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

<<< In 1976 Carroll admirer Denis Crutch pointed out that in the 1896 preface quoted above, the author had originally written: "It is nevar put with the wrong end in front." Nevar of course is raven spelled backward. Big joke! However, said joke did not survive the ministrations of the proofreaders, who, thinking they understood the author's intentions better than the author, changed nevar to never in subsequent editions. The indignities we authors suffer! Sure, it's partly made up for by the money and groupies, but still, if in some book (e.g., this one) you come across a line that really clanks, be assured: it was funny before.>>>

tdz

tdz - do you have a reference or a web address for this?

Thanks

Baj

Here you are cowjabberk (incidentally, i consider that cruel & inhuman pinishmunt)

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_266.html

zdt

n excellent source! Thanks Terri


Jab

= an excellent etc. Typo, not an obscure attempt to be clever!

Jab

Typooq, knot aloud too be clavier? Butt eye yam ewe sing a Frog quay bored.

I am reduced to listening to White Rabbit. Which has to be one of the greatest songs of all time. Go ask Alice, when she's 10 feet tall.

zdt

<<>>

*Disclaimer: this Researcher is in no way advocating or encouraging the use of illegal or hallucinogenic substances as a subsitute for serious literary research. And loud music may cause deafness.

zdt

Naturally. Of course not.

"One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all"


Jabbbbbbbbberrr

Looking back at post one (I am not a kestrel); how can anybody get through life with a name like Denis Crutch?

Meanwhile, here is another riddle, the answer to which only 3 people on earth know.

Why is a viking not a car tyre?

zdt

Go ask Alice.

http://www.alicebot.org/

Or Jabberwock!

http://www.abenteuermedien.de/jabberwock/

Re: Post 9, Terri, don't you worry your pretty little head about it().

Yhe people with names like Denis Crutch are precisely the sort of people who are unembarrassed because they don't see anything wrong or amusing about the situation. They probably wesr an assorted meant of biros in their top pockets too: Dee Rig oo'er, as you might say.


Jab

Too many typos to bother. I'm sure you get the mesage!

J

Go to bed; i shall do likewise & place my biros carefully in their meant.

zdt

BIRO Agknew!!! It was a Communist Blot!

zdt

Zat typoo sing can La Pen Chui any Wan. King.Or Queen.

Here is Freddie (RIP) & his pussy.

http://duke.usask.ca/~lowey/boots_pics/freddie_mercury_67.jpg

zdt

Wonderful what cosmetic surgery can do, innit?

Jab

Yes, that cat used to be a dormouse then he met the Fred Queen & look what happened.

Mind, cats tend to be unlucky in this sort of literature. I saw a great cartoon showing the owl & pussycat in the pea-green boat, caption was:

"On the internet you said you were an OWL!"

zdt

I was just simple-mindedly thinking how useful a pussy would have been to our Fred. But I'm only a mere male, after all...

Jab