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

Of course it's safe to come out.

Red Dog just wants Moxons, although I have no idea where he plans to spend them once we pay up in currency that he will accept.

Maybe we should redefine 'Moxon' to mean giving someone a thorough bebagging?

I tried... I looked it up on dictionary.com and they didn't have a clue what bebagging meant either.

'Baggies' referring to trousers. Hence debagging...

One of the worst indignities that can be visited on someone in the playground...

It's all flooding back now. Like posting, or that thing where someone leans against a wall and crosses their legs then you trip them over.

Well, no wonder - you spelled it bebagging, not debagging.

Doh. Must be all this rain.

I'm back and I've got friends I want you to meet.



You're all under notice of eviction unless I get paid for the postings made on my journal to date and a deposit made for any future postings. I can extend a line of credit for those of you that show goodwill but the recidivists amongst you had better start looking elsewhere.

*determined*

Ooooooooh, !!!


Seeing as how I've turned in all my counterfeit Moxons at the bank...


*slaps down an even bigger stack of genuine Moxons, received as a reward for finding the counterfeit Moxons*


There, that should keep us all in posting privelelges for the next 2000 postings.

*ahem*

Sould you just step over here? I've got something to show you...

*pauses in mid-thought about slapping a surcharge on Lady Scott*

*steps over there*

OK

*is glad RD was distracted*



*posts with wild abandon*

*makes a grab for RD*

All your trouser are belong to us!

But I'm not wearing any trousers ?

Red Dog, the subject line says it all.

You've given us nothing at all in this thread.
Therefore, the rent ought to be nothing at all.

But I don't want to give anything to you here. On the whole I'd rather this thread be an ex-thread. If you want to keep it alive you should be prepared to pay ..... there is a demand therefore there is an opportunity.

Pay up !

Red Dog, we aren't necessarily asking you
to give us anything. We were happy enough
to come here when it was clear that we could
expect nothing at all from this thread.

But you demands for Moxons, whatever they are,
casts the situation in a completely different
light. We are intelligent consumers. We look at every
demand for money, and decide whether we are
getting any value for the things we spend money on.

You are *already* charging us for posts we have
*already* made (note the past tense), but you have
provided no value to us in compensation. You don't
provide water, heat, electricity, entertainment,
food, moral support, kind wishes, or anything else.
Just an outstretched paw.

I don't need you any more, Red Dog.

I have my *own* "Nothing at all" thread now.
Pretty soon, researchers will be flocking
to my thread, and you'll be all alone here.

And I thought you were my friend, Red Dog.

*dejectedly leaves the thread... at least momentarily*

Hah ! I have no guilt. You are my friends for I think of you as such but I am on a higher calling, for this thread like Dorian Gray has gone on beyond it's natural life, and it must surely end here.

I mourn not for this thread.

As consumers you have taken the right path for if you get no value for that which you pay then you will take your business elsewhere. Tis only right and proper.

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I agree with you, Red Dog. I think I'll faint.......