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

An old friend of mine, a Marine and a Karate instructor, said,"A man
without a weapon can run faster than a man with one."
The O Sensai of Aikido fame said,"Any confrontation you can't avoid is one you've lost."
Just thought I'd visit you,too.
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Very nice entry.

Great to see this get in the Guide. It is very funny - and also, perhaps, rather timely!

I wanted to Recommend it when it was in Peer Review, but thought it'd get rejected for being non-factual. I'm really pleased to see that I was wrong!

Congrats to HV.

I love this entry, and I'm so pleased it's finally in.

Congratulations, Hoovooloo!

Are you taking the dojo?
Confucius he say Man without Weapon has had acccident with zip fastener!

Congrats Hoovooloo. Got through in nearly pristine condition. Shame about the pic.
Frogbit.

Yes, well, beanfoto, tradition says eunuchs were very fierce fighters.

I love this entry - you are truly a master of the Nofek In Way.

Congratulations Hoovooloo!

I enjoyed the entry when it was in Peer Review. It seems to have made it through in nearly its original form, but I recall a lot of argument over it.

Congratulations to the author.

A big thank you to everyone who's complimented this entry. I was a labour of love. If you are interested in comparison, you can find the original (complete with picture, and the "arguments" (which I prefer to think of as "constructive discussions") hanging off it) here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A600085.

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Excellent! Thanks for the laughs

and even the "saturating a place with your absence" quote is there

Yeee! Haaaa!

Hmm, nice entry. But that quote by Sun Tzu seems wrong. I don't think the guy was talking about avoiding a battle, more about winning it without fighting. As he said elsewhere, "If you can make the enemy loose his will to fight, you have achieved the true objective of war."

Any battle you can walk away from, you can lie about later.

Yeah, the quote by Sun Tzu is slightly out of place. I know that's not what he meant. It went in for two reasons:

1. Gratuitous use of the tag - I knew there was already an entry on Sun Tzu and I hoped that people who read this and laughed would click the link and find out more about him.

2. It *sort* of fits. And the "misunderstanding" of the meaning of it is in character with the rest of the piece.

Thanks for reading, and more to the point, thanks for *thinking* about it enough to comment!



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I still feel the quote is out of place. But I'll let others decide about it.

As for Tai Chi, is that a martial art? I didn't thought it was more than that imitating slow motion.

Yes, Tai Chi is a martial art. Check out the article that HV links to (wot I rote)