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

Maybe a boring history book, but having looked at this conversation...

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and a few reviews around the net... book reviewers seem to be saying that he's quoted from A223002 "The Empire came to greatness by killing lots of people less sharply armed than themselves and stealing their countries" and the reviews seem to insinuate that he's assigned the quote to a BBC History site for Children

Any one out there got a copy of the book (or can get hold of one) and see if this Oxford Professor _really_ took that entry seriously.

your astonishment astonishes me

Are you saying that somebody stole a quote from H2G2 and passed it off as their own in a book?

Nope - I'm saying that someone's used a quote from a pretty light-hearted hootoo article and somewhere along the line its been understood as being from a serious BBC Children's History site ... Doesn't exactly make the Beeb look good!

Ah, so somebody mistook what we say as the words of children?

Makes sense, I suppose.

Read the links...

Someone took what we said and took it for the words of the BBC aimed at _teaching_ children...


Think along the lines of the BBC being used to teach kids in RE classes that Nighthoover really is the one true god!

That's just ridiculous.

Although teaching them the Thingite ways wouldn't be so bad.


Anyway, I don't have the book but I did watch the TV series and don't remember him saying that.

>> Think along the lines of the BBC being used to teach kids in RE classes that Nighthoover really is the one true god! <<

Surely that is what *should* be taught in RE lessons. Makes as much sense as the other stuff.

RF

Loads of copies available in B'ham Libraries so I expect that any other Library authority will have copies.

the phrase rings a bell
if nobody has got back to you I'll check my copy of the book if you want