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

Are not the borders between sanity and insanity, very fine lines? Is not the difference between humour and pathos - sometimes difficult to define? Doesn't 'Mr Bean'just cross the line? Do you laugh or are you embarrassed?

P.B.S. Yes, yes and yes. I do laugh, but deep down, do we not have pity for the unfortunate people who are a bit like that in real life?
Why do we laugh at other people's misfortunes?

I admit to laughing at others' stupidity but if I laugh at their misfortune - am I not being hypocritical? Is the beggar in the street outside my house misfortunate or stupid? I don't know - but if I say 'Salem maleikhm', am I being polite or patronising? If I give her money am I not just supporting an industry?

Do you think that this subject is too deep, and perhaps depressing, for this thread?

Possibly - but if life just becomes one line frivolous 'chat' - isn't it time to give up? Does this thread have any use in life? If it does, can I not try and use it to answer questions with questions? If that is so - have I not succeeded? Have I posted a single statement? Isn't it this aspect of the thread that exercises the mind? Would you rather discuss the state of my socks?

P.B.S. I am sure that you know the answer to each of your questions, do you not? As regards to your socks, do you think that anyone would wish to know?

Why should anybody want to know?

Have you asked the man in the pub? Did you know that - if you sit there long enough - you can buy everything that you need in life, in a Casablanca bar? Could there be adverse side effects?

As I have not been to Casablanca and do not frequent public bars. I do not know that man, but if I did go there, and met that man , do you really think that I would be foolish enough to buy anything from him?

can I sell anyone Humphrey Bogart's pink cigarette holder?

Wacn't the film in black-and-white? Good (no excellent) film that it was - did they have the faintest foggiest idea where Casablanca was? As to the man in the bar - don't you believe that 'if 'im down the pub told me' - it must be true? Did any of the people - who were paid large sums of money by my parents and local authority - actually teach me anything?

Having read your posting (331) do you agree that you need to sack your typist?

Aren't these questions becoming too complicated?

Have you got a better one?

No, have you? - has anyone?

I've got one..............


What's the only road in England that it's illegal to drive on the left on???

Shhhh! how have you been? Is this road in London?

Good thanks sweetie - and yes - the road is in London for sure

It's that big hotel isn't it? What was it called?

Awwwwwwwwww you weren't supposed to know so quickly !