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

GTB, this is good. The original was brilliant, funny, thoughtful and disturbing (just the way I like 'em), and you have managed to retain a great deal of its flavour. Well done.

I miss Lilithcookie - she scared me quite a bit - but I had total respect for her.



B

Not only exotic dancers or strippers dance on tables...look at me, and I'm neither, just a lowly teacher!

Forgot to say I found the entry very interesting. Good work!

yeah it's great, it's almost like hearing Lil's voice again. I hope she's seeing this, thanks gtbacchus

I concur. I came looking for a different entry, but saw this one and wanted to see if it could be done well. It is indeed amusing and well constructed.

Strange thing is that, on this planet, most 'anybody' can get 'someone' to pay for a peek at their anatomy. The great abs are not so much a requirement, as a statistically strong local preference. The Rubenesque statuary and painted figures found in many museums attest to the variability of norms over time.

Life does seem to thrive on diversity.

Thank goodness for that!

dl

Well, I know what you mean about being scared of her. Too bad you didn't see her jumping off of cliffs into spruce trees. Took my breath away, gave me a very tight feeling in the belly like when the elevator drops suddenly only it wouldn't quit, and I wasn't even jumping.

I've noticed that when you Beebedit stuff you often lose something in the translation. This entry has lost the pace and poetry of the original but it ain't bad considering all the constraints Mr. Bacchus had to work under. Actually it's pretty wonderful under circumstances and very thorough, not to mention extremely responsible in a socially responsible sort of way.

As to whether or not SHE would like it? That's a whole nother thing I think. How would we know? Well, I knew her well and I don't know quite frankly. My guess is she would have written a parody of it and submitted the thing to the Underguide. Too bad that's been after her time.

You might sort of get the impression she was way ahead of her time don't you think? Born too soon, died too early, and got them bizarrely beasty blues, uh huh!! And still dancing, not on the tables but on the rock around which everything else revolves.

So rock on party animals!! Some voices never seem to die. They just wail away.

Blimey! It has much the same effect on me, and I am only reading your words Analiese. I did not know you knew her, but somehow it does not surprise me. As I said - I had total respect for her, she constantly challened my assumptions about the world, but not directly, simply by being who and what she was. Total respect, a great deal of awe, and some fear.

I always felt Lilithcookie had been very badly served by h2g2. The fact that the original entry could not, as it stood, have gone on the front page was unjust to her. It was one of the reasons why I have put so much effort into getting UG entries that status and recognition. I feel the same way about Gaston's entries too. Gaston is, sfaik, still alive. But in a very real sense the UG is - so far as I have helped made it possible - a memorial to Lil. (How is that for pretentiousness? Sometimes I amaze myself with it!)

Tell me, do you think it would be appropriate to put the original entry into the AWW? It would certainly be picked for the UnderGuide.

Ben

Well, why not pick it if what you say is true about the inspiration and all.

Speaking of which I'm still feeling badly about not contributing myself after I sort of promised to but maybe she can do it in my place. Her stuff is better anyways.

She was my cousin on my maternal grandma's side. We used hangout together in Las Vegas and a few other places you probably never heard of. She was older and knew her way around and also knew how to talk white with a vengeance. Her Spanish wasn't too bad either.

I'm also sort of feeling badly about her this morning, it'll be a year in a couple of months since she died and I really hadn't thought of her in awhile until I stumbled on to this thing. It sort of bummed me out really but I was trying to be complimentary. No use complaining about it now is there?

It really was a wonderful accomplishment under the circumstances like I said but sometimes the circumstances around here are a little difficult to stomach. But you've heard my opinions on that already.

So do what you think's right okay?

I'll talk to GTB about it. I am not trusting my instincts right now. Oh, and I agree with you about the resultant entry - it is nowhere near as good as the original, and I think GTB would agree too. However, he did an amazing job given the restrictions he had to work with.

I had not realised you and Lil were related.

I need to go now, I am late for work, and have a lot to do today.

Oh - and I have total respect for your decisions not to contribute to the UG. I would love to put my poetry in there, but am not prepared to do so, so I understand something of where you are coming from.

B

Okay, whatever.