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

Do you have any idea how long it takes to mate a and a ?

4 hours of foreplay down the drain with one mis-placed hoof !

Erm... what?

Well - where do you think 9 legged horses come from ?
I tried with and even with eventually I found a under the and Bingo ! 6 months later - INSTANT BRIBE.



Note : - speak to about medication.

Oh dear.
*prepares the special tablets*

I think I deserve extra Towel Day points for chauffering a cewrtain researcher back home at 4 am on the above mentioned day.

It's a fair cop.

Would a pint of Stella this Friday be enough for a couple of extra points??

Possibly... there's only one way to find out.

I didn't get any extra points for that pint of beer.... *sulk*

You'll get them this week.

I'm about to slip out of the top 20 in one of the charts what favour can I perfirm to remain in the action on number of correct picks.

Pick the right numbers.

I can only award bonus points, I can't rig the chart so you've picked the right numbers, I'm afraid...

Well, you could remove the people that haven't been playing for about 6 months. I can see at least three or four people that picked one or two rounds a loong time ago and then never came back.

But we have lots of new players coming in, who will probably do exactly the same thing. I'll see what I can do...

Okay, I didn't want to name names, but here's what I figured...

Zagreb and IanG has played twice, and neither have played recently.
BaldBloke and Frankie Roberto has each played twice, and the last of them to pick anything was BaldBloke, about two months ago or so.
Egon and Abi have each picked three times, and as far as I can tell, neither have picked anything recently.

That's six players that could be removed from the boards, and I doubt that any of them will make an issue of it.

There are 12 people on the Top20 list that have picked less than 10 times (including the new people) and I think that you could probably remove 8 of them without much protest. Then there are the ones who played for a while but haven't been here for ages as well, but that's another issue.

Only thing is, if I start taking people out, then the chart is no longer an accurate reflection of past performance. It would be like taking "Bohemian Rhapsody" out of the list of all-time best selling singles because it hasn't been in the chart for over ten years.

Well at least keep a full chart listing somewhere so we can see it. Or show the people who played that's weeks positions.

This is more complicated that I thought.

With the total points and total correct picks, obviously those who only play once are going to fall off the bottom of the table as regular players score more and more points. I introduced the average tables so that it wouldn't take months for new players to climb into the top 20. But, of course, if someone plays spectacularly well once and never plays again, it disadvantages the regular players.

What does the panel think?

Oh just popping in to say I'm off now.Could you set the video for eight oclock and give the plants a water.Theres plenty in the freezer so help yourself....
Back about ten,alright love?



(Closes the door.Stands in the hallway and thinks;so its come to this)