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

Ahem...

Dah ta daah-daah dah tah daaah-ta-daah,
Dah ta daah-daaah ta da-daaah...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/995000/audio/_998481_france.ram?

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Ze Speef

Can you explain that Spiff as your link doesn't work?

hmm, worked for me...

didja try the h2g2 link?

Well yeah but I don't see that it's all that relevant. I linked to Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture in the second half and this has more to do with the revolution that to Napoleon and far more to do with later French Regimes.

The link I just looked at said that Napoleon banned it

hiya

no, I wasn't really intending that you should use it in the entry - I kinda thought that WoodPigeon was attempting a rendition...

Oh, right, sorry,

My apologies, slow on the uptake today.

You thought right Spiff - I'm just helping in my own small way to keep this entry floating at the top of PR until its picked.

The lyrics to the Marsaillaise are something else though! Sort of a historical equivalent of gangster rap lyrics, n'est ce pas?

I specially like the last line - 'Marchons, marchons, qu'un sang impur, abreuve nos sillons'

roughly: Let us march, that impure blood may water our fields!

Well the full lyrics to the UK's national anthem aren't much better and Germany's has had some interesting lines in its day.
I guess noone's clean in that regard.

Did you know, that the second half of this article is now Pending?
I've never known subediting to happen so fast. Especially when the other half of the article is still in Peer Review.

This is good, and that's a cracking quote from William Pitt to end up with.

There are a few sentences which could be made clearer with a bit of punctuation, but I only have time to hint darkly at the moment - I'll try to come back tomorrow to go through it - but we're just talking minor weeny things here, certainly nothing that should be holding this up from being picked!

Keep bouncing ...

Mol

Well, rather irritatingly, the *other half* of this article has already been picked and edited
Serves me right for cutting it in half I suppose

This hasn't been picked yet???

Nope

Your Guide Entry has just been picked from Peer Review by one of our Scouts, and is now heading off into the Editorial Process, which ends with publication in the Edited Guide. We've therefore moved this Review Conversation out of Peer Review and to the entry itself.

If you'd like to know what happens now, check out the page on 'What Happens after your Entry has been Recommended?' at EditedGuide-Process. We hope this explains everything.

Thanks for contributing to the Edited Guide!

It has now!

Excellent...

Ah, a well timed is always helpful

Thanks whoever picked it