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

i took a college girl for a very nice walk in the countryside years ago. unfortunately we ended up in some poison ivy

Poison ivy would make a good protective barrier between hostile nations/neighbors, don't you think?

indeed. ecological warfare

better than landmines anyway

Someday, poison ivy will be discovered to contain a potent drug for treating some horrible disease. Then people will be growing it voluntarily.

I have missed your dreams, Paul!

My dreams are well worth missing.

Happily, I have not yet been committed because of my dreams.

ah, they found a better reason, did they

You. have. no. idea.

Thre are so *many* reasons for committing me, it's a wonder
no one has discovered any of them yet.

dream on!

Of course, there are many who have more reasons, so I'm still pretty far back in line.

oh my bob, i never realized there was a competition

*makes mental(!) note to self: must try harder*

Yes, by all means you must try harder, Pierce.
Look where it got Avis.
If you become the most trying on Hootoo, great fame
and treasure will be yours. That, plus the IOU's and other debts.

a lot of people already consider me being very trying

Well, use your powers as captain, and make them walk the plank into a vat of rum.

rum is too good for some of them

i may consider cheap weinbrand

The cheapest would be six-minute Beaujolais.

'Committed' for dreams? Would dream-inspectors come and hypnotise us and force us to recall our dreams and then make their notes and submit them to a panel of mental-health experts? My dreams tend to be mild rather than wild ... but why was there a dominatrix in the school dream I had last night ?

Anyways it wasn't a nice dream at all. Back-to-school dreams for me *can* be nice, seeing friends I haven't seen in decades, and *not* having to study and write tests because after all I've already passed high school! But sometimes I do write tests. In last night's dream the teacher screamed out the questions, twelve in a row, as fast as she could and then left the room while we tried to remember the questions ... which of course was almost impossible, so I had to leave the classroom and run after the teacher and demand my right at least to know the questions!

I thought the answer to all questions was 42. No?

yes

Of course, when you're in a dream, and you can't hear what the questions are, that can be frustrating