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

Hello! I'm Kate, and I've been awarded the task of editing your article on Uni Libraries. Just popping round as I saw there were some late changes in your entry, and checking to be sure there aren't a few minor additions/changes you were looking to make? I know the feeling of getting the "Congratulations" message and then saying... There was something else!!

So, let me know

Hi, Kate. I think I made all the changes I wanted to, except to mention JSTOR. Let me have a look, and I'll see how best to work that in - should get to do that tomorrow. There are so many things I could include, that I have to draw the line somewhere. I do apologise for the length of the entry - hope it didn't send you to sleep!

David

Hi, could you add the following bullet-point into the list of on-line services which is in the Internet section?

JSTOR - a collection of full-text journals covering arts, social sciences and 'hard' sciences, some going back to the early 20th century, which can be searched by article title or from the full text of the article

Thanks,

David

EEK! Really awful typo! In the section on Library Staff, it mentions 'Personal slaves who will hump to your every whim?' it should be 'jump', as 'hump' gives a rather disturbing picture of what library staff are there for...

Also, can I be really, really picky and ask that JSTOR go in alphabetical position between BIDS and LION? That doesn't matter very much, but the typo really needs to be fixed.

Well, David, that little slip sounded kinda Freudian.

Just teasing. I'd been meaning to get back to you since your supportive comment on my entry re: Stage Props.

Looks as if you've been thespianically busy. Tell me more about the pheasant, and what would the car aerial have been used for?

The references got me curious.

Hello there FordsTowel,

I have been engaged in a musical called Courtenay for the last two weeks (no props other than coins, I'm afraid) but am now back to being a library person once more.

The pheasant was for 'Dido and Aeneas'. There is a scene following a hunt (which is also a classical metaphor for 'nooky') wherein us chorus-type people had various exciting props, mine being a shotgun and a newly-killed pheasant. Of course the pheasant was actually a stuffed dead-for-ages bird, but it was a bit disconcering to sing while holding a dead pheasant in one hand and supporting a shotgun (over the shoulder) with the other arm...

The car aerial was for Grease, when I played Roger. Roger dashes on slightly late for a planned rumble with the wonderfully ineffective weapon of an aerial with which to battle the Flaming Dukes. It soon got wrested away from me before another character pulled my trousers down for me.

Other props I remember with fondness are a pineapple (Cabaret), a stolen fan (The Beggars Opera) and a candelabra (The Ephesian Matron).

I also helped make props for Bugsy Malone - endless splurge guns constructed from drainpipes and the like. What joy that was!

David

Zoiks, sounds like a lot of fun!

Thanks for letting me in on the fun. Sounds like you've worked with some lively groups.