Living in an enchanted forest with surrealistic landscapes, the engaging characters of Broom Hilda happily have no connection with reality. Other comic characters are extensions or distortions of reality, but Broom Hilda deals in pure fantasy, making the strip bewitchingly unique. Here in the forest, the inhabitants maintain a standard of madness where total irrelevance is the only relevancy. The strip is simply a loony-bin where what’s said and done often makes no sense whatsoever, much to the joy of its millions of fans.
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margueritem
said, 5 months ago
Probably not, Irwin…
Good morning, LB.
Llewellenbruce said, 5 months ago
Her word isn’t very good these days Irwin.
MARG! Two more days and it looks like we all
go over the Fiscal Cliff.
margueritem
said, 5 months ago
@Llewellenbruce
Hope you have your parachute…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago
Snowing here…
Alexikakos said, 5 months ago
@Llewellenbruce
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
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Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight milllion miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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This planet has (or rather had) a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
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And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
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From:
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” copyright 1979
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by Douglas Adams
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(I like to think the third paragraph is the most significant.)
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If you haven’t read “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” I recommend it.
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago
Now we’ll never know for sure!
William Pursell
said, 5 months ago
No Irwin,Not unless Guinness has been drinking A WHOLE LOT of Guinness;which Broomie supplied!
gmartin997
said, 5 months ago
It’s safe to make any claim as long as no one can disprove it. Personally, who cares?
Citizen GROG!
said, 5 months ago
@Alexikakos
Loved the book. The TV show was also quite good.
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 5 months ago
We had some snow yesterday.
A mere dusting in Manhattan, but several inches in the Bronx.
Lovecraft said, 5 months ago
@SUSAN NEWMAN
Nothing in Brooklyn.
TheEtruscan said, 5 months ago
Why would anyone live where it is cold and snowy?
@Alexikakos, Not being a sci-fi literati what are “small green pieces of paper”?
gmartin997
said, 5 months ago
@TheEtruscan
I think he’s talking about money.
chasm_b said, 5 months ago
@TheEtruscan
More specifically he was referring to American currency which used to be only on green tinted paper. Hence the phrase “American Greenbacks”. Nowadays our currency has some color mixed in – to help limit counterfeiting.
TheEtruscan said, 5 months ago
So in an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet with 7 BILLION ape-descended life forms ONLY the opinions and habits of 300 MILLION of these specimens count?