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

(hehehehehe! All the little smilies have turned into vampire heads! LOL!)

Five straight years of no school and restaurant work will turn your brains to toothpaste quicker than you can say AquaFresh (mmmm....minty!), so I was nearly relieved when they handed me the big honkin' folder of stuff to study for this new job. Four days and six tests later (on about 16 hours of sleep total)...my outlook is changing just a little...

I suppose it's a good thing to know what you're doing, but the question remains - Is it *that* hard to screw up a hamburger?!? No, I think not.

Cool things about this location - We have in our memoribilia collection NOT ONLY the suit Tattoo wore on Fantasy Island AND the original Bridge (control panel, not suspension) from the original Star Trek series, but also Skeletor's outfit from that...He Man...movie. Cool, huh?

Must go now...study...more....mmmmmmm.....

You know, on closer inspection, some of the stuff they have is pretty silly. The local PH 'round here had the "Official Icepick" from Basic Instinct, but I've heard through friends that one or two others also seemed to have it. The best thing they had was a full-size Arnold as the Terminator, and the most pathetic thing they had was the bomb from the beginning of Lethal Weapon 3 (? Maybe LW 2). Upon closer inspection, I noticed it's nothing more than a block of circuitry that phones run off of in bigger office buildings. Sometimes movie magic doesn't hold up from 6 inches away...

The really funny thing about that is that just about all the P.H.'s have a big Arnold ala Terminator in the lobby. And lemme tell ya, nothing's more appetizing than going in to eat somewhere and having that whole "half of someone's head blown off" to welcome you.

Depends on what you serve, i'd thought.

Yeah, if you're eating human head, for instance, it's got to be yummy-looking.

I don't know, i think i'd rather see Arnold with his head blown off than a cow with his head blown off. But i've never been to a PH before, not my style.

Can I get you that human head in a garlic cream sauce? Or would you prefer ketchup?

I mean, it's a pretty touristy happy-happy fun themey type place. So if you're into that (and I know I am!), then you'll enjoy it. Sometimes they have some cool stuff, sometimes you just pay way too much for pasta. Just depends.

Of course, I could lose my job for saying all this, but still...

The nice thing is, you know that every one of those Termanator suits is an "original" but the thing they don't tell you is that it took 314 suits to make 5 minutes of film. There are probably 90 original icepicks. It's very touristy, but can also be very lucrative if you're a good waitress (Amanda, wink wink) so that's a good thing!

If you want "origional" props, i have a deal for you. I recieved my Star Wars insider mag last friday, and it said that the Smithonian exibit that i saw (one of the few perks of living so close to so many muesuems) of the Star Wars props is back from Europe and is touring the US. I'll have to post the dates under Movies in Golly later.

But Krissy is absolutly right, special effects and costumes are mass produced for a movie set so it doesn't show wear and tear over the filming. Do you know how many pigs it took to make Babe?

Hey Amanda - just read all your journal stuff, and I'm very, very glad and happy for you! (Apart from the gunpoint thing, which must have sucked a LOT.)

I know what you mean about brains/toothpaste - I've just started my first challenging job in about 3 years. They want me to do ridiculous things like work things out and talk knowledgeably to clients and generally have some kind of clue. I'm just not used to it!

Is there any kind of campus/college life that you're interested in or have time for? Do you get to quaff an entire keg, or have I been watching too many Animal House type movies?

Good to see you back, babe! (again!)

What you mean there are actually jobs out there where you have to think, wow

*whispering to Ant* Nahh...it's got to be a nasty roumor...

Few, thank bob for that.

Yeah, but the *really* cool thing is that I don't really *have* to think - I can make believe!! I pretend like I know what I'm doing...pretend to care about the customer's every need and want...pretend like the manager's jokes are funny (which they usually are, but still...), and they ALL buy it! How cool is that?!?

Acting!! Genius!! Thank you!!

You're welcome!

Oh, wait. *suspicious* You just ACTED like you had a good time when you were here!! Didn't you? DIDN'T YOU???

Or am I just exceedinly paraniod? AM I???

No, Krissy, you're fine.

By the way, those are lovely shoes you have on today. My agent--er, I mean, I heard about them through the grapevine. Yes, the grapevine.
*rubs hands together evilly*

*collapsing right next to Spartus* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! We...hee hee...have just..hee...proven two things...*ghasp**giggle*....One...HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Spartus is INSANE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAhAhAhAHAHHAHA!!! And two...heeheehaha...he will always get the last laugh...HA HA HA...as there is no way on earth I could possibly follow that joke!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAA!

Oh, BOB DAMN IT! The following was supposed to go here, not the post above this one. Beware having more than one window open at once children! Beware!:


EEK! *grabs shoes and throws them into a vat of acid* HAHA! Now NONE shall have them! No one shall have my shoes! I'll just come back and ....get....them............when....

oh.


Well.


Anything else of mine you fancy?

Yes! Your SOCKS!

*laughs maniacally until lapsing into a coughing fit*

Wheeeere is my eeeeevil Robitusssssinnnnn bottlllle? Hmmmmmm?

*throwing the evil robatussen and her socks into the acid* AHAHAHAHA! *ahem*

Now, what to do about this situation???