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

Lots of people say "ooh! I found a mistake in the film!", like the phone not being plugged in, in one scene and other such nonsense.. But getting at the fact that the american way of spelling doesn't include the "u" in favourite, colour, or harbour, etc... *sigh* words defy me...

Sorry about that, but someone has said that to me before and its so irritating to see their ignorance! (But i'm guessing you didn't know about why it was spelled "harbor"?)

aka (",)

Sorry, I *am* aware of the idiosyncratic American approach to spelling words like colour, honour, and harbour, etc... I wasn't having a pop at American English, it was a joke, honest.

And while there are lots of little bloopers in the film (disappearing scarves and what-have-you) I would never nitpick about things like that. Especially not when the rest of the film was so overlong, badly structured, cliched, poorly acted and melodramatic.

Friends across the ocean (he said hopefully)...?

Don't ask me, I'm British anyway

But it was just the way it came across as nitpicking with "oh look how bad a film it was - they couldn't even spell the title right", which got to me..

Friends across the river then.. or lake.. maybe puddle! You never know- as goes the cliché, Small World... Where is your "neck of the woods", to use another cliché?


aka (",)

PS: I see you tried to type Cliché in your reply; on most keyboards you can do an eacute ( é ) by holding down
[Alt Gr] and pressing [ E ] ..

Thanks for the tip.

(é - hey, it works!)

Believe it or not I'm not *quite* so dumb as to think a major studio would release a film with the title misspelt... They have people who check that sort of thing, I expect...

Wasn't implying anything of the sort in the first place!

what a start to a friendship

I see you read *my* article too Thanks for the bit on the Titanic coincidences and if you find my reply a *little* too long and boring, I'm sorry but i do tend to go on sometimes - Some people don't believe it's actually me behind the character of aka (",) When they hear me speak.. you see when you're typing you have more time to think than when you do if you're speaking, so more ideas come into your mind.. For instance, You could be asked what you would do with a million pounds ( or €uros ) and go get a coffee while you think!

Anyway, I see myself heading that way again so i'll stop here

aka (",)

Don't beat yourself up over it.

I'm less than verbally dextrous myself and appreciate the less frantic pace of print communication...

Only pleased to return the favour and visit your column. An interesting (and broad!) topic to cover.

Very! I mean, It seems everyone else just does their column because it's good, the topic they cover, they like it.. But it doesn't fascinate them - I mean, When was the last time a new movie phenomena came your way? or one of Wowbagger's excellent h2g2 life cartoons jumped off the page and walked off? (there's an issue where I covered something weird with a computer happening if you look on the back issues page which you can find on the post special pages page [not the clubs and socieies page]) But this topic, the Paranormal is one you can really get into

aka (",)

Um, I write about movies partly because I think it's only right to try and have a focus for the column, and the cinema is a topic I know quite well and can guarantee to have new material for on a regular basis (plus it gives me an excuse to go to the pictures a lot). Not having a focus and just wibbling on about whatever I felt like would be very self-indulgent - I mean, every person on this site could do that, I'm not so gifted or witty or erudite as to be anything special...

And I think we can learn a lot about ourselves from the kinds of films we make and see (see my piece on the effects of Sept. 11 on the film industry - link via my Space).

That's my excuse, anyway...

Well, I started my column out as a few linked together entries about ghost stories... and *now* look where its grown to be!!
I think you can tell I'm a little (understatement alert) intrigued (there goes another ) by the "unknown" - Which involves Ghosts, Crop Circles and "Aliens", Psychology and the Mind, Planetary effects on us (Take the moon, for example - When it is full - It is a fact, though not many will agree to put it down on paper, that there are more deaths, crimes, hospital cases, and accidents overall when the moon is full.. just listen to 1089 AM from 10PM (in the UK) on a sunday when the moon is full.. (its actually a damn good show at times, so whenever is a great time but anyway...) It is at its most surreal and weirdest when the moon is full Trust me.. That's a fact

Where was I? Oh yeah.. all aspects of the Unknown.. and let me just tell you: If you're going to use a Ouija Board, remember, turn the glass the right way up after the session, don't smash it - Turning it the right way "releases" the spirit.. the glass, shall we say is its "cage".. so imagine you were in a cage, and somebody suddenly destroyed it.. what would happen to you, do you think?

Not recommended - It has happened before, I know someone who did a Ouija Board at school, and once the glass was smashed, they ran away, and when they returned to the place they smashed it, it had returned, in one piece. Also I know someone who did it properly and they were ok

aka (",)