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

I honestly don't know how I knew that she (Tyne Daley) was a singer. When I just looked over my previous comment about her, it was as if somebody else had written it. Anyway, I'm sure she's very good, but is she still alive? I saw her get shot in that Dirty Harry movie, where she plays his partner. It's beyond me why anyone would want to be Harry Callaghan's cop-partner as they all end up getting shot and killed. Is there something in that, I wonder?

Hey, guess what!!! I got reply no. 42. Spookey, eh? - what with this being the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy, etc... It makes me feel as though I should say something important given the significance of this number...

Errrr... sorry... I've cracked under the weight of expectation. Not for the first time, either - I can tell you that for nothin'.

Oops! I've just noticed that I spelt 'Spooky' wrong in the last posting. I'm not very happy about that, given the magnitude of the very special number I was very honoured to reply under. But there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about that, so I'll just have to pretend that No. 43 is an even more important number.

See? It works! No spelling mistakes from me on this posting. Ha!

Errr...have you gone off any type of medication recently?

Julia Child always says to never admit mistakes, always make people think you meant to do that (whatever *that* might be). So perhaps you should have stood by "spookey". Works for me!

I don't know, eh? You and your kookey spellings, Miss G!

Yes, I'm back, although you two seem to have deserted this convo.
Lost password and general sloth was the reason, which I'm sure you'll agree, is pretty sorry.

I don't know, eh? You and your kookey spellings, Miss G!

Yes, I'm back, although you two seem to have deserted this convo.
Lost password and general sloth was the reason, which I'm sure you'll agree, is pretty sorry.

No problem--it happens all the time. A close friend of mine, in real life and on h2g2, forgot her password recently. Sloth, however. I don't know about using other mammals, no matter how slow moving, as an excuse for bad behavior. Next you'll be blaming the echidna.

Well, you know those long snouts make em look a little sinister, I reckon. Same goes for Streisand.

So, how are things at Castle Grafenberg? (Lights flicker, and room is lit up by storm outside)

(Looking around, puzzled and more than a little worried, then peering to check the dimensions of your nose)
Anyway, hope you're keeping the serfs in check

Happy Halloween! I'm entitled to be jumpy today. :P

Speaking of noses, my father used to say I had a Roman nose. It's roaming all over my face!!! Har har har!!! (It's a pun, in case you're confused....)

Heyyyy, I just noticed that you've changed your name! How come?

Have you been signed up by the FBI to head up a department that specialises in investigating paranormal phenomena, yet does so in a manner that inevitably results in them either missing, losing or destroying any conclusive evidence that they may find?

And you must have unearthed that joke from some pre-Christian era, it's certainly old enough.

Have you been at the mulled wine, dear?

My nom-de-plume was simply a reflection of my favorite holiday season. Fear not, it will change back again. Although I am thinking of chaning it entirely as I am getting bored with the whole sexual innuendo thing (that is, as part of my name, not in witty conversation ).

And while I have not been at the mulled wine, I am feeling the aftereffects of organic Washington-state grown cabbage. Perhaps that is causing my off-the-wall behavior. Or maybe it's the floridated water.

Have you seen The Man Who Wasn't There yet?

I'm absolutely dying to see it, as all reports say it's great, and Noir is always great anyway. Have you seen Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid with Steve Martin? Fantastic film.

However, as I live in Germany, I'm gonna have to hunt around for an original language showing. Grrrrr!

To answer your questions:

1) No

B) Yes

I watched "Gaslight" last night for the first time. Excellent film!

I hope Hollywood never does a remake. They always turn out awful...

If we're now talking about film, then I feel that I have a splendid contribution to make to this discussion. On Friday night, I was unfortunate enough to go and see A Knight's Tale, which is quite possibly the worst film I've ever seen in my life. This film makes Jaws 4: The Revenge look like Citizen Kane.

There are a number of problems I have with this film, most notably the beginning, in which we are introduced to a medieval jousting competition. Inexplicably, everybody is singing along to Queen's We Will Rock You, which, I understand was actually written 1977 by Brian May. I might be wrong, though, and Brian might well have 'updated' a traditional English folk song much in the same way as Simon and Garfunkel did with Strawberry Fair, but I very much doubt it.

Combine this with some appallingly-bad dialogue as well as the bad guy from Gladiator also playing EXACTLY the same role here. Oh yes, and let's not forget the medieval dance routine which suddenly switches into an unexpected rock-out to a David Bowie classic; I came out of the cinema feeling I had been assaulted, robbed and humiliated. I had to go home and shower in the vain attempt to scrub myself clean of the filth that had contaminated me. I also left the cinema feeling that a chimpanzee could have written a far better script by simply generating random words from several Countdown conundrums. That is a BAD feeling to have when you are watching a film you have just paid to see.

You might have noticed a deliberate mistake in the above entry, where I refer to Simon and Garfunkel's seminal 'Strawberry Fair'.

In case you were wondering, I am in fact referring to Scarborough Fair, and not the legendary recording sessions of 1968, when The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel combined to form possibly the greatest supergroup on Earth, producing experimental versions of never-released classics such as Strawberry Fair and Scarborough Fields.

There were others, such as Let it Be Over Troubled Waters, and The Sound of Honey Pie, but I won't go into them right now. What I can say, however, is that I can guarantee that Jazzmonkey will think of some more, and they will be much funnier than mine.

Do your worst, hombre.

How about Mrs. Michelle Robinson?

El Condor Pasa in Octopus' Garden?

The Boxer After 909?

This could become a new game if we're not careful.

27.11.02; 6.44pm BST

I take it that no one has anything else to say on this subject?