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

And it hath been edited...
(don't say you weren't warned)

I'm just going back to look at it now - it certainly looks.....different.

see you later.

Clive

Err.....It's strictly probably a better entry ( and more likely to be accepted ) It reads literally like instructions on how to stop your food from being eaten but it's missing all of the best bits that made it such fun to write( ). Oh well never mind.

How does a person get to re-edit someone elses entry? (I'm not, I want to add, angry - just curious that The Cheese (Light Jedi) is now editor - hello. Who are you?)

Buff, have you got any ideas for a new co-ed entry project. Just let me know.

Clive

He/she/it/they is/are a subeditor. I don't know how the entries get sent to them, but they get the power to alter them at will. I think they get sent to the not so sub editors next. I expect that you could probably get some kind of response or rationilization by going to the subbies home page and leaving a message.
Nice anagram by the way.
You should come see what I've been doing to my home page. I've found some neat stuff to do to it.
I've also written a really awful entry on vile beverages. If you want to take a look at it and see if anything can be done...

I like what you've done to your homepage - especially the boned fish image, where do you get that from? Vile beverages, hmmmm........what about skimmed milk? A personal pet hate of mine, I confess. I simply don't trust a drink that pertains to be opaque but with which I can still see to the bottom of my mug. Also it tastes like weak dish-water. *

If I may present a berverage to the h2g2 community that far from being vile is certainly the nicest beer ('nicest' should be in italics and underlined, in a mile high font. - really it's that good. ) I've ever tried. It's brewed on-site, specially in a pub in Sheffield called The Frog and Parrot and it's called "Roger and Out" The beer is 12.9 ABV ( alcohol by volume) and is absolutly gorgeous!!! It's strong and malty and the pub are restricted to only serving it in thrid of pint servings (no, really!) I had some on a night out over the Easter Hols and in a nice antonym to the vile berverages page. Ladies and gentlemen....I give you The Roger and Out!!!!


Clive

* On a separate note, I wonder who the first person ever was to think " I know! - I'll milk a cow" and exactly what it was they thought they were doing?

Skim milk...Hmmm... That is pretty vile. I think I'll add it to the list.
If you want the blue fish, you can go to Bruces GuideML clinic (see front page) and somewhere in it is a link to the code for the fish.(shims blue fish) I think that your homepage has to be in GuideML for it to work though. Then just put the code into your page where you want the fish to appear. (it won't show up in headers, I tried that)
Bye now

Ta for that.

My I add a kind of caveat. A vile drink is ANY drink that makes use of the water supply in Hull, England
(where I am, at this present moment, sitting.) The very high limescale makes tea for example go a murky brown (ala ditchwater) and then goes on to produce floating on top a kind of - I presume - fatty deposit that separates and looks not unconvincingly like an outbreak of liverspots floating around in your mug. Coffee goes frothy with viscous bubbles gatering around the rim of the cup.
I have considered investing in a water filter but they cost to much to run, buying £30 filters every month.

In a contrary spin on another previous entry on the vile berverages page: Leaving this coffee out for two days might - *shudder* - improve it.

Clive

This is of course what was intended:

This, just looks like I lent on my keyboard

And this is me when I realised my error $%&**£*"&!!

Hi all. Yes, I am a sub-editor and I was the one that brought justice to this Entry. It will now fall into the hands of the editors to see if it will be accepted in the final stage or not.

I very much enjoyed all of it, but I had to omit the funny parts because they didn't belong in the Approved Guide. Otherwise, the Editors would just edit them out themselves. I also had to find substitutions for 'The Phantom Fridge Theif' as that term is confusing to the unfamiliar. Sorry, it's my job

At first my response to this article was a reject. However, I then realized that it could become a great Approved Entry. So I went on my feeling. I think I was right.

Is there anything I left out that should be put back in? This would be the right time to tell the Eds if so, and I need your feedback. Thanks.

It's quite alright. The editing process is mentioned in all the welcome to h2g2 blurb, I suppose it was just a little shocking to return to something that we were both so familiar with and to have had it altered by some unseen hand. Thank you though for taking the time to make it a better entry and for not rejecting immeadiately. It is immensly gratifying to know that it is now a better entry and one that may be fit for inclusion into the Guide.

Reading other approved entries they, I see now were also all probably the result of some trimming, editing and judicious pruning. Personally, I particularly missed the bit about the body under the flower bed. But I can see that it is also out of place in a entry, that like I said earlier in this forum, does now read properly like instructions on "Keeping your food from being eaten.".

I'm not at all sad-faced , I'm actually rather chuffed that this co-project with Buff has been so much fun to do and gotten so far with a provisional nod of approval from a sub-editor! ( I gather rejection is an all too common occurence) Still a long way to go - got to get past the Editors yet - but as a first attempt, this really isn't bad going!

Perhaps Thursdays aren't as bad as I sometimes make out...

Clive

Good .

Hey, if one of those mean subs who wasn't willing to do a massive editing job like this would have gotten it, you all would have gotten reject slips. Actually, I at first rejectted it, then went back to take it on. I had to delete and rewrite more than usual, but I had fun too and I am very glad to have my name on this .

The link on my homepage says that the entry of the food has been edited 6 hours ago, but for the life of me I can't spot what has changed. Give us a clue. Let's hope it gets approved.

That means I did a good job and the Entry is on its way to be Approved.



Congratulations

Hey Buff, "Keeping food from being eaten" has acheived Approved Status! come look

Clive

I'm going to have a look now

Zippedydoodah! zippydeedayee! My, oh my, what a wonderful day!

If this keeps up, this forum is going to turn into a page full of smiley's. So I'm going to just put one to indicate my joy.

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