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

They live too far away for you to hear them, anyway. Unless one telephoned you by mistake

What do you mean: by mistake ? ( You'd rather give a good reply )

Oh, if one did happen to phone you, you could certainly give them what for - after all, these are people who are entirely responsible for Celine Dion. But if they phoned you on purpose, they would have to be a friend, and I wouldn't be friends with anyone who accused me of being large and moustached when I wasn't if I were you.

I think that's quite good advice

Best advice I#ve got in a while

Ah, I'm good for something at least!

*chews straw*



*believes in pixies*

You know, I'll not try to get large and grow a moustache - I'd rather move elswhere

Well don't go to Canada unless you want to do the whole lumberjack thing. If, however, you would like to believe in pixies...

Don't worry, Canada is too far away, I'll not go there
Pixies, eh ? I do believe that you have own of your own - what does that make me ?

A 'Puckle Pixie'?

Anyway, pixies live at the bottom of the garden, and they're very quiet and shy, but good with too - you don't have to become a pixie, just believe in them

I didn't intend to become a pixie - i don't think I could anyway.

I don't know - becoming a pixie isn't good enough for you eh?

That's not the problem, it would be great to have a whole county believe in me but i don't have the <erm

Ah, don't worry about that - you'll pick up the in no time. You don't actually have to do anything.

For example, someone's garden bursts into flowers overnight.

'Gor, blow me, Denzil, your garden's lookin' bloomin lovely all of a sudden'

'Oi know, oi don't unnerstand it. There wuz no flowers at all yezterday, and today thur be blinkin' loads!'

'Arrrr' *removes straw from mouth, take swig of * 'that'll be them there pixies'

Any odd happening can be attributed to pixies, especially if it happens overnight, so you don't actually need to do anything

Ohhh, sounds like an easy job then. What's the salary then

Well, there's a special kind of plant called a shepherd's purse. It has heart-shaped 'purses' on the end of each little stem, and if you carefully open these with your fingernail, you'll find it's full of tiny gold coins. Each one of these is worth £10 at current exchange rates, and it outperforms the dollar and euro in international trading. The pixie economy is very healthy at the moment. You just collect as much money as you want

Here it is:

http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/shepherd4-18.jpg

Nawww, I couldn't do that - destroy and rob beautiful plants

Oh, it's ok, because the coins are the seeds, so by spreading them round the world, you help lots of new ones to grow! If we didn't do that, the poor plant would just sit sadly in the corner of the garden wondering what to do

Thanks for the link
Btw, the plant has practically the same name in German
Going to sleep now, goodnight Rich

Sleep well, love!



*wonders what scorpio will make of all this*