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

are you in a mood at me now perchance?

No babes.

It's sweet that you tried to spare my emotions, but I'm a big girl and I'd rather have had the truth.

you did have, it went all weird after Reading though, sorry

Don't apologise, I said I'd rather you're happy

is it.. whats her name... Jenny?

no, it's Natalie, the girl who took my number in the club ages ago

you should know, that if i had known i would end up with a girlfriend anyway, Reading would have been different

Hmmm....
Probably for the best anyway.

You seen about TP's new book, Monstrous Regiment?

Pratchett flexes his satirical muscles again, with the follies of war his theme. Polly Oliver has disguised herself as a boy to join the army of Borogravia, which is always at war and bursting with patriotism, though the Borogravians are often less than clear on why they are fighting. But then, as followers of a god who believes that cats, babies, and cheese are abominations, they are used to contradictions; they mostly pray to their duchess, who may be dead. Their latest war has interfered with the commerce of Ankh-Morpork, which has dispatched Sam Vimes to bring matters to a "satisfactory" conclusion. But Sam still thinks more like the city watchman he was than the duke he now is, and this confuses people. Meanwhile, Polly's regiment, the Ins-and-Outs, has become quite high-profile, what with having, it is said, a vampire, a werewolf, and an Igor in its ranks, and with capturing, quite unexpectedly, the Zlobenian prince and his soldiers, an event publicized by Ankh-Morpork newspaperman William de Worde. Anyway, they're suddenly popular in Ankh-Morpork, and they subsequently turn the war upside down, so that it doesn't end the way the propagandists would have liked. No surprise, of course, to Sam Vimes. Polly concludes that it is, on some level, all about socks. Thoroughly funny and surprisingly insightful. Regina Schroeder
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Book Description
War has come to Discworld . . . again.

And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers on the small, insufferably arrogant, strictly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on it's ability to beat up on its neighbors for even the tiniest imagined slight. This time, however, it's Borogravia that's getting its long overdue comeuppance, which has left the country severely drained of young men.

Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess,her family's inn -- even though the revered national deity Nuggan has decreed that female ownership of a business is an Abomination (with, among others, oysters, rocks, and the color blue). To keep The Duchess in the family, Polly must find her missing sibling. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and sets out to join him in this man's army.

Despite her rapid mastery of belching, scratching, and other macho habits (and aided by a well-placed pair of socks), Polly is afraid that someone will immediately see through her disguise; a fear that proves groundless when the recruiting officer, the legendary and seemingly ageless Sergeant Jackrum, accepts her without question. Or perhaps the sergeant is simply too desperate for fresh cannon fodder to discriminate -- which would explain why a vampire, a troll, a zombie, a religious fanatic, and two uncommonly close "friends" are also eagerly welcomed into the fighting fold. But marching off with little (read: no) training, Polly (now called "Oliver") finds herself wondering about the myriad peculiarities of her new brothers-in-arms. It would appear that Polly "Ozzer" Perks is not the only grunt with a secret. There is no time to dwell on such matters, however.Duty calls. The battlefield beckons. There's a tide to be turned.

And sometimes -- in war as in everything else -- the best man for the job is a woman.

sounds brilliant, it's got a few good characters in there

when is it out do you know?

nope

any idea yet, i got some book vouchers to use

I think it's out now

cool, me go shopping today in my dungarees and rollerblades

V. Cool.

I've got college. LIfe drawing - that means staring at nekkid people for hours.

andandand... I've finally managed to get my claws into a BF.

*ahem* not disturbing anything am i


well, i went shopping, no dungarees though. settled for the 'I am God you are Scum shirt' with an open surf shirt over that i must say, i actually look good when i try

got the new book!

and...

got the new one with the Nac Mac Feegle clan in it "tiny blue-skinned pictsies who were thrown out of Fairyland for being Drunk and Disorderly...", We Free Men it is called. i never seen it before and it is dated copyright 2003

i wonder why he put capital D's for Drunk and Disorderly?

i did it as well. how freaky

so, *sits down and pulls out nail filer* how's Andrew?

'ello.

Andy's fine How're you n Natalie was it?

You didn't know about Wee Free Men? *shakes head* I haven't got it yet How are they?

haven't seen Nat since Wednesday when we went to see David Blaine so yeah, normal.

i've just started reading MR but wee free men sounds funny as well. i love those drunk scottish pictsies

David Blaine! I've seen him. He must be giving london so much tourism.
I met the nac mac feegle in Carpe Jugulum. They steal cows

yeah, that's where i first met them too

don't know about tourism, there was only one burger stool there so obviously not much call for anything else and shops are a little way away. plus most people there would be going to HMS Belfast anyway...i turned the lights out inside that once, ithought the button was part of a display thingy, it was the light switch...

I hate it when that happens.
Once I activated the alarm in a toilet cos I thought it was the light switch...