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

The time is 19.00. I recieved my meal at 18.40. Between then and 18.55 I have been cleaning up the three different spillages my meal has made. All three of which tried to attack me in some form or another.

I actually laughed out loud when I read that. I needed to laugh (I'm sleepless in cincannati). I should have went out on the town, but I chickend out, yet again.

Sorry to hear about your ackward dining experiance. I hope my food attacks me some day.

ps: for what it's wort I always thought of you as "job" like the book in the bible.

Nah I've never been big on religion. Tried it, failed it. It was bible gas according to my mate until I gave up on organised religion and we realised boron wasnt a gas.

Isn't it? What is it, then?

What type of food was it that attacked you?

If I remember correctly Boron [B] is clasified as a metalic element.
Regretably not a heavy meatal.

Its actually a non metal according to the periodic table at school. Relativly unreactive, unimportant, doesn't fit into it's group remarkably well.

Spaggetti.

grrrr. Now I doubt myself.
I'm gonna have to check it out.....atomic #5 it's like 2-3-4? colums from the right next to the gasses above the other lite metals.......ya I'll have to look it up.

blast you job

"....a semimetalic element...."

this is probably alot more info than you need
but....http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/boron.htm

Boron: 5th element, 2 shells, 3 on the outer shell, relativly unreactive, a misfit in its group to some extent, group 3 element, 5 to the left of the noble gasses.

Well, what d'ya know?
If it's true that you learn something new every day, I might as well go back to bed now, 'coz I just learnt it.

Im pretty sure it is.

Now that were pretty sure where it is on the periodic table I think the detail in question was if it were a metal or not and I am gathering that it is, and now I'm wondering if I really needed to know that to carry on with my week. na, one more useless bit of info to aid in the deconstruction of my memory bank.

to the thought of the week!
another to going back to bed because we got it outa the way!

Nope just in the non metal section. First one in I think excluding Hydrogen and Helium.