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

Like being able to interact with extraneous factors without complete and utter internal chaos. Don't ask, it makes me uncomfortable. Way too intrusive!

Ok, I won't ask .. mental itches can be hard to talk about, especially in public ..

>mental itch<

I like that description. Public, private, it's all hard.

Aye, 'cause the more you scratch it, the worse it becomes..

Argh. Metaphors.

Your bread and butter, I would've thought ..

Heh, another metaphor. Can't get away from 'em!

Yeh, I guess. But not in everyday conversation. T'is a bit cheesy.

Hmm, that yawn smile looks like the claw of some evil yellow bird.

One of my friends has a job working with nothing but metaphors every day.

Like a monkey at a typewriter...

Sort of! She has to sit at a computer all day typing them in and classifying them by different criteria, so this artifical intelligence program can recognise them. Basically teaching a computer how to understand the more complicated parts of English langugage communication.

Unless you were talking about the yawn smiley, in which case my response is: eh?

My response is usually "eh?" when I have lots of backlog...