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

I have my image to think of. Tin foil hats would make me look .

I decorate mine in accessories, and e wear the tin foil hat itselfk, underneath my pith helmut, naturally

Sorry, there's a shortage of pith here.

I believe that it was Borith Johnthon who took the pith.

PP.

Is that because he's a snollygoster?

I'm fairly good at taking the pith myself.... as most on this site seem to be

I'm prepared now for tomorrow.... I've got extra supplies in, bottled water, and 143 cans of baked beans, plus a small burner stove with a bit cannister of meths for it... and I've got two pitch forlks and a sythe at hand just in case..... best to be prepared I thinks.....

Is one pitchfork for staving off the , and the other for getting the starting pitch for "Copacabana"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pth79-bpgGs

OMG! OMG we need a themetune for the end of the world! damnit... we're not ready! we need to be prepared for the worsest of the worse.. this apocalypse could be the big one... the real big one... the real end of the world... and we need to be prepared!!!!!! I think I'll buy extra cheese tomorrow, just to be on the safe side... <cheese.

Avoiding the obvious theme tune for TEOTW.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbZ9ILRYQ2o

By the way, did anybody think to book a table?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCLZwo3TZ3A

PP.

Or we could set Archibald MacLeish's "The end of the world" to music
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-end-of-the-world/

"And there, there overhead, there, there hung over
Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,
There in the starless dark, the poise, the hover,
There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothing -- nothing at all"

Or the end of T S Eliot's "Hollow men,"

"This is the way the world ends,
not with a bang but a whimper."

But even if the world is ending, why not take comfort in the closeness of friends?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307068/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

{There in the starless dark...}

Reminds me of the finest prog rock song ever recorded (unless you know different): Starless by King Crimson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfR6_V91fG8

Perfect End of the World accompaniment...

Here are a couple of other TEOTWAWKI alternatives to the REM song.
These are from one of my favorite films, (that I haven't watched in ages, need to flix it) Wim Wenders' _Until the End of the World(1991)_.

First is the Nick Cave song. (I'll Love You) Until the End of the World. http://youtu.be/qzp8I-naJOg
Second is the U2 song of nearly the same name. http://youtu.be/8md8py8yVxY

No Icy, you are quite correct Starless is the finest prog rock song ever....closely followed by several dozen other King Crimson tracks.

Thanks, Icy. I like that song.

It as released 42 years ago.

oddly.... we seemed to have survived... so far....

I'll keep an eye out for the leap second failures, as they get diagnosed next week. The only one I read up to now was a mobile network which failed temporarily at midnight, but high demand sounds like a more likely cause for that.

so.... we could still all end up dead?! or not... of course....

I a hundred years we'll be dead for sure.

soon the leap second will pass all round the world!!!! I've got the pitch forlk ready and the sythe... the newts are coming!`

Newt Gingrich and Newt Scamander? Set places for them at the table, then.