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

I got it right 3 times - mind you they are probably mutants all of them

One of my granddads got it wrong all the time; he wanted a girl but got 13 boys.
He was a man, if a neighbor upset him he would send the boys round, and if he went round they ended up in hospital.
He made me clean the chimney, from the inside with the fire on.

and flushed puppies down the toilet.

He was a nasty man.

= nasty

Both my grandmothers had four boys and tried for a girl one last time. One of them succeeded and gave birth to my mother. The other was stuck with yet another boy - my father.

I had a neighbour who was the youngest of 12 or 13 sons

For some of us, pushing our luck is about all the exercise we get, unless you count jumping to conclusions and running on empty.

is the best exercise I know

I'm not going to ask if it's the *only* exercise.

I am grateful I don't have to answer

I know that you like to go on bicycle trips when the weather is nice. Do you go skiing at all in the Danish Alps?

All the time; I remember cycling to the top of a mountain, skiing to the bottom, then drinking fine wine with 's dressed in jewels

But I had to fight off some seals with my oozy before changing into dinner dress old boy.

cor

re 90:

Denmark's highest point is Møllehøj (at 170.86 m)

I haven't given up hope yet of bicycling up one of the French mountains that have made le Tour de France so famous. Since my bike is a Peugeot Ventoux I am planning on taking on Mont Ventoux first

Good plan, Pierce.

PAL, I appreciate your memories. I remember lots of great things, though most of them were probably dreams. The interviews with Thomas Jefferson and george Washington were probably in that category.

http://montventouxwebcam.com/

Mmm, methinks it is a bit of a challenge.

I never interviewed George or Jeff but had tea with them, until I got tired and went for my nap.

Last night I dreamed about Marilyn Monroe. She was telling me what it was like to work for the Mayor of New York for seven years. The thing is, a new mayor (Donald Trump) was voted in during that period, and he kept her on the payroll out of sympathy for her. She referred to him as an "elf child."

For the record, the actual Marilyn Monroe did not work for the mayor of New York, nor was Donald Trump ever the mayor.

se7en years, Trump blimey.

Visited a friend in the hospital last night, had a stroke 24 Dec. 2011 which I didn't find about until until Sunday the 1st, then was tied up with preexisting commitments to my Mom, still recovering from her stroke of last May, until Jan. 4th.

My friend was somewhat haggard, lucid and somewhat guarded in her remarks.

I had had problems like that, just shy of requiring extensive hospitalization, back in my 28th year, a (very) small stroke that left me temporarily paralyzed on my left side and put a permanent crease in the left side of my face which has finally disappeared the last two years.

I'm sorry to hear about all the strokes in your gamily and circle of friends. My mother has had several small strokes. The one that caused the most damage made it hard for her to swallow normally, so she needs to have all her beverages thickened so they go down more easily.

People who are old enough to be at high risk of strokes are routinely kept on Coumadin. My mother took Coumadin, but they stopped it when she began vomiting blood.

Cor; I had a mild stroke after I was run over. I was doing a favour for the company by taking a trailer up the road to be unloaded when as I was opening the curtains I saw curtains.

It was most uncomfortable, and turned me from a no smokin no drinkin nice chap, into somebody completely different.

Strokes are completely different to heart attacks; a heart attack is a bit like indigestion, but a stroke leaves you paralized and weak, I momentarily lost the use of my arm and leg on my left side.

A very unpleasant experience that lasted for years; I even used to hear voices and see things, and I obviously wasn't the full shilling.

Still arn't better cos the memory and processing power has gone; time a dinkies

Strokes are really nasty things, my mentor had one when I was an apprentice.
He recovered eventually but the left side of his face took a long time
to unfreeze.
My mother suffered from those transient ischemic attacks which affected
her sight mostly. Not severe but very unpleasant.
I often think that it's a good job we don't know what's ahead of us.