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

Are you trying to get your article to show up on google or something?

shazz

No, it's a sardonic comment on the fact that the title of SFX magazine looks very suspect when (as often happens) Keanu (or whoever)'s head obscures the lower-middle bit of the logo.

Not sure if this counts as weird, but Steve O'Brien of said magazine seems to be on a letter-writing beano - he's emailed me, he's got a photo of himself onto the letters page of Dr Who magazine... Okay two letters isn't a binge but... you know, it just seems a weird coincidence.

Sorry, thought this was therapy. Won't let it happen again.

And an email is much less effort than a real letter.
So why was he writing to you? Is this just an attempt to get people to think you're popular?

Well, much better he expend proper effort sending in comedy photos of himself to DWM than writing me letters.

And - oh, well - he's the reviews editor of the mag and I just thought I'd see if he needed any new reviewing type people.

I'd just like to say that I'm proud to contribute to the Post and can see myself continuing to do so on an exclusive basis for the forseeable future...

Awww.
is better anyway.

Hmmmm....

It's almost certainly *cheaper*...

Are you including the cost of the computer, phone bills, etc?

Well, not entirely, as you can use the computer for other useful things such as playing minesweeper and surfing the net for Eddie Izzard porn, both of which SEX magazine is slightly less useful for.

Personally I find Eddie Izzard more entertaining when he's got clothes on.

or death?

I thought we'd already settled that.

And I speak of prose, not pictures (prolly just as well).

Ah, well, I guess written porn is no worse coming from Eddie Izzard than anyone else.

Erm - it's not written *by* him, it's written with him in it as a character.

Or so I'm led to believe (he said hastily and probably too late).

In that case, um, I don't care?

You can't say fairer than that? In fact I tend towards agreeing with you? Hmm, we've hit upon a brilliant way of representing the Strine accent in text...?

"Strine accent " Huh?

(my indecisive, semi-confused voice actually does go up at the end of sentences, as questions do, so I thought a ? was appropriate)

I'm sorry, C, I was taking the michael unduly. It was a reference to the Australian Rising Inflection, which many young people suffer from due to overexposure to Aussie soaps as children - a vocal tic where the tone of voice rises at the end of every sentence, making it sound like a question even when it's not. Which I believe you just alluded to.

Hmm, you go to the trouble of writing something nice, or at least witty, after nearly all my contributions and all I do is mess you about and waste your time. Bad Awix. I'm sorry...

Nice, or at least witty?
Personally I'd prefer it to be the other way around.
Being witty is much more interesting than being nice. (and more mentally challenging)

Hmm, I think we've stumbled onto an interesting point. When I write about something I always prefer to be witty rather than nice... but when someone writes about my stuff I'd much rather they were nice than witty.

Is this profound or just too obvious to be worth mentioning? Probably the latter, as usual...

You'd rather be witty than nice, but you'd prefer other people to be nice instead of witty.

It sounds good, but probably isn't anything that wouldn't be immediately obvious to anyone who took the time to think about it.

Nice can be so boring though.