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

But STUMPED are the baddies! CHOPPERS may be cheesey, but at least they have good morals!

This is true. I think I just feel annoyed at not being thought important enough for anyone to ask me what my powers are.

I'm here for you, man. You can tell me anything.

**Save the Hippos!**

Well, then I guess you should know that I'm a master of disguise, that I have highly atuned psychic powers, I'm exceedingly handsom and clever, and that I have the power to make grand entrances!

Psychic powers? OK, what am I thinking?

*Kudos casually wanders in, Binary Blaster in hand but not aimed at anyone in particular*

Hi there, folks...

*from a distance, his counterpart watches his actions through a crystal ball and shakes her head at him.*

Look, I really don't think you want me to go blurting that out all over the place in a public forum, Cookie.

Hmm. impressive. i don't need a psychic, though.I prefer to work alone.

That last pun was painful

Hmmm... if I had an aura like yours, Pu Denal, I'd prefer to work alone, too.

OK. this is the intitiation forum...you should have signed up elsewhere. at the moment, im putting you thru your pun paces, cos im going to be reforming choppers: all the old people arent around any more.

Do you mean that I am signed up and now have to engage in wordplay? Or do I just have to survive it?

your signed up. i need descriptions to go on the page. if you survive the tonnage of punnage going down, then you truly can be worthy of the name hero.

So, all I have to do is sit here an take it while you and the others play Attila the Pun?

that was punfull.

ill stop now. im not very good.

Never match wits with a fool. No one will be able to tell the difference! HaHA!

Okay, a description.... umm.... how's this?

"A mysterious Zanni of unknown orgin, this masked fool fights crime with his mind -- and his own personal soundtrack."

good. whats a zanni?

[im off to bed now, BTW...laters?]

[i'm sure you can read this when you return]

A "Zanni" is a collective and/ or generic term for a certain kind of stock character in the theatrical style known as Commedia del Arte (there are one or two guide articles on the subject, and I suggest you look them up if you want to know more). The Zanni are generally refered to as clowns. They are comical, masked characters (most Commeedia characters who aren't lovers wear masks), usually in the role of servants or slaves. Arlecchino is probably the most famous Zanni. He always gets the better of his master in the end. He dresses in motley and is the precurser of the Harlequin, a type of clown.

Zanni, by the way, is where we get the word "zany". As in "Look at those zany zanni!"

step forward etymology boy

now i know

anyone else?

*floats forwards, as if bobbing on an ocean*

Oh, sorry, I thought you were calling me "etymology bouy".

Maybe I should join?


Purrr...