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

I just posted a thank you to paulh. As I know you are usually looking for filler so I thought I would give you a link to this.

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It is short and by no means important, but if you want it you are welcome, otherwise no problem.



F S

Aren't grandparents wonderful? And uncles, too. That would seriously impede your condiment consumption, wouldn't it?

I was just going to tell people that if they had anything for the 'Be a Kid' challenge, I'd love to have it through November, because otherwise, we're all just doing NaJo.

So I'll put this one in the November 6th issue. Thanks for the chuckle. Here's one from me:

I had grandparents who lived up in the hills. One breakfast time, my grandmother served everyone, then sat down and put her teeth on a napkin beside her place. Then she started stirring her coffee.

'Mary Emma!' bellowed my grandfather. 'Put yore teeth in! We have comp'ny!'

My grandmother gave her husband a firm look. 'I cain't hardly eat with them mail-order teeth,' she announced. 'I'm a-gonna have to send 'em back. They don't fit right.'

We kids nearly choked, trying not to laugh. They were wonderful - and better than theatre.

>Back in the Sixties, a film came out called 'Summer of '42'. The tagline was, 'Where were you in the summer of '42?'

>I couldn't help it. I asked my dad, who was 16 that year.

>'Pluckin' chickens in Detroit,' was his answer. (He paid off a family debt with his earnings.)

>Gack....that might make a good Create theme....

I wanted to move this over here, so as not to pollute the PR thread

I remember that 'American Graffiti' also used 'Where were you in 62'.

Given the age range of Researchers a better Create challenge would be 'What event influenced your life, and in what year did it happen? You are not limited to just one.'

I will probably reply, but as I have already posted several, I will have to review my back-log to make sure I am not repeating.

P.S. my dad was working as a machine operator in a defense plant in '42, the next year he was drafted and jumped into The Bulge.

F S

That was exactly my thought! That we'd say, 'pick a year, and tell us what you were doing that summer.' I'm going to keep that on the back burner and introduce it at the first opportunity - you and FWR always have good yarns to tell that way. The Post appreciates them.

My dad was drafted in 1944, straight out of school, and arrived just *after* the Bulge. He was at Metz and the rest of it.