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

You return from your holiday, a customs offical spends ten minutes going through your laundry, then offers you £10 for the Lot.

See I told you I know nothing but old jokes.

Didn't know that one
There are always a few to who even the oldest jokes are new
plus- they aren't neccessarily bad just because of their age

I didn't say they were bad, just that they were old.
Went to a friend's daughter's 18th at the weekend. That really does make you feel old. I knew the fella at school, went to his wedding, and here he is with his third child's 18th. My word, doesn't time fly? Where did those years go?

The local held a darts marathon in aid of an autistic children's playground and raised 4,821 pounds which was a good effort. I never won anything on their raffle, by a friend's 10 year old son won a bottle of whiskey, which his dad immediately claimed.

Have started a joke thread called The Jelly Baby Debate. It is on askh2g2 or by logging into my personal space. Look forward to ay jokes, or comments you have.

Will have a look in a minute
Don't talk to me about children growing, my eldest son will be SIXTEEN in october- only two and a half years left before he's an so-called adult
But there undeniably are some advantages when the children get older- as long as I manage to forget that I get older too

Sorry logged off for meal break and couldn't get back in again. When I did I clicked on reply and though I'd nod off waiting to be let in.

Ah yes, but when they get older, they can then start to looking after Mother. Then there is the advantage of having grandchildren to look after. A lady I know said the thing about grandkids is that you can give them back at the end of the day.

Oh no, I don't want to think about having grandchildren yet
had the baby daughter of a friend's often a few years ago, and it is nice to be able to give them back at the end of the day , although she really is a darling,nearly makes me wish to start all over again

Off now for today, have a nice evening

Sorry to have missed you. My colleague suddenly turned up at 8:15 instead of 9 and so I scurried of to catch the earlier train, which meant i never had time to wish everyone good bye.
Here from 11:30until 20:30, so time to catch up.

hi, wasn't aware I've been online that late yesterday
So how's life at your end of posting, everything fine i hope?

Not much work on. Being trying to stop a lady colleague from pinching my kit kat. She says she's given up chocs for lent, but she's still after my kit kat.
Thanks for joining in the jelly baby debate. I started it as a joke, but it's really taken off. If you think of aything else funny to say on it, go ahead.
Work wise we have a problem. One girl is off sick until the end of May. One is leaving and returning home to New Zealand and a third is waiting to hear about another job in the BBC. So we could find ourselves short of staff.

What sort of work do they do ? I could move to England and and join your staff if it's no technical skills required

We are sound engineers, transimitting radio programmes throughout the world for the BBC Wolrd Service.

I knew you were, don't know how many sound engineers it needs to transmit the programs.So you sit there in the studio and push switches and levers ?I think I could learn that

Smidgen more complicated than that.
Must admit there are days when I wish I was just a check out assistant in the local supermarket. Must be less stress. Still I suppose they do have to put up with the rude customers.

I was only joking
I wouldn't like to be a check out assistant in a supermarket, much nicer where I work, lots of conversations and giving advice to customers. Only few rude ones, not too difficult to clench your teeth and stay polite and round the corner the moment they've left and
off now for today, see you

Have a good evening. I'm back Wed 11:30 til 210, then off till Sat & Sun same times.

Hello Belana. Good to have you back. The four letter postings is geting silly with the boys wanting to extend it. TI think they are doing it for a joke. But does show a lack of imagination, being unable to reduce it to four words.
Still chilly here, tried to snow at half 6 this morning, but gave up. The fox was out again last night, following me & the dog. It followed us for two streets and then left. One of my colleagues suggested that was it wearing a raincoat. It is worrying for they are full of germs, it only has to scratch the dog, or bite it and heaven knows what infections she could catch.

Hi Liquid warrior, nice to see you
Scary that the fox followed you I think the worst problem is " rabies", if a fox gets that near, he probably is infected with it, and it's mortal.I live in a region which is officially declared as "rabies-area", which means, that there are quite a lot of foxes round which might be infected.You'd better take care that the dog doesn't get in touch with the fox, most of the humans are infected through the dogs,not the foxes.
I'm not worried about the four word postings, at least there is a conversation going on.
Sorry I can't think of anything funny or anything else about the jelly babies, I hardly ever eat sweets, and stopped eating gummy bears alltogether in connection with BSE, they still produce them with gelatine, which usually is made out of beef bones- and I don't eat beef either, haven't done so for many years now and don't miss it

As to the fox, I know that is what worries me about the little doggie. The problem, stems from the neighbours garden. There was this chap whose garden almost backs onto mine and he never did a thing in it. He had passed away and the new people are clearing the bushes, brambles and so on. I think the fox had it's lair there, and it has been destroyed, so it is wandering. There are the bins as well. When it was rubbish sacks, I think they supplied it with food. Now there's the wheelie bins, it cannot get to the bags.
I'm glad you found the jelly babies one amusing. It was setb up as a joke, and seems to be going on. I went back to the start and read it all, it was very funny.
The four word one, I think it's a couple of young lads who are bored, as all kids are, and so it has become a joke. I'm quite enjoying the challenge of trying to reply in only four letters to their ramblings.