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

yes, he was. Tom Hanks is such an excellent actor.

He's one of the greatest Hollywood has going... and to think he started out making movies like "Bachelor Party"!

~Irving

Haven't seen it- was it bad?

It was typical '80s schlock. Tom Hanks was playing a guy who'd promised his fiancée that he wouldn't have sex with anyone else at his bachelor party. There was a guy who wanted to marry his fiancée (her father was helping this second guy), who kept trying to kill Hanks, Hanks' friends kept hiring hookers and strippers, there were lots of bare breasts and generally it was a very corny movie.

~Irving

sounds like great fun. wish i had seen it, or wait. maybe i don't wish i'd seen it.

I'm at work doing a mailing. It is so boring I could scream.

Forget the movie... the important thing is the hungersite GO THERE all you good good people!

I already go every day, but thanks for the reminder... They need more sponsors and more donations every day...

I keep forgetting to go... I should just put it on my list of favorites.

~Irving

In fact, I've just made it the homepage for both my browsers.

~Irving

I would, except I work at a university and they like their webpage to be the opening one. And at home my husband keeps slashdot as the first one. oh well.

I am the Dread Pirate Roberts...

~grin~

Ohhh look at the flames...

My IRL middle name is Roberts... it's my Mother's maiden name... maybe I'm related to the original Dread Pirate? Nah... my great Grand Father moved to the US using Roberts as an alias... he was on the run from the UK gov't

~Irving

Ohhhhhhhh... ~Greebo wonders~... What did he do???

He was a mercenary that the British Gov't had hired for some fight or other in India or Afganistan or thereabouts... he once served with Rudyard Kipling! But the UK said that they'd paid him too much money, and he wanted to keep it, so he changed his name and moved to the states! I'd tell you what his real name is, but I'd be afraid some gov't official would see it and try to collect with intrest

~Irving

ooh. sounds interesting.

I've never known the grandson of a fugitive of the UK before... cool!

I have an interesting ancestry... my great great grandfather (my father's mother's father's father) lived in Serbia and used his linguistic knowledge (he spoke 7 languages like he was a native of each) by working as an international spy... they fled Europe before WWI, and his son, living in Nebraska, could skin a cow faster than any man alive... owned a still... killed an ass with on punch... things like that.

~Irving

cool! Well my mother's ancestry has been traced to Queen Isabella I of Spain, the one who helped Columbus, but that's all the interesting things I know of.

Well, I'm afraid I can't quite trace myself to a genuinely famous (and royal) bloodline like that!

~Irving

-blush- well yes, but at the same time, it did happen 500 years ago, so it's not that important. It's just a piece of trivia i like to throw out.

Hmmm... me great... great... gandmother's ... uncle's... brother's... sisters... friend's husband... invented the doughnut me thinks...