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

Well done, tonsil! And it's come through pretty much as you wrote it too!

Holy pucky!

Here, have a - not quite a hanky, but as near as h2g2 gets! As I recommended it, it reflects well on me, too.

Hmm. I see...
Padding the old resume, eh?

Yeah, yeah, all right. Here,

you did supply me with the coding I'd forgotten so that I could give a slightly more professional polish to the piece and give my subeditor and easier job...

But I also have to thank Maxwell House coffee and Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes for the power to plow through the original draft in two and a half hours without a thought... I mean, break...

Great speech, tr!

Oh!
I forgot Heineken!
Guinness gives me the

Congratulations on an entertaining and informative article that will stand as the definitive h2g2 Edited Guide entry on the subject.
~jwf~

Thanks. Believe it or not, I couldn't have done it without you.
And Bossel and Bleuzob and Lucinda and Spliff and (I forget).
It was through your patient efforts and continuously supportive s that I achieved a bit more authority and a bit less arrogance in my online voice.

Just finished Albert Goldman's "The Lives of John Lennon". Broke up in tears. Just raged against how people can be so cruel to one another. What a waste! Certainly don't have good feelings towards Yoko Ono whatsoever. Didn't realize that John was only 40 years old. Too young to die. He'd be 65 today.

Yes, well, I would like to commisserate with you, but Goldman's book is not a good source of information. Goldman is a bit of a vulture, who waits until his subjects are dead and then buries them in innuendo and out the window.

So, any emotions that he managed to evoke toward Yoko are probably due to his button-pushing.
I'd seek other information.

In my entry I cast a very jaundiced eye toward Goldman's rumours of rumours.

I remember the day he died. I was very upset for days.
Of course, I was also very upset when Bon Scott died.

Actually, I kind of shudder at the thought of a geriatric John Lennon.
To tell the truth, he was always my least favorite of the Beatles.

I'm feeling a bit better today. Being alone with a biography can be scarey. I know Lennon was the tough guy but he was just an eccentric Englishman and America and NYC ate him up with it's cloutishness. I don't think much of Goldman either. On another website he claims to be the 5th Beatle. I wonder how he could claim to know all the personal conversations that went on between Lennon and all those people in his life. For a supposed recluse Lennon's activities and conversations were apparently remembered and noted down in detail. Strange. I hadn't read up about Lennon or the Beatles or the NYC murder until now so it felt like maybe I should've been more attentive to what they meant to the world. I feel a bit demoralized with all that talk of big money between lawyers and song contracts and Yoko's men and magical nonsense. What a waste of money! It sounds like $100,000 was Yoko's idea of what it takes to own a person's life. I've lived in Japan so I can just imagine the master/slave kinky crap that she must be into. Still I bet John would've been alive today if he'd stayed in the UK.