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

Nah... it's never "scary".

It's often incomprehensible, occasionally quite perverted, frequently nonsensical, recurrently banal, ofttimes surreal, regularly bizarre, repeatedly about bread, generally laden with amusing typographical errors, sporadically shocking, but mostly harmless.

And peppered with more smilies than you can shake a Babel Fish at.

Thank you, Baron Grim, for nominating the 'Useless Facts' thread. That's exactly the sort of thing we were hoping for.

For ease of use, the QotD archive is here: A87720564

After a brief scan through, here's a few I think are worthy of consideration.

Three amusing and thought-provoking quotes:

01/04/2013: The Four Horsemen of the disastrous post: Typo, Haste, Myopia, and Culmsy fingers - paulh

29/12/2011: What I want to know is if singer and actors get honorary doctorates, why don't chemists and biologists get honorary oscars or grammys? - Xanatic

17/12/2012: I'd give my right arm for an extra limb! - Beatrice

Obligatory 2legs reference:

14/07/2012: 2legs, I don't think fire juggling is an appropriate hobby for a blind person. - Gnomon

And because my ego demands it:

24/10/2011: I was in 57 the other week - drinking lambics, eating cheese and schooling a cage-fighting Buddhist poet in the art of chess. - Mr603

Just put them all next to each other and claim that it was actually a conversation amongst yourselves, than request a title as a h2g2 challenge

re 24:

"17/12/2012: I'd give my right arm for an extra limb! - Beatrice"

Reminds me of the time when I accidentally uttered: "I'd give my right arm to be able to play like Clapton"

Just don't go shooting any sheriffs, Pierce.

http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/brunel/A36163901 - The Mundaneum. Always found that steampunk Internet fascinating.

Nobody has posted anything on this thread for nine hours? Really?

Belgium, man, Belgium.
Did you read Malabrista's wonderful entry on the Mundaneum
at the link posted above by KB.
Mind blowing stuff.
It kinda puts all this interwebby whatsits into perspective.

"...very approximately, an annexe to the brain, the substratum
of memory, an exterior mechanism and instrument of the mind,
but so close to it and so fitted to its use that it would truly
be a sort of appended, exodermic organ." - 1910

Its all from Belgium, man.


~jwf~

>>
The ideal 'scholar's work station' (1934) was envisioned as:

'...a machinery unaffected by distance which would combine at the same time radio, X-rays, cinema and microscopic photography. All the things of the universe and all those of man would be registered from afar as they were created. Thus the moving image of the world would be established -- its memory, its true duplicate. From afar anyone would be able to read any passage, expanded or limited to the desired subject, that would be projected onto his individual screen, thus in his armchair, anyone would be able to contemplate the whole of creation or particular parts of it...'


~jwf~

Thanks KB, I agree Malabarista's Mundaneum is brilliant.

No drift is stronger than the drift in h2g2 threads - with the possible exception of continental drift

How about Gnomon's "Gnomon Test with Conversations" (A36662664) as best PR entry? I think it shows the best chance of improvement

Well, we're not really inundated with suggestions here...

Thanks Nosebagbadger, you've given us some things to consider!

Yesterday I was thinking of suggesting "Foxy Manor", but could not find it

Today I googled it and found it is an "Article Pending Moderation"

F52250

Yesterday I was thinking of suggesting "Foxy Manor", but could not find it Today I googled it and found it is an "Article Pending Moderation" http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F52250?thread=106883

F52250?thread=106883

I am trying to take you to an ancient site in alabaster - obviously that's not possible

You'll have to google it yourself

I'd like to suggest Florida Sailor's Entry about printing newspapers for best Entry currently in PR: A87791089 And as an ongoing thread I want to nominate No no no!! http://www.h2g2.com/entry/A516647/conversation/view/F63252/T100492 Because it's certainly one of the best known threads on hootoo.