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

The cucumbers made me do it.

We need to push for a cucumber smiley.

It could double as a zucchini smiley.

From a distance, I have a hard time telling cucumbers and zucchini aparts.

I agree, though some zucchinis are stripey.

They don't sell the striped ones in my grocery store.
My loss, I'm sure.

Make friend with your neighbours who observe 'leave zucchini on your neighbour's porch day'.

I had an uncle who was much-feared in his neighborhood in August. There was an empty lot next to his house, and he converted it to a garden. He always had too many tomatoes and zucchinis in August, so he would go door to door trying to unload some of his surplus.

I've never known anybody who would turn down s.

Maybe you've never known anyone who already had bushels of them donated by other neighbors and passers-by.

Nope. Not bushels.

An elderly lady my parents knew used to call my mother with odd requests. She would never identify herself, just start talking. She was a real Southern character.

One day she called: 'Do you have any bees?'

My mother: 'Why, er, I'm not sure.'

Mrs H: 'I don't have nary a bee. Something's wrong.'

This lady was prescient - the bee problem wasn't known then.

Another time she called and complained that she wished she had some zucchini. My mother bagged up zucchini and sent my father over. He came home chuckling.

My mother: 'Did you give her the zucchini?'

Dad:'Yep.'

Mother: 'Why didn't she have any zucchini? Did she forget to plant any?'

Dad: 'Oh, she planted plenty. But all hers was in the freezer. She wanted some fresh.'

Fresh zucchini is wonderful when you slice it into strips and dip them into hummus.

re 298:

urania is the name of the orchestra, dmitri

and i remember one of the members getting his fingers on an ancient glass harmonica like the one in the clip

, Pierce - that glass harmonica has an awesoe sound (imagine it in the 18th Century).

I would like to get a CD of music composed for glass harmonica.

I've noticed several on Amazon (but do not wish to facilitate advertising on this thread). It seems there are some major composers who did works for it.

it sounds very good indeed. the phrase 'out of this world' springs to mind

That's it, Pierce. And much nicer than the theremin.

So, Leon Theremin is not very nice?

For all I know, he's a fine individual, but there are limits to the appeal of that sound, ne-c'est pas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJYho56INKU

To me, that goes with 30s scifi - art deco costumes made of tinfoil...

How about 60s sci fi, then?