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

Merry CHRISTmas and a HAPPIER NEW YEAR and good luck with your novel,i,ll look out for it take care >=

Argh! Christmas is upon us!

I hope you have a very merry one and enjoy every minute of it.

We'll be having a quiet, cosy one involving large quantities of chocolate, board games and television. My mother has sent us an enormous parcel each; I might open mine before Christmas day, if my curiosity gets the better of me (like it usually does)!

i spoke to my family and sorted,hopefully things are ok
surprises oh surprises are the best

Good on you for getting people talking! It's such a difficult thing to do.

It is hard to explain using a remote control,but i'm happy

I've copied this joke from another thread, 'cos I think it's very funny:

King Wencenslas walks into a pizza restaurant and orders a pizza.
Waiter: "What kind of crust, sir, and how would you like it cooked?"
King W: "Deep pan. Crisp and even."

get in the real wworld and LIVE while you can!!

Do you mean to say you don't find my joke hilarious?

P.S. Have a happy Hogmanay.

sorry,i was angry my nephew was killed 22nd of december on his motorbike i had a lousy christmas

Oh, carino, I'm so sorry! What a loss to bear. You're welcome to vent at me anytime!

anger has passed,its just sad he died so young,i'm starting to lose faith.

I'm sorry to hear you're losing faith. As an atheist, I guess there's not a lot I can say that's of use! I remember that the process of losing my own faith was rather long-drawn-out and painful.

When you told me to get in the real world and live while I can, it got me thinking, even though I didn't know why you'd said it. I've been spending less time on the computer and more time appreciating what I've got. It has been good for me, but oh, I wish you had never had such a sad reason for saying it!

I had no right to say it and i am sorry.I was angry with the whole world,i went to midnight mass,i go every year,but for the first time ever,it was closed,how ironic and just when i needed some answers!
On a lighter note,i was given 2 love birds for christmas,there wonderful thankyou for kind words take care x

You got some lovebirds after all! Was it your daughter who got them for you?

How strange that there wasn't a midnight mass. That must have been a blow.

My brother in law has a friend who breeds them,they gave them to me to cheer me up,the female is noisy and the male is timid.Yes,i find it strange there was no mass,i was surprised and sad.

What a lovely present. Will you be giving them names?

I suppose quite a few people must have had the same surprise as you when they tried to go to Midnight Mass at that church.

I have thought of plenty,but can't decide,my granddaughter will probably choose them,they were very unsettled last night,maybe it was the storm we had,i need to get a book because i don't know much about them,_do you?

I've kept birds before, but never lovebirds: I know almost nothing about them. It makes sense that a storm would unsettle them, though.

The closest pets I've had to lovebirds were budgies and a parakeet. They turned out to be intelligent beasties, who liked having lots of perches and toys and stuff to keep the boredom at bay. I used to let them out of their cages now and again, as I'd read that the use of their flight muscles is tied in with their ability to breathe. As a result, they all eventually flew away for good.

Perhaps that's what happened with the parakeet we heard the other night.

You let the birds fly outdoors?I won't let mine out the cage just yet,there still a bit nervous.I read somewhere,that if one dies so does the other,soon after

I didn't *let* them fly outdoors: I got careless. I was just a kid... though, I'm still pretty absent-minded these days.

Maybe lovebirds die around the same time because they get sold in pairs of similar ages. As an evolutionist, I see no sense in birds dying when their companions die. They'd have to lay hundreds of eggs to compensate for all the grief-induced deaths. (Sorry to be so unromantic.)