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

Love the article, although naturally I always click on any hyperlinks I come across, so it took me a while to get through this one...

hehe....funny

Congratulations HenryS! I put forward your article for inclusion into the edited guide and it was accepted!


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Cheers

Right, just needs the writeup on Being John Malkovitch (if it fits in nicely), and I think Lucinda was going to add a few h2g2 links in his/er bit?

Anything else?

I'll leave it to the sub-eds I think - rather than suggesting links only to see them left out of the final product...

Congrats Henry - another excellent entry in the guide!

Congratulations ! I'm really glad this one's in; it's one of my favorites.

GTB

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Congratulations!

If I haven't written that in a week, you can probably ignore it.

It won't be very long, but difficult to remove the spoilers while keeping the sense of it. Perhaps just a quick reference?

Maybe I should write a whole entry on the film and put in a link.

That would probably be easier.

Which, a quick reference or a whole entry?

Whole entry, linked to self-ref. Sometime, in the far distant future, when h2g2 is collating its list of all films ever made, one entry per film, it will thank you for having a whole entry on it, rather than a quick reference hidden away in an entry that is only really relevant to one bit of the film

Just thought I'd say: I dont think 'a preposition. This sentence ends in' works, becaus it's not a sentence.

Well strictly, many of those aren't sentences - incorrect punctuation, grammar or non-words. Self referential sentences are a bit of an art form, and as with most art forms, stretching the boundaries is all part of the fun

How about: "A preposition is what this sentence ends in."

Yeah, I guess that does work better as a proper sentence. It might be argued that it ends in a full stop, whereas the more mangled one does actually end in a preposition. I sortof like the innocent 'kludged' way that the mangled one works though

Anyway, I think its open to debate - along the lines of what counts as a sentence etc. (a bit like the debate we're having here...(more self-reference )), plus the others are quotes, so I we shouldn't really change one of them.

My favorite is: "I'm looking for a preposition to end this sentence with." If you just look people dead in the eye and say it, they SOMETIMES get it.

GTB

(I'm looking for a preposition to end this sentence on?... to end this sentence around?... despite?)