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

Don't fret, Parkinson was wrong:

The last 100% of a project does not take (100-100)% of the time available. Though I often wish it would.

-Spike A.

The Auden poem quoted above btw is not really called "Funeral BLues" that title was created at the time of the film - it's actualy just called Song IX from a sequence called Twelve Songs.

The Joys of Separation by Tony Harrison

"She wants more and more and more new men in her.
He finally finishes Anna Karenina."



from U.S. Martial (1982)

Ah, an inspired rhyme. However, I still like:

"... he goes to the Regatta,
he adores the girl next door,
and he's dying to get at her."

from the Kinks' "Well Respected Man".

"You're a good man Lietenant. A good man knows his limitations"

Clint Eastwood. Magnum Force.

DON'T PUCH THE CLOCK - PUNCH THE BOSS.



(A little message of solidarity with the lads down at RMT)
And read the frontpage entry on the Flint strike:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A672310
Its how our rights (and the west) was won.

'Help! I've run out of quotes!'
Me, just now.

As a somewhat neurotic writer, I love these two:

'I have had many troubles in my life, most of which never happened' - Henry Ford

'I hate to write, but I love to have written' - Benjamin Disraeli

Whre nothing is sure, everything is possible - Margaret Drabble

Satan [regarding a football hooligan newly arrived in hell]: Look at him, he's got no idea where he is; just knows it's somewhere foreign.
- Old Harry's Game (Radio 4 series, sorry, I forget the name of the writer)

I quite like that quote, but I'm just going to ignore you Nickname.

"I think you ought to know i'm feeling very depressed..."

-Marvin

There were tears in Essex on Saturday.

Ah Henry Ford: 'Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can't, you are right.'

From the Record (?) on the subject of Caledonian Thistle beating Celtic last year or the year before: 'Super Cali go Balistic - Celtic are Atrocious'

And from Napoleon Hill (can you *believe* that name?)- You are what you think.

Ben
(who loves puns, and has read too many books on self-improvement)

3 Great Quotes DUDE. Check out Wolfie postings there are 2 of them l was INSPIRED. Not shouting!

Presiding Judge: Why did you spit in the face of the constable

Christabel Pankhurst: Because my hands were restrained and i could not strike him.

There's another pun on the Mary Poppins song....

Super calligraphic raster SPX projectors.

A type of projectors used on Flight Simulator Visual Systems.



Bassman

Ben, you've read self-help books and you still like puns? That wasn't very successful.

Bob, unreformed pun-lover.

Face the with a smile. Be willing to go that extra mile to help a friend. Be free from sin. believe in Chirst and by the by be on the fly.