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

It's very much appreciated, I can assure you.

I can still give away Iowa though. As Grand Pooh-Bah of Ohio, whose College Football team just thoroughly kicked the ass of Iowa's (making my state superior and able to conquer and pillage Iowa), I feel it is my right.

And you still get to be Grand Pooh-Bah of Ohio even if we win, remember?

Doesn't everyone kick Iowa's, ahem, ass?

Yeah, *if* you win.
As soon as you win, the great state of Ohio will become a place of sanctuary for all the cute little hegemonies.

Iowa has some tough ones. Corn farmers, after all. Can't touch Ohio, of course.

Ah yes - 'Amber Waves of Grain'? - Or is that Indiana?

Glad to see the Ozark education policy is sticking to its guns on issues such as literacy and spelling Hedgemonies *hate* hegemonies. Who doesn't?

What? No, that's the whole thing. Purple mountains majesty, too.

I don't think hedgemony with a d is a real thing, Trin I've just googled around, and most of the examples of the word 'hedgemony' come from obviously confused forum posters.

Well, quite - it's a made-up word (made up by Serephina and Ged as far as I'm aware), one letter away from 'hegemony' ... and it's a letter which you are exploiting for your own nefarious ends!

The letter 'D'. Which would be a ridiculously charitable grade to award such an effort

(I was thinking of license plates - isn't that what Indiana has?)

I don't think I've ever used the d in hegemony. Maybe I have.
I just think that domination is cute. And furry.

I have no idea what Indiana's license plate is. I was thinking of the song.

Thanks I'll leave you to it

Domination is rarely cute. It can sometimes be furry. Or so I'm told.

(You are right next door, aren't you? I realise that's a relative thing, North America being the size it is, but I'd appreciate it if you could keep an eye out for Indianan drivers-by, because it's the sort of thing that will keep me awake all night if left unconfirmed)

Look at the Old Dominion, Virginia (that might be on their license plates, incidentally). It's pretty cute. State motto - Sic Semper Tyrannis. Vote Hyp - she'll be the next Washington.

I just looked up what's on Indiana's plate. I'm not telling though It's better that you don't sleep.

And that nickname of yours is the lowest sort of campaigning. We like the issues over at Ozark HQ. For instance, a new one of mine. Making the Italics wear powdered wigs. Or maybe just wigs.

Sic Semper Tyrannis - "always look after poorly dinosaurs?"

And exactly which tyranny is Hypatia looking to tackle anyway?

I've been and gone and looked at Indiana myself now, thankyou *humph*. It's not very exciting is it? But it will allow me to sleep.

"With Reddyfreddy, all things are possible" - nice ring to it, that

Is it safe to come out from under the server now?

We shall smash the the tyranny of hegemony smashers

Nice little play on the Ohio motto. Clever...

It did all go a bit frantic, didn't it? Just recently, it always seems to be around the same time too.

Hegemony smashers are tyrants? Sorry, that's lost me ... Let me try to work it out. Against a tyrant, but also against those who want to smash a hegemony? So ... protect the hegemony, by smashing the tyrant. Because the tyrant is the hegemony smasher. So you overthrow the tyrant because he threatens your hegemony! Right!

Maybe the comparison with Washington's not so fanciful after all

Not all hegemony smashers are tyrants. You two would happen to be. If you got elected, you'd be tyrannically smashing every hegemony that threatened your power. You'd be the worst tyrants since the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Hell, at least he didn't eat poor, furry little animals.

I continue to worry about the issues, and not the campaign, though. I am refining my italic powdered wig program.

So how are you going to enforce the powdered wig rule? How are you going to know the italics have their powdered wigs on anyway?

It's an important issue, I can see that - but is your policy viable?

Oh, I have eyes and ears everywhere. Did you know that Vincent/Paul sleeps on the couch of the h2g2 towers?

Besides which, I know the italics. I talk to them fairly regularly because of my UG and EG connections. If anyone can impose a powdered wig rule, it'll be the Ozarks.

Right, got you, inside track, friends in high places, strings to pull, paths of influence, long corridors ...

And THAT, my hedgey-boiling friend - and there's no other word for it - is called an HEGEMONY! Ha!

Hegemonies are my friend Still not sure what a hedgemony is.

But seriously. What qualifications do you and RF have for this esteemed office? A city councilman doesn't just run for President. He's got to get used to running things and dealing with the important issues, like powdered wigs for italics.

I don't think the president of hootoo *should* be too close to TPTB, but should be independent of influence and allegiance, able to stand up for the rights of the common researcher. Nor should he or she have too much practice with the traditional ways in which such things are run, but should arrive with his or her own ideas about how everything's going to work, new and fresh ideas.

(That's part of what I meant by the 'weirdness' earlier - every now and again I trip over an idea I actually agree with )

Oh goodness gracious, I'm not very close to them I'm just in communication with them. If you had read some of the UG Eds emails over the past years... I make it a point of pride that we're able to stand up to them when we need to. We got the UG blurb moved up on the Front Page because we stood up to them.

Why should practice in traditional ways hinder a party from coming to new ideas? I expect to consult anyone and everyone, as H does I'm sure, about the brand of powders and shade of the wigs. A strong leader can consolidate a group's ideas well to come up with good results.

You need only look at the White House to see what happens when one guy does whatever the hell he wants to all the time.