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

It sounds the same, as long as it's the kind where you put little sticks of lead about 2-3 inches long and very thin, and then as you wear it down you click the eraser and more comes out. Very evil at times, yes, but that's what extra lead is for. I use them a lot for sketching (you have to have a light hand, though, because the tiny point means the pressure is magnified) and I like having it always sharp and precise.

yes, I gave up using them cos I broke too many leads

When I was in school we called them pacers I don't know if they still do though....

I honestly cannot use those...no matter how careful I am, I ALWAYS break them...

My writing is really small, though, so I need a fine point if I want anyone to have a hope of reading it. And I hate having to sharpen all the time! (The secret is to have only a tiny bit sticking out of the pencil, so there's not enough to break, but then of course you have to keep clicking it every five minutes.)

...I don't break the lead...I break the pencil.

techno not

From what I remember, pacers were excellent for poking little ho;es in plastic...

...I don't remember how they used to write though ...

I have now discovered boxes
(I was aware of their existence before but this is the first 1 I have ever purchased)
not sure this will turn out to be a good thing, could result in a permenantly Blackberry
fortunately this time I was saved from that fate by friends who came around and very kindly drank most of it for me

Is that the same as cask wine ?

Or is it too early in the morning for me to be thinking??

Are you guys on daylight saving yet??

(Oh yeah, hi, how are you ?)

clocks changed last night
a winebox is a cardboard box with a big bag of wine in it and a little plastic tap thingy
cask wine now that sounds like a really good/dangerous idea

Yep, it's the same thing...box with a silver bag full of booze in it !

So now you're only 9 hours behind us ?

darn, I was hoping cask wine was like a barrel
um, what were we before, cos we're now an hour forward from that

Sorry, although I'm sure wine has to be in barrells at some point...but then I don't think your could drink a barrell of wine that quickly...

Yeah, before you were 11 hours behind...but now you've gone forward an hour, and we've gone back an hour !

believe me, with a little help from my friends
because Hungary used to be a big winegrowing country wine used to be the working-class drink there and the pubs had barrels of it but now Budapest is all trendy and expensive (for Eastern Europe) bars that sell German lager
are there different timezones in Oz or just 1

Wine makes me considerably more goofy than most othe types of alcohol, so I usuallly only drink it when it's free, I'm trying to be classy, or am nervous

Yeah, we have a few different time zones down here...we're a very wide country you know

my favourite drink but as I sometimes get very on it usually only with meals or at home so I don't have far to stumble

just thinking of all the poor people who ring us up forthe time in Australia and we blithely tell them 12 hours ahead regardless of the time of year or where in Australia they're calling

Wine malkes me light headed and girly, so I try to avoid it if I can...

Wow, so people ring up the spy agency to find out what the time is on the other side of the world ? And you get it wrong ???

now you know the truth behind the James Bond films
off to lunch