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

Thanks for the praise, you made me blush!
This stuff is only just back online, and I'm already late going home! Well, whatever, I can always use some "overtime"!
See ya around...

(I'm busy bookmarking all kinds of pages again....)

Oh I am dying!!! Just when I was almost well...I got stuck babysitting for a 5 year old mannerless child....well, I guess an apple does not fall far from the tree! Now I am sicker than before...and that woman did not pick her bratty child up for over 110 hours. She went out of town for a funeral and decided to stay another day to party in NYC....not that I blame her for that, but enough is enough. I have decided that the new phrase for Do Gooders should be "SAP"mariatans, because I was a sap to say yes.
Hope to chat with you again soon.
Anne of a Thousand Days and Multiple Accounts

Yup, I agree you can't blame someone for wanting to party! (A funeral-party?)
I've been talking about you to some friends yesterday: I don't remember how, but suddenly we were talking about Jerry Springer, and I ended up playing the devil's advocate (I think it's a disease: I always end up defending those everyone is "breaking down"), and I told them I knew someone from Texas (hoots, don't ask me why, they're ignorant) who used to work in the talk-show-business (more hoots). Well, anyway, I drank 'em all under the table (tequila, of course, and they were not used to it) and made them admit I was right! (I threatened to open another bottle.)
Sadly, I don't even remember my own arguments. Could that have been the result of MY tequila-intake?
I just got off the phone with one of those friends, who is in a sorry state and hasn't even left his bed yet, while I don't even have a hangover, so I don't think they'll remember either.
I'm seriously thinking about taping the next tequila-session!

I got edited...I got edited....woo hoo...I can't even discuss my own hubby and the the redness of his neck in the song title game without the censors reacting! woo hoo!..and for some unknown reason, they think that redneck is an insult....my man Dave is PROUD to be a redneck! There are even songs extolling the virtues of one's neck and it's perceived reddish tint!
I am so sad this week about Morton Downey, tv interviewer and radio personality. He passed away from lung cancer. I once debated him in public with 2 of the largest Anglo men the planet has ever seen acting as my Bodyguards. If you plan on shooting off your mouth, it really helps to bring 700 plus pounds (American weight) of beefcake to back up one's point. I think I have probably sent you that article...but it almost pales in comparison with what really happened that night. The air was filled with expletives, and yours truly was not just cursing but conjugating! What a night!
Hope to chat soon...and we in America truly apologize for Jerry Springer....he is the lowest common denominator in American television today.
Anne of a Thousand Days

Yes, I read the article you sent me: we don't know Morton Downey in Europe, so the tension was a bit hard to understand.
Bodyguards (the bigger the better) always help: I remember seeing a certain Artist-Who-Was-Then-Still-Knwon-As-Prince-But-Not-Anymore-Or-Is-Maybe-Again-In-The-Meantime on a British awards show, with some humongous mountain of muscle next to him. Very impressive. Of course, if you're that short, a bodyguard like that looks even bigger. Sometimes freedom of speech has to be claimed with a little help (or else...).
You don't have to apologize for Springer, they don't show it anymore. People got fed up with it. And we've got our own lowest common denominators in European television, don't worry. They even seem to get lower each time I look. I don't think there's any boring subject left they haven't made a "reality show" about. Next they'll be showing "the life of a captive goldfish", in 26 weekly 3-hour parts, if the fish survives its overfeeding (luckily, it will be edited).
I'm surprised I didn't get censored (yes, "censored", not "edited", it makes me mad just knowing it happens) yet, really: I've been using some strong language in some forums. The boundary between cynicism (or any other form of humour) and being insulting isn't always clear, but surely YOU know that better than most. A lot of people take offense at some stand-up comics, and some of those ARE offensive on purpose, but isn't making people THINK one of their goals? Sometimes I think cultivating a sense of humour should be an obligatory part of education.

I just waded through the "song-title" backlog, and I'm furious! This censorship goes too far. In protest, i won't use "happy" smileys anymore, only "evil" ones. I called up all contributors to do the same, if that call doesn't get censored .

Anyway, I WAS happy for one thing: I'm not the only one who knows the Strawberry Alarm Clock! I used to play that song in my DJ-sets as comic relief...

I first listened to the Srawberry Alarm clock when I was just a wee girl of 13....that was in the late 60s, and I am much older now.
I was very shocked at the almost Draconian techniques being used to edit. I am very disappointed in the pettiness that was exhibited last weekend, and I am getting more frustrated with the anal retentiveness of it all. Makes me almost miss Yahoo....almost!
I think I have y'all's Kak concept down pat. Here in America, we use the term "cheesy", and we are the headquarters for Kak!
Any country that could give the world the Osmonds, the original Jackson 5, and of course Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs, and the group Hanson deserves that title....I am almost ashamed to be American at times!

Well, those guys you mentioned are indeed (very very very) cheesy, but so is most of the stuff in any top 20. (*sings [Copyright Material Removed by Moderator] because singing "mmmmbop" would be way too embarassing*)
Real "hardcore" KAK is even worse though (think along the lines of "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany, and don't even ask how come I remember who sang that one, sometimes I scare myself by the amount of kak I remember).
If it's obscure enough (like The Strawberry Alarm Clock, which btw is considered a "collector's item" in some circles in Europe), you can usually get away with it without people realizing WHAT you're posting.
Anyway, I "discovered" it later, in the 70's (that's weird: I must have been about 13 too!), and in the 90's sold the album for a rather large sum to some kid who was born in the 80's!
Tomorrow I'm taking the day off, it's my birthday (39), and I've NEVER worked on my birthday. Even if I had to sit all alone at home, being bored to death, I wouldn't work. (Luckily that won't be the case.)
It'll take my mind of the censorship over here. I know they're replacing a lot of the removed postings, but that doesn't clear them in my book. Stepping on some basic rights (like freedom of speech, especially on a site like THIS one) makes me rather unforgiving.

DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DUM....IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!! Happy Birthday to you

They will probably edit that in John Lennon's memory.

I am shocked....I had this idea that you were in your 20s....now I don't feel so old....thanks!

Hey, they didn't edit! Maybe they were confused about those lyrics: the "da-da-da" could be from a certain Police-song too (and about a million other ones with background vocals).
Up until now, I've NEVER felt old. I still feel like I'm in my 20s, and I don't worry about that "official number". I'll start worrying when the day comes I don't have the energy anymore to continue living like I do.
Oh right, I shouldn't have said that NOW: that day could be right after the weekend, coz there's some serious partying on the program!
A good friend of mine (the new partner of my ex-wife, who is my BEST friend) had his birthday on the 19th (he's 24 now), and we're going to celebrate our birthdays together (we would have invited the same people anyway). Three nights out: Friday and Saturday for both of us, Sunday for me solo (with a few friends who can't make it the other days). Obviously, the hardest part will be the days following that weekend, but in the words of Gloria Gaynor: "I will survive"...

If by any chance you mailed something in the last few days to my "444"-address, I haven't been able to see it: the "444"-servers are unreachable since 3 or 4 days. My "backup" addresses are those with "888", mentioned on my homepage.

BTW: if you haven't been there already, please do follow the link to "Interior Desecrators: Horrors from the Land of Shag" (or mid-70s interior design), also on my homepage. It's one of the funniest sites I've ever seen, making me wonder how in hell I survived living in a room like that (in yellow and orange!) when I was a teenager!

"444"-address is fixed!

Excuse me....but that was Harvest Gold and Pumpkin...not yellow and orange...and do not forget my favorite: Avocado green....I still have a baking supply box from the early part of my marriage(1st not current) in in avocado...someday....it will be a collectable!

I'll do a search in old photo-albums at my parents'. There must be some pics of that room... (I could use those pics as an excuse whenever somebody remarks on my weird behaviour.)

Talking about avocado and pumpkin: there is also a site about food (Gallery of Regrettable Food)! Strong stomach recommended!

Hola Che:
Como Esta usted? I have to ask...is there a 666 web address too?
Just curious.....LOL
Anne

I tried to find one, but I bet that IF it exists, it'll be spoiled by weirdo-pseudo-satanists and the like. Imagine getting Satan-newsletters and other devilish spam in your mailbox all the time! It would become as tedious and ridiculous as listening to the pope mumble on against birth-control.

I am back and online after WEEKS of being offline...thank goodness...or Abi, who is easier to find