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

hi ya hollypuppy
saw that you were online so i thought i'd be nosy and jump in and have a look at your page.
you are a bundle of contradictions but your intro makes great reading, am impressesd.
give holly a scratch behind the ears for me
xx

Well Hi! I read your message and just had to check out your personal space. I am also a huge music junkie. I have listened to everything since I was little, so I have varied taste. I don't think you told where you're from, is it the US, or the UK, I have noticed there are also Canadians on here. I have recently developed a thing for Prince Edward Island. Never been there, but would love to just get on a plane and drop in on the island someday. The puppies and myself also share our space with three goldfish. I haave them in a temporary tank,10 Gal.The tank they were in was 40 Gal. But it was a cumbersome one and I decided I want to put them in an octagon or hexagon tank, whichever I find first.

well, i'm in not that sunny at all really london. the weather in the uk is terrible at the best of times! apart from that it's ok over here. never had the opportunity to try out the us or canada, wouldn't mind it though. my mum has a penpal in canada. all i know is it snowsa lot there!
speak soon
xx

Well I think , from shows I've seen that were filmed over there, it looks really neat,even if the weather isn't always optimal. I woke up this afternoon and it had, in fact dumped a ton of snow all over the city while I slept. Really pretty...until the snowplows come to clean the streets and dump loads of sand to make a nice mud mess of what's left.I have never been beyond of the three states surrounding minnesota, unless I count the time I was trying to return home from Madison Wisconsin and I accidentally ended up in Chicago, or at least the first few blocks of it. It was very late and I made a wrong turn without noticing for quite awhile.Madison is the coolest town I have ever visited, pretty small area-wise, but beautiful old buildings kept in perfect condition, and so much activity and so many people feels like a big city, lots to do, plenty of culture, although the downtown didn't seem to be more than maybe 6-7 blocks by possibly 5-6 blocks. The Prince Edward Island thing I just woke up one morning after a few and having watched Anne of Green Gables the night before, had a revelation of sorts. I decided at some point I would definately have to go there. P.S I am trying out the smiley thing I hope it works.
hollypuppy

hello, wish we got snow here

No snow? ever? I couldn't imagine, I mean I'd like to be able to envision it, but it's almost as strange as when I went to Nebraska,while it was 104 degrees there, ( it never gets like that here)and I really just needed to be in a huge body of cool water. I thought the clerks in the gas station were lying when they said they had 1 lake a mile or so away. I asked where the others were and they looked at me like I was insane. Apparently they only have one lake tha they were aware of. In minnesota there is a lake really about 1 every 2-3 miles apart. The downside is that we have alot of misquitos.

I meant mosquitos. Excuse my spelling, please hollypuppy

very few mosies here. We have warm winters and cool summer due to an effect caused by amasonian rivers called the gulf stream. it gets so dull, all these non-extreme weather conditions

Oh! cry me a river, I would so love to have a civilized climate. Right now it is 10:55 pm and since it snowed while I slept, I have to shovel at some point, I considered rousing my neighbors out of their sleep by shoveling ( they are the sort that this type of activity would annoy at this hour!) but it is too cold for me to really want to do it now, about 2 degrees above zero with a windchill of around 5 below ,I am only estimating. You are very lucky to live somewhere so civilized, and actually I mean that in every sense of the word. hollypuppy
P.s what sorts of things do you do for entertainment or just to exist, your interests and such, you know.

Also, I almost forgot and please excuse my rudeness, please feel free to browse around my space, make yourself at home, there's in the fridge as well as and have a cup of or maybe you'd prefer a and some <or and maybe some my kitchen is your kitchen while you're here

I'm a geology student. Thats what I do and I wholehartedly look forward to our next fieldtrip to the isle of white at easter as well as numerous visits to my native land of Cornwall and parts of dartmoor. Playing rugby. I told the other students whomb I play against that I would make an apperance on sunday, although It might take some effot on my part to make it considering how late I'm staying up.

i read all the anne of green gables books when i was a kid. i enjoyed them, along with the what katy did books and famous 5 and secret 7 books, and well anything else enid blyton put her pen to. i think you're doing finewith the smileys.
do you get the enid blyton books in the states?
the weather here is a typical spring day in london. cloudy. still, the pets don't mind. they are all indoors creatures of comfort (well, except for thein the pond). indoors, there are pooh and tigger the rats, quaffle the dwarf hamster, bludger the blasted big syrian hamster, aero the corn snake(orange with pink eyes, dead cute) and 2 tanks of tropical freshwater. oh, and a darren too!
xx

Well, sorry, I have taken so long to reply, I was off the computer for a few days, my 'kids ' were offended by my excessive use. ( I have three puppies)I am not sure if we get her books here, but would probably love them if I ran across one. I was so affected by Anne of green Gables, and if this author writes similar material, I would enjoy her stuff for sure.I love the names you've chosen for your four legged friends, and your snake sounds great! I have never seen such a colorful one here. Please forgive my ignoraance, but I have to ask, what is a darren? YOu said you have one, and I am very curious now, since I actually ahve a cousin named Darren. hollypuppy

P.S sorry for the spelling errors, I seem to have a trigger finger when it comes to the post message button.

that's ok. a darrenis a slightly hairy hominid that eats kebab, drinks lager and then wonders why his farts smell! yeah, he's my bloke. and he is lovely. he's asleep right now. him and elmo(a really hairy hominid who's nickname is surprisingly nothing to do with sesame street)went to the pub last night.
me and tadpole(younger sis)went to a local theatre and saw a production of blithespirit by noel coward. it was very funny and very well acted.
enid blyton isn't superficially that similar to anne of green gables, but her books are great. the main theme in each one(and she wrote over 100!)is that small group of children outwit criminals that have been outwitting the police for several years. the books are set in the upper middle class of the 1950's. in the famous five books(her best lot)there are julian, dick, george(short for georgina but she is such a tomboy she often gets mistaken for a boy), ann and timmy the dog. in the school holidays they often hire gypsy style caravans, borrow a neighbours horse or two and go off for a few days. then they run into smugglers, thieves or dognappers, end up in dire straits, spot a suspicious looking bloke who always turns out to be a police officer undercover, foil the gang of smugglers, theives or dognappers and have a nice meal of potted meat, fresh bread, butter and milk from a local farmer and go home with a police commendation. sometimes the action takes place on kirrin island, which is george's personal island that she actually owns, and has been used by smugglers on more than one occaision.
if you want to get more into suburbia, there are the secret seven who do exactly the same sort of stuff as the famous five, but with seven of them, plus scamper the dog(a spaniel who was once dognapped). they read the famous five books in a master stroke of cross-advertising.
then if you want to go to boarding school in cornwall there's mallory towers, where midnight feasts and lacrosse are the all important things in life.
she also wrote loads of stuff for younger reader about the enchanted far-away forest.
enid blyton is a very jolly hockey sticks writer. the strongest language is likely to be "golly" or "i say!".
so that meant i grew up believing that the police could only ever solve a case with the help of a group of children, and wondered why i'd never run into a group of smugglers, thieves or dognappers! i also wondered why i didn't own my own island but there you go....
ho hum, i've just read back over what i've written and realise that i sound like a one woman fan club. oh dear!
xx

Well, it's only fitting that the influences that give us a charge or inspirational spark are worthy of some praise. I do the same thing with Douglas Adams stuff. I also have a habit of promoting music that I 'accidentally discover' (Kyle Vincent)Don't know what types of music you're into, but he was my last great surprise. I heard 1 song in a restaurant, and then in a grocery store, and then in a discount chain ( walmart, although I hate to give them noteriety, since here they practice abhorrent labor tactics...They make prospective employees sign life insurance policies for hundreds of thousands of dollars payable to the company, where's the incentive to keep an employee healthy or alive there, since as a cadaver you'd actually be good for business?)Anyway, there's lots of protests going on in the small towns where these chains go in to a peaceful community where families have had businesses for years, and run them out. From there a strip mall opens and robs the community of all of the quaintness, that a small town is entitled to. It becomes moere fast paced, then the housing developers come in and buy up all the land they can , build up expensive neighborhoods, get the taxes raised because of it, and now you've got a community run by corporations.ANd the small town is dead. Really sucks. Anyway it took me two years to find out who this person was on all the discs in these places of business. (Incidentally, once I was enlightened as far as the walmart thing goes, I quit going there)Well now see, I have rambled on and those puppies need breakast, gotta go hollypuppy

yeah, walmart bought out asda over here, asda being a large supermarket chain. tesco's is our dominant supermarket though. i tend yo use morrisons, a northern outfit who have only recently come down south. the whole business is done on a quite old fashioned footing, and is all the better for it.
i tend to goand ott about the following:
terry pratchett
douglas adams
arthur c clarke
robin hobb
dilbert
in the literary sphere, and in the musical:
pink floyd
the who
jethro tull
the quireboys
skid row
guns n roses
iron maiden
marilyn manson
murderdolls
cradle of filth

none of the above was in any particular order! i'm off to crazy nights in a short while. it is a nightclub that a mate of mine runs. plays nothing but classic and melodic rock and metal. i shall probably have one too many bacardi breezers, have a few boogies and collapse onto the nightbus.
speak to you soon
xx

Sounds like my sort of establishment!Too cool!!Oh, have you had the calypso berry breezer? They are my favorite. I accidentally had one awhile back at a place called Khans Mongolian Barbecue, I had a friend order the drinks, and it was great. It looked and tasted the way I used to envision champaign looking and tasting when I was a kid! Love skid row, and at times pink floyd(it requires a certain mood for me , but then I am so addicted)I really love the older music, late 60's almost all 70's(eagles,jackson brown,todd rundgren...etc.) And of course, all the beautiful hair metal bands of the 80's. I still have a huge weakness for the long hairs... but they are fewer and farther between, so much harder to come across a good man with lots of hair now.Well I went out tonight, saw Austin Healy.they do leonard skennard, molly hatchet,they even did a song called drift away, by...oh, some guy from the late 60's you know.."day after day I'm so confused.. try to see the light through the pouring rain...,....give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock'n roll and drift away" That one ? I guess I am not real clear on how much of the stuff from here gets any airplay over there.It's a classic here, anyway. I had fun, sort of. I actually worked in a rock bar, about 10 years ago, I had the time of my life, but probably should have had more. It was called ryans corner, but sadly someone bought it and it's just not the same anymore. hope you had fun at your club! see ya! hollypuppy

times several! yeah i had fun. boogied to thunder, poison(oohh, brett michaels), skid row(ooohhh seb bach) and kiss as well as a few others. if you check out www.crazynites.com and go to the rouges gallery you'll find me there. not saying who i am though. ok. the fat one with big tits!
haven't tried the calypso berry breezer. they don't do them here. i tend to stick to the cranberry barcardi breezersyum! i also like the pineapple breezer too. used to love the orange breezer, but can't drink it any more. had quite a few too many, and it comes up the same colour as it goes down!i know that's gross.
struck lucky with darren. he has got lovely long chestnut brown hair, a little goatee and beautiful blue eyes. oh and he's saying to tell you about his big beer belly. saw him in a rock club, then cornered him at the night bus stop! his chatup line(which is the worst i have ever heard)was "sniff my armpit". so romantic. well, we've been together for 4 years and living together for 3 years now so it must have worked!
i realised that i left a few authors and bands off my list, so here are the additions. pg wodehouse, kiss, judas priest, rolling stones and the who.
see ya
xx

I have never had an orange breezer, but they sound awesome!I haven't seen cranberry either, but I will look now! I had a similar problem with Kaluha,(I don't know how to actually spell it)I had one too many white russians( I think it's just kaluha, vodka and cream )a few weeks back, and will never be able to look at a bottle of it again. I tried the site you put in your reply, but my computer won't let me into it, it says my network settings are messed up or I don't have a high enough speed computer to access it, or that , possibly the site is experiencing technical difficulties. I think I just need to pop for a new memory card. Mine is only 64, I believe, I think I really need at least 128 now. The armpit comment would have been great for shock effect. Four years is something to be proud of, he sounds like a keeper! I really like old Kiss, the newer stuff I never really got into as much. Pg wodehouse I have never heard of but I have heard of murder dolls, although I am not actually familiar with thier stuff, is there a former member of L.A guns or Girl in that band?I know the name...anyway, I suppose I have to liberate Maggie from the boxspring. she hides under the bed, and then cries til I pull her back out from under the bed. I don't understand, why, if she knows she will get stuck, does she keep wedging her self under there?
gotta go holly puppy