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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A664085

I would very much appreciate any useful comments you may have on this humble entry, and ask only that it might be considered for a dusty corner of the Edited Guide.

Play nice, now.

This is absolute drivel - how did it get past the moderators?

Researchers like this should be banned for life not just from h2g2, but the Internet, and then flogged naked on horseback through the streets of London.

Only kidding.

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It's about time you got this thing done!

Not really necessary, but I was curious as to how they display the illustrated manuscripts?

Sounds like an interesting place on the whole - sort of a glimpse of the empire's spoils from its glory days.

Does it get a lot of visitors (and tourists) or is it more of a forgotten gem known only to the locals?

Really nice entry Chris.

So can I get a bonus pick in seven days to select it? Go on, you know you want to abuse your powers...


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Chris, when I say the words 'missing link' I fully intend both meanings. This entry is heading straight for the Sin Bin. Oh what joy! What joy!

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Nah nah na naaah nah!

Damn and blast!

Can't he do *anything* right?



When Chris posts the thread properly, I'll link to my comments here then?

Link? There's a perfectly good link there... Clearly my colleagues are having trouble with their eyesight this morning.

*Twiddles fingers; whistles gently*

Oh, by the way, 'illuminated' means illustrated when it comes to manuscripts. The first letter of each page is often made into a brightly-coloured picture. I'll put that in.

Ok, so has this one been sinbinned or not???

Anyway, regardless of that, another excellent entry from one of our italics...

Which probably means they're all spending far too much time writing articles and not enough time persuading the BBC to give us all free H2G2 teeshirts and Teletubby smileys

Just two little points

the phrase "...building in the previous two centuries" sounds a little strange to me, would "in the last two hundred years" be any better? Or is it just me who's strange?

Also, forgive my ignorance, but I had to look up the word "benefactions", which appears several times in the entry. Would it be better to vary the word a little and stick in "donations" or "gifts" a few times, just for us simple minded folk?


whisky

Apart from that, excellent, which as I said, just goes to prove you guys have got far too much free time on your hands

Hi Chris. As someone who knows the Fitz, I'd say thiss was a fair representation. The Egyptian display is excellent. On thing I'd change though; "but the highly decorated entrance hall was not completed until the 1870s by the architect EM Barry."
reads a little strange - how about "but the highly decorated entrance hall, by the architect EM Barry, was not completed until the 1870s."
Just a thought.
Frogbit.
(Viva la Trumpington Experience!)

Thanks for your kind words.

The only problem with the EM Barry bit is that he didn't *start* the entrance hall - only polished it off - so it's not entirely true to say that it's 'by' him. I see what you mean, though - it's not as flowing as it could be.

*thinks...*

This is a good entry and should become part of the Guide. The only thing I can fault is the use of the phrase "in the previous two centuries". This sounds like "in the two centuries prior to the one in which it was built". What you really mean is, in the 19th and 20th centuries. Could you get away from centuries and just say "over the years" or something like that?

I get your point; I've changed it to 'last two centuries'. Ta!

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Congratulations!

Well done, Chris!

Ha! Them Ol' Towers are cheating! Now *who* sneaked in that missing link?

* goes over to check the house rules *

tstststststs

Come come Bossel - Chris may have his faults, but I'd hardly describe him as a missing link...

I'll leave it up to his wife to, ahem..., judge his physical completeness , I was talking about the case of humbuggery somewhere around posting #1 !

I don't know what you can mean - it must have been a bug, or something...

Thanks everyone.