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

Completely beside the point, since both Miller and Budweiser are major beer companies in America, but couldn't your halloween party buds get, perhaps, something else?

-jb

Well they had Everclear punch and wine too. I didn't buy the beer. You also have to remember that in OK you can't get good beer after 9pm.

Very true.

I read in the paper today that England might pass a law allowing pubs & alcohol serving establishments to apply for licenses allowing them to stay open 24 hours a day.

-jb

Wow, I wish they would do that here.

lol

Our general populace is too conservative (even many who call themselves liberal). We tend to deal with what we think are causing X bad event, rather than studying and adapting. Our national drinking age, our liquor laws, and just about everything else we do. We're reactionary.

Blah! Politics. I was about to get off on a rant there...

I really should get going now...

Goodnight.

-jb

Goodnight, jb.

Hm. Should have thought of this a while ago...

Are you still in a bad mood? And is that a good reason to withold a quote?

-jb

No, I'm in a better mood now. I was just sick of looking at that quote from Socrates but couldn't think of anything to replace it with. But, I have now.

Before you go, do you know the word for the opposite of 'greeting', a word for when you say, bye, take it easy, see you later?

I asked that question, and when I went back and looked, you had changed it. lol

If I only had a thesaurus. Or a book of antonyms...

Dismissal and closing are very dry and not really altogether nice.

You could call it 'a farewell'.

Farewell in my dictionary here has a few other terms listed under it that may work...

Parting, valedictory, final (well, not that really).

-jb

A farewell? That's not quite right. It's probably better I don't have whatever word, I'd just sound like I was trying to be pretentious. Oh, you didn't ask but it's for this thing I'm writing for my site. Thanks for trying.

I love that quote. It's like my mantra.

I'll see if I can't find anything better at home. Plenty of thesauri and books o' antonyms there.

'night

-jb

You don't have to do that. You should go to bed.

Sweet dreams
GR

jb, at this moment, 6:37am central, we are one of the five busiest forums.

We were one of the busiest forums? Wow.

I looked it up anyway (didn't take me long). There aren't many opposites for a greeting, nor many similars for goodbye's. Taking leave, farewell, valedictory, and parting. Not much.

Ah, well.

-jb

What was really weird is that when I first got here I called my page 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle' so that's what it was listed as on the front page. And that's the quote I had up. Spooky.

I went ahead and used 'bid someone farewell'. And it worked out fine.

I just saw a commercial for the Oklahoma City bombing memorial where they're asking for donations to pay for it. I have to watch one of these almost every day. I think it's really messed up. I mean, it's sad that people died and everything, but couldn't they use the money to help people that are still alive? Why not build a clinic or a community center and dedicate it to the victims instead of putting up a bunch of empty chairs? Argh.

Did you see South Park tonight? It totally ruled.

People feel compelled to build giant monuments to worship events of the past. As if the Ok. City bombing will ever be forgotten by any American with cognitive abilities at the time. The people who want the memorial are sick of looking at the chain link fence standing around what was the Federal Building. Pity, since that fence is (was?) the most visceral, compelling memorial that the victims will ever have.



I did see South Park. It was great.

-jb

I think they're going to put the fence up somewhere else. They should, otherwise it's pretty disrespectful.

The bombing was a really weird thing for me and my friends. None of us really cared too much about it. We just thought it was interesting that OK was on the front page of every newspaper in the country. What was worse for us was that either right before or after the bombing one of my friends went and killed his best friend and her boyfriend, his ex-girlfriend and shot her mom and killed himself. I was friends with him and is ex but I didn't really know the other people. But some of my friends had a funeral to go to every day of one week. That was a lot worse than the bombing.

The anniversary is coming up in a few days, so I'm going to be hearing more and more about it.

Hm.


That would be a lot to handle all at once.

I don't know what my response to the upcoming date would be if I lived in Ok. City (now or at the time).

Hm.

-jb

It's ok. Like I said, the bombing didn't really affect me. The only thing the anniversary does for me (besides all the hype which annoys me) is remind me to visit my friend's grave. It's weird, it doesn't seem like it's been five years.

I don't want to get you down, especially since I'm not down.

I have some kind of good news. I have a tiny crush on this guy who works at my school library. I think that he thinks I'm cute, but I don't know if he would really be interested in me because he's really normal looking. But who knows, he may want to 'take a walk on the wild side'. That was cheesy as hell.

lol

Normal looking?

He might think of you as being mildly unapproachable (the 'why would she want to talk to me' complex), but if he's amicable, he probably doesn't think of you that way.

Cheese. When I first saw that, I was reminded of the Lou Reed song.

-jb