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

Yes, az - don't want the books spoilt.

There's an excellent adaptation of Dicken's Bleak House showing on BBC1 at present. I would recommend it to anyone when it comes out on DVD. There's a great cast including Gillian Anderson of X files fame playing the mysterious Lady Deadlock. And Charles Dance, playing Mr Tulkinghorn who is incredibly sinister and menicing.

I haven't read this Dickens but the serial really makes me want to. It certainly a 'cheer-up' watching it.

There's an excellent adaptation of Dicken's Bleak House showing on BBC1 at present. I would recommend it to anyone when it comes out on DVD. There's a great cast including Gillian Anderson of X files fame playing the mysterious Lady Deadlock. And Charles Dance, playing Mr Tulkinghorn who is incredibly sinister and menicing.

I haven't read this Dickens but the serial really makes me want to. It certainly a 'cheer-up' watching it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/

Have a listen to "Reasons to be cheerful -part 3" By Ian Dury & The Blockheads.
And if that doesn't work try "That's Entertainment" By The Jam.

Things to make you smile:
** what do you do when a blonde throws a grenade at you?
--pull the pin and throw it back!
** strange, you stand in the middle of a library and scream and everybiody stares... you do it on an airplane and everybody joins in!!
** you know your not drunk when you can lie on the floor without holding on..
** beer is the reason i get up in the afternoons...
** "i have come to Sarajevo on a friendly visit and somebody throws a bomb at me. its outrageous!" - archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day he was killed...
** its fair to say theyd be alot less litter in britain if blind people were given sharper sticks! (no insult intended)

Remember! every silver lining may have a cloud but smiling is an inexpensive way of improving your looks! (pity no-one told Anne Robinson...)
hope that helps

Some nice ones there...


Here's a go...


A few years ago they went about trying to find the "funniest" joke in the English Language... they didn't. I remember some mention of that horrible "What's brown and sticky? A stick" excuse for a joke. But the one that did get me really laughing was considered the funniest joke by the Scots. It went something like this.

"A man walks into the pub alone one day. Everyone is instantly concerned as he is usually accompanied by his father. The man sits down and orders a pint and quietly drinks it. The bartender can tell by his expression that he has suffered a loss. So, he walks up to the gentleman and asks if the man's father is well.
"Ach, no... he died yesterday," the man replies.
"Sad to hear it... did he at least die peacefully?" the bartender asks.
"Aye, he did. He died peacefully in his sleep...
Not screaming his head off like all of his passengers."

*quiet titter*

That ones quite good!

one of my favourites is very un PC and i would just like to say, as a disclaimer that do not condone animal abuse in any form and do rather like kittens! (although i prefer pork for a sunday roast..hehe...)

How do you make a kitten go "woof!"
--Petrol and matches!

(hope that did make you smile and you havnt burst into tears... that was not the intention....)

I'm guffawing... tears in my eyes... and I like cats too... Taste just like chicken. No, really I do.


"woof" hahahaheeheeheh.

some more profound and deeply disturbing social documents that are scarifying inicments of the world we live in:

you know those signs which say 'you are here'?
--what do they say when i not?

When at the end of films they say 'no animals were harmed during the making of this film' how do they know? while they were filming scene 3 i could have been in Nepal poking a chinchilla with a fork! (please refer to disclaimer in previous post...)

When NASA realised biros wouldnt write in space they spent millions developing a pen which wrote underwater, upside down and in zero gravity conditions....
--the Russians used a pencil.

Of course women dont work as hard as men!
--we get it right first time!

Just because im paranoid, doesnt mean they're not out to get me... (think about it..)

I ran out of sick days so i phoned in dead.

Blonde Maths equasion:
1/n sinX =?
1/_ si_x = six = 6.

Politician. Definition? : someone whos willinf to lay down your life for their country.

All I Want Is Stuff To Be Happy!! (Stereophonics) - if that wont cheer you up, i don't know what will!

Thanks a lot to all of you!
The jokes were really funny!!
I'm quite better now, I don't "mourn" anymore, though I'm still a litlle sad

chupito, good to hear it!

You're much quicker than me to reach 'sad', about 2 years quicker!

Kea, as far as cheering you up - this thread is linked to on the front page. That's got to be a bit of an ego boost at least!

Eeek! Do they ask your permission before they do this? Can any thread get linked?

*starts madly deleting all sorts of embarassing things*

zdt

I just saw that Bomba Now trying to decide if I should put that in my tagline

redpeck'
I guess it's because I haven't been a long time withthatguy, it's normal you'd have to "mourn" for longer

Yes thanks chupito! It was a really special relationship and I still howl about it now sometimes. I'm a ridiculously passionate and emotional type. But I'm really glad you're feeling better! As Tennyson said, 'It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all'. Awhile ago if anyone had quoted that to me I'd probably have decked them! Shows I've moved on to find that phrase of some little comfort!

Not to make light of it at all. But I tend to agree with Tommy Lee Jones' character in Men in Black. The pain and malice he puts into two words was impressive regardless of the tone of the rest of the film.

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Jay: You know what they say. It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Kay: Try it.
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The pain of the love I thought I had as a young man has kept me emotionally isolated ever since.

Mmmmmmmmm interesting one that Red. Is it really better to have loved and then suffer all the resulting pain of a break-up, or rather, blythly sail through life without that pain?
There are certainly times i've fallen in love in the past when the break-up was not in relation to the pleasure of the relationship.

There's also a good bit at the end of the film Shadowlands. The woman who's dying says to the distraught CS Lewis something along the lines of. 'The loss is the price we pay for the love! That's the deal!' I know it's a bit... I dunno!! but I did enjoy that film.. Heck I don't know anything! But I do think for MYSELF the ultimate tragedy would be to go through life and not risk experiencing romantic passion, for fear of the resulting pain from its loss.

*sniff*

i've had a bit of a rubbish day today, and thought id read some more posts to cheer me up, but all this talk of lost loves and emotional iscolation has only made me feel sadder than i was to begin with.. *sob*