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

Hello GodBen. I think that you are the best researcher on this site. You are so cool. Someday I want to be just like you. How do you do that with your hair? Is it gel? Well, it looks really cool anyway. You are the most intelligent person on this site. You would make a great world president. With hair like that, you couldn't possibly lose the election!

Actually, I came fourth. I know that it wasn't a world-presidency election, only a hootoo one, so it must have been the fact that the voters couldn't see my hair that swung it for our opponents.

Oh c**p! All that gell didn't pay off then?

Apparently not.

Oh, well... There is always the "try again the next time" option.

In any case this explains the "press to annoy" button
A very tempting one I should admit

Yeah, I really shouldn't have put that there, as people that know me tend to try and annoy me, for some inexplicable reason.

You know that bit in many Terry Pratchett's books about the end-of-the-world button?
I guess your press-to-annoy provokes in a quite similar way

Maybe I should change it to 'Press to give GodBen a nice message'. Nobody would press it then.

It may be worth a try! Make it a part of a behavioural study ... I am sure many advertising agencies would be interested in the outcome

Well if it improved the quality of advertisements, it must be a good thing!

Improve the quality of advertisements? That's hardly possible I think - nothing can help the agencies get better or more creative!
Though there are some that are exceptionally good! I like watching this "funny ads from around the world" programs once in a while. Mind you, some of them have made pretty strong impression on me! I still have problems eating pizza with olives for example Ever since I saw this Spanish (I think) clip promoting some insecticide spray! There was the nice steaming pizza, with these black olives on top and then they suddenly turned into cockroaches! Brrr... Good enough to give you nightmares!

I cn't eat cabbage ever since I saw a picture in a magazine as a child where there was a giant green-fly on one. Plus, they taste awful.