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

Entry: The Strange Case of the Holy Foreskin - A87826233
Author: Dmitri Gheorgheni - U1590784

Here you are, just in time for Easter.

It's also in time for 'In Like a Lion', the Create Challenge. And for April Fools' Dya, but I swear, I am NOT making this up.


I refuse to apologise for writing this. My only regret is that I can't figure out how to connect it with Zeta Reticuli.

I was reading about the Shroud earlier today, so this caught my eye.

Really nice read !

Although...
Seeing as I'm a Catholic and I've read this...
... Does it mean I'm going to hell?

Okay, Elektra suggests saying three Hail Marys.

Well, I'm probably going to hell anyway (for a whole lot of other stuff), so not much point bothering, is there?

Well you might be in luck, because some of the more recent things coming out of the Vatican seem to soften hell. I do think that self-righteous Protestants are more likely to stick everyone they don't agree with there more than Catholics do ---ever since Dante that is.

Now I can breathe a little more easily, thanks.

Have you ever been to that cathedral in Christchurch that is made of paper? It is really beautiful and its architect has just won an important architecture award. I think that would make a grand Guide Entry or even an excellent article with a picture.

The pictures on Google are pretty amazing!

Sadly, I've never been to New Zealand.

*ahem*

This was also featured long agao qi question.

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Anything minable for an attribution?

It seems to be a pretty place except for earthquakes that is. Varied landscapes from beaches to mountains and lots of sheep. Some of the birds are rather destructive to automobiles though. I hear that flocks of kea do a number on cars --I wonder if the insurance companies there cover that. Peter Jackson thinks the scenery is awesome as well.

Thanks, Clive! Done and done- footnote and credit to you and the QI team. I didn't know about the hippies.

Good entry, Dmitri!

for later enjoyment

GB

Great entry... really good read on soemthing I'd never even heard of before

Amazing entry Dmitri thanks for bringing it to our attention, and I now have an entirely different picture in my head of Saturn's rings!



If you don't mind, my sub-ed eye picked up a couple of nitpicks:

Charlemagne claimed he got it from a angel.
=
an angel.



The argument today is somewhat simplified by the fact that most or all of these alternative foreskins have vanished, discarded
=
*been* discarded



Your h2g2 links to Heaven and Saturn aren't working because they contain extraneous white spaces.

Thanks again Dmitri

GB

Thanks, GB! I made those changes.

That 'a angel' business is particularly embarrassing - everybody knows that we hillbillies are prone to that gottal stop, as in 'thuh earth' an 'uh angel'.

*GLOTTAL stop.

This is an entertaining read.

I can just about imagine the Vatican arranging the disappearance of the relic.

Only one nitpick -In the header 'Embarrassing Topic' there's an 'r' missing from embarrassing