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

Like a virgin.


~jwf~

I read your post, ~jwf~ ('Like a virgin') and then turned back to the book I had open in my hand (a biography of Pierre Trudeau) and my eyes fell immediately on the phrase 'a Catholic girls' school in Montreal'



(p. 71 of Nino Ricci's biography of the Man in Penguin's 'Extraordinary Canadians' series, for the record.)

Branson scares me.

Branson scares you?
I am scared shutluss of becoming "EasyPedia" with e Greek owner.

! Martin
---
I thought I heard a Dolphin Whistle...

Get Stephen Fry to be our patron

Isn't "QI" on the "H" series at the moment?

Help, handout, ???

EasyPedia?



AOL bought the Huffington Post. Google has bought lots of things. Maybe the Microsoft network would like to consider us. Or how about Facebook? We have well-written articles, while all they have to offer is socializing. We would give them a sense of class, and some very witty and sociable rsearchers.

(I'm just playing 's advocate here. We have some nice things that some much bigger and better-known entities don't have...)

Anhaga scares me, reading causally about PET ...

Branson scares a lot of people the same way Zaphod Bebblebrox
scares most people. But he's 'into' cyberspace! We could help.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/05/richard-branson-project-app


~jwf~


PS: The Huffington Post site mentioned above
was recently sold to AOL for $125 million.

Branson has a massive dose of that same 'golden' majesty
and mystery as Zaphod Beeblebrox and many 'natural' blondes.

As children they know they are different and special. They
dream of slow-motion jogging, like Bo Derek on the beach in
'10', their flowing locks floating in a golden halo mist.

With Branson and Beeblebrox the difference that makes them
gods is they have an impetuous desire to realize this dream
by pissing in zero gravity.

Branson will one day make his dream to come true with his
space-tourism project. In zero grav his urine will spread
into a gazillion microscopic droplets encircling his golden
locks in the golden mist that most blondes can only dream.


~jwf~

I don't know a whole lot about Branson, but I seem to remember that he inherited (or grew up in a family with) a lot of money. I know lots of blond people who didn't inherit much (or any) money. If Mr. branson would help us, I could learn to appreciate his good points, which he must surely have. I've enjoyed some of the CDs that have come out of his Virgin records.

The only downside with Richard Branson is he gets bored with projects once he's wrung the publicity out of them. Also, Virgin Media has just sold Living TV, Bravo, Challenge, Channel One etc to Rupert's spawn. I also heard they were wanting to flog off their UKTV shares which makes me think the purse strings are a bit tight over there at the moment. If we were bought by Mr B I would think that would be the bit of his empire we would end up in. Besides do we want to be just a small bit of such a big pond?

I think the AOL purchase of the Huffington Post is an interesting analogy. HuffPo is largely a collection of columns written by the users, much like the Guide.

Perhaps GeoCities could buy us: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=3&url=www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/home

Or maybe Compuserve.

I just had a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe

AOL bought Compuserve!

"do we want to be just a small bit of such a big pond?" [Radox]

We already are. None of us had any choice about the matter. We may have a choice now, depending on how the dice roll. One particularly sad part of it was the demise of Mr. Adams not long after the BBC took over H2G2. It's anybody's guess how things might have turned out had he lived ten more years. Might he have bought H2G2 back?

I'm just off to check my lottery ticket. . .





hmm . . .




'Anhaga's Guide to the Galaxy' has a nice ring to it . . .

Does your galaxy have any planets with chocolate or sausage on them?