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

Just be careful: too long on them and we might be able to tear along the perforations.

FM - would you care to explain the last remark? I've no idea what on earth you're talking about!

For clarity about my previous posting - the balance required in this entry would be to include something about the positive side of this roundabout. It was obviously intended as something to save lives.

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Well, that's in the introduction. It *isn't* my entry: it's someone else's. They obviosuly have lived next to the thing and driven it often. I have driven it only once. My experience was quite close to theirs. Nuff said.

PS, my last remark was in response to Geggs' 'Goodness me, these fence posts are rather sharp to sit on, aren't they?'

This is rather nice link showing it in various aspects:

http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/magic_roundabout.htm

and here are some different comments:

http://www.hebig.com/archives/000989.shtml

and some positive comments;

http://www.jasperfforde.com/swindon/album2.html

http://home.san.rr.com/roundabout/english.htm

http://www.roundabout.net/DIBcounterflow.html

Allright, allright. Gawd, you don't give up, do you? I'll work the positive comments in, but on the proviso that it doesn't detract from the original.

Right, I've put in the comments. Hope you can't see the joins.

Whatver your view" > Whatever your view

it might be useful to say that the roundabout was installed in 1972. Can I persuade you to include a link to it in the body of the entry? There are a couple of nice explanatory ones, FM.

Done, as requested.

Great subject for an entry, but I don't find much of the original author's humour... humorous It's rather forced and unfunny. I know we can't all write as well as Gubernatrix, but her entry on Kilburn A1171603 is everything an entry with a touch of irreverence should be.

Now contains a link to the TV program.

Gosho, your comments are well-received, as always. Still, humopurs is a very personal thing, and most people seem to giggle at this, anyhow.

Now contains a link to the TV program.

Gosho, your comments are well-received, as always. Still, humour is a very personal thing, and most people seem to giggle at this, anyhow.

aargh, doublepost (after typo corrected)

Personal thing - very true. Not mine on this occasion, but a good entry nonetheless.

Another typo for correction;

'revolutionary'1traffic-control device > 'revolutionary'1 traffic-control device,

It reads better now, although I'm not sure I would call the roundabout 'misguided' - I wonder what would work as well - or better?

'Idiosyncratic', perhaps?

That typo is a formatting problem. I've done a couple more minor changes and added a humurous aside of my own.

The 'misguided' referred to the view that people had of TMR, not TMR itself.

Just an aside for ZSF:

I'd be wary of using
http://www.jasperfforde.com/swindon/album2.html
as an example of people' approval: an awful lot of that site is intended to be funny in a deadpan way. Notice that the next picture in the album is of a mammoth incursion, since in Fforde's "Thursday Next" books Swindon is on the mammoth migration route.

http://www.jasperfforde.com/swindon/album3.html

Azara

I'm wondering about whether the entry would be improved by excising the last section about Neds and their mating rituals. Thoughts, anyone?