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

Great entry Rhynch!

I shall certainly bear all the good advice in mind should I ever travel to Oz.

Pimms

Well done very informative

Very informative and well written

Nice article.

Since you brought up the drowning statistics, I'd like to throw a couple zingers back at you. (These are from a Prehospital (paramedic) textbook and are probably a decade old):

Of all the annual drownings in the United States of America...



1 percent occur in saltwater (all the surrounding ocean?!!?)

4 percent occur in toilets!!!



I don't know about the other 95 percent. I collapsed in laughter at that point and couldn't properly read the material through my tears.

If you want a proper reference for those statistics, ask me and I'll dig it up. I think I loaned the textbook to my brother in law.

I think it was Benjamin Disraeli who said, "There are three kinds of lies. Lies, Damn lies and statistics!"

Firstly let say thank you to h2g2 for giving me the opportunity to write this and for all the help I received leading upto and during its making. Thank you Wolf, B'elana,Pimms + Rumbleghost for noticing it.

Yes you are correct with your quote, and i have actually heard or read this before beleive it or not! Ha-Haaaa. Damned Americans! Not content with mere drownings in swimmable(?) bodies of water,no, they have to work out how to to die in a toilet,where Death by Drowning will be writ on the certificate! Ha-Haaaaaaaa again I say!

Thanks once again for the kind words, it is nice to know that on a site as huge as this, that some people do take the time to seek things out and display a degree of civility not always shown.
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I'm always civil
I don't read and comment on as many Guide Entries as I would want to, for various reasons. I know I should comment more in Peer Review, to support people who go through the pains of writing a Guide Entry - but I hardly ever do, shame on me.
Rhynnch, I think the fact that not many people comment is not that they don't read and enjoy your entry, but that they -like me- don't comment too often. I mean, there wasn't really anything I contributed to your entry, and it's a bit odd to just say : bravo, well done, so I don't do that very often.
I'm glad I did here though, seeing it meant something to you