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

Okay, the rules for this thread are that each post has to be relevant or related in some way to the post above it, but _can't_ be related to the one before that one. Any questions?

Isn't it a bit difficult to make sense of the rules of this game until there's a last and last but one post to relate to and ignore respectively? Luckily I seem to have solved the problem by asking this question. Perhaps this is just one of those lucky coincidences life is full of.

How would it be a coincidence if you did it on purpose? I thought coincidences by definition were up to chance.

actually, a coincidence is just things that happen at the same time. sort of. take the roots: co- (together) -incidence. words are funny things.

(please just consider this an addition to my last post.) although that's not the exact wording. it's two things that coincide.

Doesn't this game just count as an ordinary conversation?
Or is that just me?

But how exactly do you define "ordinary" on h2g2? I mean, something can't really be weird and ordinary at the same time. Normal, on the other hand, simply refers to what happens most often, so this conversation could be called normal within the environment.

normal is relative anyway, and one of the factors *is* the environment it's in.

while normal is relative, relatives are certainly not normal.

Talking of relatives, I'm flying West on Friday to visit my sister in Seattle. Only 4 more working days to go now and boy, do I need this holiday!!

i love holidays. they are the things that keep us going, those much-needed breaks from work.

Isn't it prunes or dried figs that keep us going...?
(sorry to lower the tone of the conversation so soon)

*shocked at how low the tone of the coversation has gotten* why...why...it's as low as that nois that only ELEPHANTS make(the lowest know noise ever, at least i think)!!!

does anyone else like elephants?

Like elephants in what way?

Such that they are unable to jump?

awful to be unable to puddle jump.

There's a Pub near us called the Inn on the Pond, at some times of year, the Pond *almost* dries up, and it becomes the pub on the puddle!

Good Food, and Beer all the time though - LambShank is definitely worth the cycle ride!

How long a cycle ride is it worth?

The worth of anything is determined by a confusing, and almost completely useless, calculation, which I, as Keeper of Calculations, have mislaid at the moment.....

Of course, it would be easier to find if you had written it down in the first place...