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

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It came in with that heading so who am I to argue? I think Pinn knows what he means.

shazz

Well, it doesn't scan properly and it's bad tempered.
Maybe it was written by a more cultured Vogon?

"Actually I quite liked it."

Actually I did. Do you think the tide is turning, the GB public has scunnered itself with Christmas chintz?

It has too much edge for Vogon.

It came to me, more or less complete, while gridlocked in a mall car park.

I don't like it at all, which is why I credited the Vogons. I'm not really as cynical as I sometimes write. It's just an easy way to make a noise, really.

The piece Shazz picked out for the Christmas edition of the Post has some similarities. I like that better, and some thought went into it, but the splicing shows. Particularly the first-paragraph reference to a character who never turns up. Salutory that I'm still making mistakes as basic as that.

Pin