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

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In the Roman calendar, the days of the week were named after the sun, moon, and planets. These heavenly objects were worshiped as gods. The English names for the seven days came through the Saxons, German invaders who went to Britain in the 5th and 6th century. The Saxons had taken the Roman names, modified them, and took them to England. There they were modified further to the names we know today.



The Romans named the days of the week after the seven "planets" they knew: the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn.

You can find the same pattern in the German, French, and Spanish languages. They were all heavily influenced by Latin, as those countries were also part of Rome's ancient empire.

The Saxon days of the week were Sun's Day, Moon Day, Tiw's Day, Woden's Day, Thor's Day, Frigg's Day, Saterne's Day. Can you hear the modern English names in those Saxon and Latin terms?

We should be grateful to the Saxons for something else, too -something important. Saxon King Edgar, in AD 958, declared that no work would be done from Saturday noon to Monday dawn. He invented the weekend!



see, the worshippers of Thor, and hence the originators of Thor's Day which became Thursday, invented the WEEKEND!! how cool is that? i mean, what exactly have the Thingites done that is anywhere near as impressive as inventing the Weekend





i will convert those Thingites, i will

--Quels éléments techniques caractérisent A bout de souffle?
--Comment peut-on traduire la pratique du film par Godard en théorie cinématographique?
--A partir de ce film, comment peut-on qualifier l’esthétique Nouvelle Vague?


And for those moderators who don't speak French, it's just a bit of homework asking about a movie we're seeing on class.

-- Which technical elements characterize A boils of breath?
-- How can one translate the practice of film by Godard into cinematographic theory?
--A to start from this film, how can one qualify ḻesthetic Vague Nouvelle?


translated by google

09-23-2000 with Lenny/Creachy's Birthday Party

It means someone who is from the British Isles just as European means someone who is from Europe

Let me guess was the word Briton?

it's roughly 5 inches long by one wide at its maximum

Tahts quite small if your speakinga bout a ruler, no?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F72823?thread=402419&post=5107313#p5107313

Poirot

A2427013

(I've just added it to my name.)

*trying to sound threatening*

The user could install software and download entire books to the PIM and read them on the go. This was an entirely novel concept.

I'll get my coat.

Spheregnome

Pauline Reage

All I do is miss you, and the way we used to be.
All I do is keep the beat, and the bad company.
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme.
Juliet, I'd do the stars with you, anytime.
- Romeo and Juliet (1980)

That song has always bothered me, never quite been able to work out what Mr Knoppfler was saying...
"through the bars of a rhyme"
or through the bars of orion
or through the bars of rain

None of the options I came up with made much sense

Who are you, what are you, and what do you get out of h2g2?

It's the title of a thread I'd just posted a question to that included a bastardisation (technical term, it's in the OED) of the thread's own title