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

add something about journalistic imperialism and your there

I've got it to 1200 words, I think that's the most I can do without repeating myself.

At 947 didn't you say it was 50?

If I did I missed out an '0'

Ahhh, that explains it. Can be quite inconvenient, doing that.

Yes, you suddenly find you've got ten times as muc to write.

Never a heartening thought.

"Sorry did I say 1000? I missed off a '0'. You have to do 10000".

A friend of mine had a bit of trouble at work. Got a decimal place wrong and put a 1000 times the correct current into a machine he was using. Went bang.

Well I shouldn't laugh, it could have been quite nasty.

He laughed.

Though some time later..

He must have been a bit shaken at the time .

I expect so. I was happily a long way away, safe from any explosions.

Nice. Only thing like that I ever heard of was my friend's dad got electrocuted and thrown 6ft across the room.

now that's not good.

Got shocked once changing a light bulb (someone turned the switch on ), not nice but fortunately no harm came of it.

I accidentally leaned against an electric fence once.

I've managed to avoid that one, though my friend who was holding the fence down so I could step over it didn't. 'Oh, it won't shock me' he insisted. It's a good thing walking boots have thick soles.

My physics teacher in high school used to like to shock people. He got a major kick out of zapping the people who fell asleep in class.

I guess that would wake them up, though not in a pleasant way. My lecturers like to just sneak up on snoring students and bang the desk.

My teachers don't notice snoozing people.

Really?