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

What makes you think I knew! I had to look it up.

Alji ,{Guru},(Join The Guild of Wizards @ U197895)

I know that a disproportionate part of bodily heat is lost through the head. Maybe that's where they got the idea.

Well maybe, in future, you'll continue to do your own research instead of asking me!

and you thought you'd get a sensible reply...from me! Pah!

So what are you doing to this jacket anyway, FwT?

Wearing it of course

It's a jacket I have to wear at work when I'm packing bags, so that people can see me and holler me over...

As in "holler, is there anybody out there?"? Yes, I know the two question marks look odd, but it's punctuationally correct.

Where is everybody?

Noggin

Da Doc is here as usual, after a severe day yesterday at the beer fest!

Yay, what's up doc? One over the eight, eh? Even the knows when to stop. Anything interesting going on? If you're at a loose end try http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F19585?thread=216084&latest=1 Enjoy - if I've got the link right. Noggin

Hi Noggin. The beer fest cometh but once a year; and I ain't been since about '97 so it's a good excuse to get wrecked. Must check yer link. I'm all loose ends.

Me again Nog. I've said my piece to the girl called Ben. A bit radical I guess, but since it's early days in her project, when better? I have to say that I wonder if I'm too much of an academic to make suggestions about such a project. Maybe it's OK at some level. I can't try to dumb myself down to Mickey Mouse versions of things. Why should I. If FwT can cope, surely other youngsters can too. Can you advise, I'm confused?

Actually I was just sending you to the problem of evil thread. But obviously you picked up the project link. If there's some particular aspect of that you feel like writing a peice on you'll need to discuss it with Ben. Otherwise the contributions will be up for discussion before inclusion. It's generally a non-polemical project, as it's not about particular beliefs, but rather about belief in general. Give it a thought, and if you're in doubt drop a post on my personal space.

Noggin

Belief is fine by me, Noggin, because I'm a cognitive psychologist by PhD. Have a philosophical angle too, of course. Must surf back to the problem of evil, but the I've done it to death in the past I guess. Still, there's possible mileage there. Thanks for the steer anyway.

Psychologist! Does this mean we're all being pigeoned holed?

Mickey 'FwT' Mouse

Do psychologists do pigeon holing? Never featured in the course I took. Explain what you mean FwT. Sounds like a kinda daft thing to do, to me. Humbug, humbug!

Do please pay attention FwT. I explicitly said that you DON'T require a Mickey Mouse version of the arguments - so why should anyone else. Doh!

I was wondering if you'd notice that

And why should I explain myself: do you require a MM version of my arguments?

FwT: Poking fun, and probably a source of great annoyance

Ohmigosh, I thought that they were already MM versions. Oops! Soz, just poking fun!