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

Slightly different but of the same species

I've always been very fond of this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060254920/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/102-6094820-9435355?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Ah, yes! We own that one- it's one of K's faves and I bought him a copy for Xmas. Excellent choice, m'lady!

Oh yes!!! Staple fodder of Infant School teachers everywhere. I did an Assembly on it once, enormous fun, all the little Wild things being totally !

zdt

Yah, I love it too. Problem for me was my little sistr had that one, and my mom was ,weird> (understatement) and so we weren't "allowed" to share toys/books/etc.

The copy I got for K was the first I'd read it in YEARS!

Gaaaah!

New keyboard, different size, keys in slightly diferent spots...

,weird>=

Try using a French keyboard. The look of utter horror on the faces of "experienced" computer users when they sit down & start tapping away at this thing is an evil joy.

"WAAAAAAAAAAhhhh where's the full stop? Where's the @sign? What happened to the u? how do you get ""? Eeek, it's a !!!"



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zdt

I've never read WTWTA...but I do know that one of the Things is called Emil.

Keyboards...I've never tried an AZERY keyboard - but I have been confused by a German QWERTZ. I'm a and-a-half handed typist (ie I don't type properly) and I do look at the keyboard (Mavis Beacon would rap my knuckles for that) - but it's amazing just how much one internalises the layout and the fingers don't have to be told where to go. Move around a couple of letters and throw in some umlauts and the whole thing falls apart!

I just wish I could reach the same level of competence when texting - like 'The Young People'. Last week I had an interesting incident. I'd forgotten that I'd sent a text in German and I'd left my dictionary set to the German one.

YES! G has that one also and a lil teddy of one of the wild things and the boy in his monster suit and tail...

I get a vivid mental image of G force when i recall that book....

zdt

I've always pictured G-force as looking much like Max...

Yes!!! So i'm not the only one!

zdt

Nah he doesn't, but that is funny...heee!