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

Gad zooks! foiled again Moriarty

Don't put foil-wrapped Moriarty in the microwave or sparks will fly.

zdt

Oooh i got post 42!

zdt "she who must be obeyed"

watson - oops! microwave

*BBC News: latest*

"A small but perfectly formed nuclear explosion has been detected in Northern England. The possibility of spying activities being involved has not been ruled out. More later."

zdt

Why dces just about every thread in this place start as tragedy and end in farce, (to slightly misquote Karl Marx)?

Jab

dunno! I'm only a Yorkshireman

but, it definitely nothing to do with finding zen my friend
methinks a "human trait" to ease or disguise sadness ??

Hi folks, hope you're all well and getting ready for the upcoming onslaught that is:

Hi lapis! Forthcoming......onslaught is the right word for it...if not le mot juste...

Jab

my new threadwas thought up last night and is to "sort of" do with posts 46 and 47

I thought so....

Jab

Speaking of ....

My favorite Christmas poem is "Christ climbed down out of his bare tree."

How did Coney Island get in my mind?

Maybe you were thinking of a Coney Island Christmas.

Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
there were no rootless Christmas trees
hung with candycanes and breakable stars

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "A Coney Island of the Mind"

Can't see Jesus running away to anywhere, tbh. I take the point about our fake Christmases though - that part was nicely, economically put, Mr.F.

Jab

That's just the first verse of many.

I just think it's a poem that everyone ought to read or hear at least once in a lifetime. Ferlinghetti was one of the beat poets...

I made a pilgrimage to the City Lights bookstore once upon a time when I was down 'Frisco way.

Jab

I usually visit the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park when I visit San Francisco. It's the least I can do while I wait for the big earthquake that cuts off the California coast and moves it out into the pacific.

This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poorhouse
It seems like this whole town's insane
On the thirty-first floor a gold-plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain
(Gram Parsons)

They've been waiting for the BIG one for AGES - and singing about it since the 60's!

Jab