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

Sorry, 'Ren' but that would be sheriff J. W. Pepper.
Sheriff Buford T. Justice chased Bo 'the Bandit' Darville from Texas to Florida.

yep, sorry, realised that a few minutes ago, but my comp was playin silly buggers and wouldnt let me correct myself doh.

They are very similar characters. And even though he wasn't a sheriff, Mayor Jefferson Davis 'Boss' Hogg also fits the stereotype you were citing.

(btw, I just love that phrase 'playin silly buggers'. It's one of several I now use... You should hear it said with a Texas accent. )

I take it then that you are from the Lone Star State? the state that produced both Jim Bowie* and The Dixie Chicks**?






*I can't remember how you spell his name
**I missed out the Bush family so as not to embarace Texans.

Della

you never answered my question as to why there aren't Bhopal like tragedies everyday, if that is standard operating procedure for capitalists/fascists?

dave

Actually, Kentucky produced Jim Bowie (his brother John made the knife, Jim just made it famous). But he moved to Texas as soon as he could.

I personally consider the Bush's to be carpet-baggers myself.

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Oh, this is so short-sighted! Poor kids...

"And don't worry, empty, New Zealand is making a valiant effort to join those top ranks:"

I don't doubt that, Dave. There are a lot of overweight people here too. But not nearly as many as in the USA.

The original point, however, was about twinkies. (Hence the title.) On this thread about a week ago someone asked what a twinkie is. An American answered, describing one. It sounds like the most revolting, sickening, self-indulgent item of fast food ever invented. No surprise, then, that it's an American creation. Also no surprise that THE MAJORITY of Americans are overweight.

Unabashed self indulgence is a principal American export. Witness McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hutt........ the list is long.

ohh twinkies you gotta love their cream filled sponge cake-ey goodness. Ain't had one in years, at least 10 years in fact. My cousins would occasionally bring some over for me.

"Ain't had one in years, at least 10 years"

That probably explains why you're still alive.

One thing I will need to have sent over is peanut butter cookies. You used to be able to get them from 'Cookie Jar', a cookie shop for those who couldn't work it out. However since they all became 'Millie's Cookies' they stopped selling them . In fact I don't think I've even seen peanut butter Oreo Cookies in the UK. That is how bad the peanut butter cookie problem is over here.






PS if anyone knows where, preferably in the west midlands, I can find peanut butter cookies will you please tell me?

> Lentilla you do Bush more favours than perhaps anyone else, with your inability to grasp what's really going on....There's a danger that history will record Dubya as a bufoon when he should be remembered as an absolute criminal. And it's all down to Lentilla.

Gawd, you are full of it, aren't you! Yes, it's all my fault, all of it. Blame me for bombing Cambodia while you're at it!

> One thing I will need to have sent over is peanut butter cookies.

While this is a bit of a non-sequitur, I am the keeper of nonsequiturs...

I happen to love peanut butter cookies; in fact, I adore peanut butter in all its forms. I recommend finding Nutter Butter cookies, made by Nabisco. They're crunchy cookies with peanut butter in the middle. Peanut butter Oreos sound really dangerous!

Actually empty, the title of this thread is "What's wrong with AMERICANS". And as that new study shows, having a majority of the population overweight is NOT a specifically american problem.

dave

Where can you buy Nutter Butter cookies? Also why do peanut butter Oreos sound dangerous?

Nutter butters are so good. Me and my friends bought the women's lacrosse team packages of those to celebrate an awesome season once.

dave

Lentilla, apologise for bombing Cambodia *at once*! Very bad!

*treads very carefully to avoid landmines and waves a tentative hello to all*

My sister invaded Cambodia actually. Last holidays.

Dave, Bhopal doesn't happen all the time because of government restrictions which would be ignored by big business (read rampant unfettered capitalism) if they weren't inforced. As to capitalism/fascism, didn't Mussolini make all the trains run on time?

As to Twinkies, Dave and I have alread discussed this elsewhere. Didn't some pop guru say that food preservatives would preserve the body as well? Some time back in the 80s I think.... Anyway I look at *food* like that as being so full of preservatives that it may just pass through your body like a foreign object. A delicious foreign object to be certain.

That's my story and I'm sticking too it!

I agree zoomer, 100%. We all need to agree on a set of rules to "play" by - and then stick with it. If a disaster happens, then we amend the rules to try to prevent it in the future. I guess its trial & error, which sometimes results in horrible tragedies. The best we can hope for is that we don't repeat the same mistakes too often.

Originally Della just said that it was standard operating procedure, and I was saying that if that is true we should be seeing it more often.

dave