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

Hi!

I thought I'd pop by to say that you've been nominated for AGG/GAG - a group of researchers looking for cool entries in the Unedited Guide, to feature in a weekly entry for the Post. Anywho, our homepage is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U187783

Please come by and chat to us - or talk here if you like - we're eager to help! For example, if you'd like someone to have a quick run through your entry for typos and such, or if you'd like it not to be featured till you've finished it - or anything else - just say!

Thanks!
-Lucinda

Yo Lucinda! Fancy meeting you here.
This was going to be my pick for the third entry in #3 too.
I'll leave you to it then.

I like! I like!

"Monty, you terrible c**t!" - wanna be in The h2g2 Post? Fame, fortune, your name in LIGHTS! All we ask is your soul... Whaddaya reckon? Fair bargain?

Spiff

Intro then:

The Aggressive German Generals / Glorious Anglophonic G.I.s present two stirring tales of tanks, guns, and architects. The author, h2g2 veteran _Uncle_Monty_, has not been seen at h2g2 for a little while. But his is a fine legacy. Read more about _World_War_One_ and _World_War_Two_.



{http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A587081 - is the WW1 piece)

By some incredible coincidence I have come back to h2g2 and happened upon this message - exactly a year to the day after it was posted. How uncanny.

Nice to re-read my history essays and learn that someone had finally read and appreciated them - though I must say I seem to have been in a hurry to finish World War Two - just like the Americans!

Hello Monty,

hope you didn't mind me calling you a terrible thingummy-bob!

funny you should return on the day, as it were.

You'll be pleased to know your learned dissertation on the little mid-century ruckus over living-rooms was a roaring success in the small pond of our Post column. Well, we all liked it!

you back? or just visiting?

cya (maybe next year)
spiff

Hi Spiff - no I don't mind at all.

Well, at the time I originally joined h2g2 I had sod all to do at work and was just passing the time, and getting on my high horse about a few things apparently. I have always wanted to be a writer, not neccessarily of humourous things - the World War One and Two articles were again just written to pass the time.

Considering I just sat and wrote them without any prior planning or editing or even a great deal of thought, I am pleased that some people saw them and found them funny. You never know - that might encourage me to try some more...perhaps a spoof of the war on terrorism? I'm sure someone here will have done that already!.

I know why I didn't pick up the comments on my articles when they were originally made - I was moving house - by the time all that was done and christmas was over, I got pretty busy at work and have been rushed off my feet ever since.

Today I am at home with a newish computer and my christmas present - ADSL. So had a wander into H2G2.

Bizarre! Were there any other comments on my WW1 & WW2 things? I'd be interested in reading them..