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

Exactly Jack, exactly.

They're as cruel as any other Gods, never forget that.

It's true, Mac.

The only way I can make my hat show up again is by buying a new one. Once I do that it will reappear instantly.

Lousy Gods.

It's a cruel, heartless world we live in Jack.

Afternoon All

That happened to my wooly gloves that have been in the hotpress all summer - fallling out everytime I take a pair of sox out.

But now when I need them I can't find them

Oh and don't worry about me drinking the Italian dry - its my regular restaurant and they know me so I am sure they will be stocked up

Except I am manning the phones the next day

I wouldn't worry about being on the phones PSD, most people assume Scots are drunk anyway.

With good reason, Mac.



It's true though, PSD. How often does something turn up all the time right up until the moment that you desperately need it?

The smell of alcohol even travels down the phoneline.

Also, if we don't bother with owning anything, we wouldn't ever have anything to lose.

We would also be freezing all the time, Mac.

If none of us owned any clothes the world would be a colder place.

More interesting perhaps but definitely colder.

Jack, if we had no clothes from when we first evolved, we'd have eventually adapted.

We'd have remained hairy, Mac.

Like the yeti.

Would you fancy trying to pull a female yeti in some nightclub or other?

Admittedly we've probably all pulled worse with alcohol on board but still.....

Jack, how often do I actually pull a woman in a nightclub?

What I am essentially saying is, we're paying for the mistakes made 10,000 years ago or whatever it was.

So we're paying for other people's mistakes?

That makes sense.

Just like Arsenal fans are paying for the mistakes of those Russian idiots who decided a handful of corrupt businesmen should make shedloads of cash at the expense of everybody else.

Just think, Mac, if Boris Yeltsin had a brain in his head Arsenal most likely would have won the champions League in 2004 and the PL again in 2005.

Exactly Jack. If Yeltsin had kept all the oil for himself, we wouldn't have the problem of multi-billionaires in their 30's.

He was a drunken idiot, mac.

Now, for some reason the heat is going off in this building at about 12.30 these days. What sort of an idiot organises that??

I reckon I need something hot for lunch.

Soup?

A panini would be good. I thought of getting one of those when I was in Greggs yesterday but the fact I'd be waiting around for them to heat it whilst idiots queue put me off it.

Why would they want the heating to go off? Good excuse to nip down the pub though Jack. I'm sure health and safety would say warmth at a work environment is ncessary.

There are certainly regulations about the temperature required for buildings like this. And if it doesn't get warmer soon I'm using those regulations as an excuse for going home.

In the meantime I have to nip out to buy stamps because we're sending a gazillion Christmas cards.

Mostly to people I don't even know.

It's only fair Jack, they wouldn't want to risk you getting ill on their watch.

And cards? At least you can buy a big bulk of them though.

Stoopid stamps.

My ears are like blocks of ice again.

And yeah, I think for the good of everybody concerned leaving early is on the cards.

Some people have disappeared already. And no way in hell is anybody going to buy the old 'site visit' excuse on a day as cold as this.

At least there will be strength in unity Jack.

Why do we have to get stamps? It's obvious we've already bought the card.

Yeah, we could just tell people we thought about sending them a card.

And it's the thought that counts.