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

a frightening thing happened to me yesterday. during the night i had a dream where i awaoke in the middle of the night and smelled gas. The house was full of gas, so, in the dark i opened a window and then one by one awoke my flatmates, and together we got out of the house and called the fire brigade. And while we were waiting for them we had to wake our neighbours, shouting to them NOT to turn their lights on.

anyway i forgot all about this dream until in the morning when i got up and went down stairs to make some coffee i smelled gas and when i investigated i found our pilot light had gone out. The entire downstairs of our house was full of gas.

We can't get our pilot light to stay alight and after remembereing my dream we daren't leave it on over night.

it is march and it is cold, but i don't want to risk it

Sounds dangerous. Are you in rented accomadation?

yes, but as a student i am to expect to be gased/blown up/woken by disturbing dreams.

Do you live in the UK?

If so, you're landlord, by law, has to maintain a safe boiler. Ask about the landlords safety check certificate, and get the landlord to contact a corgi registered engineer to sort out the boiler.

th thing is our boiler has just been serviced, and it passed, it nevr does for anyone else, but fear not, we will be kick the preverbials over this one

so where are you studying?

norwich, where i am not really studying chemistry but i pretend i am

I'm not really working, but I'm pretending to.

How do corgi gas engineers reach the boilers? ours is quite high up, and I think it would be too high for them to work on safely.

Also, how do they hold the tools in their paws? I think it is foolish to set up an organisation to promote safety for gas boilers and then staff it with absurd short-legged dogs. I mean, what the bloody hell were they thinking of?


I had sausages for my tea.

Good point!

mmm sausages.......

godamn it stop it with the sausage talk, my student loan has run out and i am very hungary.

or alternitavly post me sausages, sort of like the blue peter can appeal only me, and, er, sausages, in refrigerated packaging please

Unfortunately there was no poodle in the pot noodle I had for lunch. Gutted.

So what else are you into?

well, i'm asuming you've perused both mine and eddy's pages.

if not, go there now and all will not be explained, but it will pass some time and possibly remove that irritating will to live.
we also record sketches on my computer some of the ones on my page, and some that havn't been scripted yet, on the whole we don't write a script, rather discuss, and then just just do it, and then build the script from that. You've chosen an interesting moment to ask as we have just decided to to see if we can make more of what is now just a fun pass time

my main interest at the moment is not to be a chemist, whatever it takes

i also write seriously, a bit, and occasionally record music, although i've notdone that for a while.

out of interest, what is the reasoning behind your name.

are you a stand up comic????

or just a very supportive kind of chap?

i've just realised i've been terribly rude and not looked at your page, right i'll post this, and go and look

I've read your page, but not eddy's.

The scripts show promise although of course, reading them doesn't do the material justice, it needs to be performed t be understood.

*waits for you to read my page as it will answer most of the questions asked*

as indeed it did, but some other questions were possed which i asked in a different and new conversation just to be really erm, help fully,

they were, what are the influences for your band????

and do you do any comedy yourself, or just review.

yes, the scripts lack, what me and eddy have been told we bring to them, and also our best stuff is still to be transcripted (is that even a word???)

hopefully soon there wilkl appear the beginning part of the nativity

but on the other hand laziness may prevail.

Have you been to the bands website? It has a list of the covers we do. That will let you know what we are into.

http://minusoneraver.tripod.com

I'm just interested in live comedy generally. I don't do any stand-up because I am not funny!

I'll look forward to reading more scripts.

that there is an interesting mix of influences.

do your tweeny costumes make it difficult to plaY????

scripts, well i've been doing all the writing
HAVEN'T I, EDDY, IF YOU READ THIS SCORN ON YOUR LAZINESS

but there should be something else soon.

it's odd, i've never gone for stand up, too nerve racking, i could do sketches infront of people, but not stand up, i'd die. and i don't want to

They are quite a different animal I guess. dong sketches with someone else means you are their with a friend so not as nerve racking. Also, it is more like a play, with a fairly rigid script. With stand up you have to be prepared to come away from the material, 'specially if you are heckled. Also, you can chop and change the structure of the set to suit the audiences reaction. I think there is more thinking on your feet to be done than performing a sketch.

we do get some comics doing sketches at our place. a recent double act called "Electric Forcast" went down very well. It makes a nice change.

the opposite i should imagine is also true, if you're not going down well with stand up you can try and find the audience, with a sketch show, you're sytuck where you are and if goes down badly the i don't know what you could do.

not much I suspect!

Are you performing stuff at the moment?