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

Clive will be around eventually to gabble you into the clan...


Real life has been catching up with him lately.

Its always agrivated when real life does that, isnt it?

william gibson reckons jetlag is the animus being stretched out and left behind by the corpus but maybe youre on to something maybe its real life catching up with our imagination

I think your right.

on a related note, you know the saying "fact is stranger that fiction"?

well wouldnt fiction keep getting wackyer and wackyer to stay ahead of fact? but then if fact becomes so strange as that it distroys the perpose of fiction would the two switch places and start over? could this have happened in our history before like the magentic poles flipping?

good Lord ive even confused my self...

yeah but which version.....Robinson Crusoe or Gulliver's Travels?

i dont actaully know...


to continue.... is there such a thing as a blending of fact and fiction, in the litteral scence, (not like historical fiction) would it be called facticious fiction? which for all intenceive purposes calls logic into the question, as in if that happened, what would happen to all the fition writers in the world, would they just POOF and dissapear? would they become FACT writers? would they form a rampaging mob to fight the (logical? quite possibly) ruling power of fact-iction?

Ooohh boy....

i need a drink

care to join me?

how about "history is written by the victors" which implies historians (you cant get much more supposedly factual than historians ) dont tell the whole story...ie they lie...ie they write fiction...ergo KILL THE HISTORIAN AND THOSE SPLITTERS THE ARCHEOLOGISTS


dont mind if i do

which means what we think is history could just be the product of some mans deranged imagination...?

thats cool.

or it could be translated to mean that men named victor write all the "history" (of fiction how ever you want to look at it,,,

this is getting interesting.

Cheers

history IS the product of some man's (called victor ) deranged imagination

also politics, education, religion (as distinct from God), traffic laws, and polka music

i second all of those and would like to add to the list, yogurt, the entire years calender(extra day every four years except for every one hundred years? come on), and the sport of bocce.

i wonder how many victors there are around?

isaac asimov suggested a 10 day week with 3 day weekends and an international holiday every 4 years and 100 years to resync the calendar and the seasons

they come in pairs dont they, the victors and the defeated...LOSERS

well thats not entirely true, there could be three fighting things (well just use badgers as an example.) two of them gang up on one, causing a losar and two winner. but badgers being violent fight eachoter and one wins which makes

a victor (the badger who was originally named steve was forced to change his name

a semivictor/loser

and a loser. but for the most part what you think is true.

ah yes the "omnipotent, omniscient badger that shall not be named otherwise called steve" theory

Badgers? BADGERS? We don't need your steenkin' Badgers!

Just to get away, momentarily no doubt, from such trivia:
My
It has to be SPORK.
My parents had a set of Splayds. Poor apologies for the mighty they were too.

Well fooon is no good anyway - no one can spell it!



..... and there's no other wondrous smiley like a

When you have a badger, badger, and badger, wouldn't you also need a mushroom and snake?

I don't know, but it sounds good. You must give me the recipe...

Is that a threat?!

Mmmmmmm, badger and pie!