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

knows all about Uranus: that reminds me, I haven't seen Norti, maybe he got lost.

Always was good for a classy joke.

Do you mean IcyNorth? I remember him from the May get-together. I haven't run into him in threads in a while.

No; he's still here. I mean the the Nauti bloke who knows her Madge and works behind a bar.

I haven't met Nauti.

You mean Nortirascal, PAL?

He was very naughty, considering he was a girl with the hots for a

I didn'tknow that love affairs with pirates were any naughtier than affairs with non-pirates.

depends

Apparently it does.

I for one believe it does

Never fall in love with a white collar - it usually ends in tears

This is the first time I ever heard of a white-collar . Unless you were talking about real life.

I got a white collar; sposed to be blue but I got a bit of dandruff.

The color of your collar doesn't matter as much when you're retired. Heck, when it's this cold outside, it'll be covered up by your jacket or coat.

I didn't know it mattered which colour collar before you were retired. Actually I became a lorry driver because office types just drove me completely mad; it is actually like nobody thinks at all, unless presented with a stupid pub quiz which doesn't require any thinking.

The bosses were even more stupid. I really think that, by the way.

There was a longshoreman in San Francisco named Eric Hoffer. You wouldn't expect him to be a significant philosopher, but you would be wrong. He wrote "The True Believer," among other works.

You can't tell how wise a person is by just looking at what he/she does for a living.

I would love to find true wisdom some day. It would be worth waiting many years for, as it is precious.

I totally believe you regarding people in offices not being able to think. Thinking would cause them to realize how useless and counterproductive many of their tasks are.

Bosses? I've encountered some pretty terrible ones. Laurence Peter once wrote a book called "The Peter Principle," which argued that people are usually promoted until they reach a job they can't do. That's why so many bosses are inept.

'The Peter Principle'; very good principle. People over promoted like Piers Morgan and Rebecca Brooks in my humble opinion

I heard the most intelligent human ever found is w*rking a lift somewhere in New Jersey

I have no idea if this is correct, but if it is it makes a lot of sense to me

It doesn't surprise me, having read a number of background stories of members of MENSA, a club with membership restricted to people with IQs in the top 2%.

Not every one has the kind of drive and determination and sense of direction driving Aristotle Onassis, who left his native Greece to become a wire man for the Rio De Janeiro stock exchange, where he made his initial bundle that allowed him next to go into oil tankers, then went on to invent the 'super tanker' on principles like "Twice the overall dimensions, eight times the capacity, eight times the profit."

There are different kinds of intelligence. There are different kinds of temperament. Plant a genius-level IQ in a person who can't focus on anything for very long, and you probably won't see that person become a billionaire (unless his daddy was one, in which case it wasn't the IQ that determined the son'swealth).