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

I've heard some scientologist have become so proficent at the use of their arse that they've become nothing but big bungholes...

For quite a few people I've seen coasting through this plane of exsistence, I'd say them using 10% of their grey matter is being a scad generous...

Don't get me started on Scientology. It takes a little research, but in one of the forwards of a Fantasy series about a place that looks remarkably like a U.S. peninsula wherein is contained 'the Happiest Place on Earth,' The author has a bit to say. He talks about a fellow Fan/Sci-Fi writer that started a religion just to prove that he could do it. That he could get the average dolt (my word) to believe in anything. Was a success, too. Now, I'm not pointing any fingers here... Well, maybe I am...
My take on the 10% usage of your brain is that, unfortunately, humanity tends to 'coast' through the majority of any given day, not giving too much thought, and tending to take things at face value. A possible instinct bred as a means of survival in this so-called 'modern' world, mayhaps?

From the studies I've seen... memory as housed in the brain is more like a bit of holographic film.... every memory being throughout the whole thing.... If you cut a bit of holographic film into fourths, each will still contain the whole picture, but it will have lost some clarity and detail... If you take out a chunk of the brain (the cortex anyway) you will not lose memories in particular... but all of the memories you had would be a little bit "fuzzier".

yep... Turn on, Tune in, boot up?

Has any one seen the program "Ginnis book of records". It resontly had a young man who had half his head blowen off by his boss with a Magnum hand gun. He lost the whole left side of his brain, his only problim seemd to be that he thought he looked like a monster untill a plastic surgan built up the missing part of his head.

I keep hearing of a young girl that had the ENTIRE left hemisphere of her brain removed (was it Left or Right? I think it was left...) to stop the onslaught of a virulent brain disease that would have killed her. At the start, the doctors thought she would lose the power of speech, but she is showing remarkable signs of communication, and they now predict that within the next few years, she will most likely make a 99% recovery.



Except now she'll call all of her friends 'Cecil'
(just kidding on the last bit. sheesh, don't be so uptight!)

Ah! Jerry Pournelle? Wasn't it? Hmmm... I think it was Pournell he made the bet with, can't remember if it was Pournell who spilt the beans or was it Zelazny?

At any rate, the worst thing (other than the zombies) about scientology is that it took away from Hubbard's writing! The man was a DAMN GOOD science-fiction writer!

Big heads can cause a lot of problems on tube trains where the tapering roof exacerbates the big headed problem.

I want to know why people were designed so foolishly. All those things required for our survival seem to be sticking out just asking for trouble: brains (right on top, perfect for hitting with a club), bollocks (in the perfect kicking position as demonstrable so well by any female member of the species), breasts (right out front, well I don't see this as quite such bad idea, but you get the jist). Just think how far fewer fatalities there'd be in a whole host of accidents if our brains were really in our arses.

BTW for the guy who wanted a proof on thought. I've got a coathanger here if you want to do a bit of experimentation.

Oh, yes! Please do! Post .gifs of the results, too!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Actually, it was Anthony (Xanth).
And Hubbard's not too bad, but he has to be the most prolific Dead writer of this century (Asimov's got NOTHING on him!)

Ah. Xanth. Dearest me, I should have known, as I'm attempting to muddle through all the puns in a Xanth novel at the nonce! One which my nieces bought me for xmas, therefor demands a reading...

However, Hubbard didn't write at all for a good 10-year period- while he was invoved in doing nothing but the scientology crap.

What I want to do is start a religion which is loose enough so I can do what I want, yet restrictive enough that the plebe's will think it's "good for you". I've been tossing this about for years.

Baron, will you prepare the laboratory for our subject? I shall go down to the village and find a young virgin who can suit our purpose.

At this moment, on Friday 13th, with the Grand Cross Alignment above us we cannot fail. We shall achieve the transmigration of souls.

HWARFWARFNARFWHURHURHAHRUAF...

I must feed now...

(of course, all the evil plans were thrarted by the simple fact that it is impossible to find a virgin who will follow you into any laboratory, especially without her father as an armed escort)

So we'll use a call-girl. We're not particular. We won't have to put up with all that silly screaming and such, either.

*starts working with the electronic apparatus as the lightning flashes across the sky*

Hope you've got cash. She doesn't look like the type who will take a check.

Well I, for one, wouldn't fool with any call-girl who didn't accept Visa!

There's a commercial I'd like to see.

"...but don't pull to the corner without your Visa, because Candi doesn't take American Express...."

I was thinking more along the lines of Madame X's house, but that would be even funnier...

Any escort worth it's salt these days will accept credit cards. Or so I've been told.

Anyway, to the lab gentlemen, the storm is brewing, my teeth are growing by the minute, a strange glint I have not seen before has entered the Baron's eye, and our lovely escort still things we're going to a post marketing conference dinner in Milton Keynes.

Fire up "The Clanky Steam Driven Machine Whose Name is too Abhorent to Speak Aloud" or "CaStDriMaWNASA" for short!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

*da Baron starts throwing levers, pushing buttons, and turning gears while laughing that maniacal mad-scientist-type laugh*


BRING ON THE WOMEN!

Bring on enough women and we can skip the mad scientist stuff...