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

You're quite right, it's my browser that's wrong here. Although I am a bit confused by why dna bothers converting GuideML stuff into weird HTML with gifs and tags all over the shop when it could just use HTML's own very reliable mechanism....

Oh well, guess they have an answer for me...

I still think you should change "REFERENCES" to "References", btw.

Keep up the good work!

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Using a few horizontal rules is acceptable, according to <./>Subeditors-GuideML#HR</.>

My :

- Linking to the entry on IgNobel prizes (A973677). This can be linked to as, although it is Pending just now, the same A-number will be used when it becomes Edited.

- Changing "There are prizes for the worst: Worst Dressed Person prizes." to "There are prizes for the worst, such as the Worst Dressed Person prizes."

- Changing the link text "www.darwinawards.com" to "The Official Darwin Awards website" and removing the Reference at the bottom of the article

- "before he removes his genes for incompetence from the human gene pool, or one who manages to survive his stupidity is of no use to human evolution." There should be an extra comma between "stupidity" and "is"

- The page linked to on "breeding" might be better linked to later in the sentence, on the words "the case of the man who gave himself a lobster vasectomy"

- rationalize > rationalise


Well done!
RhoMuNuQ

thanks rho! maybe next time i should get you to come over and proofread my stuff before i submit? i'll go change those bits in a sec... hang on -

A comprehensive entry!

One discrepancy I noticed was in example #3. The chap was sawing open the hand grenade with a circular saw, not a chain saw.

Cheers!

fixed that! thanks, gordon.

(by the way, though, wouldn't it be funnier IF he *had* used a chainsaw to open the grenade? i can see it now... 'man tries to open grenade with chainsaw, inadvertently saws off leg; grenade's pin falls out in the meantime, blowing man and saw to kingdom come')

> thanks rho! maybe next time i should get you to come over and proofread my stuff before i submit? i'll go change those bits in a sec... hang on -

No problem I'd be happy to, or I could always proofread in PR...

RhoMuNuQ

by the way, rho, there's this question i've been meaning to ask for *yoinks* (and i don't think it violates h2g2 rules)...

why three letters of the greek alphabet and a q?

One point - what about the Cult of Father Darwin?

The Darwin Awards are well known to the CoFD for nicking their ideas wholesale, and I seem to recall that someone offlist, possibly to do with the Darwin Awards, has been sued for copyright theft by at least one of the members. So I'm afraid she didn't have the idea first - she has just become better known because the Cult of Father Darwin mailing list is rather vicious and you have to be pretty dedicated to find it and stay on it.

http://www.catweasel.org/Darwin/darwin-faq.html

The text is currently unavailable from the website, so I guess JPM has thrown another wobbly about something, but there is an autoresponder address there.

http://www.listmoms.net/lists/darwin/

> why three letters of the greek alphabet and a q?

It definitely doesn't violate the House Rules - I've been asked before!

On the day I registered, I was completely stuck for inspiration so I randomly put down some Greek letters and a "q" - I meant to change the name later but it stuck!

RhoMuNuQ

Hi Farlander,

I think there is an 'A' missing in your link to the IgNobel page. Without the 'A' it just bounces onto the front page.

Thanks for the IgNobel link

Also, i'd make a couple of minor changes, but that might just be me. I'd change 'piss' to 'urine', and 'children who get fried' is just asking to be re-worded.

PS. The daily express recently described the awards as 'sick'; I guess that's the press for you..

ravenbait - would you believe it, i've never *heard* of the cult of father darwin (i must get out more often). hang on, i'll go over and check it out and see if there's anything i can add to my article. thanks!

jim - thanks for alerting me to the missing A! (that's what happens when you bung in tags in a hurry) re: the link to the igs - you're welcome. i think the darwins and the igs should go hand-in-hand, after all... i must agree that 'fried' is somewhat offensive and tasteless, and have therefore changed it.

rho - why not phibetakappa?

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Well done!

A very worthwhile addation to the guide.


Geggs

Congratulations!



Stay ,
WD

Well done!

RhoMuNuQ

I'd share a drink with you, but unfortunately, I've had my quota already. I'll get one in for next time... Hmm. methinks I'm starting to get a reputation around here...

Caveman Jim

well, jim, an won't get you inebriated, surely? (ok, so maybe it's not half as fun, so i'll mix you a non-alcoholic drink: )

to all the rest who have come by, thanks! please collect your - but don't let jim have any!