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

Entry: An Incident Behind the Comfort Zone - A53750595
Author: Tibley Bobley - U170471

Dmitri asked us to learn to tell an anecdote. So I'm trying.

Bel made me think about some of the unsavoury loos I've encountered. So here's an anecdote about one of them.

Yuk - that's even worse than my memory, just that it didn't happen to you.

Great description, I could 'see' it.

At least he had the decency to shower and change, so he must have been less drunk than thought.

That is beautifully described. I love the little touches, 'pheromone trail', indeed.

Great anecdote.

(I've got a few coming up for , as soon as the editors get back to work and tell me how to get them out of PC-gaol. No loo jokes, though...)

Thank you very much Bel and dmitri

I was just about to go over to the other thread and say something about the yikesing of your entries. Is there some way to tell whether they've really been yikesed, or it's the glitch striking, or the mods over-reacting?

Whatever the case, I look forward to reading them when they've served their time

We had the glitch a few times while uploading articles for now, but the entries were all back after a few minutes. I guess dmitri's entry must have triggered the filter, but I don't know what it was in Pinniped's entry. His original draft seems still to be there.

There were no profanities, not even mild ones, in my latest PR submission.
Now you come to mention it though, there was a notorious trigger of over-zealous net-nannies in there - mention of the town of Scunthorpe.

Somebody objects to Scunthorpe? Whyever in the world?

(I read your substitute copy with great pleasure, by the way, and am waiting for restoration before venturing comment.)

I blush to say that there was a bad word with *'s in mine. Guilty. Take me away.

This is very well described, Tibley.

And quite disgusting. I can just imagine him wallowing in it!

That's odd about Scunthorpe. I hadn't really thought that much about it but if I had, I would've assumed the 'filther' picked up whole words rather than groups of letters buried within words It would explain why so many innocent entries get hidden.

Thanks mVpoet. It's hard to imagine anything more revolting, isn't it? There's a little track on the edge of my village called Honeypot Lane. Everyone thinks it's a lovely name for a lane... until it's explained that honeypot was the old euphemism for cesspit. It doesn't half pong sometimes

A lovely...er... tale

I know that technically the pillion is the seat, but in practice I've only ever heard it refer to the person, so that sentence didn't feel quite natural to me.

Anecdote telling, eh, I might have a go at that!

Maybe it's a regional thing Beatrice. Round here we call the passenger seat the pillion and the person sitting on it is the pillion passenger.

I guess so!