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

Thanks, AR80!

I have a pretty good working knowledge of stones, having talked to stone walls for much of my life.

keith is a scaring sight in almost any definition

but he knows his riffs

There's a story about an old Yankee farmer from Vermont, who took his wife to hear a lecture about the last ice age. When the lecture was over, the wife got to talking to the lecturer about the stones that the glaciers had deposited on her farm. "Where did the ice go?" she wondered. "It went back to get more stones," the farmer interjected.

Wasn't Stone Wall one of the Jackson five?

i thought he was a member of pink floyd

Stonewall Jackson? Wasn't he a general in the U.S. Civil War?

nah, must have been a namesake

speaking of sake, i could use a

Sake was also a poet, so I expect to hear your verse, Pierce.

i thought i had made an okay verse once

but apparently i did not

people told me it was worse

You posted your verses in the Bad Poetry thread, so it's only natural that people didn't mistake it for the good stuff.

indeed. it was my own fault people never recognized the genius of my w*rk

Exactly!

You disguised your genius much too well.
Next time, let the full glory of it shine out for all to see.

(*making a belated appearance on the scene*)

That Titanic dream was pretty darn cool. It sounds like something I might dream.

next time i'll blow my horn in a different thread

is there one called 'exorbitant poetry' do you know?



ps: i dreamed the perfect solution to the crisis in the middle east last night, but as soon as i woke up i forgot all about it

Chances are, Al-Jazeera would not have embraced it anyway.

they did in my dream, but you are probably right

by the way: i just saw the first episode of stephen fry travelling through all 50 united states. he made it to boston on halloween and i wondered if you were one of the people on my screen?

I live on the Southeast edge of Boston, and spend most of my waking time in the next county. I probably wasn't anywhere near Fry's cameras. Maybe someday.

he went to salem and a few other locations in and around boston before heading of to the green side of the big apple and further on

Darn it, I missed Fry's series.
I do enjoy is Qi series though, one of the better offerings on tv.
Hats off as well to the American version of Who's Line Is It Anyway,
much funnier than the versions with Clive Anderson hosting.

Yes, Salem makes sense for a Halloween visit. It calls itself "Witch City" because of the witches that were hanged there in the late 17th century.