a barrel of 61765 peaches.

JTG