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

Sounds like a blockbuster to me

Ooooooh, my *second* starrring role!


Assuming I win the coveted role up for grabs here: 302?thread=3029585" >F19585?thread=134823&latest=1

elwood

Bwahaha.

Look I've been here at h2g2 4 years and I have only one rule...


NO MUSHING!!!


What's so hard to understand about that.


<--bad

<--gabbing lots...good.

Okay so I haven't been here much lately to put up topics, so I probably deserved all that dreaded mush, but believe me nobody would have wanted to be around me over the last month of depression about the outcome of the US election and some horrible goings on at my workplace. But the holiday season seems to have brightened my spirits, at least temporarily.



So does anyone but me despise eggnog?

My wife and I are doing that "Let's not buy each other gifts this year and spend the money on a new computer" thing. Is this the end of our marriage after 20 years?

Why is it the dad's job to videotape every event in a childs life?

Do any girls have fond memories of getting a doll house as a gift? (little ellie keeps asking for one)



Happy holidays! Talk to you soon (depending on if there's discussion of topics or just more MUSH!!!

1. Couldn't say I despise it, but since I've been off sweet stuff of all kinds for so long, it'd probably taste as sickeningly sweet as everything else that's sweetened. To me, anyway.

2. That's the sort of thing we do every year, although lately it's been coming down to after we needed to call in a plumber to fix a leak and an electrician to straighten out some really bad wiring, we tend to say "I guess what I really wanted for Christmas was to have the plumbing/wiring fixed". Still, we usually manage to find each other some little token gifts - a favorite type of calendar, some cheap little gadget, maybe a CD or a book or two.

3. Because. Besides, when the battery dies at the most important part, or he forgets to turn on the sound, we can blame him.

4. I had an old metal doll house (from the mid-50's), but I really don't remember when I got it. I played with it (and it's cheap plastic furniture) a *lot* though. If you're talking about one of those fancy-schmancy things that you glue on individual shingles and buy itsy bitsy working lamps, forget it - those things aren't toys, and you want her to have a doll house she can *play* with. I don't know if Playmobil still makes one or not, but it's pretty sturdy (for plastic), even though it's expensive. (Grandma bought it for the girls, no way were we going to plunk down that kind of money for something they wouldn't be using every single day for the rest of their lives!)






























Oh, and just to be annoying...

<> YESH!!! Me!!!!

<> No!!!

<> Because moms have starring roles!!! YAY!!!

<> Yes. My Strawberry Shortcake house. It rocked. I later sat on the roof very often.

Oooh DFly gotta watch out for that chiminey!!

Well LScott it's good to know a marriage can survive plumbing as a gift. elwoodina and I should be safe then.

Hey DFly did you mean yeesh as in the exclaimation or yes with a lisp?

The wiring was a worse problem than the plumbing.

See, a couple years ago, we had a leak that sprang up on Christmas morning, so we needed to call a plumber, on a holiday! $$$$$$$$

Anyhow, we noticed that the *exact same place* started to leak again a couple weeks ago, but the leak was so tiny this time that by the time a drip fell, the previous drop had completely evaporated, so there was no wet spot on the floor. But we didn't want a repeat of that year, with the thing bursting wide open on Christmas day. (or New Year's day, etc.) So we called the plumber, thinking I'd have to wait for an appointment, but they were able to come out that exact day.

The wiring on the other hand was a very dangerous situation. Lord Scott had asked the electrician to try to figure out why he kept getting ground faults in a couple of outlets in the basement, and in investigating this problem, the guy found that all the wiring installed by the previous owners was done wrong. It wasn't the whole basement - the basement had been finished off by the first owners, but the people who had bought the house from them had sectioned off part of the finished area for a bedroom, and put several electrical outlets in those walls. Among the things the electrician found were:

~A light socket that did not have caps on the bare wire connections.(at least a little electrical tape would have been nice!)

~An outlet that had the ground and live wires reversed.

~A grounded hole of the outlet wired to... NOTHING!

Yes, that's right ladies and gentleman, our basement was an electrical fire just waiting to happen! I guess the good Lord was watching out for us, because we've lived here for over 12 years with no problem.

The yesh was meant to be a cute yes, not a yes with a lisp!!!

Ha. You know what you need?

*Sigh*

Some people are just unteachable.

Maybe everything IS upside down in Australia from here and when I say no cyberhugs to SMoB it means yes to mush.

Sooooo, hit me with the hugs, the cuddles, the smooches...

GIVE ME THE MUSH!!!!

Yay!!!!!!!!





I think we should take the opportunity to rename this the "Elwood MUSH Club"!

YAY!!!... I second the motion!!!

Well, if you /insist/.

Where's the and he requested?

Ask and ye shall receive.

On a more verbal (in a textual way) note:

I love eggnog! Especially with a shot of rum and a sprinkle of cinnamon . Of course, I'm abstaining this year, so someone will have to take up my slack.

Mr B and I are forgoing gifts this year as well, for the time being anyway, because we just can't afford it. Everything will be on sale next week anyway, and again the week after that. Makes the season last just a little bit longer. I'm sure I'll get him something small for Christmas morning, but I can't go shopping until Thursday, so I'll be out with all the frantic last-minute shoppers.

We didn't do a lot of videotaping when the kid was little, but we have dozens of photo albums (which is fine, as I'm more prone to thumb through an album than I am to go hunting for a videotape to watch). If it's any consolation that drops off a bit after they're 5 or 6, but mom should get behind the lens occasionally, too. While D-fly has a point , I was the one who took most of the pictures when mine was young. This time around though, I think I'll be in more of them than I'll take - Mr B is somewhat of an amateur photographer.

We had a Fisher Price dollhouse when we were kids - actually while combing through my parents' basement for leftover infant gear I found that they still have it. It was a plastic one, blue I think with a yellow roof, and hinged on one side so it opened. We used the little wooden people with the plastic heads with it, the kind they don't make anymore because they were small enough to fit through a toilet roll tube.

We also had the Mickey Mouse clubhouse with Weebles, the Sesame Street apartment house (with Big Birds nest on the side), and I think the Family Tree House it was called, you pushed a button and the tree leaves popped up and there was a house on the inside. We played with all of these incessantly.

We didn't get a real "doll house" until we were much older, it was one my dad made, and even though we were older it still got beat up. And it didn't get played with as much.

My kids had that Sesame Street apartment house - what a nifty toy! They both played with it for years and years.

Not only did Big Bird have a nest, but you could pop Oscar up out of his garbage can too!

Yes!