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

Lots of people /claim/ to.

Thats one of the main problems in life

-- DoctorMO --

Actually, isn't the thing about life after death that it can't exist? 'Cos life ends at death. So you can't continue something that's ended after the time it's ended, can you?

Except a Man utd football match...

Ah, yes.

Who was it that speculated that everything happens for a reason, except perhaps football?

I'm not entirely sure there's a reason for Crown Green Bowls either.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was no reason for homework...

I had a very good reason for never doing it- I couldn't be @rsed.

Yes, and then teachers get angry. And the problem is, either they foam at the mouth, or they just talk to you very reasonably until you are reduced to just mumbling "'es" into your shirt and wishing you would melt into a puddle with a pair of shoes at the centre.

That was the only way to tramitise(SP?) me.

homework, it's one of thouse things that should never be, you are either at home or at work not both. like DFFMars bars,

-- DoctorMO --

What are DFF Mars bars?

Homework is annoying , but it does mean that you learn more quicker.

No it dosn't, I know people are difrent but I learn like this... I pick up a bit of information, it is avulated at to importance and stored in /n/ number of times in brain acording to importance. so if say everytime you went into a lions cage you got attacked by a lion, the information would be stored about a million times. As for names and numbers they don't realy mean anything to your brain so they get left behind somewere. but writing it out, yuk no way does that help, it makes me board and lazy.

-- DoctorMO --

Writing essays is annoying to me but it does help me collect my thoughts. I find stuff in my brain I didn't know I put there.

...but it rarely has anything to do with what you're righting the essay about.

No, really, it's about 50- 50.

I was writing an essay last year abot comparing the Nixon and kennedy presidencies, (and I managed to quote a lot of Hunter S Thompson *and* get a good mark) but for some reason found myself instead trying to think how many people I could think of who had done Dire Straits cover versions. I got as far as Chet Atkins and Dee-Tah an that was it, but it bugged me all night.

Yeah, I know the feeling. I'm writing A653861 at the moment and all I can think about is egg- custard tarts.

I've always found egg-custard tarts a very philosophical entity.

There is no egg- custard tart.

Well in that case nhey exist purely as a metaphysical concept.