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

1) damn fine column chaps

2) terrible title, B

3) "both my readership". Eh, you cheeky git. There were at least three. I read it, Several read it, and Shazz read it to correct typos.

don't omit the all-important Greebs, unless you want your late-night teevee column to be posted in Mandarin Chinese, Egon.

Good stuff

Is the title some sort of tortuous Scunthorpe reference then? Oh dear...

sprout

Ah yes... the all important Greebs... without which the world would stop spinning!!! ~huge tongue in cheek grin~

Greebs..xx

anyone who fixes my words and makes it look like i know what i'm doing in The Post gets a heckuva lotta thanks from this corner.

Ditto. But you still can't count them as 'readership', I'm sorry. Shazz does have standards to keep, you know.

Thanks for the (faintly damning) praise, Egon - it's nice to know I got the 'official' endorsement.

B

Indeed I do - especially if I can still make degoratory footnotes with regards to a certain Australian cricketer?!

shazz

Shazz, it's your paper and you can make derogatory comments about whoever you like.

Although, if you're stuck for suggestions, I'm sure I can contribute in that department too.

B

You see, if you realy wanted to get in the editorial good books you should have called the column not "Did I leave The iron On?" but "matthew Hayden is an Ausie "

shazz

Remind me, if I ever come back to sport, to get greebo to do a graphic for *that*!

Certainly - especially if it includes the words 'Northampton County Cricket Club' in the background.

shazz

Ooh, it could have a silhouette of him agauinst the county badge...

Yep! Good idea - except that most of the Aussie players look the same in silhouette!

shazz

He could have a monogrammed MH. But I suppose then someone might think he was Mike Hussey...

whadda ya mean about 'if' Egon ? you'll be around.

I suppose I may be tempted out of retirement at some point in the future...

Oh, I've been meaning to ask you, what do you reckon to jeter's abysmal run of form for the Yanks of late? It's shocked me!

being a tribe fan, i hate the yankers. the indians teams of the early 50's were monsters, second 4 out of five years, and those are the stories i grew up with in the 60's.
george steinbrenner wanted to buy his hometown indians, but the owner, vern stouffer of frozen foods fame, was too drunk to make the sale, so stein-buyer got the yanker franchise.
i hate the yankers. they got roger maris from cleveland, he breaks babe ruth's HR record. they got chris chambliss and craig nettles from the indians (they led them to championships in the '70's) and the noo yawk metro area is amongst the largest on this great green globe. the noo yawk-to-boston media excess and that vast population could well be the most wired-up region, and have the arrogance to match.
what do i think of jeter ? or of alex rodriguez ? i think they're like you and i, except they can hit 95 MPH fastballs i can only hear and run from. they ain't got caught with booze, broads or dope, and they're playing with, literally, the whole world watching them, and a historic tradition to try and live up to just by putting on the pinstripes and stepping onto the field.
and they make more money striking out than i make in a year.
a baseball season is seven months from Opening Day to the World Series for a reason. april is just the start, not even a quarter of the season. joe schmo from kokimo could change a season with one swing of the bat, or three strikes to a hitter.
i confess.....i'm a baseball junkie. much as i try, there isn't enough time in the day for me to read or talk about baseball. i have to do chores and work and listen to blues music, but there's always baseball.
did i mention i hate the yankers yet ?