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

Perhaps it was an offsite picture.
I hadn't known that was there Eccentrica (Though you'd be amazed at the googleplexes of things I don't know ). I'm amazed.
I went looking for the newest version too. The link on Ben's page says it's for the Geocities version.
Is there a way of finding entries between Peer Review and Edited status or are they hidden while they're being considered?

All a bit too late now I suppose, but here is nice little addition to the "Mingy" debate.

I've just seen an advert on TV for cheese strings, as beloved by 10 year olds in their school packed lunches everywhere, which had the strap line.

"Stringy Cheese Not Mingy Cheese"

There were never any pictures in any of the versions I did - maybe the handcuffs were in another entry?

I am deeply shamed not to have the current version on Geocities. I will see what I can do...

Stringy cheese IS mingy cheese IMHO

Ben

The Geocities version has the latest version of the text; it has lost the Alabaster look, and the footnotes are in the main body of the text, not at the bottom of the page.

But it is there: linked from the first paragraph on my home page.

Ben

Scarier still, I suggested that the author write it, and submitted it to Peer Review...

Just realised that it desperately needs the following added, but unfortunately I missed the deadline.

Oh well, alas.

Maybe the Towers will let it sneak in.

B


**************

By their nature, having balls (the bigger the better) and being ballsy are masures of manliness. This is demonstrated by 'Colonel Bogey', a libellous but morale boosing British song of the second world war. This is the whistled theme-song to the movie 'Bridge on the River Kwai'. The words, which are never sung in the movie, are:

Hitler
Has only got one ball.
Goering
Has two but rather small.
Himmler
Has something sim'ler
And Goebells
Has no balls
At all.

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Bette Midler sang that in the film "Divine Madness".

AC/DC did a masterpiece of double entendre with the lyrics to "Big Balls".

In Star Trek, Ferengi ears are clearly equivalent to the above mentioned body part. Stroking them is a form of foreplay ("oomox") and people (e.g. Rom) are described as "not having the lobes for business" and suchlike.

H.
Trekker.

Still in limbo, I see... any news, Ben?

Incidentally, I've just updated my h2g2 naughty words list @ A677261 - Mark's finally given us a list of what words are on the BBC's list, so it should be a little more accurate.

Curiously, bearing in mind my comments above, c**k and p***k are apparently now on the list (as is a**e). So the BBC words list is becoming more gender-neutral!

Lucinda,

You asked what "s*****c" could be.

I'm guessing it could be the old word for cerebral palsy? As in what the charity "SCOPE" used to be called before it was called "SCOPE" - "The S*****c's Society", as it appears it would be called here.

Can't think of anything else it could be...

H.

Ah, nice work Hoovooloo - I emailed lucinda versions of yxd and cxxn, but sxxxxxc had me stumped - sounds reasonable...

Thanks to you both.

It's kind of sad how words start their life in the medical world, and slowly trek down to finish off as swear words or worse.

It is indeed - I see why Scope changed their name, but I dont really see why the word sxxxxxc shouldnt be used in the correct medical context - once a word has been abused and tarnished, is there no possible return?

I dont personally know anyone with cerebral palsy, so I have no idea whether the term sxxxxxc is now always assumed to be derogatory.

I may be wrong, but I'd lay the blame for the decline in the use of the word squarely at the feet of "Blue Peter" in the 1970s. Does anyone remember Joey Deacon? Surely it started there.

H.

I was born in 79, so you've lost me there I am afraid

is this entry STILL on holiday?

FABT

For those not languishing in their thirties, forties or fifties and instead enjoying the halcyon carefree days of their twenties - B******S! - a quick rundown on Joey Deacon. He had cerebral palsy. He was "adopted" by Blue Peter in the seventies. This involved his appearing on the show several times and the presenters involving him in a number of activities. This was presumably to teach watching kids compassion for the disabled - thus revealing a massive state of ignorance at the BBC of what kids are really like. Kids are CRUEL. It didn't teach any kid I knew compassion.

Instead, it taught them a number of new insults, including spack, spazz and any number of other variations, but possibly the most popular one was the simple and to the point "Joey". The tragic part, well, one tragic part, about this is Mr. Deacon probably never knew that, thanks to Blue Peter, his given name had become an insult across the nation - as in "Get off me you Joey", a line spoken by Simon Pegg's character Tim Bisley in the first episode of Spaced, series two.

I'm always amazed you can get away with saying "Felch". It describes an act FAR more disgusting (to me at least) than those described by any of the banned words (and that include b****r) but it seems to be swearing on a frequency so high the Moral Majority can't hear it, presumably because they don't know what it means. On the other hand, if the Moral Majority ever found out what it *meant* the shock would probably kill them.

Oh, and one more thing on the subject of "Felch" - I want to GO there: http://www.gotocity.com/local/2/us/MI/a/49831/

H.

Yes I remember Joey Deacon very well. You are quite correct that that is where the insult of spazz etc etc came from. It appeared in my school playground the day after his life was shown on Blue Peter.

Well, now that The S******s Society has changed its name to Scope, and that Blue Peter has become a lot less worthy in its aims, the insult seems to be dropping out of common parlance. Apart it seems from TV sitcoms, written by folk now in their mid 30s.

If anyone wants to know more about this subject, just type "Joey Deacon" into Google - there are plenty of sites dedicated to him, most of them far too politically incorrect to link to from here. The next post will be one such link, so if it's not there, you'll know why. If it stays - thanks moderators!

H.

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Yeah, thought so.

Never mind.

H.