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

**would pay good money to be a fly on the Moderators' wall right now**

B

Oh, what a piece of w**k is man

B, what on earth could the moderators have a problem with in this innocent thread.

I personally find it vile that the European Union is trying to limit the hours that we spend w**king, if I choose to work long hours it is my choice.

Oops - a bit of a continuity error, there, sir.

You might want to w**k a bit harder at your previewing.

B

Oh. My. God. W**king all day makes me so TIRED! At least at my last job I could just pretend to w**k and surf hootoo all day. And I was only twenty minutes from home, so I could get home at a decent time. Now I'm w**king much further away, and actually HAVING to w**k, and it's wiped me out! But the good thing is that I have more w**kmates at this job, so I've got people to talk to in the slow moments...

some quotes on this subject:


The world is full of willing people, some willing to w**k, the rest willing to let them. --Robert Frost

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your w**k. --Bette Davis

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we w**k for anybody but ourselves. --Brian Tracy

There is no substitute for hard w**k. --Thomas Edison

**considers the connotations of a famous advertising slogan for a well-known chocolate bar.**

B

Going to w**k on an egg.

B, was it w**king with those sweet old ladies that inspired your "fancying old people" thread?

*ignores backlog and dives in*

Yes it is. How else would I encourage this lobster claw like asymetric muscle growth? (left not right for me).

Liam.

You might garner some interest from the backlog.

It's hard graft, but worth it.

B

Oooh goody

Liam.

A good lottery win and you'd never have to w**k yourself again.

No point having a dog and barking yourself.

Liam.

Here, Burke Savings and Loan has led the the common rhyme:

W**k, w**k,
Money in the Burke.

This is naturally preferrable to the old poem which had rhyme issues:

W**k, w**k,
Money in the bank.

"You haul sixteen tons,
what do you get?
Another day older
and deeper in debt."

Well in answer to the threads question.No.

I dont think you have to w''k.
I'm not w''king at the moment.
I'd love to be w''king though as I like w''king with my hands.

I'm trying hard to find a bit of
w''k and hopefully that should be soon
Artisan

If I may, I'd like just to tug this conversation back in the direction of housew**k. I'll skirt the issue of whether it's woman's w**k or man's, because I want people's opinion on whether there's any substitute for good old elbow grease when w**king about the home. There are all sorts of products now designed to make housew**king easier and perhaps more enjoyable (though I personally think that the smell of pine should be left to pine trees). But really, isn't it more satisfying to roll up a sleeve, slip on a marigold and get rubbing? Squirting round the bath is always fun (and who can resist those kinky shaped bottles that shoot under the rim?), but I'm not so sure about leaving it and returning later. One quick flick of the wrist and it's all polished off? Where's the fun in that? Seems a bit of a Poppins approach if you ask me. She had the right idea about making w**k a game, but her method of merely snapping her fingers and getting the w**k to do itself seems somewhat removed. Spit spot indeed.

Having helped Terri to w**k on the Home of Today, I know that the writers of that useful tome would approve of my approach.

And don't get me started on ironing: oh there's nothing nicer than smoothing out a crease. And with the right sort of collar, you don't even need starch to make it stiff.

'But spimcoot' (I pretend to hear you ask) 'what about stubborn ring stains such as the ones caused by resting one's wet mug on a surface too long? This ring just won't yield when I prod it with my finger.'

No, it won't. The only way to deal with this is to fetch a huge lump of crumpled kitchen towel in your fist and shoot that wad with vigour. Really put some welly behind it and it ought to shift - and your coffee table will look brand spanking new.

When I w**k really hard, I find it can be very dirty. So I like to use that grease cutting liquid soap that has the tiny bits of pumice suspended in it. It tends to be a tiny bit rough on the skin, but it's really worth it.