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

Guinness just makes it sticky.

You mean yours is not teflon coated

A teflon coat did you say? Don't you find the spanner pockets get so disordered? I had to buy some gecko tape just to keep them from moving about.

And you managed to make the gecko tape stick to the teflon

You have to lick it first.

Well, first I had to make some eyelets, and thread the string, then attach a series of cleats, magnetic buttons and press-studs on the pocket flaps.

The Velcro was a bit fiddly, but eventually it held together without too much clanking.

And your geckos didn't object?

Let's put it this way - I didn't *hear them complain.

Sound insulated pocketses, eh?

Do they still make reversible aglets in the Canaries? It was a bit of a cottage industry, I gather.

Hm? The only aglet I ever had was green and only fit the lethand side. ..

*throws a missing 'f' after the previous post*

I don't know - it's all those missing 'f's that give this place a bad name. I tried fitting in a brace of 'f's just the other day, but gave it up as a bad job, I think the whole of the aglets assembly has warped somewhat.

Where did I put the string winder?

I did try iling mine to make it bigger, but ailed utterly.

Shouldn't the string winder be under the Keil sprocket lodger ?

Not in the 2011 model, it has a double overhead string winder

Wow. Just... wow...

I picked up a military surplus JC47B sprocket for less than a fiver in a junkshop at the weekend. I felt kind of bad not telling the guy what he had, but I couldn't resist the bargain!

Impressive! The A model is already worth at least 500 doublons on the black market

I've tried a new fix*** for my coffee-maker, but the thermostat is obviously badly calibrated. What do do? Sad tepid coffee does not make me a happy bunny.

*** I gave it a thump with a rubber mallet.

Is it the '89 Cafissimo with the go faster stripes? The thermostats on those are notoriously tempremental.