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

I don't know if you are a lemur, John Cleese or World Cup fan but have a listen to this:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=151898362&s=143444

I'm on his Fanz mailing list so it was supposedly passed on to me from the Great Lemur himself.

Hmm... it seems I don't have iTunes on my computer.

Actually, I knew that already

Not a World Cup fan... not a footie fan at really, but I will be visiting a pub in Austin early on Saturday to watch West Ham cream Liverpool in the FA Cup Final

Or get creamed by Liverpool

Hockey or as you might say Ice Hockey is my single remaining sports interest. Now that the Canucks have stumbled out of the playoffs I've lost all interest though. I find comfort in dipping into other sports and adopting the odd team here and there. I'll keep my eye open for a similar pub here for Saturday and either clap you on the back metaphorically or comiserate with you next week.

Thanks

I used to love watching several different sports - cricket, Formula One, Wimbledon (but not any other tennis except the Stella Artois), athletics, the Tour de France... in fact mostly summer sports. There was a lot of motorcycle scrambling and motocross on TV when I was a kid - that was great fun, and I was always there at 4pm on a Saturday afternoon for the wrestling

Cricket is really the only sport I keep any tabs on these days. All my life I've disliked football. I hated playing it when I was a kid. I got briefly interested in 1966 when the World Cup finals were held in Britain and I can still remember the final when England beat Germany. I do like to see how West Ham are doing, and I've been to a handful of games at Upton Park (as well as a few other grounds).

Cricket is something I never could find an interest in. I was taught and played the b*st*rdized versions in school- rounders and Indian cricket but I never developed much of an interest. I only played rugby and soccer (football to you) in school and only developed an interest in them when the offside rules were explained well to me. I enjoy watching golf on a rainy Sunday afternoon, though. I know, it's like watching paint dry but I do like it. I can even watch a sailing race now that they have all those great little cameras all over the boats.

Y'know, I kinda like watching big golf tournaments too - it's something of a guilty secret... or it would be if I had a TV

What's on the screen(s) at the bar?

(Notice I resisted the urge to change the subject line to *Footinooti*)

Yes, you did

The bar I work at is a service bar and it's at a cinema, so no TVs. It's almost part of the kitchen.

Well as someone who actually manufactures some of the dreck on the glass teat (now more often a wafer) I feel no reason to defend it. I can however use my profession as a wonderful excuse to drown myself in a torrent of television now and then, good and bad.

Lucky me.

There is more good TV on, er... TV than a lot of people give it credit for. Leastways, I think there is. I'll happily watch something like Thunderbirds, then a riveting documentary about astrophysics or quantum mechanics, then Blazing Saddles, then a serious news analysis programme, then an old 70s sitcom like Rising Damp. I found though that since a lot of the things I'd really like to watch are far too British to be shown on US television, there wasn't quite as much as I wanted to watch, and I can get most movies I want to watch either from a shop, Netflix or BitTorrent. Or I can watch them at work