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

yay...
thanks for reminding me about nigel...
i went to a school like his(chiz)and the books helped keep me sane.
they didn't give us homework, it was called 'prep'
"Q. What is a watershed ?"
"A. A woodshed is where you keep wood, a toolshed is where you keep tools... Don't waste my time."
brilliant stuff.
alec.

Every time I come up with a subject that I think I can write an authoratative Guide Entry on, I do a search just in case someone else did, and every dang time, someone else has

I'm v. glad to see other Molesworth fans here though I first encountered the books at school, in about the fourth of fifth year, and I've re-read them regularly ever since, as I have '1066 And All That'. That, along with Compleet Molesworth, and Stephen Potter's Complete Upmanship, are three books I will never ever part with. I even went as far as to use a quote from Down With Skool for my h2g2 nickname

BTW Alec, I get the 'watershed' reference that you posted in another forum now

Are the Andes?

...they most definitely are NOT !!!

alec.

The lunatick bin is second on the right. they will be waiting for you.

...i kno where my towel is now,...
but i can't find my copy of Back to Skool

how did nigels description of molesworth2 go ?

something with 'he zoom and play...'

alec.chiz

Gosh chiz this is molesworth 2 my bro he is uterly wet and a weed it panes me to think i am of the same blud. He is always eating and cheeks everybode. You kno when fotherington thomas sa there are fairies at the bottom of his garden molesworth 2 sa there is a dirty old rubish heap at the bottom of his then zoom away bombing sparows worms the skool dog and other poor dumb creatures. I diskard him.

There's another bit about molesworth 2 that comes to mind where he's saying something about able baker charlie, but I can't recall where exactly in the book it is. I don't know if that was what you were thinking of Alec

...gosh! gosh, that is exactly the quote i was thinking of...
'zoom away bombing etc....'
many thanks

alec.

Any time Alec. Any other quotes you need, just let me know

. i would do the same if i were a stoat.

Oh Joy!

I' thought they were out of print. Must go to Amazon and adjust my prezzy list. Can i wate till Xmas tho chiz chiz

the something something something swept down like the abyssians..blah blah blah?

The only thing you never turned your hand to
Was teaching at a boarding school.
Today it's a profession that seems grand to
Those whose alternative's an office stool;
To many an unknown genius postmen bring
Typed notices from Rabbitarse and String

W.H Auden

I love the molesworth books! Armand in the French books make me laugh a lot but its all wonderful.

I didn't get a typed notice or get trapped by G and T and led off, but I actually am teaching at a boarding school. Some parts do look a bit like st custards taken with the brownie. Maybe that's why I find the books so funny?

We were looking for a book the other day and ran into a pile of books we got from my grandmother's house when she died. One of them was "How to be topp" - with an inscription made to my grandfather on his birthday in '55. I started reading it, and I was caught (once I got over the spelling and the unfamiliar expressions). Amazing stuff, though I guess you have to know the British school system to really appreciate it... anyway, it's great to see somebody wrote about it!

Man, I remember slogging through The Compleet Molesworth when I was 7, loved it so much I wrote my own version of it (bits of it may still be lying around the house, ye gods...). That probably took me months to do. I picked it up again a few years ago and read the whole lot in about three days and actually understood it that time.

Should dig it out again someday!