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

I have the urge to write more guide entries, but I can't think of what they should be about. All I can think of is the insane price of gas ($2.00 a gallon!) and possible choices for dinner. Hmm.

You could use the following method:
1) Take what you were thinking about: "the insane price of gas ($2.00 a gallon!) ",
2) Say to yourself, that it's imlpossible, and that there should be something even more insane,
3) Find thus something really weird like: "This price doesn't even include the use of the gas tubes as self-phones (a self-phone being a tube which you carve in such way that you can speak into one of it's ends and it goes directly to your ear at the other end) ( the whole thing is to invent a concept like self phone on the very moment of your writing, and it will expand on its own),
4) Change the scale of use of your idea, for instance by generalising it to one of the 3 following things: Life, the Universe and h2g2. Which gives you: "I wonder if h2g2 is not a gigantic self-phone",
5) That's it: you ended with a very deep thought and by the way forgot about the price of gas.

But why use icky - smelling gas tubes for self - phones if there's cellular and digital technology? Why not just have a self - cell - phone? *I* know why. Because we wouldn't be able to afford it due to the excruciating price of gasoline.

Fenny,

My dear, dear friend. Dear, sweet Fenny.

$2 a gallon?? You call that even SLIGHTLY expensive?? Do you?? I don't, I call it practically FREE! When you get to *hunts frantically for calculator* Nearly $7 or possibly $8 a gallon, like wot we pay, I might have some sympathy!

*end of rant*

Hows you, anyway m'dear?

H&K
Z

Yes I must agree with Zed, if I could get petrol at $2 a gallon I would be a lot wealthier, I could fill my car up for £10 rather than £40...

Strangely actually being a strange englishman now living in the states for a few months, I entirely understand why it's fair to complain about the rising price of gas. Cause everything here revolves around it, there is no other means of transport to the car. It's nice here though, cost of living is very low

Yeah, I mean if they didn't charge you a ridiculous price for gasoline, then who would ride the trains and the buses and the subways? See, our gas is so cheap that no one uses any of that public transport, so the cities have failed to keep them up, so now no one *wants* to use them, because they're really dirty and they kill people. It's an economic nightmare—you should be *grateful* for your exorbitant gasoline costs!

Well please forgive me if I don't throw a party over them LOL

*throws a party over them anyway*

But then again, I ride the "EL".

O.K. I'm dumb...whats an "EL"???

I saw 12 Angry Men that day, so I believe it is an elevator train. What the hell an elevator train is I have NO idea. But it made me feel worldly when I knew what an EL was, so I thought I should share.

The chicago El would be a great guide entry. 'EL' stands for elevated, not elevator, because the tracks of the train were built over the roadway. BTW, lasagna always makes a nice dinner, and 12 angry men is a great movie.