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

Utter pants.

I'm very pleased that so many people have bothered to reply to my comments on this article. I still think the article is utter pants, so don't think I am going to change my views just because everybody refuses to discuss how bad this article is.

Would you care to share with the class why you believe this article is utter pants?

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

Feel free to click on my name (it's actually only a pseudonym) and go through to my mathematical user pages. Go to the user pages at the bottom, the forum entries are old and have not been edited.

You may then liken my articles to as many different types of under-garments as you see fit.

Yours in infinite affection,

John G. Vainstone (it's still only a pseudonym)

I'd already taken the liberty to look at your pages, but I don't believe that simply insulting the quality is likely to be worth much in the scheme of things. If you sincerely find some fault in my entry, please be a bit more specific, maybe it can be fixed. And lame cop-outs like "If you don't know now, you'll never know," don't count.

If you're going to take the time to bother posting a forum message in response to my pages, please make it worthwhile. The forums are not set up for insults.

If you'd like some advice on your own pages, I'd say this: While some of your ideas are funny, you'll notice that most articles that are getting accepted have at least a grain of truth and aren't merely invented stories. And I fail to see what's funny about a little girl getting beaten with a belt.

The quality of your article was actually not bad, however I have little else to write about.

The articles do have a grain of truth in them--the formula for the circumference of a circle, the formula for the volume of a sphere, Pythagoras' theorem (you could work out how far you had travelled). I hope the articles present this information in an amusing and informative manner.

I noticed your article was very accurate as well.

Well, they didn't reject my entry anyway. I don't think your entries are all that bad, but I think it'd be a little more palatable if you spent a little less time on the invented stories and a little more information, however hidden. For instance, I like the story about the girl and her father's belt, but it'd be just as funny if you cut it off before people started hitting her with it.