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

Well, I come with a and anyway. I stumbled across your space, read your page and have left this message as requested. Always happy so share and s with new researchers I encounter. There are no strangers, only friends I haven't met yet.

deackie

Hello! Most remarkably pleased to make the acquaintance of honourable Deackie *does little oriental bow, for no other reason other than she feels like it*

btw, where have I met you before? I know I have somewhere, but I'm not sure where...I don't think it was actually "met" as such, but I know I read a conversation where you were very active...oh well.

GP

Quite possibly we have encountered each other. I spend far too much time here (although not so much now that I'm back at college). Conversations I'm very active in... The Green Room usually or The Freedom From Faith Foundation.

*gives grand, dramatic, sweeping courtsey coz it seems like an equally thing to do*

*Wonders how long this quaint little ceremony will go on for*

*does delicate and graceful Edwardian balancing act*



GP

*leaps into the air, spins around twice and lands delicately on one knee, head bowed and right arm and hand hand extended upwards*

Ow, would you mind giving me a hand up, I think I'm stuck. Oh, it looks like I've grazed my knee.

Ah, , here comes the . Should be alright. Would you like me to swing on the chandelier to make you feel better?

Wonderful! Do you think she'd like to do my essays for me? That would make me feel much better although I'd still enjoy the pleasure of the chandelier swinging. Can I join in?

Sure! take this one...careful though, the diamonds are sharp and the candles burn.... Essays, shmessays, it's the holidays!

If only it were still the holidays. I have been back at college three weeks and I've been given the three essay titles that I've got to do

*climbs on to balcony, leaps at chandelier and swings over hall full of people in 17th century garb*

I've always wanted to do that Adam Ant Prince Charming thing

Adam Ant?...
*leaps dynamically and controlledly () from chandelier onto a fine lady's shoulder below...borrows her necklace, ties it to the balcony and hey presto! a neat little device for removing excess calories from the supper table*


GP

>> Adam Ant?... <<

Oh dear! Am I showing my age? Adam Ant was a rather gorgeous new romantic pop singer in the 80s. He did a video in which he was dressed as Prince Charming and at one point swung from a chandelier over the heads of a ballroom full of people dressed in 17th century garb. As a young girl I was inspired. There, this internet is informative

Nice device! Now, let me see, what goodies are there to snaffle?

You don't *sound* old, if that's any comfort...and I was born in the second last year of the 80's, which would explain my ignorance.

Swinging from balcony, grabs a spicy mexican sausage, three chocolate eclairs and a pink lady apple...

GP

I'm glad I don't sound old although my sister born in the mid 80s assures me that I do I was born in the late 70s, I used to get dressed in little flares the first time they were fashionable

*swings from balcony on chandelier over the heads of people below and grabs, oops, a gentleman's toupee *

And now it's their...second time around! Just so long as no one decides Victorian style dresses should be given a second chance.

*becomes bored of swinging on the necklace, and anyway, it's starting...to... break!!*

GP

Could be interesting to have everyone in Victorian dresses. We'd have to all find someone else to help us dress in the morning though to get the corsets done up Imagine all the things you could hide under one of those skirts

tut tut! I don't think all the gear would fit into the microscopic change rooms some shops designate to that purpose. I hate changing rooms you can see over the top of. ok, I'm tall, but even so...

I hadn't thought of that. The skirts would be too wide for the cubicle I don't have the difficulty of being too tall for changing rooms but I always end up in those changing rooms that have curtains that aren't wide enough to cover the door way. The mirror then reflects me through the gap in the curtains to everyone waiting outside. Could you imagine trying to use a public loo wearing one of those dresses even more problematic.

Maybe people doing community service could be designated as special helping-people-to-the-loo guards Or we could turn that job over to scouts and guides and the like...

I was in a change room the other day and it reflected me, changing into a dancing leotard, onto the street!
It's also bad when there's too much space at the bottom. WAY too easy for toddlers to...er...crawl through!

I suppose it's OK if you've not got too many lumps and bumps and don't mind people seeing them but I like to keep my lumps and bumps hidden. Have you been in those changing rooms that have saloon style swing door so everyone can see your head and your legs. They only hide anything as long as you stand upright.

I knooow *does exceedingly bad Cybil Fawlty imitation*
It's bad when those doors just haven't quite grasped the shutting thing. What do you think about shop assistants who pounce on you the moment you walk into the shop, don't even give you a chance to decide if its terrible or not?
Wearing a leaotard isn't exactly the most ideal way to conceal lumps and bumps anyway, but at least it's by choice