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

Well do i?

Maybe, maybe not.

You'll have to tell me who you are first though.
It's a sort of "Show me yours and I'll show you mine" type deal.
You don't really expect me to guess when you left out all your personal details and most of the letters of your name.
Go on, expose yourself you charlatan!

haven't i seen you winding up the squirrels in the botanic garden park?

(that should tell you something about where i come from) ... okay your turn

good taste in music btw

I don't actually go to the botanic gardens much really but I'll guess that that was a subtle reference to imply the Glasgow West End.
Am I right?

To speed things up I have two questions. One is a simple one that will probably half the amount of people you could be if I know you. The other is slightly more cryptic and designed to see if I do actually know you.

1) Are you male or female? (Basic personal detail missed out on your main page and which isn't obvious from the cryptic name.)
2) Do you spend much time a holy place dedicated to a mystical deity called "Jim: the bringer of beer?"

This is all going to seem pretty stupid if we don't actually know each other but I have a feeling that you already know that you know me and are trying to screw with my mind. Aaagh! Your powers of psychology are weak, old man, once I was the pupil but know I am the master. (cheap Star Wars reference, I know.)

ahhhhh... but young grasshopper, i might be playing with you, i might know i don't know you, but trying to make you think, that i know i know you ... but then again ....

1. i'm a lady, if that narrows it down for you.

2. a reference to any hostelries on byres road?

Interesting?

If you are a lady (which is beleivable and something I, for some reason, predicted) then that would narrow down the search. However I am not entirely certain that you do know me. As you have said yourself you may not know me but know that I think that I know that you think that you know me when really you think that you know that you don't know me and are just trying to make me think that I know you for the hell of it.

Especially since you did not recognise a reference to the legendary Jim's Bar.

Three more questions. Which should expose the truth, if you can or cannot answer them.

1) Who runs the sacred haven which bears the initials QMU?
2) Name any one band or artist I listen to which is not mentioned on my home page.
3) Are the subjects on my home page what I'm studying now or last year. If now, what did I study last year? If last year, what am I studying now?

Haha, I've got you now. If you can answers these correctly then you definately know me. If you can answer some but not others then I'll have to keep testing you. If you can't answer any then I doubt you know me and then you'll have to reveal yourself. The questions is, punk, are you feeling lucky?

i think you only shot 4 shots, and as we all know, the 45- magnum is the most powerful handgun in the world....

but i might want you to think that i think i don't know you, where as i know i know you, i think...

1. what other than the students representative council of the university of glasgow?

2. feeder, but you really like the super furry animals too

3. last years subjects. your in your second year of a BSc at that hallowed institution, you dropped Chemisty, picked up molecular biology ... but kept pyschology (because you want to understand the deep complexities of your squirrel issues) and biology.

do i need more probing

Okay, those answers are interesting.

These answers imply that if I am who you think I am then you know who I am. However I beleive that you think you know who I am but actually don't know who I am but know someone that you think is me. Confusingly this mystery person must be like me in many respects and therefore is probably either a distant relative or a soul-doppelganger

1) The SRC have some control over the QMU so this is a fair answer. The QM board like to think they run it themselves (so an answer of President James Wakefeild would have also been correct.) The true runner of the QM is probably Mr Mac (Head of Staff.) However a perfect answer would have been "You do, or Lord Bob, as you run this town."
2) I do quite like feeder (although not a massive fan.) I've seen them live but don't have any albums. I've never really got into the 'furrys but thats more from lack of knowledge than lack of respect. Muse, Queen, Led Zep or the Eels would have all been correct suggestions.
3) I did drop Chemistry. I was going to keep Psychology but it was too much work so I dropped it. I'm still doing biology (but not Molecular, mainly Neuroscience/Anatomy/Physiology/Immunology etc)

So then. I guess this answers the question that started this off.
"Do I know you?"
Sadly, I think the answer is no.
However there is another interesting question...
Do you want to know me?

If you want to continue this pontless but kinda fun personality puzzle then it's your turn to ask some questions.

why do we have to work?

i confess, i don't know you at all. i genuinely thought i did, but it turns out ... i don't. but hey, good guess about chemistry though. i would have said eels, but you mention them on your page (that's how i found you - god bless you E) the furries - you should definately get 'rings around the world' one of the best albums of last year! anyway...

>>"Do I know you?"
>>Sadly, I think the answer is no.

ah that's dead sweet...

>>However there is another interesting question...
>>Do you want to know me?

of course, i'm always up for meeting/talking to new people. i'm very interested in those 'dark and nasty thoughts you never tell anyone about ...' i'm always interested in them!... so why don't you tell me some...

I always thought that the point of "dark and nasty thoughts that you never tell anyone about..." is that you never tell anyone about them...




...Oh, all right. The one I'm having now involves safety chains, feather boas, tangerines and one very confused chinchilla...

...I'll let you use your imagination on the rest.

Eels are godly. I just got Souljacker at christmas and it's barely left my stereo since.

In the words of Thom Yorke on the Bends "Where do we go from here?"
Hmm? this conversation started on a puzzle so how about another.

"The second you say my name I am gone. What am I?"

Ok, I know I know you cos I've been to your house and dated your mate and was in a three-person mini-gang with you that terrorised the QM Board Flat (aaah Malcolm and his board member days, how useful he was), and i'd still be hard pushed to tell anyone what the hell subjects you do at uni. Cos we don't talk about that kinda stuff, we discuss how to turn the Board saga into Lord Of The Rings (the Ents committee was a good one), or new ideas for episodes of Sharky + George, and read far too much into the script of Murder She Wrote.