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

one of several amazing things in this is that michala petri was known as a very *very* serious musician - okay, so she was plain boring (besides being a magnificent flautist)

up til then i had never seen her smile - and here she is giggling her way through the show - which is course makes it almost impossible to play her instrument!

but she knew what she was in for - so kudos to her

of course she smiled and giggled even I smiled

You did? That's a rare occasion, of course.

there are no pictures

beware of giggling hippos

they are even more dangerous than weeping crocs, i'm told

some of us are indeed

I myself am mostly harmless

That's what they all say.

yeah, i bet you say that to all the cro.. girls

Yes?

well .. aahh .. possibly yes

And do they buy it?

buy it? well, I never got any money for it if that's what you mean I never did win any prizes with it either

I mean, did they believe it? And have you been proven wrong?

have I ever been proven wrong ?? well, no of course not not on the long run anyway

Not that you would admit it anyway.

well yes.. but that's the same thing, isn't it?

hm, i remember back in - 1997 i think it was - a handful of colleagues and myself were driving on a interstate highway in los angeles, when suddenly...

did i tell you this before z

oh well

...one of the colleagues (a stupid brute of a guy, the kind of bad boy some ladies tend to fall for) asked our lovely young female driver: "would you sleep with me for a thousand bucks?"

she almost drove the car off the road!!!

"not on your life!!!" she exclaimed (bless her soul)

*ah, pity", said my colleague, "i could really do with the money"

good

the sad thing is i've tried asking this myself, but i either stun the ladies completely with the question or they slap me in the face and walk away so i never get to tell the point