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

Got home today and found I've an interview for a job at the museum! Yay!

But I have to do a presentation on an olde objecte as part of the interview process. And I can't take my mother in law. Any suggestions?

Well, if you have any family heirlooms -- like a really old necklace, or snuffbox or something -- you could borrow one of them, study the time that they came from and do a presentation about the materials used, how it might have been made, who might have used it or to whom it might have been marketed at the time, and etc. Something like that.

Good luck, Uncle~!

*Hug*

~Ace

Congratulations!

How about some old pottery, or a typewriter?

I've got an ammonite...

I'll see what I can dig up.

Not literally of course...

Well, saying that, maybe I will have a dig about in the garden, you never know what I might find!

I have an old desktop computer running on Windows 95 lying around somewhere upstairs, if you need it. Good luck with the interview - feel free to mention that you're the Crowned Prince of the Royal h2g2 Society of Historians.

An amonite is interesting, it could make a good subject for your presentation. Theres loads of information on them available.

*coughs*

I have Windows 3.1 on an old 286 under my bed...

Crown Prince? Clown Prince more like - I ain't done nothing over there for an age!

I think I might go with the ammonite, it's a fun little thing. And easy to take with me. Not sure if I might use a PC for the presentation though. It's more a 'can you talk about a subject for five minutes and wing it a bit if any hairy questions are asked' kind of thing though, so I think perhaps I'll just pop something in my pocket to take along and talk about. The ammonite is a good size for that.

How about a Barry Crier joke? apparently some of them pre-date the dinasaurs I've a DOS version about 6.22 machine in the cupboard

Ooo, an ammonite might be a good idea, actually. =D I know I'd listen to a presentation about that!

^_^

I'd say something you've real enthusism for.

Good luck for the job, Matt

I reckon this is tied in with the last journal. Let's see... antiques... TV...

Got it. You're going to be on Call My Bluff?

Or is it 'Through the Keyhole?'

I've real enthusiasm for history in general, and WWI and WW2 aircraft in particular - so I'd love to take an Se5 aircraft in as my object, but needless to say, I don't have one in my backyard, and it's a bit hard to pop one on the bus to take to interview...

(unless of course I get a little model one - which I am thinking about, seeing as Nottingham has a real history with Albert Ball - WWI flying ace who flew the Se5...)

hmmm...

Might pop into town and see what I can find today!

Ooh, you should be a new Blue Peter presenter.

Sounds like a good thing to have as part of an interview, Matt. If you find an object you know your stuff about and are enthusiastic about, it should be smooth sailing.

If you can't bring along an Se5 (which is quite possible), would you be able to find anything like an instrument, article of uniform etc. used by the crew? You could use that as your starting point and move on from there.

My dream jobI've got a dinosaur tooth! When's your interview?

I got a model Se5 and am making it in the colours of Albert Ball's aircraft - then I'll take it along and talk about Ball - he's a son of the town as such

My interview is next Friday.

You shouldn't go giving your teeth to anyone GB

Years ago, there was a game show called 'What on Earth?' They would show some object or artifact and the panel would try to identify it. Some of the things were truly baffling but would turn out to be a bit of broken harness from Richard III's missing horse or some such.
One I remember looked like a fossilized dog turd and I thought the panel were too polite to say so but it turned out to be a loaf of bread from some Pharoh's tomb.

I don't think I'll take a poop in.

Although there's massive fun and larks to be had if I 'do'!