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

Hello m'dear.
Glad you liked the Voltaire!

I do like Bill Bailey, though I haven't followed his doings as much as perhaps I should. My friend Tim is often noted by others for his similar humour, manner and hairyness to Bill Bailey and I just don't see it, well apart from hairyness as I've not been to his shows or bought DVDs etc.

Appypolly logies for the slow reply. I've had tech woes. You are well I hope... ?

Yes I'm well.
I've got another friend who's hairyness and sense of humour are remarkably similar. Their must be another Bill Bailey in every county.
How are you?

Argh, there's plague of Bill Baileys!

At this precise moment I'm not too bad.
Only having access to the internet at the library at present leaves feeling a tad isolated.
Still I have a thing on Saturday that I can look forward to.

Oh right. May I ask what thing this is?

You may.

Twas a Sproutlore event. This one involved riding some steam trains and touring the yards where the carriages and engines are restored, looking at some Victorian jock straps which apparently every self-respecting railwayman wore, taking pictures of toilets which although not something I do myself seems to be something one or other of our number oft find reason to do, tis tradition or old charter or something and, drinking ale -- something most of us always do, at least those of us with taste enough not to drink lager.
Later we had a meal at a pretencious restaurant down in Brighton. Mr Robert Rankin was kind enough to give me a lift down there himself and told me about the half-skeleton he has under his desk that he keeps meaning to put together. It's split down the vertical but the skull is complete. I'm rather jealous.

It was a nice enough day altogether, wish I had remembered to take a camera.

Aw, that sounded cool.

It was cool enough.

How are you? Been upto much?

Not really. I'm a bit of a hermit until the summer or till it snows, I see you watch Life On Mars as well.

I do indeed watch Life On Mars. The first series was an unexpected - but much appreciated - work outstanding writing and performance. I joined the first series late, so watched it in the Sign Zone to catch up. This was after seeing, maybe, the fifth episode and quickly realising just how good what I'd been missing was. This second season hasn't disappointed. Which is again a little unexpected but, muchly appreciated.

I like snow, I find it very romantic. I'm less a fan of summer all that heat and sunlight.

I was so shocked with the first ending, but the second series isn't disappointing. I didn't know anyone who watched the first series when it was on.

I sometimes get annoyed by the heat, but then again it gives me a genuine excuse to eat icecream I've kind of had it drilled into me that the only people that go out at night are mad axe-murderers, so I won't go out unless I'm not alone.

What you say of heat and icecream is sage.

In a way that kinda makes sense. If the only people out at night are axe-murders, then they can only be chopping each other up, thus keeping the population of mad axe-murders at such a level as that they go almost unnoticed.

I don't have an axe myself, but I do have a bat'leth should the need for homicidal nocturnal rampaging take me. Although a katana would be a bit more elegant.

What about the ending or in what way was the ending shocking for you?

I was expecting some kind of explanation, and for the show to be a one off series. Maybe shock wasn't the right word, but still.

I 'spected as much but I don't like to assume.

I quite pleased, it was 'ho yus, there will be more ' moment.

Damned fine episode again on Tuesday.

The Apprentice is back, it's the only "reality" TV I watch. There's something entertaining about watching a bunch of egotists get sycophantic and desperate...

Yep, can't disagree there. I have no idea how Micheal Sugar is a millionaire, I've never heard of Amstrad, and my dad has but he says everyone knew they were rubbish.
It's quite interesting watching the show afterwards with the person who got kicked off, which is all I got to see last week because I was out.

I must have wondered off to another firefox tab without posting the last reply I wrote...
Can you tell I was born blonde?
Oooh shiney!!!

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Err... Where was I?
Amstrad churns out crap that people don't really need and/or isn't very good, but sadly people are willing to buy the crap as it's cheap[er than the good stuff] or they can't look at advert without going " I want one." -- folk are lame like that. And, Sir Alan knows that.
Hope you're well,(?) looks like you've been listening to Jack Off Jill...
I must call a taxi and head to the mother's for Easter.

Ooh, you're quick on the tagline(that's not sarcastic). Sometimes it just seems to fit though.
Yep, your points about Amstrad seem right. Think about every corporation knows about people just seeing an advert and saying "want that one"(sorry, been watching little britain as well, and going quite heavy on stuff in brackets it seems)
Have fun at your Mothers for easter. Mother, that normally means someones not to happy about it...

love the tagline.

Thank you. It's almost entirely my own work.

I have listened to Jack Off Jill a fair amount over the last... *thinks* ...four and a half years.
I forget, now what line from JOJ you had. So, I'll ask both what was it and why do you feel it fits?

t'was "give me some anaesthetic, to wash this headache away and give me a syringe to inject the pain" from American Made.

And I think the reason it fitted was because sometimes stuff feels like it's not right, but you carry on with it and in the end make it worse.
I can't really remember why I felt it fitted at the time, which makes me feel a bit dumb.
Any way, how was your easter?

My Easter was OK, thanks.
I tool a porcelain egg filled with chocolate and decorated with flowers as a gift for The Mother. I think
Mum liked it.
There was the eating of hollow chocolate bunnies and the drinking of wine and such...


I think that's a valid enough way of looking at that line.
Another I think would to say it's about drug abuse. i.e you inject something to wash away your pain that is in and of itself and source of pain in your life.
And the one I identify with for it is one of wanting to numb the emotional pain of thoughts and feelings, but then you reach of point numbness that you miss feeling anything at all and need the pain back. I guess both are more specific interpretations of the one you make carrying on with behaviours that are ultimately self-defeating.


And your Easter, how was that?