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

Well there were all these invasions about a millenium ago, ya know?

It would be a little diluted by now of course , but its just my uncle going mad with the family tree anyway.

Ah, yes, I've read about them... Lovely piece of history. Did you know that the only reason the vikings didn't get to keep Britain was fog?

Haha, ah, I've got an uncle who does that too. He's traced our family tree back to this famous Norwegian king called "Harald Hårfagre". Not really much of an achievement, since Harald had a couple of wives, not to mention the over fifty girlfriends he had at the same time...

He does this on purpose. I do go sunbathing, but not in public because I prefer to go nude. What'd'ya say to that?

College starts at 18 for us, but I'm a bum and skip.

I'll say that I have no Viking blood, because I'm pretty sure I don't. Then again, our family tree gets rather...shallow and untraceable at points...like the recent past...

I haven't been to the beach or anywhere where there is a large body of water for a long time (ok 6 months) I am about due a nice trip to queensland but it costs money I don't have.

Collage technically starts here at i think about 17, but our definition of collage is different to the US and UK one, all I know is its year 11 and 12.

Our family tree is in the process of being traced by my dad and some distant cousins and its pretty big. We probably have viking, celtic, anglo saxon and basically a bit of everything else in us though from way back in pre history.

No, I don't do this on purpose. What's point of sunbathing if you don't get a tan, though? Do you enjoy the sunbathing in itself? I don't really enjoy it much meself, but it's nice to go to the beach every now and then...

We have a nice and completely comprehensible family tree back to somewhere around the eighteenhundreds, but I'm afraid of looking at it. Some times, it's best not to know what your gene pool is composed of.

I like sunbathing. It's warm and quiet. Very peaceful and nice. I even like to sweat, how weird am I?

I agree.

Ah, I figured that might have something to do with it. I don't mind sunbathing, as long as there's water nearby, so I can go for a cooling swim afterwards.

Mmm, only nude or you get the most awful lines.

But then you don't tan, so you wouldn't get lines anyway.

I do tan, but it's so little that it hardly matters. *titters* Maybe I should start running naked so get better coverage. Hahahahahahaha, no.

Aha. Well, you could get arrested for that, couldn't you?

Yeah, probably, but I'd have so much fun doing it that it wouldn't matter. State troopers are the only people with jurisdiction over where I run because we're in a no-man's land between counties and away from cities.

Hehe. Ah, well, I suppose the only thing that matters is if you get caught.

Nah, rethinking that, I think it'd be rather uncomfortable.

Thought so.

Ah, well, I enjoyed laughing about it.

In the end, that's what matters, I suppose.

In the end. I'm not going to sing.

I've now got that song on my mind...

Which one?