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

I dunno, that's how I ended up as Cartesian Coordinator on the campaign team.

Cartesian Coordinators are an unmapped region.

Besides, I like "Minister for Cushions". It could have been worse, say "Minister for Making Cattle Move".

Funny you should mention making cattle move. I know of a politically-connected guy in a college town who wanted a soft, cushy job in government. He finally settled on the post (an appointive post, but he knew a selectman) of Animal Officer. His main job was to intervene when someone's cattle wandered off their land and were impinging on somebody else's land. This was a college town, there were hardly any farms, so he figured this was as close to a cushy job as anyone could find. Well, he turned out to be wrong.

A week after being appointed, a herd of cattle jumped the fence and headed toward downtown. The guy was getting panicky now, so he called the selectman who had appointed him. "What do I do now" he demanded.

"All you have to do is go to where the cattle are, and herd them back to the farm where they belong," the selectman replied.

""But I don't know how to do that."

"You should have thought of that before you took the job."

The guy hung up. The selectman didn't hear anything more from him until that evening, when the two guys ran into each other downtown.

"So, I take it that you got the cows back to their farm?" the selectman began.

"Technically, no," the Animal Officer replied.

"What, are they still at large?" the selectman gasped. "You're supposed to go after them. It's your job."

"They aren't my responsibility any more," the Animal Officer said. "I nudged them across the border into the next town."

Is that story true? Could be - I've heard tell of coppers spending ages measuring the position of a dead body in order to prove it's just over the county border and therefore Somebody Else's Problem.

The person who told me *knew* both the people involved, so, yep, it's true.

Congrats, though I didn't vote 4 U never heard of ya until you won.

Whoever won, however, I was thinking "whats the point of all this unless there's a government to be president of?"

Is anybody interested in trying to form legislative and judicial branches of a proposed Virtual h2g2 Government?
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