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PO.com: The Restaurant at the End of The Universe?

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 10 Mar 2009, 04:22:16

Sometimes it feels like Milliways!

Like a bunch of intelligent folks gathered together to watch The End Of It All. We have all invited our friends, some have brought along all kinds of weirdo's for entertainment value.

Then there's Pops and friends on Starship Earth, on the loudspeaker calling us all back to 'Reality'.

Ford Prefect has almost done his final dash but the mechanics like OilFinder are doing their best to get him good for another run.

The Earth as We Knew it is gone, but there's no Intergalactic Space Bypass. Babel Fish are in very short supply.

The improbability drive is not working at all; but Someone Else's Problem Fields are very popular, subterfuge never goes out of fashion.

The instructions on the toothpick packets are as stupid as ever.


Where did those Dolphins get to?
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Re: PO.com: The Restaurant at the End of The Universe?

Unread postby Revi » Tue 10 Mar 2009, 07:17:06

I remember when my motorcycle wouldn't start and I was stuck at a rural health post 85 kilometers down in the jungle of Guatemala. I put towels under the door to keep out the malaria mosquitos and listened to my shortwave by candlelight. On came the BBC with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It was great.
Deep in the mud and slime of things, even there, something sings.
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Re: PO.com: The Restaurant at the End of The Universe?

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 10 Mar 2009, 07:51:29

Douglas Adams conceptual adventure is up there with Monte Python as the funniest stuff ever written in English.
Milliways was the name of the Restaurant at the End of The Universe.
Wiki has a page on it, for those who haven't read it. My advice: DO!


http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe
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Re: PO.com: The Restaurant at the End of The Universe?

Unread postby Jotapay » Tue 10 Mar 2009, 11:59:23

Make sure you bring a towel. That was one of the first things I packed in my Bug Out Bag.
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Re: PO.com: The Restaurant at the End of The Universe?

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 10 Mar 2009, 22:37:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'M')ake sure you bring a towel. That was one of the first things I packed in my Bug Out Bag.


Some of the best things for a bug out situation can be found lying around as worthless junk.

For instance when I saw 'The God's Must be Crazy' as a young man I was disappointed the Pygmies didn't realize they could sterilize water with 'it'.

The two forces utilized for this purpose are sunlight and gravity.
Fill a botttle with murky creek water and leave it stand in the sun all day.

The sediments sink out and anything alive in the water tends to get cooked by UV or go to hiding in the sediment. Then you can pipette the water off the top; boil if you want to be really sure.
I used this method for many months camping along the Murray River in Australia; moderately industrial, heavily agricultural, with no problems of any note.
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Re: PO.com: The Restaurant at the End of The Universe?

Unread postby Sixstrings » Wed 11 Mar 2009, 03:21:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he improbability drive is not working at all


Yup, that about sums it up.

Recent history is so bizarre, it really does read like Douglas Adams.

Exotic Manufactured Financial Products -- who'd have thunk it? Designed in such a way so that risk is spread so thin and so far that no one person can ever be responsible, but yet the whole world collapses when the weight of all that collective junk caves in.

Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Yup, that's it alright.
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