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

It's quite quiet here actually. So I'm just enjoying the silence for a moment or two ...

Saturday night, Brighton, 2.15am... isn' that chucking out time for the clubs? I'd have thought it'd be a bit rowdy on your manor at this time of week squire.

You're about 2 hours too early for chucking out time around here.

And yes, they do wander up past my house from around 4:30 in the morning being generally drunk and a bit noisy. One of their frequent targets for fun is to wander off with the pizza place next door's giant wheely-bin, and let it run free straight down the hill!

Who among us can honestly say they haven't at one time or another pushed a wheelie bin down a hill. I know I have

Yes, but the bin is very large, the hill is very steep, and it's the main road in and out of Brighton at the bottom of it

So there's the potential for a side bet on whether or not there'll be a collision as well? This just gets better and better

Well at least the local students haven't cottoned on to the idea of fire-bombing the bin first. That's what used to happen to wheelie-bins back in Sheffield...

And there are a lot of hills in Sheffield

Now I've got that bloody Imperial March back in my head...

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The Death Melon

The bins there though only had two wheels. You'd give them a kick, and a pull on the handle and they'd move around like a granny's shopping trolley. As soon as the bin was vertical again, the two legs would stop the bin moving anywhere.

Just as well really; there are no flat roads in much of Sheffield (*), and you'd have garbage flying around all over the place if the bins didn't come with brakes.

The bin next door however comes with four wheels, one in each corner, and is full to the brim with highly inflammable pizza wrappings.


(*) Did I ever tell you of the fun and games I had with the 'hill' starts when I was learning to drive back in Sheffield?

I don't think so, do tell

I do like the Thai Fighters

But what on earth is the Obi Wan character supposed to be? It looks like a squashed turd from what I could see

He's supposed to be a canoli, but he don't look like any canoli I've ever seen.

Any more earworms to report, people?

I've been far too busy to have any earworms just lately

Bet you can guess mine.

Went to see the film again tonight so I've got *that* song going around my head again

We're losing the film at the end of the week so I really had to go and see it one last time before the end of its run And I still get choked up at the end when the screen goes black and those two words 'For Douglas' come up

I still haven't seen it. Shame on me! But I *have* been busy.

Also, I'm slightly disappointed I haven't managed to provoke an earworm out of anyone with my new moniker. The way it got into my head was cycling past a parked Renault Four on my way to work, and suddenly wondering exactly how one is supposed to wear salami in one's ears.

Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused.

Some earworms are just better than others, y'know?

The theme tune to 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin' - I just watched the first two episodes