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

Hello Rev,

I thought i'd just pop in and say hi ... hi.

thanks for poopping in ~ I appreciate the sentiment!

thanks for popping in ~ I appreciate the sentiment!

can't guarantee that any conversation you'll have with me will satisfy any of the criteria you state on your page ie: intelligent, witty, sarcastic, critical, and/or positive, but i could give you a striking debate on which is the best spice girl (Geri obviously) and what bread makes the best toast.

Ah well, you see you have brought up a subject which will fit at least two of the criteria listed.

I prefer two types of toast:

A) Sweet Toast is best made with Cinnamon-Raisin Bread. It fits the bill perfectly with its own inate sweetness and spice (but not Geri; although being quite the spicy redhead she probably makes poor toast). With only a little bit of fresh butter this toast makes an ideal supplement to any breakfast, but by all means try it with some sugar sprinkled on top!!

B) Savory toast is best made with thickly sliced white bread (e.g. Texas Toast). This will be a tricky toast to test since many top loading toaters lack the wide spaciousness for texas sized slices. I like mine with scrambled eggs. yum yum!

Toast is like a new day. it reminds me of my own fragile humanity. Toast is not available in powdered form, regardless of any cartoons you may have seen stating otherwise. Germans make toast hard and round, i have seen it with my own eyes. It made me cry. I pity fishes, for they will never know toast. If you spread mayonaisse on toast, I can predict your future. Chances are good that if you eat bread, sooner or later you will have toast. Know toast, know peace: No toast, no peace.

although a tad obsessive, i agree with you about the life-affirming nature of toast, especially in the morning. wake up and the weather's crap, you turn on gmtv and you're forced to sit through half an hour of dr hilary jones to see the 10 minute piece on bolivian chicken farmers you wanted to see then you get up and someone (cos toast is ALWAYS nicer when someone else makes it) hands you a cuppa tea and freshly made toast. Must be fresh, nothing so disheartening than hard, dry toast. can't have too much butter on it either, just enough to make the bread slightly soggy and so you can taste the butter (or marg if you're health conscience) seepig through on to the bread and so's there's not pools of butter lying on the top. perfect. at night, again with a cuppa, but this time with some jam. how many times i have i gone to bed, full and satisfied with hot toast inside me, turely amazing.

the best bread for toast? i like a big toastie loaf, square cut, and its got to be white (this is really not a metaphor for anything else ... although....

you've got to thank christ for dying at Easter and giving us hot cross buns too ( oh and a festival involving chocolate - not enough of them!) now hot cross buns toasted with a cuppa ... world peace ... if it weren't for the obvious religious conetations i'm sure the middle east would be sorted out in no time over a cup of tea (must be tea, it just doesn't taste right with coffee)and a hot cross bun.

think i'm away to make some toast....

btw who is the best spice girl?

Well, being an American I wouldn't know about hot cross buns on easter (one-a-penny, two-a-penny) but I do know about chocolate on the holidays. This is why I love easter, christmas, passover, halloween, and my birthday.

As for the best spice girl . . . being male all I know of them is what they look like~ and somehow that's enough. Li'l baby spice is a cutie, but I think my pick would be geri. I don't think I'd ever kick her out of my group.

hot x buns ... mmm ... they're a little like your sweet bread, i think. cinnamon, raisin's, sultannas & ginger bun. they're fantastic when they're toasted, with a nice cup of tea. lovely.

where abouts in the states do you hail from? idle chit-chat and banter?

like the rest of us i'm sure you're pissed off about dubya's environmental policies (or should i say lack of them) as the rest of us. he's not making any pretense of caring for the planet. its just straight in there making sure he thanks all his big bucks oil supporters and friends. the world is a scarier place now he's in there.

i hail from orlando Florida( home of walt disney world), the 50th state in national election policy. boy howdy do i wish that we had gotten it together enough to vote in the guy with sensible enviromental and foregin policy programs, but no. We are the ones responsible for allowing dunderhead to be elected to office. in just his first hundred days he has shown his love for big business (oil, ranching, lumber, industrial-military) and disregarded the implications of his actions. even though it may p**s off china and russia he has reinitialized plans for the star-wars project (which was shelved in favor of a ballistic-missile treaty).
such a numbnutz.
he has set back the environmental reforms of clinton and gore. he has even started to upset his own party affiliates in the house and senate to the point where he's getting little or none of the support he claimed he wished to foster. i think america will find itself in some deep doo-doo over the next four years and the rest of the world will come in wagging their fingers at us.
one can only hope that some international sense of morality forces this guy into responsible policy.

i wish he was a spice girl instead of president

what fascinates me about the whole thing, is how undemocratic it all seemed to be. the overseas votes, for interest, in that past, the winner has been announced before these votes have been counted - how come? that doesnt seem right. quite apart from all stuff about 'voter intentions' and aparently turning voters away (in mainly black, democratic supporting areas) are the papers really complicated? what's wrong with putting a cross on a piece of paper? (i don't mean to sound chirlish - in the 19th century britain used to have 'rotten burghs' that didn't even exist, yet still returned an mp) i remember when we voted for the scottish parliament, and it was using proportional representation- there were two papers, one for your constituency and one for 'glasgow as a whole' (although i'm sure it wasn't called that) you voted for who you wanted in your area, and then for a party and depending on the percentage of the votes, determined how many seats you won from the pool. I voted differently in mine, i wanted some one specific in my area, but wanted to see this other party represented in the parliament. boy, it was confusing. i think i spent about 20 minutes looking at the paper, just trying to figure it all out - but it still turned out that all you had to put on the paper was a cross against your candidate!
anyway back to the point. it didn't half fill the rest of the world (well blightly anyway) with immense smugness... I can understand the collegiate voting in the 18th century, but it doesn't mean anything now. why doesn't the state, divide up the votes proportionally? why does it all have to be done in blocks?

I think Dubya is a lost cause. nothing is going to disaude him from his path of 'i'm alright jack' its strange having a president not interested in foreign affairs. the US is going to become more isolationist. strange in this era of globalisation and transglobal companies. soothsayers may say that with the government out of the way, that leaves space for these transglobals to influence the world stage, which is pretty frightening too.

on a happier note, we had 18 years of thatcherism and although we went through some s***e, we got there in the end. at least dubya'll only be in for 4 (for the record i'm not too impressed with Blair either)

stupid spice?

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. those who count the votes decide evrything."
-Joseph Stalin
"Vote early and vote often."
-Al Capone
I imagine we will get more isolated politically, but as a people we'll only grow together into more of a one-world one-love type thing (unless they shut down the internet and cancel international calling a 'la China).

Stoopid Spice is funny. What's YOUR spice name?