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

Ictoan,

Quick! Start humming The Girl from Ipanema! Apparently this is an excellent 'ear worm' destroyer, however, you end up with TGFI stuck in your head instead. The choice is yours.

az

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Umm, well *I'm* not able to replicate so I certainly hope this is true!

az

But I don;t know The Girl from Ipanema!

Oh wait, is that the one where the chorus goes

Live is Life! Na Nah-na-nana. ?

*sitz down wif and hums 'live is life'...*

Thanks for enterin the discussion, A,Dent



Yeh this is cool, ste



Morning az and mornings Ictoan

How few will remember Life magazine?

It was once the most popular weekly glossy-colour publication in the world. Basically a 'news' magazine, it was famous for its photography, and even after the advent of television it continued to fill a void TV wasn't ready to fill, dramatic candid photos of current events. Snapshots of Real Life.

In any case, there was popular joke and even a song version of it that went something like:
"What's Life?"
"It's a magazine."
"How much does it cost?"
"It costs 15 cents."
"I haven't got 15 cents."
"That's life."

You can see from the cover price being a mere 15 cents that this was way before YOUR time, but I feel this bit of anecdotal information will always deserve inclusion in any thread about Life.


~jwf~

As this thread has now migrated (in the way of all hootoo threads) from the to the I stand by my original post:

life is the name of the game, and I wanna play the game with you

And of course there was also a very popular song which gave rise to another popular expression: "Life is just a bowl of cherries."

~jwf~

*pssst . . . Reddyfreddy! Fruit doesn't have an s in it!*

az

Oh az, how you walk into my subtle traps!

Of course, I'm implying that tomatoes are homosexual.

Ah ha! But I came across another person earlier who had Tomatoes are Vegetables next to their name. So . . . naturally I thought this was some sort of personal issue between the two of you.

Well, never mind. It's after working hours and I shouldn't be noticing people's spelling at this time of night anyhow.

az

Yes, az, we were having an argument about the relative status of tomatoes. I presume you've crossed paths with Lucky Star, then?

It really is very

The conversation went something like this:

Tomatoes are vegetables!
No they're not, they're fruits!
Vegetables!
Fruits!
Vegetables!
NO! Tomatoes are fruits!

she's promised me a fruit salad for pudding, made with real fruits (including marrow, acorns, aubergines etc.) should I ever turn up on her doorstep...

As far as I know, tomatoes are fruit (no 's') that are eaten as a vegetable.

And now back to our regular scheduled programme . . .



az

Yeah, but the construction that I'm using is also valid.

Yes, it is valid, but not in the way you're using it. The plural of fruit (when speaking about quantity) is fruit. But if you speak about different varieties of fruit, then fruits is used. Kind of like fish and fishes. Well, I could be wrong, so whatever . . .

Off to bed - buenas noches!



az

Mod:Good Evening this is Loop


It's life Jim, but not as we know it....ahem

Energy transfer to cell hydrolysed formation...carbon based..ADP/ATP cycle. See Google on AOL.

Other forms unknown: Silicon based possible. Favourable but unknown as to how bonding and energy transfer would function. Ideas?


Mod Bye:Loop Off Line
Thank you and good night. (I hope your getting paid for this stuff)

As I say...I am talking about the multifarious variety of tomato that are available...

buenas noches

Iv just seen this


tomatoes grown in a field (field tomatoes ) are vegetables (Plumb tamatoes)
tomatoes grown in a green house or small crops are fruits ( Round tomatoes)

just to join in the spirit of things

"are fruit"

Life is like it is.
Imagine a giant fruit bowl, full of tomatos, and with a lot of kiwi fruit stacked around the side of the bowl. The bowl, might for example, be sitting on an ocasional table, or even, a dinning room table. Well, the kiwi fruit, round the edges, frames the bowl, which itself, containes the tomatos.
Now, if you add a sprinkling of cherrys to the tomatos, so they are evenly covered but can still be seen, then in the distraction that ensued, the ocasional table happened to stalk off and do whatever it was that it does when its not being a table, and that is like life...

All caviar and champagne. Simpsons on TV ... comfort break!