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

Just dropped by to say HI!
Well.. that's about it, I think...
Have a nice day

Hello. I've read your entry on ruling the world with toothpaste.

Well, thank you!
I hope you're not going to try to stop me, these are my plans and I was wondering why there are flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
Anyway..

That is a truly astounding coincidence. It turns out that I just answered that question today at school. My last class has a "thought of the day" written on the side whiteboard every day, and, as it's about the most laid-back class you can imagine and I'm something of a know-it-all when it comes to such things, I've gotten into the habit of writing the answers to these questions.

My answer to this one is: When parachuting from a plane, everyone shares one exit. It's easier to just pass out the parachutes at the door, and it prevents loonies from stealing them and going skydiving. In case of an emergency landing (like on water), there are emergency exits in quite a few places on the plane. Thus, it's much better to give everyone their own flotation device straight off.

Don't worry about me trying to stop you. If you can pull it off, more power to you (literally and figuratively).

Well yes. More power to me. That's what I've allway said. But that's not all. I am also going to take a cooking class and learn how to cook something more than hamburgers and lasagne, and then I am going to invite all the aliens from the nearest galaxys to dinner. What they won't know is that I will have poisin all the food except mine and they will all die. Then I will also be ruling all the galaxys as well. Not only the Earth.
What you said about the parachutes and the flotation devices didn't make any sence to me. Once when I was flying I asked the stewardess to bring me a glass of CocaCola and a parachut eso I could jump out the Emergency Exit. She brought me the cola but she didn't bring me the parachute because I wasn't allowed to jump out while we were still flying. I thought about jumping out with the flotation device but I thought it whouldn't be as much fun as the parachute, you know, plus we wearn't above water... =/
Sometimes life sucks.

Sorry about that. I was saying that everybody has to parachute out the same door, so it's easy to just hand out parachutes. However, there are lots of exits in case of a water landing, so it's best if everyone starts out with a floatation device.

Maybe if you take a weapon next time...

Yes.
Generally people don't take me seriously. Maybe that will change if I would carry a weapon, but threatning other life forms isn't my speciality. Talking people into do stuff they wouldn't normally do is. I think maybe stewardess are trained so they won't listen to passengers who eat Elephant-caramels for dinner with silverware instead of the food they provide.
Well, I think I'm off... Might as well go swimming.. doubt it but though..
I hope you'll just have a nice day and enjoy everything that life has to offer. Don't think about what you are going to do next, because if you do so, that's all that you will be doing and you won't have as much fun as I am having... =)

Rather reminiscent of Dr. Who, all that talking-people-into-doing-stuff stuff. You know, he really should have carried some sort of weapon.

I am having a rather nice day. Thank you.

Weapon-meapon.. Who needs them anyway...
If weapons wouldn't be allowable, there would be no fights with weapons.. or only these primitive ones.. bones and stuff.
And one last thing.. How come they blame the moon for flood and ebb and not something more original?

Uh, maybe because the moon's gravitational pull really is responsible for the tides? It's just a guess, but...

Well. Maybe, but what I think really happened was that some bloke was walking around at night, and walking around at day on the sea-side. He noticed that the water wasn't allways the same so he decided to blame something for it. He tried to blame the stones but it didn't work out. Then he blamed himself but he wasn't too happy about that. He then sees the moon. It must be the moon. 'And you can't proof me wrong!' thought the man. And we haven't. Instead we just play along, blaming the moons' gravity! *purr*
This is all a joke, like the laws on Iceland. They are a joke. All of them. I can tell you this that once, you could not buy alcohol on Wednesdays and there was no TV on Thursdays... Weird? Yes... We have a lot of funny laws...
Well, back to 'work' =)

You want weird laws? In Chico, California, the detonation of a nuclear device within city limits carries a $500 fine.

I can understand that they don't want people to be blowing up nuclear bombs near the city. But what I can not understand is why is it dangerous to sell alcohol and booze on Wednsdays? Or have TV on Thursdays?
The laws are maybe weird in Chico, but they make sense... they don't here. =/

Well, somewhere around this state, it's illegal to bicycle underwater. It's also illegal to take a lion to the movies.

You are correct, of course. I just can't understand TPTB's reasoning on that one.

This is starting to be weird. Bicycling could be hazardous if you don't do it right and I've heard that lions tend to miss the point in some movies. But anyway, here on Iceland there are special taxes on powerful cars. The reason is this; If you are driving somewhere e.g. in the country and you are driving behind this very slow car. You want to overtake that car but you see that there is another car coming ahead on the other side of the road. But you have so powerful car that you can make it. And sometimes you don't. Thet's why powerful cars are more expensive than cars that are less powerful. A bit farfetched but true =T

And the more power a car has, the pricier it is to begin with! Gaa.

Reminds me of a story my dad once told me about a friend of his (with Dad in the car) taking a hairpin turn at 50 mph in a Corvette. Such excitement.

(Besides, you could just let the other car go by first...)

I have to say that you're right about that cars are more expensive than cars with less power, but these taxes makes them even more expencive (here at least). But then I have to say another thing too, you haven't been in the traffic on Iceland (and I hope you never have to) because Icelanders tend to think only about themselfs instead of everybody on the road. Icelanders have so much of imposition in the traffic that it's not even to laugh about. Letting the other car go first would mean that you'd have to wait. Waiting is not good (well, it is but we just don't know).
And talking about sharp turns, I've been with my brother in his car ('80 Cadillac DeVille =)
Anyway, me and my friends went yesterday (everybody had a day off) out in the middle of the nowhere in a picnic. We brought (of course) a checked blanked and sat down with two pizzas and CocaCola, all the people walking around to much amusement.