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

Well, can they?

Florida Sailor posed the question, and it is a very delightful question.

You can get some very interesting mold on bread dose that count

I'm not sure about breadcrumbs, but I have a pet chestnut who is very cute

Conkers are best they have a life of their own no matter where you put them they are never in the same place when you come back. they seem to scuttle all over the floor.

mind you on second thoughts it could be the 's

I have a chestnut too, but I never thought of it as a pet. The poor little blighter is probably feeling terribly neglected and unloved!

I guess the hallmark of a thing being a pet is when you give it a name.

I'm not sure what name I would give my breadcrumbs, but I suppose their surname must be Miller.

I'd hate to be a bread crumb, because of the crumby treatment.

A bird ate mine

Mine got trapped in the hoover.

PP.

I got given a name.... guess I must be a pet... I've got imaginary pets, do they count too? if crumbs are pets... my kitchen is full of the blighters.... toast is afterall one of the major food groups

There's probably a crumb's nest at the bottom of your toaster 2legs.

PP.

Oh. my. there is this scarey sort of... dunno... 'compartment' on the bottom of my toaster?! - I don't think I'm brae enough to look inside it... I've ... no... I can't even begin to have the slightest inkling at a hint, of suggesting to my conscious what might be contained there in.... Some things, are, perhaps, afterall, best left undiscovered, or unanswered... I think the compartment on my toaster is beyond my c comfort zone of .... scarey... I need my teddy bear.

" I've got imaginary pets, do they count too?" [2Legs]

only if you give them an abacus or calculator.

Even without such technilogical advantages, I bet they've still got at least a 42% chance of being more acurate with maths than I have, with or without such technilogical additions, or accessories myself. I'm getting at least 30% of mental calculations wrong at the moment, and the other 50% arn't very acurate either.

I ate my crumb-pet

Crumbpets are delicious toasted with lashings of butter and marmite!

damnit. OK. crumpets now on my shopping list as if I wasn't eating enough butter already is 500 G butter a week for one person considered healthy?

No, it's not considered healthy by itself, but if it's *all* you're eating, you're so thin that your cholesterol won't be too high.

I@m so not thin anymore damnit... I was promised 'thin' as a sideaffect... damnit... I went and got fat instead I cna't get anything right

Sorry, not considered *unhealthy* by itself.

Anyway, there are south sea islanders who live on coconut and seafood. There African tribes that live on blood form their cattle. The microbes in your gut can convert digesting food into vitamins.

the chance of me having any microbes left alive in my guts... after the quantity of antibiotics they threw into me, the last four m onths... is pretty damn low I recon - food is food... calories is calories.... so long as the major food groups are covered; beer, bread, and cheese, I recon we're all OK, and everythign else is just worring about nothing I honsestly think people worry too much about diet/food.... its all minuti anyhow... somethings gotta kill us eventually afterall