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

say how much I'm enjoying this series. The detail and variation of this week's drawings juxtapo... ah hell I just like it.

~jwf~

I too am thoroughly enjoying each one.

Thank you both.
Good to see you Sporky. It's been a while.

Has anyone noticed the visual pun I've thrown in this week's edition? Just asking.

the aces?
or something else I'm not smart enough to notice?

'tis fabulous Wowbagger!

Wasn't the Ace in last week's? I'm trying to figure out what Wowbagger means.

Acrobats - gyroscope - beetles and

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Aces, yes. But Bagpuss is closer in the fact that it's about the top three images.
However, don't think of the last image in terms of specifics - see it as a general mish mash of items, hint hint.

Oh good, someone else has had a guess...

I confess the any visual pun beyond the ACE had eluded me first time around. I was, as I mentioned earlier very impressed by the cheerful innocence of the ACE, the Everyman quality of Anubi, the juxtapositi...

And now, second time round I'm not doing much better. The top three images are 'gym, gyro and gism' if you can imagine the fishy one on the right as a liquid medium thru which the spelling of 'fish' is distorting into 'gism' ...

I give up.


~jwf~

*Chuckle*

I got it fairly quickly - but then I think I know by now how Wowbagger's mind works...

shazz

Is it something to do with him being ace of *clubs*?

No no no.
Actually nothing as clever as jwf's idea.
Think Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy references, and a simple one at that.

Life, the Universe and Everything?

oooh! So clever!

B..b..but that would mean that Life = gymnastics, the Universe = a gyroscope and Everything = marine life or possibly a chowder. That can't be right.
Oh, wait.
Hmmmm, I see.

~jwf~

I wondered about that, but I'm still a little confused. We have life on the right, but what about the other two?

No-no, the one on the right is just 'marine Life'. The one on the left, a building block of human gymnasts, a hierarchal and interdependent structure, represents Life. The one on the right is a smorgasbord, a chowder, of Every thing.

Well at least we agree that the middle one, the gyro, represents the Universe. Don't we?

In any case, I also want to say how delightfully the ACE of Clubs reminds me of the original Disney version of Alice in Wonderland where the Red Queen's army consisted of hapless playing cards doing the Harlem Shuffle. Wandering around h2g2 really is like stepping thru the looking glass or falling down a rabbit hole. Everywhere, one finds little pills and bottles crying 'eat me' and 'drink me' and huge walrus like beasties slurping oysters.


~jwf~

Full points to Swiv, bonus points for jwf. LOL

If I may be so bold as to quote from a dictionary:

Life: Human existence, relationships, or activity in general. Hence the acrobats.

The Universe: The earth together with all its inhabitants and created things, as represented by a...

Gyroscope: A form of apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion.

Everything: Well... everything. just everything, you know.

I hoped that the last image would look like a general mish mash of objects... a sort of 'everything' in shorthand... but bugs and fish seem to have been too well represented in the picture, and threw everyone off. LOL

Bugs?
Waiter what's this bug doing in my chowder!


Thanks for the tour Whoabaggage. Ooooh, I am all a-tingly now, because I just know you're gonna tell us that the miracle of constant plane rotation (and all that that entails ) was an accidental side-benefit discovery, realised only after building a working model of the then known cosmos.

Such a revelation wouldn't just throw my ego-centric universe off kilter, perhaps into another plane of rotation, it would also validate that ancient urban myth, "Build it and they will come!"

peace
jwf

I quite like the idea that 'everything' refers to a clam chowder!

*hic*

shazz

>> clam chowder <<

Clams? Who mentioned clams? At no point did I specify the secret ingredients of my world famous chowder. Do you see clams in the picture? There's entirely too much independent thinking going on around here lately.


~jwf~

Fair enough - *diverts mind to other considerations*

shazz - FYI - so far I have managed 'thepist' and 'theport' and also 'theposy' in my attempts to imput the smiley correctly!