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

Hi Fairly Strange - I've seen you on the guide lots, but never got around to talking to you before. So now I am.
Time to talk and say lots and stuff like that - get to know everyone on the guide time!

Great to have you over, Bluebottle! Welcome to the home of the most boring bugger at H2G2!

Now...what ya' want to know?(except what NM means!)

And whats' it like in your world?

NM

My world is fairly average really. 2nd year student at Southampton Uni, not doing a lot. I don't watch much on TV, I'm a dedicated Beatles & Wings fan, and my hobbies also involve H2G2 and other books. As for your claim to being the most boring person on H2G2 - I think you'll have to prove that. Go on, give me evidence that you are boring. What boring interests do you have?

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Beatles and Wings(sounds like something from the movie "Beetleguise!).....You have good taste in music! Has McCartney ever done a bad song!?

TV? What's that? 'Bout all I watch are the educational networks, Buffy and Star Trek.

Hobbies.....eeerrrmmm....Well...I love doing landscaping and home improvements. When everything is in order, my yard is everything but a jungle! I have enough hardware in the garage to keep me busy with upgrades around the house for a couple of years!

I have an auto garage out back, which Monsy has graciously stocked with just about every tool I could possibly need. I use that to work on my old cars and "Rods" Almost finished with Monsys' Dodge Dart.(converted from 6 cylinder to a 360 ci Police Intercepter) Still have my '71 Dodge truck and my '63 Plymoth Valiant convertible waiting in the wings!

When I get bored, I pluck a little on my guitars. I use to write a little, but I have to be depressed to write, and I haven't been depressed in a long time!

Beyond that, I make my living placing utility poles for Bellsouth(the phone company in this area).

NM

I'm sorry - but no, you fail to qualify as the most boring person on H2G2 by a long way! Okay, so not a lot of your hobbies reflect things I've done but that doesn't make them any the less interesting or enjoyable. And alas, I can't drive yet I will one day when I have some money, though...

Afraid growing up in the sixties and seventies in the US made me somewhat a car nut! Came with the territory! As far as interests go.....they range from camping to particle physics.....so much to learn, so little time!

NM

Camping - now that is something I've done lots of, all over the place. Admittedly not usually the hard way of hiking, putting up the tent, cooking, and sleeping, unpacking and carrying everything with you for most of those occasions - only about 3 times. But I still have camped a lot!
As for cars, I've always seemed to have walked everywhere, or cycled. Not that the Isle of Wight is tiny - it's 24x26 miles, 64 mile coastline - but because I just enjoy cycling really.

I've done camping both ways......hike in and drive in. Love both! Gives one a sense of their place in the world!

Cycling, sounds like exercise....something I avoid at any cost!

NM

Cycling is, for me, a way to avoid cost - ie, on buses and trains etc.. At the moment it's money I lack and energy I have. When it's energy I lack and money I have, I'm sure I'll take the lazy way.

But camping sure is great - as long as you remember not to camp in the middle of a hurricaine, which I did once... Well, okay, it was actually the outermost edge and we weren't really hit that badly in comparison to France, but it was still an experience!

The worst one I can remember was when my son and I pitched our tent in a drainage ditch.......didn't know we had 'till the thunderstorm was quite fierce! Good thing it was a new tent!LOL

NM

Ah yes - I can imagine! Although it is very easy to sound like Fishermen with camping experiences, I must admit that that hurricane one was very interesting to live through - non-stop rain for 3 days, and we were hiking for our Duke of Edinburgh award while the hurricaine was in France. We still got the rain though, and the hike involved everywhere being under a foot of water - nothing compared to what they're suffering in Africa, but a lot to keep hiking through!

OUCH!!!!!That takes fortitude!!!!! I think I would have hiked to the nearest motel!

NM

We wanted to, believe me, but we were being examined at the time... But, we won the award, and it's at home somewhere, so we were pleased. Especially when we had a relaxing bath at last...

He-he! I can imagine!

NM

There are only a few moments in life when you can experience relaxation like that - and only after going through torment, so on the whole, I'm glad I don't experience it that often

How true......."One must experience much sorrow to understand true joy!" I can imagine that a good, long bath would be the true joy in that experience!

NM

Or the simple thing - like putting down the bag and collapsing somewhere where it just wasn't raining - even though we still had soaked clothes etc - that was a great experience.

NM.....when are you going to break it to him that MOST of your camping is done on or near a beach??? the woods have not been a camping spot for years.....to nice to be parked within a stonesthrow of the ocean
monsy

'Tis true! My last "hike in" was a couple of years ago with a Boy Scout troop. Good weather, but a bunch of 12 year old boys don't make for a relaxing stroll among the glories of Nature!LOL

Much prefer the "walking distance to the beach" sites with you, Monsy!......Now...when do we get to go again?

NM

i'd say june or july sounds good to me....wait!! june not july.....got to be here to see the fireworks at smith lake in july
monsy