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

Good day to you michele,

badgers are indeed a precedent for incident, amusement and (whenever i am involved) profound thought. you speak of mis-matched shoe syndrome as if one would wish to be rid of it.. i can assure you that this is not always the case.

Alex.

Alex,

Thanks for stopping by! Glad to know that others are as twisted (eclectic?) as I am...

Thanks!
Michele

Michele, Doily Mogul, Keeper of reverse hiccups, (and other great titles)

I think you mean eccentric. everyone is far more sane than they believe they are, but i'm not sure that that is a good thing. i'd like to see a badger in mis-matched shoes...

does reverse hiccupping involve suddenly expelling air from your lungs in a very non-repetitive manner which is not at all embarrassing?

Alex.

Howdy Alex - Actually "Reverse Hiccupping" involves a sudden exhalation of air, followed by a giggle - on every third Wednesday (or "Wibble" if you're a Thingite.) And almost always occurs during yodelling. Which may or may not be embarrassing - depending on the situation (or whether you are in a Yodelling Championship!) Unless of course you are wearing mismatched shoes - in which case you won't suffer from reverse hiccups, but you will attract badgers...

As you can see - reverse hiccups can be rather complicated, but never unpredictable!

Michele

By 'attract badgers' do you mean that badgers would merely be drawn to my presence, or do you mean something more romantic? I can quite easily imagine myself in love with a badger. Either way, i plan to wear mismatched shoes before too long, especially if badgers keep maintaining their distance from me.

I was persuaded by the Thing for Thursday argument, but i think the concept was taken slightly too far, and 'wibble' should be used purely as a word to incite surprise. If reverse hiccups were never unpredicable then i'd imagine the somewhat surprising exclamation 'wibble' should be a good cure for them. And so would abstainance of yodelling.

Alex

I think you're on to something there...

Lets have a mismatched shoe party! We know the badgers will attend. And if we dangle grapes from our ears we may just get a few ardvaarks too! (Don't be confused by the grapes, aardvarks only eat ants and termites, however they do think decorative grapes are quite festive...)

Whadda ya say?

Wow!

A mismatched shoe party!?!
Sounds entirely fumpultuous. I can picture the scene now, as people heard around the pineapple and cheese on cocktail sticks, with badgers scurrying around the floor, all saying hello to each other. What a marvellous vision

I have considered aardvarks, and i'm not too sure how well they'd get on with the badgers, but i certainly agree with the grape ear rings plan, and so if aardvarks decide to attend, so be it.

We should plan the party...
Firstly where will the venue be and what will it be like? Will it be like a house party or something else....


Alex.