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

Entry: Sub-editing and the Lost Art of Rejection - A377552
Author: John-the-gardener, h2g2 Friends of Tibet - A2170982 - U33262

This is based on a collection of stuff that I've kept for sentimental reasons for quite a long time.

It was more or less written backwards, from the middle bit to the beginning, the end having been tacked on just before the title just so that the whole thing stands upright by itself.

Interesting. I joined h2g2 only a year after it started and there was no trace of this. The present system of Peer Review hadn't yet been introduced, but you still sent entries to be picked. (One of mine got picked in only 23 hours!)



I suspect that this entry will never be picked. It is about h2g2, rather than about Earth. The Post might be interested it.

In the beginning, the idea was that the thrill of having written something should be enough, but, in case it wasn't, you could submit something to be rejected. In practical terms, it doesn't make much difference, of course, since to fail at being rejected is the same as succeeding. The joke soon wore thin, it was felt, and the terminology changed.

I take your point about this being more about h2g2 than about the stuff that isn't h2g2. I hadn't thought about that... not enough, anyway.

Thanks for the comments.

Hi there
Let’s see.

There’s sort of a precedent for this kind of thing. Spiff wrote an entry on h2g2 footnotes that was accepted, so there’s a precedent for writing about the EG in the EG. Gnomon here recently made a small self-reference in an entry on Blackbirds this week (in a footnote, as I recall). I think you'll have to get italic approval to keep this in PR.

They’ll never let you link to U-spaces by the way... They wouldn’t let someone link to U42 in reference to DNA.

Having said this, I enjoyed this. I read this stuff a while back, when it was more or less just your responses. Very funny

That was a kind of a simulpost

Nevermind, if you're withdrawing it from PR.

Thanks, Jodan. I hadn't thought about the U links either. To think that I used to do this for a living...

Boy, things have changed... they paid you guys?

Well... not in actual money, come to think of it.

Ah
I read you original subs got signed cards from DNA. That counts, I'd say

More than up to a vast amount of money.

You want me to showcase it in it's own CAC?

Actually, on second thought, I think this entry and any others like it ought to be shelved in the Guide under the rubric of Reminiscence.
The time might come when those who were here at the beginning might be no longer with us and I think it would be a sin for people to think that this site just popped into existence.

Any others like it?

The time will certainly come when those of us here now are no longer here. Even h2g2 came from somewhere, just like everything else. Where it came from makes it special.

How morbid.
(For me at least... I'm not leaving until I die...)

It's nice to see a senior h2g2'er to show it's possible to hang on that long

Also nice to see it was different some time ago. Gives me hope for the future.

Anyway, thanks. I should sleep...

Sleep... yes, good idea. G'night.

Waht time zone are you in, M'lord(etc)? The cock crowed here hours ago.

Central US

So your an hour behind EDT?

Oops... that should have been "you're".