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

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I'm only here a minute or two because I'm on somebody elses computer.....

Last night BT cut my phone off earlier than I expected.....it will be back on tomorrow afternoon, but I came along to say I hate bt

You didn't fool me at all, Rat. You're the only one who would dream up a subject line like that.

*looks at subject line*
I thought this was one of Rat's journals... I must be lost.

I tried to bet someone this was one of Rat's journals, but they wouldn't take the bet. You can't fool me *that* easily.

Aye

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GROUCHO: Why, where do you usually go to be fooled?

*sips and wonders if Rat is okay*

Rat is *never* okay. He's always rebounding from one crisis or another.

If things were as bad here, I would be packing my bags and relocating to Canada.

You wouldn't like the Canadian winters.

I would be willing to try.

You'll need lots of quilts for your bed. Also some thick wool socks.
And lots and lots of scarves, the thicker the better.

Heat exhaustion and dehydration are more of a problem down here. There is only so much you can not wear when it is hot. The first winter after I moved back home was exceptionally cold. That happened to be the year that Merlin (black lab) was a puppy. Both dogs slept in the bed... no one was cold... or particularly well rested.

You get heat exhaustion and dehydration in the winter in Louisiana, Evangeline?

Say it ain't so!

What Winter?
Winter is usually very short and mild here. Every few years we get several days of cold weather that might add up to a week. Summer is hot, bright, long, hot, rainy, hot, humid, hot.... Did I mention the heat?

It snowed here New Year's Day 2002. Three weeks later we had the air conditioners on because it was 80 degrees and humid.

It's hot there?

Nope, you've never mentioned it.

Well, I suppose the secret's out... It's hot here.

Hot or not, you might have to put up with a lot of us Northerners when the ice age comes. During the last ice age, Louisiana and Missippi harbored a lot of maples and pines, which spread Northward when the ice age ended. This time around, people will be hanging from those maples and pines.

Are you absolutely *sure* that it's hot there? Have you checked to be sure you aren'tr running a fever?

Fever or not, 86/74F with loads of rain and thunderstorms is our current forecast. It is hurricane season from June 1 until November 1. How much is a plane ticket to Canada, these days?

*ignores inconvinient posts inbetween*

Paul is right, rat is *never* okay

It goes like this though....

There is somebody I know somewhere else online. She's 62 and did absolutely nothing all her life. She has no stories to tell, no lost loves, no triumphs, no tribulations, nothing going back further than the last four years. She may be 62, but she didnt live till she was 58.....

Me, I just do the same thing only backwarsds....by the time I'm 30 I should be out of things left to go wrong