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

My hair dryer just attempted to kill me. Again. Its a differnt hairdryer to the one that tried to kill m last time.

Some time back it developed a incy wincy ickle fault... The cable was obviously not making a solid connection any longer inside the unit... try as I might its designed pretty-much so you can't get inside it.

anyhow, I carried on using it, having to wiggle it a bit every now and then to get it to work
Well, I just had a shower.
and then after showering was trying to dry my hair
plugged in hair dryer, turned on hairdryer...
nothing. wiggled it about a bit... kinda came to life, and then kinda started making a weird noise, and emitting sparks (I'm still trying to dry my hair with it at this point)...
then.
click.
Funny smell
the electric fan stops, the music stops, the HiFi amp makes a click as it powers down quickly unplug the hairdryer and get to towel drying....
A few minutes later, lodger calls up from downstairs
"you been putting your fingers in the plug sockets again, the power has gone to the radio and computer"

Lodger rest the fuse in the fuse switch box
Luckily my computer, in the studeo, and indeed all the equipment on the power outlets in the studeo is on a differnt circuit and so didn't turn itself off
Right, now to make dinner, do a bit of housework, and order up this monkey drum (Cuica). Think I'm going to go for the more expensive one as it is fully adjustible and tunable, but think I'll get hte 8 inch one rahter than the 9 and a half inch one, which will save a bit of money; I think* the only differnce is that the larger one would be louser Suppose I oughta buy a hairdryer

I knew this had to be you

Yes, I'd say a new hairdryer would be in order...

*mutters something about plane tickets*

I don't use a hairdryer as it makes me fluffy and more foolish looking but I can empathise with the elcetrocution/powerfailure bit though.

I think the larger monkey drum may have a lower pitch. This would equate to a larger, or more confident and relaxed sounding monkey... possibly

oh dear, i'am on vac. hear on insula dobbel b one c and you already use those technic? well i think i gone be to like it.