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

To be fair Cathedral aren't a band that's ever got within spitting distance of the Top 20 or are ever likely to.

I seem to be immune to cold sores...

PH?

Immunity from cold sores!!!


GT

Mr Dreadful, I doubt that you are immune from cold sores. If you get the virus, you will have them for the rest of your life intermittently.

Always practice safe kissing.

PP

Safe kissing = "Love the One You´re With"...have to look up who sang that one.

Well, given that Mrs. D gets cold sores... we've been together ten years... and I've never had one... immunity seems pretty logical.

You would need to snog the cold sore.

It is a strange virus which I believe lives in the nerve. It emerges every now and then. The sufferer knows when an outbreak is about to occur, since there is a tingling sensation on the site.

You know those times when Mrs D says "don't touch me"? She's doing you a favour.

Some of the modern (but expensive) ctreams are VEY successful.

PP

It was Crosby Stills and Nash

PP, not in the nerve but in the nerve sheath...and it´s a variety of the herpes virus. Usually your immune system keeps it at bay, it´s only when you are stressed, tired, or have some other infection when it starts acting up Some of the cremes *are* very good if applied early enough, which is a boon.
TC, thanks - I had one of these "brain locked, no access" moments, got the name five minutes later. Have a go at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2uOQnUaPSk

the coldsore is the herpes simplex virus (hsv 1), the oral version on your lip. the other one (hsv 2) you get somewhere private. the virus is in everyone, no matter if you're immune or not, i think; i haven't had one in years and i know it was the stress of my college graduation on friday brought it on.

ph? the media simpering over the royal wedding... (price william will marry kate middleton); i mean yes it is important of course but jesus, the country's in recession, we have no money to foot the bill and now they've announced it, can we move ON? i dont mind the monarchy, but it's just 2 people deeply in love getting married; happens every day. they dont need speculation over their wedding either. leave them to it. there are other things to report on, like people dying in afghanistan. their engagement is important but as the saying goes, it is old news now it's been said. when or if victor and i ever marry, it will NOT reach the news or papers! they are normal. leave 'em to it. having said all that, i am pleased for them/

Anna - so what? *Buying* TV time to advertize Britain worldwide would be unaffordable, having everybody aware that the UK still exists helps your economy. Not sure about where the business boom money gets tapped off before financing universities though...

So, is the front page wedding topic coincidental or were the hootoo ed's in the know?

ph? the media simpering over the royal wedding...

warm up the mercedes!!!

>>So, is the front page wedding topic coincidental or were the hootoo ed's in the know? <<

More like, KateandWills realised that with weddings being a hot topic (on h2g2 front page) now would be a good time to release the news.

Should we mail them the link to the Handy Tips for Planning a Wedding?

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they could get hitched next time we have a meet, im sure they'd like to have a few guests at the registry office and we could throw them a spread of sarnies and sausage rolls in the pub after

PH?

Picture the scene... the hospital cyber cafe. Four computers. Three are crashed. A quick (), free call to IT will get them reset. I am at computer 4, the only working one.

In the past half an hour, 2 people have come at sat behind me, staring, waiting for me to finish. They kept making noises, little false coughs, or loud stage-sighs to remind me they're there.

Use a little common sense - ring IT! It's what I do when they crash. I sometimes get odd looks when I sit at a crashed computer, and moments later it resets, all by itself... they can't fathom out how I do it... Come on, you're doctors or nurses, you're supposed to be intelligent. Figure it out. The phone's on the wall. And to the woman sat behind me, whose reflection I can see, the number is 607878...

Hi Hoggy!

What do I do when my PC crashes??? (Very rarely!)


Just do a 'Restart'


Usually works!


GT

We can't. There's a special browser just for the cyber cafe, to stop us using anything other than the browser. Also the keyboard has very few keys othe than the letters and basic symbols, nothing that will let us restart manually. When these things crash (which is very often) - there's nothing we can do.

Apart from phone IT!!

(that woman huffed, and left 30 seconds after I posted that last comment! )

Why don't you say something like 'you can ring IT to reset one of those, from that phone there'? Maybe they just don't know that this can be done?

Pit- I really do think the media should go away and leave them alone. Yes, the world are aware we exist, god knows- we don't need this to tell them.

RE crashing computers and phoning IT- exactly the same in my college when I was there; you could lose a whole class waiting for the damn thing to start.

Anna!

Last time I did a computer course, and the dinosaur crashed, we were expected to work it out on paper.............with a pencil!!!



GT