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

Entry: How To - A40704554
Author: Malabarista - U1528154

'Honeydo' list? Is that the same as "roundtoit"?

good one Mala, thanks

GB

Slightly different. It's the "honey, do this" and "honey, do that" list

Ah, the question rather than the reply

Exactly. I'll have to add the "roundtoit" somewhere.

And links, of course.

Hee hee - and I'll have to change the title. Just discovered while doing a search for potential suitable links that the words "how to" bring up exactly zero results. They must be too short.

Or do I just leave it as an "unfindable" entry?

I found this! http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/how_to/

Thanks, lil! That'll come in handy!

Is "How To Do Something" a better title? I like the purity of just plain "How To", though...

How to achieve your goals in life?

How to realise your dreams/wishes?

Did you see Joanna Lumley's visit to the North Pole last night, lil? 55 years she's dreamed of seeing the northern lights and they were...spectacular. We were with her from the onset, Mala. You can chalk that one up for me.

If it's going to be 'How To', 'How To...' would be better

Definitely "How to....."


Babe! Isn't she absolutely beautiful?

Changed to "How To..."

And am confused by the Northern Lights reference

It was one of Joanna Lumley's dreams to get to see the Northern Lights.

GB aspires to see them too

Ok, getting closer. Who's Joanna Lumley?

She's an actress

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525921/bio


You are likely to have seen her on TV, but I can't guess which programmes you get to watch in Germany.

None, I don't have a TV! Never heard of most of what's listend, though.

What deprived childhood you must have had!

Oh, it's only since I moved out that I don't have one.

But it's already working. See, I'm hanging around in the relevant fora, researching by pestering real, live people. Now what was it I wanted to know how to do with that?

I can't remember now!

It was a bit weird reading this, as there seems to be a big point missing - ie what the thing is that the reader is trying to achieve.

I think it needs a bit more of an introduction, saying that no matter what the thing is that the reader is trying to do, this entry will help.

Also if the intention of the entry is to encourage someone to get on with something they've always wanted to do, then a 'Honeydo' list (which I'd never heard of either) seems to be not the right words, as that's about trying to get someone else to do something - which could be an entirely new entry!

There are 282 'How To' entries in the Guide, but they don't show up on a search. Weird.http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/Index?let=H&official=on&show=278&skip=392

"Now, break it down into steps, starting with the goal! What needs to happen for it to get done? What do you need to do to get to that point? Don't be too detailed, just write down the key words."

Is the list going backwards?