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

Found H2G2. Embarassed self by enthusiastically jumping into conversation that was a year old. Must remember to look/click past first 20 entries and read most current material...

Found M2M2 and escaped narrowly resisting temptation to add myself to homophobe hitlist.

Having fun making entries to old dangling conversations that have been abandoned.

Am so pleased to find a site with intelligents. And educated input! Pleasure to read even the pedants on Grammer/GrammAr an' spelin.
(Must resist temptation to campaign for more understanding and tolerance from Anglophonies. Persons like self, 4 hoom English is a secunded language (eg:Canadians), should not be biting the handsome like sum rabid "Spanial In The Words".)

Tell people what they want to hear and you will be popular.
Tell people what they need to know and you will be respected.
Listen to what people are saying and you will be loved.
Pretend to listen to what people are saying and then tell them what they think they want to hear and you will be a politician.

Hello there and fret not about enthusiasm. It is what this site thrives on. A good place to be, if you want new conversations is the Ask H2G2 forum which is around here somewhere at ... er ... I'll get it in a minute ... oh here we go ; http://www.h2g2.com/A148907
And no, I'm not one of these ACE people, I was just wondering who the gardener was. Enjoy the site.

Not so much a gardener as a landscape archeologist in search of lost gardens of all types from all civilisations. Most were of course agricultural or recreational but many had features more meditative or sporting or religious and Capability Brown's were sculptural on the scale of god.

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Aha. I've finally tracked you to your lair
If you narrowly resisted temptation that means you didn't do it
whereas escaping narrowly resisting surely implies surrender to the temptation?

There seems to be a theme developing, or at least a certain persistent focus on the politics of my sexuality in your continued queeries.. (sorry)

I will allow that a comma (NB:not a coma) might have helped the interpretation, or at least relieved the stressed syntax, of the sentence in question.

I believe the structure is called a compound conjuctive and two commae (not a comae) would really have set it off.

Actually the focus had shifted to "Where's your gramma?" ("Sitting in her rocking chair, knitting")
Being almost in one of the aforementioned comae (Showoff ) myself I shall now retire in high dudgeon to peruse my gramarye.

Peru's my granary

My 'queeries' had nothing to do with sexuality, politics or the politics of sexuality. Misogyny and homophobia have nowt to do with sexuality and everything to do with rigidity, intransigence, narrow-mindedness, prejudice. . . You didn't strike me as that sort of person so I thought I'd ask. . .(Curiosity killed the cat )

Trust your instincts.
Go with it, girl.
Sorry about the demise of your pussy. But hey they got nine lives right.

I am not homphoboic. I go to a lot of gay bashes. Very trendy hip sort of crowd - they love to party.

My pussy's alive and well thank you very much

I don't think it's very nice of you to go gay bashing.

BTW: How do you catch gay mice?

At the risk of being accused of homophelia for even discussing the question, How do you catch 'gay' mice?

Can't go to sleep until I point out that a 'bash' is a 'party'.
Bashing is partying. Gays have parties call gay bashes. Why is it not nice to go? It's the language thing again... Sorry to confuse.
The idea that I am homophobic just.. just makes me so.. oh I could spit! I may have to bitchslap my dog!

Why is it, do you think, that you frequently indulge in lateral thinking and wilful misunderstanding and yet, when someone else does it, you ass-zoom genuine confusion?

BTW: The answer is. . .

"With a pooffy cat"

Why indeed. Point taken. Bit snobbish of me really isn't it. Just too sensitive perhaps; want to be clear my only intentions are fun and elucidation. Hate to have anyone think I was a biggot you see. Boring old fart yes, but never a ..what was that big word ..? Bit pompous too really now you mention it. Oh, and egocentric. That's a ten dollar word for full o' meself.

Ah, dat's Tweet.
I t'ot I t'aw a poofy tat.

fun and a loose celebration? Aw gee...

I used to have a budgie called Tweety. And a cat called Sylvester.
My dear old mum didn't like to see the bird caged so she let it out.
Then she went into the garden, leaving the door open. 'Fester came in . . .
(For some reason, when she rang me at work to tell me and I fell about laughing my colleagues were extremely offended. Do you have an explanation?)

Yer worse than Wumbeevil who just posted Amazing Grass as his answer to Greensleeves.
How about starting a semi-serious thread with imagined etymologies (no dictionaries,thesauri,or concordances allowed)
BECAUSE
there are words that inspire the mind like
"Emergency" - if it comes from 'emerge' how come you go in to it instead of out of it?

I thought a concordance was an Anglo-French plane with a broken beak

Eggs-actly!