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

I once saw what I believe was a genuine Armitage paper clip, still wrapped in its Racing Post coupon.

A couple of years ago I was on a guided tour of a lard and tripe works in a small northern town. I was drawn aside by one of the workers, a shady looking character with slicked back hair and a pencil thin moustache, who reached into his pocket and pulled out a small package.

"Intrestid in this guv", he whispered, "Garinteed gennyuine Armytij. Only a tenner".

Alas I didn't realise what it was - if only I'd known.

Do you think Armitage will ever be featured on "Local Heroes"?

Sounds suspiciously like the wife's brother from your description.
There probably are a few of the damn things still around...

Any interest in co-operating on the sequel? This time the lock-out is in the suburbs of LA, where an alternative Armitage toils for an similarly-pointless virtual equivalent and (of course) spawns something horrible that goes on to infest pre-installed MicroSoftware worldwide.

Even if you don't fancy this yourself, suggested contacts would be welcome.

I'm struggling with it at the moment (being more in tune with Udderthorpe than California). Still, maybe I'll get it right one day...

In the meantime, thanks for the encouragement!
P.

First of all please accept a very large bucket of nice fresh with my compliments.

I thought the Armitage tale was great!

Intrigued by you request for collaboration on the Armitage follow-up, I visited your page and had a look at some of your entries. (I didn't have any with me at the time - hence the bucket at the top of this reply).

WOW! It must have taken an age to compile it all.

I'd like to help out if I can, but my visits to h2g2 tend to be a bit here and there depending on shift work and spare time. If you still want some input give me some idea of the problem areas and I'll see if I can come up with something. Like you I'm not too tuned in on California (it's along way from Scotland) but we may be able to fake it between us.

Keep up the good work!

Kandyman

PS while I was visiting I graffitied the Gents

Armitage sounds uncomfortably like my Dad.. he invented (and tried to patent a new kind of candyfloss machine, 3d television, and self-adjusting glasses (the last one he was beaten to the patent post by a lecturer at oxford).. when i was 4 he built me an electric car utilising the engines from a flymo..he also invented (and sold) a modem for the apple 2 and a contraption fro blowing EPROMs for the BBC B. And he had plans for building (although he never finished it) a hand held satellite dish that would focus a microwave beam at a distance of 2 or 3 metres forming a very unpleasant scifi handgun.... he was going to try it out on a pigeon but my mum stopped him. Last seen working on an electronic nose for a small company in Luton, he refused to tell me about any more of his inventions because "walls have ears" but assures me that something good is on the way..

If you want a photo of his garage and darkroom to use as a background image for Armitages' Triumph I'm sure it would look reasonably appropriate.

Hiya Kandyman!
(and ANDROKTONE)
Thanks for the fish. This is what we're here for.
The marks on the porcelain do indeed seem fairly indelible. Oh well...
It didn't take so long to write all that back at the Space, although the Weddell is going to be seriously upset when she finds out I've been spending my time on this. I'm pleased you like it, though. Anything you feel you can develop, just do it. (For example, the 'Church School' piece, although very non-PC, seems to be getting more topical day-by-day. I'm sure someone else can write this better and I'd love to see it done...)
I already explained the original idea of the Udderthorpe Project earlier in this Conversation. It became stand-alone and a kind of industrial archaeology piece after reading the guide book to a historic forge here in South Yorks. Any resemblance to ANDROKTONE's Dad is purely coincidental, as they say (but what a story. I feel humbled. I just hope the candy floss process isn't the one I thought I'd invented, that's all)
Yeah - I'm resident in Sheffield, although originally a Lincolnshire lad. Why are nearly all the rest of you Scots? Very disturbing...
Why don't you all have a C-LO? I'm feeling generous...

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