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

Doesn't quite work, does it.

kea

I think I'll go lie outside in the sun for awhile now.

kea

I'm getting used to it already I think I'd miss it if it wasn't there.

(Not only is it perishin' cold, but the fireworks are reaching artillery bombardment scale outside now [would it be all right if used a rolleyes smiley here, do you think?])

Pfft. You've been stood at the window smoking while saying 'oooh! Awww!'

Have not!

... because I forgot that was an option.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Was that a rocket?

I think that was seventeen rockets and a catherine wheel.

And they seem to be aiming at my windows

Who's this Catherine then?

She's the one with the unicycle

Anything you need? Cup of camomile? Biccie? Half a brick?

I need a 'licence to generalise' badge apparently. But half a brick might be more useful

Yerrssss... Only one response to that really.



The half brick'll be here for when you need it - it's weighing down some loose paper at the moment.

Can we carve someone's name in it, or should it be a more generalised half a brick?

By the looks of it, I think you're going to have to drop into a sock and swing it round your head like a mace

It has gone irreversibly drifty, that thread, I think. About time someone reformulated the question *nudge*

Why nudge when you have half a brick in that there sock?

It's kea's brick. I'm just looking after it, like

Any news? Is Mrs B still stranded up a tree?

Ahhh, right, well guard it well. I just stomped my foot in that there Fred Some people, eh?

was I not supposed to do that? </ reads some backlog>

Oh yes, Mrs Yes. She's in a bit of a mood at the mo. 'puter threw her plans out the window 'n' all. Altogether not a brilliant state of affairs, I'm afraid. However, we may have some good news soon, if I can finagle a little surprise for her 'entre friends' as it were. We'll see.

I've come out in sympathy, don't know if you've 'heard' AOL got all efficient on me and moved my broadband overnight. Total panic stations in the am, I can tell you! So I is now on dialup, innit??

Dialup buddy! Once you've made the switch to dial-up, you'll never want to go back, you know

Stomp on I'm just not getting involved, partially because I don't see the point (there's a point in life where arguing *only* for the sake of 'winning' by some process of attrition - last man standing - just gets dull) and partially...

Well, yeah... says it all.

Awwwww... la pauvre Madame Be I hope the fridge raid cheers her up

N'awww, poor Jangley. Has she not got any neighbours with a 'puter she can 'borrow'?

*clicks post*

Whooosh!

*listens to the clunk whirring dial-ups*

*tappitytappitytap*

Pah - broadband is just so 2005

Dialup - it's the way of the future

*click*

Pssshticoof, pssshticoof, psssshticoof...

listen to the strain Go on, go on... so exciting!