22.1.98
"It's not a banana, it's a galaxy!"
When in a foreign country where you don't speak the language yet want to order lunch, say random words at the waiter until he understands one and brings it back on a tray. Well it worked for us anyway.
Parallel universes are not actually parallel, they're perpendicular (true)
The light bulb joke on Red Dwarf should be preceeded by a health warning (Warning: over exposure to this joke may cause watering eyes, shortness of breath, painful ribs and chest, loss of consciousness and, in extreme cases, death)
25.1.98
Parsley: now there's a cool word. As is mangrove, and flop, and picofarad.
How can I complete the maze in a text adventure if I can't drop things?
Subcircus are actually ok. I think.
7.4.98
Stick a pi in it. Go on. You know you want to.
Fruit Pastilles were made to be shared.
What was actually wrong with the jellyfish in Sphere? And why was it raining giant Tic Tac mints?
11.4.98
Get carrots.
28.5.98
Bellatrix are a cool band. But not as cool as Interference.
Meet Henry. He's my coconut palm.
14.7.98
A star with a parallax of 1 arcsec is said to be a distance of 1 parsec from Earth.
You spin me right round baby right round like a record....
13.9.98
The world is a very strange place. I have no idea of the future. Hmm.
3.11.98
In answer to a recent query, these are indeed my own thoughts. Scary isn't it? Especially when they only seem to happen once every two months.
And the future's still scary. People shouldn't be allowed to be 18. Or go to university. Especially not me.
More good words: smidgen, eggplant, woosy.
And Crog can stick it.
16.12.98
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Debbie has a sore throat. Ouch.
Oh, and the future is even scarier now. I know, I've met it....
10.2.99
Debbie seems to have not had a thought for almost two months again. Worrying, really.
My room is blue, the same colour as my eyes, so I've been told. (Well I wouldn't know would I?)
And there is an ant on my computer.
And here is the random hitch-hiker quote section, where whenever i feel like it I pick a random quote from one of the five delightful books in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy and tell you it. Cos they're funny. Ok? Simple.
4.11.98
"Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth"
7.12.98
"During a recitation by Poet Master Grunthos the flatulent of his poem 'Ode to a small lump of green putty I found in my armpit one midsummer morning' four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by knawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is said to have been 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled 'My favourite bathtime gurgles' when his own major intestine, in a desparate attempt to save life and civilisation, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain."
21.12.98
"'Let me introduce myself', the man said. 'My name is Roosta, and this is my towel.' 'Hello Roosta,' said Zaphod. 'Hello towel,' he added as Roosta held out to him a rather hasty old flowery towel. Not knowing what to do with it, he shook it by the corner."
17.1.99
"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now."