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

http://www.h2g2.com/A407080

Well, another entry for me that will in 2 days be completely ignored... but anyway, please tell me what I left out, and also be sure to check out another entry I did a while ago (but was lost in the depths of this forum):

Valve Software's Half-Life,
http://www.h2g2.com/A407099

Wow, this was ignored in 6 hours! HELLO? I don't care if your opinion is very negative, just post something! C'mon!

I just had a quick shuftey through it, basically just scanned it, and, from what I saw, a respectable article I will have a closer look tomorrow, but it seemed to cover all the bases Though it is more like squash than tennis (but the intro wouldn't have been as amusing, I know, sorry my pedant genes kicking in....) Well, until later....
BCNU - Crescent

Hi there,

I have been misleaded! I thought you meant handball as known in Europe only apparantly - the 'official' sport played indoor on a field about 2/3 the size of a soccer field, by two teams of six players and a goalkeeper respectively. I would recommend your handball to be renamed 'street handball' or the like...

Aside from that, nice article! Hope you're not too disencouraged from your article being ignored; I would recommend it for the edited guide. No nitpicking required.

You could mention "Fives" - the posh version... though only a mention...

Strangely, I used to play a game called "handball" in school playground - it seemed to be a mix of football and netball - I never did learn the rules...

Handball as you describe it (Squash without the racquets) was once common in Ireland and is still played, in a slightly more formal manner with rules, in a handball alley. This is a paved area with three walls around it. You often see these alleys in country towns. The game is dying out as more and more people move to cities where there are no alleys.

cities with no alleys? is there such a thing? or are you confusing them with overpopulated suburbs?

The closest thing we have to a handball alley is what some of the public schools have been recently putting up: a large concrete wall, surrounded by 2 stories of chain-link fence. It looks truly bizzare unless there are kids playing on it.

Wait a second... that sounds suspiciously like something I should put in this entry...

I'll have to admit I'd never heard of handball until now, but I remember playing a similar game with anything goes rules with a tennis ball at high school. That version went along the lines of throw the ball at the wall, you have until the third bounce to catch it. The person who is nearest to the ball on the third bounce is then out. One of my favourite tactics was just before the third bounce to either kick it back at the wall (starting the count again) or evily in the direction of another player.

we had a game like that in my middle school, called 'suicide', where if you caught it, you 'pegged' the person who threw it against the wall (hit them with the ball) before they were able to touch the wall. if you dropped the ball, you had to run to the wall before getting pegged. very violent, very fun. maybe I should do an entry on all games using a concrete wall and a rubber or tennis ball...

Aren't there, like, millions of such games?

Hello,

So was Suicide an official gym game (perhaps by an instructor that thought Dodgeball was too wussy), or just something you're friends played?

Yours,
Jake

This was before the days of teacher-oriented "team sports". This was chaos, defined and categorized, with a full-on hierarchy between us kids. This was war, when running around until there wasn't any skin left on your knees was encouraged.

Just thought i'd tell you that there is an olympoic sport that goes by the name of Handball as well. The pictures in the links below indicate it might be somewhat different to the game you mention in the article. You might like to differentiate it through a slightly changed title

Check the following links:
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As the forces of the BBC gestapo once again halt any signs of actual research on this site...

Might I add this is a good time to join the Zaphodistas?

I can't belive that, they were all internal BBC links

Try searching for "Olympic Handball" on the bbc sports search engine. There are three articles from the olympic games last year and photo's of the sport.

This article has been picked quite a while ago and is now an edited entry. This thread should be thrown out of PR and moved to the original article...