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

Now THAT (above) IS a rhetorical question! Surely, (dont call me Shirley) it is obvious that many people grow up learning to read black marks (ink) on a white (paper) background. And to them this is the 'natural' way.
Reverse (white on black) advertisements first appeared in newspapers and magazines decades ago, quite by accident at first and then in a trendy fashionable way. I used to sell ad space in a glossy mag and far be it from me to suggest the advertiser was wasting his money on 'reverses' because no one ever read them. They are hard on the eyes, seem pretentious by nature.
Which raises , surely (dont call..), the question of the unlikely popularity of white or light-coloured lettering on dark pages in cyberspace, such as the aforementioned 'goo'. The question then really is 'why?' and no answer is satisfactory unless appended to an apology for being so easily amused.

~jwf~

hey - no replies! Except this is one! and no rules!

Oh dear - I'm all confused again...

Nope. Neither thing. No Anti-Christian remarks, and no efforts to make liars tell the truth, either.

hey! i'm the only soeasilyamused in this (or any) forum!!!!

my toenails are blue.

my toenails aren't blue - so I am...

-Lucinda

I wish I was like you: easily amused - 'All Apologies' -Kurt Cobain

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*looks up from ..licking*
Like all dogs, I'm only [doing THIS] because I can.
How-ooo!
This is the craziest thread I've ever tripped over! Not only is it off topic, no one ever really understood what the subject was and it never got on topic. Or was that the subject?
I only ask this because...

It is really hard to find a decent acid-dealer, when you're 40 and live in suburbia.

Top Ten Reasons to Be at H2G2 Today:

10. I could be doing something constructive.

9. I enjoy checking out all the cuties in their frilly knickers.

8. Visiting h2g2 almost /never/ causes sunburn.

7. Smileys -- and Deeper Meanings.

6. None of my blood [curdling] relatives is here.

5. Tattoo and body-piercing parlours are not open this time of morning.

4. H2g2 does not discriminate against smokers .

3. Nobody here cares how ratty my nightie is or that I didn't bother to change.

2. I need practise not reacting when I am insulted; I am almost guaranteed to be insulted at least twice a day here.

1. The sensation of Big Brother breathing down my neck is an incredible turn-on.

The next time someone tries to tell me I'm a coward, I can look them straight in the eye and say, "I drove my own car around in downtown Tijuana."

What would happen if all people had to *feel* the effects of our words and deeds?

Humanity would suddenly go mute, and only constructive things would happen.

What a concept.

Needless to say, Antisocial Personalities would not be affected.

It would help people to spot them.

Then what? They're something like a quarter of Humanity... At least, the rest of us would know. It could be informative in other ways.

Governments would collapse. So would most human psyches.

Oh well, so much for that idea.

There's a science fiction short story about a man who, when he finds out he has only 6 months to live, starts killing rude people. Word spreads. He's clever and no one knows who the Rude People Murderer is. It's set in the USA. All over the country, people start saying 'please', and 'thank you', and remembering to hold doors for their elders, and not cutting in queues. Cabbies become friendly. Dock-workers stop cussing. Nobody litters. People get quiet.

Every so often, there's another body, with a note that says 'didn't stand up for pregnant woman on bus', or 'first-named her elders', or 'didn't stop to assist an old woman across the street'. Occasionally, there are even notes that say 'used the wrong fork at a five-star restaurant', or 'showed up at the opera without a tie'.

The United States becomes the most soft-spoken, gentle, and courteous society on Earth.

'Used racist epithet', 'urinated against a wall', 'abrupt with his mother on the phone', 'car radio too loud', 'bossy to children'...

Interesting story.

I am silly and naive and believe people aren't *really* like this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F52180?thread=124786 Oops. No links. No rules either. WhutEVer.

Mary, I told you to stop fooing around with those angels!!

fooing? How does one foo around? Sounds fun!

-Lucinda (who's giving up on the whole 'no replies' thing )

Holding hands and singing spirituals just wasn't accomplishing much...

i.... have a belly button.

....if I don't vent I'm going to crash my car on the drive home.

crashing your car is probably the WORST thing to do if you're angry... you're liable to kill the other driver. or yourself...

Colin Powell, you have my deepest sympathies as you go to try to work out a peace agreement in the Middle East. I know exactly what you're going through.