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

Many years ago I was walking along the high street with my mother and I spied, on offer outside a supermarket, our regular catfood very cheap*. We switched supermarkets, and after a while, I asked my mother if the weekly shop had become generally cheaper since. She said that basically it all balanced out if you consistently stuck to the same supermarket - swings and roundabouts.

I've never really checked this since, but working full time, I appreciate a huge supermarket where I can get everything from onions to underwear in one go. The savings in time, petrol and parking fees probably make up for at least some of the possibly higher grocery bill.

My local supermarket also recently reFUNDED me the MONEY when I returned a DVD I had bought and got home to discover I already had it. I returned it still in the cellophane.

*Now comes the nostalgia:

The supermarket displaying the cat food was Liptons. Our supermarket up till then had been Budgens. Both on the High Street. Nowadays there are no supermarkets on the high street; no food shops at all, in fact, except a couple of bakers who do more business as cafés, and a chocolatier.

The cat food was Kit-e-Kat, which presumably still exists (we haven't had a cat for over 20 years now) and was selling at 5 1/2d (that's fivepence-halfpenny in OLD money) for the small tins.

All right, contestants, it's time to choose! You can pick what's in box 1, box 2, or box 3.

Take the money!!

Open the box!!

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This thread is undemocratic. You don't get to pick and choose when to open a new box.

I do.

Blimey, someone else who remembers Take Your Pick, with your quiz inquisitor, Michael Miles

When I was a very young Gosho and watching Take Your Pick every Friday night I didn't know the word 'inquisitor' existed. I always thought he was saying "with your quiz and quizziter".

I never really thought to ask anyone what a quizziter is. Nor if it should be quizziter or quizzitor. I suppose I must have decided that a quizziter is someone who presents a quiz

"I'd like the blow on the head please Michael!"

In the US it was 'Let's Make a Deal' with Monty Hall

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And remember, always switch your choice after one box is removed.

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Seriously. You can write a million things elsewhere. Better.

Please go away.

It was just meant to be a place to put my interesting thoughts. But now it's a social club.

Fine... Goodbye.

So put your own thoughts in your own journal.

Whoops, sorry. *sweeps up mess around box and drops it in the bin*

It's just that you have such provocative thoughts.

"It was just meant to be a place to put my interesting thoughts. But now it's a social club" [KB]

You wanted an antisocial club

Understood, KB.

It's the nature of h2g2 really, and so many other similar places on't net, that if you say something in a forum such as this, to which people you (virtually) know are subscribed, there are going to be replies and opinions, and no doubt topic drift too, and there's not much any of us can do about that without a way of locking threads for read-only the way they can be on some sites (and which the BBC Eds used to do with their own conversations in the Announcements forum if I remember rightly), or by pasting a notice at the bottom of each of your own posts to this thread that you don't want replies, or at least only minimal ones, and certainly not any suggestions. I had to do that once or twice with my old Dropping Like Flies conversation when people started posting deaths there. That was my thread for posting the deaths of people I wanted to note the demise of.

So let us know how you want to play this one and I will abide by your rules (can't speak for anyone else, obviously).

What Gosho said.

Fair play to you Gosho. I was rude, though. Sorry.