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

Yes, but you can mix a great hickory daiquiri, Doc!

Wow Paul! That should be quote of the week!

I know a lot of puns.

So we should consider him the official ship punster.
It's time he had a position here.

I notice we also got a new cannoneer.
Maybe Paul can come up with a pun about him

And since this is a weather related forum
let me give you a quote from when I used to go ice-fishing:
'My Lord walks on water,- and when it's frozen so do I "

If you wonder who said that- I did (about twenty years ago)

about our cannoneer.
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Shucks, puns about our Cannon-ear would be easy, but you might find them corny.

re 304:

official ship's punster? i like it!

and i can't think of any more deserving this appointment. i have met a few good ones - very good ones, actually - but in my almost ten years here none as persistent as paul h

will you accept the title, sir?

I accept the title with titillation. I'm persistent all right, though some have less charitable names for it.

Well we should toast the new appointee.

Jam or marmalade with that sir?

tonights menu will be stacks of pancakes with cherry jam and lots of water to wash them down

or anything else you would like

Pancakes! Mmmm! I think we're going out for some fish for supper tonight.

i'll have some myself, even if i should avoid salmon, tuna and herring and a number of others

in order to live long and good i should follow a number of different diets. one against gout, another against cholesterol and so on and so forth

but if i followed all these diets i should practically never eat anything - and only drink water - and what kind of life would that be? long maybe, but not good

thank bob for medicine

Same here. I have diabetes, thus no carbs. A morbidly increased triglyceride level (a hereditary disease), thus no fat. Only one kidney left due to cancer, thus no protein.

So if I pay attention to all that, it's only water for me...

in that case you are welcome to dine with me, ms Y. my treat

it seems that at least you still have all of your humour - and you don't seem to be afraid to use it either

I said IF I pay attention - so let's have steak and potatoes, shall we?

I don't have diabetes, but if I ate the way I would like to, eventually (say, in ten years) I would start to have it. Therefore, there are modest limitations on the carbs I can eat. Or should eat.

Yarreau, I also have to battle high cholesterol and triglycerides, for genetic reasons. Not to worry, I eat rather a lot of nuts, which are predominantly monounsaturated and plentiful in resrevatrol (the "French paradox" substance that dark grapes are famous for, but is also plentiful in peanuts). As for protein, you and I are lucky that the body is ingenious in converting its amino acids into whatever forms it needs.

I try to go heavy on foods that come to my plate in the way nature provided them, minus the dirt they grew in . Cooking and/or mashing are allowed, as are drying (prunes, raisins, etc.) and grinding grains to make flour. Donuts and ice cream violate too many of these guidelines. Tofu is also out, not that I miss it. Hamburg and ground poultry are a stretch, but I allow them.
I threw away all my table sugar years ago. Honey would be allowable, but so far I've managed without it. Technically, the milk I drink should be whole milk, but I drink skim instead because of the cholesterol.

Sounds a lot like what I'm stuck with!

Good thing I really, really like nuts.