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

When I registered with h2g2 in April last year, they outlined that works of fiction, or those not applicable to Earth would not be allowed as Guide Entries - "This is the Earth Edition," they said......... I believe that this is still the case. Why, therefore, does the HHGTTG constitute an approved Guide Entry? Make no mistake, I love Douglas's work - but it just occurs to me that this breaches the regulations (?????) - has anyone else spotted this? It would've been fine if the article was about Douglas's best-selling novels..........

Quite agree. Furthermore, to list the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy ON the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is a blatant example of self-reference. For further discourse on this type of syntactical faux-pas see Forum postings on Epimenides, Hofstader, Godel-Escher-Bach etc.

By the way, HITCH HIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is an anagram of

Eureka! ox chastity highlighted
Huh! hick hostility exaggerated
Hi! chokes lighthearted taxi guy
Sick ox? Huh! lighthearted gaiety!

Ragnar Hairy-breeks

It's a scam! DNA probably has writer's block, and is looking for ideas. So, he thinks, maybe he can nick one
of ours?

On the other hand, I checked out the towel conversation, and it's very entertaining, so perhaps this is an outlet
for all the researchers with overactive imaginations, who hate that ubiquitous advice to would-be writers, "Write
what you know." Nobody in that conversation really knows what he is talking about, but it still seems to make
some sort of sense....