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

A416747 "String Theory - the Alternative".
One of the funniest weird scince pieces I've found.

We have a couple of others that have been waiting too, too long, like the Dark Sucker theory. But I'm not sure if an all 'weird science' issue wouldn't be too-too much of a good thing though.

They are my favourites and seem the most appropriate 'entries' for this site. It seems everybody is inspired to do at least one weird science entry in the spirit of the late great DNA, founder and mentor.

The sheer number of them speaks volumes (in a democratic head count kinda way) about what people expect at a site called h2g2. I'd like to have at least one in every issue - but that's just my humble opinion.

peace
jwf

Noted.

Keep an eye on this space:
A722053

A newbie effort.
Should we support, promote, annex...

~jwf~

?ignore?

Notice the first member of the Academy...
Not Marquis of Queensbury Rules...
not that Wilde ever followed them...
he followed the Marquis' Son...
very closely...

Interesting question.. if we were to endorse a Comedic Award ..what should we call it?


Must confess Wilde's definition of a cynic - 'someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing' - made an impression on this young (age 12) mind as I stared at the quote inscribed on a quirky memorial plaque in the school Principal's office.

I was waiting my turn for corporal punishment and while I was too young to know what a homosexual was I did recognise a clever and iconoclastic wit. The quote stuck with me and I even remember the Principal's parting words, "Let that be a lesson to you." It was.

Years later, knowing better, I would avoid reading or quoting Wilde and even denied knowing anything about him. Inevitably, more of his work and his life have made themselves known (mostly through cross references and other people's footnotes).

Today, as my hormones retreat to pre-pubescent levels, my homophobia has mellowed, and with no machismo-bias/kneejerk repugnance for the source, I can once again consider his wit on a purely intellectual basis. Or am I kidding myself, the two cannot be separated and it's still a question of taste.


jwf

Homosexuals and ethnics were something my mother always warned me about. Unfortunately, it was the whites and the straights that have made my life a living hell.
I always found Wilde interesting for the same reason I found Coward or Tallulah Bankhead interesting. That Gay Bugaboo I was talking about. Intelligence and flamboyance can go together. Rare is the boring straight who can string a sentence together or behave in a manner to make me look twice.
That's why I never had much use for Jim Morrison or Mick Jagger. Too middle class for me. Now their guitar players, that's a different story.
The whole thing about the trial was another case of a government slamming down on something for public consumption that they normally winked at in their private lives.
Unfortunately, that same kind of wishy washy "breaking a butterfly on the rack" thing popped up with Alan Turing...

If I was going to name a humor award after someone, it would be Edgar Allan Poe, whose hoax essays were absolutely hilarious, or ol' Willie Shakespeare. The whole family was watching a modrin version of "Midsummer Night's Dream" the other day and we laughed until out stomachs hurt. I particularly like that bit about the wall in the play put on before the duke... The gag about the stones and the aperture...

So, I guess we could call it the Poe Willy....

Support or promote, but not annex. If the idea lost interest by its creators, we could sorta FLEA MARKET the idea and try to keep it going. Until or unless that happens, I don't see how we could squeeze into ownership or partnership of the idea with them. Just support or promote.

Today somebody dumped at least a dozen new articles into the Flea Market.

Because I subscribe to that Forum, it means most of my regular conversation threads got pushed back down the page, and if I missed one you where may have expected an answer from me, please accept my apologies and be good enuff to update any such threads after these new Flea Market notices have sunk down a bit.

The good news is, a few of them are pretty good. I liked How to Star Gaze - at first I wanted to 'edit' and give it some paragraphs and white space - but by the time I was finished it seemed to work the way it is laid out, like a dense cluster of black nebulae on a white space. Lucinda seemed to be involved in 'Problems with TV' at some point. It too is one I see with AggGag all over it.

There are several others - good ones. Maybe someone will snag them for refurbishment or maybe they'll just sink lower and lower until we dredge them up again.

Do you ever catch yourself using more words with the letter 'g' in them since joining AggGag? (See previous paragraph for 'snag,dredge,good,again')

peace
jwf

See me after class.

jwf,

If you look just below the list of your "recent conversations" on your user space, there should be a link showing "click here to see more conversations." You'll be able to find all your other conversations that were pushed back somewhere in there. I've been able to track back to conversations from months and months ago.

A few weeks ago, there was a thread called 'how many conversations are you subscribed to' which I found interesting. Within the first 20 posts, someone reported doing a search of the more notorious h2g2 gabbers.
There were a couple with over 4000 but I still made their top ten list with over 1000. Last time I looked I had thirty seven pages of 'other conversations'.
In my defense I haven't actually posted to all of them - like those Flea Market announcements for example. When you subscribe to Forums instead of just single conversations, you get all sorts.
I'm just lazy I guess, but I generally only need to look at the first page or two to stay current. I'm online regularly and that usually keeps me up to date for the past 24 - 36 hours, unless a load like today's shoves everything back and I get lost in the land of strange (new) subject lines.
I wanted to warn Aggers everywhere that because of this load of new Flea Market material I might have missed one of our (three-dozen-or-more) threads if it was updated more than 24 hours ago.

*note: to count how many threads someone has, go to their 'other conversations' and keep adding numbers to the part of the URL where it says "&Show 50" or in my case "&Show 1000"*


jwf

Mine says 650, back to Nov. 3, 01.

In any case, go to your AGG/GAG page and look at "They Laughed When I Sat Down A The Computer"

Ignore. It's a seperate idea, really, and it'll get enough attention if the author keeps it going and advertises it appropriately. Not really relevant to our 'mission plan', imo.

Ignore. It's a seperate idea, really, and it'll get enough attention if the author keeps it going and advertises it appropriately. Not really relevant to our 'mission plan', imo.

Re Post #9: It's Flea Market day again. Guess who had a hand in there...

Why is it only that every thread on AGGGAG strays off topic somewhere around posting #5 ??


Here's a blatant attempt to pull it back into track...

A395778 The Puma
A395787 Deadbeat
A387146 Asymmetric Hydrochronology
A375950 Do your ears hang low?
A372502 1st Law of Ice Cream (Joel's Observation)
A371387 Marketing Geniuses

perhaps this one too?

A76213 G. and T. anyone?