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

Long-haired! Don't even think about going there...

But apart from that "wee, long-haired troll thingie" hmmm - apart from the fact that I thought he was too polite* to be a troll that's a pretty good description of B!









* Note - I _thought_ he was so polite - and then he left me all alone and abandoned me in my hour of need . Thus the reason I found solice in the arms of a paperclip!

Oh, and Footbacon, when you next see your paperclip, could you ask him if I could have my back please!

Friday afternoon at work, naff all people here, just me sat at me desk, bored.

Oh, and a lump of blu-tack.

Any ideas what I can do to liven my afternoon up?


*p.s. a Gonk is also a mildly insulting term, possibly with derivations from konk (=nose, generally of the large type), slightly stronger than 'fool' or 'idiot' but friendly in tone used when a friend or close one has done something foolish or daft*

Do you know everything Icky??


and s from thrown across the desk

The 'gonk' I was thinking of was definitely of teh type Teuchter was referring. Young One Neil was relating a story about how his test had gone.. He was arranging on his desk all the pencils and rubbers and gonks and more pencils and more gonks and a packet of ??polos??[another word I don't know] and more pencils and gonks and by the time he had them all sorted the professor said it was time to turn in the tests.
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but yes, I think the gonk and the clip and the small piece of furry blu tak make a cute trio.

Ok... here's what Neil said: "It was horrible. I sat in the big hall and put my pocket of Polos on the desk. And my spare pencil and my support gonk. And my chewing gum and my extra pen. And my extra Polos and my lucky gonk. And my pencil sharpener shaped like a cream cracker. And more gonks with a packet of Polos in each. And lead for my retractable pencil. And my retractable pencil. And spare lead for my retractable pencil. And chewing gum and pencils and pens and more gonks, and the guy says Stop writing, please."

I think everyone will recognise them when they see them. (we called the lucky troll dolls here in the states.) http://shop.store.yahoo.com/trollville/lotterytroll.html

Here are some VERY closeup panorama pics of gonks: http://www.furtherfield.org/flord/gonk/ (quicktime required).

polo= ring shaped mint sweet. Advertised as 'the mint with a hole in it' now available in all sorts of funky flavours. But basically the secret smokers friend Not a stong mint just a minty mint. Type thing. Ish.

I gave them up 3 weeks ago

Cigarettes or polos?... or maybe gonks you mean?

Aaaah, caught me!!

Cigarettes mainly.

Polo Mints....along time ago.

Gonks....Had one and it was lovely, but my sister swiped it

I know what you mean lil, I gave them up a bit ago. Only way I can manage to keep off them is to make sure I always have a pack of cigarettes handy to smoke whenever the mint craving hits me.

Polos (the extra strong ones in the polo-shaped plastic pack) were my best friends when I quit the fags.

Now I've moved on and have a serious Smint habit. Beware! Polos are a "gateway" mint!

Nope. No mints....just nicotine patches...which, btw, I have been known to forget to change on time.


I have actually gained an extra patch this week!!

smint is sugar free, and so contains sweetners, and all sweetners have a laxative effect ....

too much info

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The sweetener used in Smint, Polo etc, *may* have a laxative effect. It does not affect everyone. I never had a problem, and I was doing a packet a day.

I suppose it could be used as part of a diet??

oh ok, only 1 packet. I think the warnign si for people that have 5 a day ...

I have absolutely nothing constructive to add to this conversation - I just want to be part of it.

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