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

It tasted like the cough medicine I had as a child, not unpleasant, rather like strawberries mixed with liquorice, and some other medicinal ingredient that made me so paranoid, I thought all wasps were spies for at least three weeks.

I think this is going to be a good story.

Provided Peanut keeps an eye on that pot.

That's a funny space I left at the end of that posting. .

The void! The void!

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I must sleep to dream the next lines of our (re)incarnation.

Goodnight blossoms.

Adds squeeze of lemons...

I think you might had benylin before they took the stuff out of it

sim- posting with you CC

sleep tight lovely and sweet dreams

I think so , some strange medicine, I think the medicines were all a bit stronger then. . I'd have been a laudanum lady at another time in history, when laudanum was the aspirin of the time. Excellent for the curing of ills, and for the creation of dodgy rhyming poetry written to the lupins. .

Hope everyone is well and thriving.

I've decided that, although I might shy away from social networking, computers are great for art, having just turned half my photos into landscapes with green crinkly edges and orange avenues, and Willem sent leaves from his scanner over on the garden thread, and now I am going to put train tickets into my scanner and make a picture to accompany a story that is so obscure that... (starts on again about hunting dogs and sherpas, all mister D's fault) .

I wish there had been a class at school to encourage obscure and incomprehensible stories. I might have won a boat.

A boat? Yes, I have a faint memory of primary school. Just before end of term prize giving, we were all shuffled into this room to view the prizes that all the clever kids were about to win, like viewing apples on the top of the tree that we would never get to eat. I remember a lovely toy boat, with a sail, great for sailing on a pond. Ah, never to be mine, that boat.

But I got over it. . According to my brother, one prizing giving I refused to go into the room, sat on the stairs with the matron, screaming and yelling. Nice one kid. .

PS

Nice fp Bovril piece. I like the Bovril writings. Good photo of a Bovril pot.

PS again

Been trying with the crazy zoo theme we were talking about a few days back. grrr. So annoying, someone always gets there before me. I thought Dandy Lion was really good. . There's a lot of Dandy Lions out there. . There are more Dandy Lions than there are Dog Roses, and there are a lot of them too.

How to make a crazy zoo circus creature that is so glaringly original, I gotta wear shades. . Think I have to dig further deep into surrealism.

Need more peculiar tea .... (stares thirstily at pot) ....thanks Peanut ...

*makes fresh brew*

this blend is good for inspiration *sips* *thinks*

Comes up with, a penguin in a pedalo, as these came up in another thread or sort of bouncing of your theme CC, a crane fly?

Penguin in a pedalo, and crane fly!! Brilliant!

(sips peculiar tea, thanks! )

I can just see the Willem drawings for these, or someone's splendid artwork, amazing hootoo artists out there calling ye ...

I was just launching into a strange and enjoyably dark piece entitled The Original, with a fevered line that reads 'what must I do to make the cow parsley moo in a way that is new and true to the time?'

which is taking me somewhere yet nowhere, but I happy am.

what must I do to make cow parsely moo, in a way that is new and in sync with the time?

Can the ant still elope with ......

(ant-elope)


....

can the ant still elope? will the cyberworms cope ....

...on the slippery slope ...



cyberworms?

one day I might finish this existential original masterpiece.

I have thought about ants elopeing as well

In pears the ant elopes, there isn't mushroom but it is better than going on the butternut squash

I am easily entertained, I am a common loon who thinks the fruit beetles are cute. Very diverse group the fruit beetle.

Have you seen the jack door, or the horse fly, or the alley - gater?

You've done better than I did. All I came up with was a phoenix which was also a fireman, or a fire eater, or a fire juggler.

Brilliant!

Evening all, you brilliance beings, fruit beetles and eloping antelopes in pears and jack door, horse fly, alley gater and one dude of a Phoenix, cool with the fire juggling, and quite a lot of other things. .

If I could draw like Willem, I'd be up all night now , we'd have a multi talented masterpiece by dawn. heheh. As it is, I can only imagine, which is strange, and dreamful colourful.

I love it, I'm still struggling and squiggling with the cyberworms, fortunately I got distracted today, it took my mind off herds of cow parsley, which is probably just as well, I might get misunderstood. .

I've been thinking about ideas.



So great, these looney zoo creations, these ideas. If I could write a poem or draw, or gather them together in a Post-able format, I truly would.

It's a great art, to be able to gather together fragments and make a new creation.

There used to be some folks on the site called The Gem Polishers, I think. Or am I crazy? Don't answer that. . Perhaps it was a dream. .

If an entry from the AWW was selected for wider publication, the Gem Polishers would polish it from its raw form, into a shining diamond piece of creative writing, whilst keeping true to the original idea.

Doh, that's called editing, kid.

Erm .. OK ...



Anyway, I like that, having just realised that The Gem Polishers were editors, , I can call them the Diamond Gem Editors.

That's kinda like what we do here, exchanging ideas, then sometimes a Gem Polisher can take it on and make it shine, and sometimes they remain as idea fragments, idea seeds, which also shine as rough diamond gems in their own right.

(Or not, in my case, especially the cartoon cyberworms which just squiggled out of my life ).



I realised that this process suits me, here on hootoo. I love the evolution of ideas, the way they take on new guises, and it keeps me protected.

The ideas can leave home and evolve and go on their way, and distance themselves from the original scar of creation.

What is that? The original scar of creation? I don't know, I just said it, as if ideas are sometimes born from a wound ... hmm.. that's intense.



Disclaimer .... Obviously, idea trading is not so good if one is dependent on these ideas for a living, or need to copyright protect them for many reasons, that's a different realm. I respect that.



Soooo ...... (ten hours later she reaches the point) ... ...

I'm dreaming here .... seeing a waiting room, and all these crazy ideas, yours and mine, waiting for .. waiting for .... The Diamond Gem Editors? or waiting for .... no! not the dentist , but they're having a crazy time in there.

The fire juggling cool dude Phoenix is currently engaged in a deep debate with the Fruit Beetle about ... what are they on about? I must listen in ....

. I'm happy in this waiting room. Need chocolate.

*brings out jug of Iced Tea*

There is a bit of a zing in this blend

Anyone want to play the Bean Game, last one to do the action, or if you do the wrong one, or move on frozen bean, you are out. If you are out you get to take turns calling out and helping with the judging.

So it goes,

Chilli Beans - shiver, rub your arms, go
Frozen Beans - Freeze, like statues
Jelly Beans - wobble like jellies
Baked beans- we all know what they are known for, so hold your nose, waft about and blow raspberries
French Beans- talk in french, greet each other with kisses, oh la la, really ham it up


We had a sixth bean but I can't remember what was, it been years since we played it

(slurps whole jug of peculiar iced tea)

(immediately leaps into action, doing all the bean actions)

I love the bean game, I never heard of the bean game before, oops I moved on frozen bean, but you didn't see that teeeheeee how can I type and do the bean game? ahhh I bean practising.

(falls over as if dead)

what's that action? that's not in the game?

'tis so it is, it's a has-bean.

Still thirsty. (looks at Peanut, hoping another jug of peculiar iced tea will appear)

*Quickly gets out another jug of Iced Tea*

We made up the bean game, although not claiming it is original, and like the idea of it evolving, with 'has bean',

what about a kidney bean, crouch or curl up into a kidney shape

I can imagine you two in a garden, with roses growing up a trellis and a metal table with a jug of iced tea. And you are rolling around on the grass pretending to be beans.