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

I can imagine the experience. The anaesthetic worked for me for the most part, in that it will make me go numb across half my face for some time, but I can still register an ever increasing degree of pain after a short while, say 10/15 minutes... so I mightn't be able to speak, but my gripping of the arms of the chair becomes more white knuckled...
But being slightly masochistic I can quite enjoy it.

The Engineroom or is it Engine Room... Well it's a rock/metal joint in Brighton whatever it's proper name.

Have you had root surgery too? The ensuing endorphine kick was quite pleasant, --but I think I'll stick with waxing my legs.

So you actually live down near Brighton? For some reason, I assumed you were here in Wales.

I had the nerve underneath one of the teeth I had removed a few years ago, yes.

I was born in Kent and have lived more than two thirds of my life in Mid Sussex. However my recent ancesters on my mother's side were Welsh Londoners and further back they were from a small village near Swansea.

Well, ouch. I hope you enjoyed it more than I did! I'm not exactly looking forward to Part Two of the whole nerve extraction thing. Actually, what bugged me the most was that the dental nurse thought I was weeping and fainting because I was *scared*. I'm not scared of dentists; I'm scared of *sensible* things, like public speaking and hairdressers, and monsters under the bed.

Swansea, eh? They have a really lovely accent down that way. My father's side of the family originates from South Wales, but sadly, I don't sound like them: I speak as though I were born and bred in the Home Counties. Which I have never even visited.

I suspect I rpobably did enjoy it more than you did... But I'm *quite* as bad as [James Belushi?] that character in the musical film version of Little Shop Of Horrors....

I now speak Esturine English... Which some folk erroneously call Mockney.

I have no idea what that sounds like. Do you know of anyone on the telly with your accent?

Oh, and hey, did you live it up at the Engineroom over the weekend?

I deathed ir up.

Is that the same as gothing it up?

Nah... It was Zombie night, because of Ramero' new Land Of The Dead. So I went as a kinda Papa Legba -esque Zombie with tophat, big leather coat, white face paint and blacked lips and eye sockets...
So I looked like I had a slight case of death.