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

Hello, if you're visiting. I filled out this questionnaire to introduce myself, though I didn't give any of the questions more than a few seconds' thought, so I reserve the right to rethink them.

Please leave a post with your own responses to the questions, if you like.

1. What is your most marked characteristic? Dutifulness.

2. What is the quality you most like in a man? Doesn't take himself too seriously.

3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? An irreverent sense of humor.

4. What do you most value in your friends? A love of good food and drink.

5. What is your principal defect? Rigidity.

6. What is your favorite occupation? Losing myself in a book.

7. What is your dream of happiness? Having plenty of free time to pursue all the things I'm interested in.

8. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? Having no one to care about you.

9. What would you like to be? Relaxed.

10. In what country would you like to live? France.

11. What is your favorite color? Green.

12. What is your favorite flower? Roses.

13. What is your favorite bird? Owls.

14. Who are your favorite prose writers? Anne Tyler, Barbara Kingsolver, Reynolds Price.

15. Who are your favorite poets? Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

16. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Frodo Baggins.

17. Who is your favorite heroine of fiction? Scarlett O'Hara.

18. Who are your favorite composers? Handel, Tchaikovsky, Joe Jackson, Aimee Mann.

19. Who are your favorite painters? Lucien Freud, Picasso.

20. Who are your heroes in real life? Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln.

21. What is it you most dislike? Bigotry, pretentiousness, bragging, rudeness, snobbery.

22. What natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to compose music.

23. How would you like to die? After a great meal at age 101.

24. What is your present state of mind? Cautiously optimistic.

25. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? Extravagance, impulsiveness.

26. What is your motto? “No good deed goes unpunished.”

Number 26

Should that be no bad deed goes unpunished not good deed

You are wrong, my friend. Example: I gave a co-worker the name of my wonderful travel agent, and the co-worker has done nothing but complain to me ever since about the travel agent and how much extra money he is costing him.

My good deed has been punished.

Fare enough it must be different over here

I have just got back to you i went out last night

As regards that saying, it's sort of cynical, but I do find myself saying it a lot.

Hope you had fun when you went out! I've been staying at home a lot myself. I'm finding that's what I need right now. Just sit with the kitty and listening to music.

More tomorrow.

B.R.

Yeh i had a realy good time thank`s

hi just passing throughthough will be backafterso will talk more later

Hi, hi. Who's this? And won't you be a bit after all that and after all that ?

Welcome. When you come back, please do the questionnaire!

Hell big red

hello researcher 244560

welcome to h2g2

Hi, Intern. Haven't seen you around lately. Hope you are keeping well.

Iv been here watching observeing

Lurking, as they say. It's good to know you're there taking care of things.

I am

How are your French lessons coming? Are you learning in school, or taking independent lessons?

no on here there going

You can take them through Hootoo?

Yeh the link is in one of my drop boxes

OK, you forced me into it.

1. What is your most marked characteristic? A never say die attitude ’.

2. What is the quality you most like in a man? A Sense of humour.

3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? A Sense of humour

4. What do you most value in your friends? Playfulness’.

5. What is your principal defect? Honesty, (some call it Bluntness).

6. What is your favourite occupation? Flying

7. What is your dream of happiness? Flying a helicopter in the countryside in autumn.

8. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? Death.

9. What would you like to be? Just me for One day.

10. In what country would you like to live? All of them, one at a time.

11. What is your favourite colour? Red Green Blue then Gold.

12. What is your favourite flower? All of them.

13. What is your favourite bird? Stefanie Powers or Cybill Shepherd

14. Who are your favourite prose writers? The Bart.

15. Who are your favourite poets? .

16. Who is your favourite hero of fiction? Bruce Willis in Moonlighting.

17. Who is your favourite heroine of fiction? Cybill Shepherd in Moonlighting.

18. Who are your favourite composers? .

19. Who are your favourite painters? Picasso.

20. Who are your heroes in real life? The human race.

21. What is it you most dislike? Pickled Beetroot.

22. What natural gift would you most like to possess? Sanity with a Sense of humour

23. How would you like to die? “See question 1”

24. What is your present state of mind? Elatedly Optimistic, (sometimes called Insanity).

25. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? My wife and Kids as in "indulgent to a fault"

26. What is your motto? “Tomorrow will be even better than today and you only live twice so make the most of it.”

Well, what did you expect from a dyslexic beanpole, with a tendency towards nutterisum.

QUID PRO QUO Then
Favourite piece of technology:
Favourite author and book:
Favourite quote:
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
When and where were you happiest?
What is your greatest regret?
What is your most treasured possession?
What is your greatest extravagance?
What is your favourite journey?
What is it that you most dislike?
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
If you could travel in time, would you go back of forwards?

OK, I'll have a go....

1. What is your most marked characteristic? Honesty. As in brutal.

2. What is the quality you most like in a man? High alcohol tolerance. Being worse than me at pool.

3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Confidence, self security, sense of humour. Blindness

4. What do you most value in your friends? Honesty, independence and individuality.

5. What is your principal defect? See point 1.

6. What is your favorite occupation? Listening to good music. Preferably live.

7. What is your dream of happiness? A cottage on a remote Scottish Island, except possibly without the weather.

8. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? Being without friends.

9. What would you like to be? Content.

10. In what country would you like to live? Switzerland's nice, as is Scandinavia. I'm optimistic about New Zealand (haven't been yet) but hey, Scotland's actually pretty OK. It's got to have mountains though - I can't live anywhere flat. I've had the chance to move to the Mid West and Holland. Funnily enough I turned both down.

11. What is your favorite color? Jade Green or Burnt Orange. Really rich colours.

12. What is your favorite flower? More of a foliage kind of guy. Not sure I can identify much other than a rose.

13. What is your favorite bird? Penguins.

14. Who are your favorite prose writers? Douglas Adams, Michael Moorcock, William Horwood

15. Who are your favorite poets? Steve Hogarth (lyricist with Marillion - he definately counts as a poet)

16. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Calvin (as in '...and Hobbes')

17. Who is your favorite heroine of fiction? Rebecca (from William Horwood's Duncton Wood)

18. Who are your favorite composers? Proper composers - Gershwin, Sibelius, Stavinsky. Others - John Coltrane, Marillion, Joe Jackson

19. Who are your favorite painters? Turner, Seurat, Rodney Matthews

20. Who are your heroes in real life? Charles Shultz, Lao Tzu

21. What is it you most dislike? Bigotry, cowardliness, tardiness

22. What natural gift would you most like to possess? Paint better than I can now.

23. How would you like to die? When I've had enough

24. What is your present state of mind? Excited (off to Oktoberfest soon.....!!!)

25. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? Er.. I drink too much beer. Does that count?

26. What is your motto? Never really had a motto, but I guess I've always thought "They'll laugh at you anyway, so why don't you stand up and be" were words to live by - it's a quote from a Marillion song. Sad huh?

Some heavy stuff in there, Big Red - you moonlighting as a psychologist or something?