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

Oh, yes...Mean chain people...Perhaps you could carry a metal detector to sense when they're getting close.

Some non-chain people have hip implants... It'll have to be a very high tech detector to know the difference.

Ah, right...Hip implants...That makes things a bit more difficult...And having a metal detector that knows the difference could lead to people smuggling chains in their hips.

They'd disguise their chains as hip implants, and give non-chain people with real implants a bad name. I guess I'll just have to stay away from people with implants alltogether.

Oh, well that seems to have worked itself out fairly well, then...It does, unfortunately, mean that hip implant people will only be able to see the Peaceful Dragon from a distance, but that seems to be a necessary restraint.

They might start to feel discriminated, though. And start campaigns against me.

Yes, but if they choose to attack, they'd have to use wooden boards instead of chains and you could just burn them...But then maybe you'd lose your reputation as a Peaceful Dragon.

It's not a reputation, really. Not yet, anyway. I became Peaceful Dragon only two days ago. But you're right, of course. I'd like being known as a peaceful dragon as well as Peaceful Dragon.

Yes, otherwise, the name would be extraordinarily ironic.

Oh, that's not a problem. A lot of tiny guys are called Big Joe, for instance.

Oh...Hm...Yes, I suppose they are...But I still think it would be better to be a peaceful Peaceful Dragon than an unpeaceful Peaceful Dragon.

I *am* a very peaceful dragon. I'm lethal only in theory.

Oh, that's good. That way you get to be peaceful, but people are, in theory, reluctant to upset you.

That should fix the non-chain wooden board carrying hip implant people, too, I should think. And I can carry on being the peaceful dragon Peaceful Dragon in peace.

Oh, very good. That seems to solve everything...Though I've got to say, I'm not quite sure what we did to solve it...

We are too smart for ourselves. That's the only problem we have, it seems.

Ah...That doesn't sound so bad. We'll just have to be careful to not outthink ourselves too badly.

Smart as we are, I don't think there's any danger of that.

You don't *think* there's any danger in that, but you might possibly have outthought yourself into thinking that.

How funcosing! Or is that supposed to be foncusing? I don't remember...