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

Great rules. They just about sum up every book, movie, or show I've ever seen that involves Time Travel.

Since I noticed you've submitted this, I thought I'd comment on a few very minor spelling errors (at least I think that they're errors, it could always be that British-American thing with spelling)

1. "definately" in first paragraph = definitely?
2. "audiance" in rule #3 = audience?

Otherwise (not sure myself how editors look at spelling), great guide entry. I think it has at least a fair chance of approval.

Haha, you found me out. I can't spell whatsoever. Well, okay, I CAN spell "whatsoever"... it's just the other words that sometimes foul me up. It'd be cool if I could say it was a British-American thing... but I'm American, too... in fact, I had wanted to go to Virginia Tech at one point and major in equine veterinary medicine, and my grandparent's farm is about 45 minutes south-west of Blacksburg, in Parisburg. Cool, eh?

Since you mentioned the books and movie and such rules.. I just want to say that it was a movie that prompted this, because the script writers obviously had no clue how time worked. In fact, it seemed they wanted to seem intelligent and attempted to pull what could have been a very cool paradoxish thing, had it been thought through carefully... so I decided to write some rules that would stop others from making such fools of themselves.

Anyhoo, thanx for catching my dumb mistakes... I'll correct them immediately.

no offense, amy, but i kinda thought the rules were repetitive, rather vague, and not all that clever. i mean, even #2 doesn't make much sense. maybe you should explain more with each rule, or combine some instead of saying things like "#5 only occurs when #3 has already occured but without bringing about #8, which you haven't read yet."

My dear friend... you know my opinion concerning cleverness (creativity) and meaning. Besides, I think they make perfect sense, so does ddrombrow... so somehow think that gives it some validity. And for repetitivity... from the looks of the movie which inspiried this, these type of rules sure needed stressing, otherwise the problems wouldn't have been so blatant.

ps... tact, dear... tact is a wonderful instrument...

Some very good points, Amy

So basically, to sum it all up, everything is set in stone unless it isn't?

Exactly.

But what about sandstone...?

~Amy

A very good point. And not only that, but limestone too.

Talc, too, I think. Something like a hardness of 1, unless I'm mistaken. There's another one, too, but I can't remember it. Hehehe, someone was paying attention in eighth grade science class.

I think maybe it could be set in 18th Century China...

or perhaps 11th century Britain (that's Arthurian era, yes? I forget...)...

I only live here... You can't expect me to live here AND know its history, surely?

But that does wring a bell, yes... (Poor bell)

My condolences to the bell. hehehe.

Don't worry about not knowing history... it's only really important if you come close to repeating it... or plan on repeating it. Or becoming a history teacher one day. But I wouldn't recommend doing any of those...

~Amy †

The trouble is, for same strange and inexplicable reason, I am well versed in American history. But not British history.

I am not planning on repeating it. Or planning on planning on repeating it. Or planning on becoming a history teacher. Or becoming history. Or eating pink carrots. Or recommending any of those...

Sorry for the long time in responding... lots of stuff to do with school and such.

Haha, it's funny that you're well versed in American history... I never could really care much (and therefore really learn much) about it... European history is my strong suit. Course, history isn't my strong suit exactly....but you know what I mean.

There are pink carrots? I wonder if you fed them to white rabbits they'd turn pink like flamingos...

I don't actually have any strong suits. Well, not as such. I have a weak suit, and I managed to beat that suit in a fight. But if I had a strong suit, then it might beat me, if you follow my meaning...

exactly. My strong suit got out this weekend and got me into a bit of trouble with my best friend (see journal entry)... but it's better now.

I'm very sorry to hear that... But as I said in the journal entry forum, I'm happy to hear it's better now...

Strong suits can be VERY annoying sometimes, can't they? But even worse are middle suits. These are a little known phenomenon that caused the Middle Ages, and kept Europe in the dark for several hundred years. Almost nothing is known about them, other than they are coloured pink.

That would certainly make me not want to give out any kind of information! pink.... *sud-d-d-d-d-derrrrr*

What's wrong with pink? Other than... it's not black.

What's wrong with pink...? It's not blue-green.