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The barman looked at it and then looked at Ford. He suddenly shivered: he experienced a momentary sensation that he didn’t understand because no one on Earth had ever experienced it before. In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth. On Earth it is never possible to be further than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace, which really isn’t very far, so such signals are too minute to be noticed. Ford Prefect was at this moment under great stress, and he was born 600 light years away in the near vicinity of Betelgeuse.
I now live (according to Google Earth): 2,879 miles from my birthplace.
This would be the furthest I have ever lived from my birthplace. Anyone else?
Edit: shimmeringjemmy== 2787 mi.
Why no… we’re not originally from the Pacific North West. But then again….
aiden_freeman == 32 mi. Guess it’s time to move to New Zealand 😉
Original meme by lordandrei
This goes back to continue a thread from a crazed IM’er who decided to make me the target of his skewed survey.
I made a list of rules for contacting me via IM. It’s sort of amusing to me the lack of need for this. The average person who this would apply to would neither read it nor follow it if they dared to read it.
Personally, I have the urge to add the following to the list.
Failure to read this list will result in you being taught a lesson in netiquette whether you want it or not.
Today’s IM would normally have been ignored from line 1, but I was feeling expressly evil today
I’m not afraid of being at the dentist. I’ve gotten to the point where I can sit thru some dental procedures than make people really squick.
For me, I’m afraid of having gone. My life has been rather upended more than once… ‘Right after’.
This is along the lines of, Whenever you see a cat with a striped tail, someone in your family dies. You’re honestly not afraid of a cat with a striped tail, but at the same time.. the idea of going to get one is just like tempting fate.
Thus, the whole, “Gentle doctor”, “Valium”, “Breathing exercises” is not the suggestions I am looking for. This is deeper and more psychological/magickal if you will.