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

*listens intently and taps newly aquires to the beat.*

*tapping pencil, trying to think*

*rummages around in folded up pulls out a bar of and some *
anyone for interval time munchies?

oooh, yes, please!

*passes to refi* there you go

*bows and nibbles* thaaannnk yoooouuu~

Mrs. Miller became famous just after the glory days of Tiny Tim, who would go on Ed Sullivan with a ukulele and warble "Tiptoe through the tulips" in a falsetto voice. Those were the 1960s, when treble-voiced "Chipmunks" and hula hoops were the rage at one time or other. Allan Sherman would turn Ponchielli's "Dance of the hours" into a song about summer camp. On the other side of the Atlantic, the Beatles would go around in a yellow submarine, and the Monty Python gang would have fruit-fights or go chasing after Spiney Norman. A great time to be alive if you had a side.

*claps, whistles, cheers*

wish i had been alive in the 60s i love the beatles and most things about that era!

awww...time machine?

I was corrupted beyond redemption by what happened in the sixties . Thus, I am not objective about it.

*wonders what he means by that*

*Wonders why it would need explanation. *

*doesn't know that either...*

And now for the evening's entertainment: a slide show. Today's slides will help you identify all 500 species of oak tree.

oooh fun! lemme get my blanket!

ooh, trees. i likes trees.

i will just go and get some cushions. . .

there we go now i am comfy. refi are you ready?

Attention, ladies and gentlemen, our previously-scheduled larch lecture had to be cancelled because it was larchly too dangerous. Instead, we bring you the corniest (acorniest, that is) tree in the Northern Hemisphere: the oak. I hope that's oak-kay with everyone, as I don't see any of you leaving. Oaks are the trees everyone roots for. They have none of the bad habits that some other trees have--no inky messes like chocke cherries, nor smelly rotting apples to attract stinging insects , nor thorns like some locusts or rose bushes. True, they deposit acorns on the ground, but the local squirrel populations are adept at moving the acorns to unobtrusive spots, where they become the next generation of 0aks.

*perched on a cushion, wrapped up in blankets with teddy* oh I'm ready...this is interesting!

Strangely enough, there are hardly any oaks in the Southern hemisphere, just as there are hardly any penguins in the Northern Hmeisphere. This is just too convenient not to be caused by some sinister plot by penguin merchants and oak foresters.