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

Oh, yes please.

*hands Dr E a slice of sticky dark gingery cake with lemon icing on top*

*munch*
*slurp*

*hands Dr E a second slice*

*munch*
*slurp*

That's marvellous , Ændr.

*starts mopping the floor round EV where he seems to have drooled*

Perhaps drains and grills should be installed in the floor.

*ponders on that thought for a while*

Do you think it wise to leave a jack-hammer within easy reach of this lot?

Erm...Whats a jack hammer?

We could get Kitty to chase them over to C|_| 42 and back again once the grills are installed and all heavy machinery is removed from harm's way.

It's like a really big vibrator, but workmen use them for splitting up concrete and tarmac when making messes^W^W building stuff. Very noisy.

*chokes on his cake*

hmph the snow caused my driving test to be cancelled

on the other hand

thesis now 100 pages!!!!

Advantages of doing an architecture degree: you don't have to do a thesis, dissertation or any other writey stuff *hurrah!*

Disadvantages of doing an architecture degree: it doesn't qualify you to be an architect. For that you need to do a diploma, in which there's more than enough writey stuff *boo!*

Do you know a new date for your driving test yet, Aendr?

not yet, no

and I did a physics degree - no writey stuff, just labs and exams

but this is a PhD so requires the big book to be written

If an architecture degree doesn't qualify you to be an architect, what's the point of it?

The sole purpose of the degree is to desensetize yourself to the pain of working in an architect's office. Therefore an architect's degree is suitable for a wide range of vocations, from working in Gordon Ramsay's kitchen to rebuilding the Chernobyl sarcophagus. I suspect the guy on Tarrant on TV last night who hangs weights from his testicles took an architecture degree.

The diploma is probably an adequate qualification for anyone wanting to re-plan parts of cities using giant pieces of styrofoam, but the only true architectural training is gained through working in an office (this being the case because office work as an architect bears little resemblance to the stuff you do in the university studios)

I wish I hadn't asked now! Can someone get me a ?

*hands EV a *

*glug*
*glug*
Aaah, that's better.