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

Oversimplified:

Grammar is concerned with how words fit together to form sentences.
Spelling is concerned with how letters fit together to form words.

They're both part of the mechanics of communication, but deal with different specifics.

There are all kinds of similar stories going around about Mensa. Of course having above average intelligence doesn't necessarily mean one has great problem-solving skills.

You'd have to have a really long cord to walk about while you program your VCR wouldn't you? I mean, wouldn't you? Or perhaps you'd have to have mastered pacing three steps back and forth from the hips down while keeping your upper body relatively still...

...a skill which doesn't seem very intelligent to waste time learning.

So back to that thing about the long cord, eh.

hmmm well my cousin and his fiance met through the internet. internet romance?

You'd also have to have ESP, since when last I checked, the shows worth taping have been moving around in timeslots weekly, and even daily. (Not just for the time they're on, but also for the day of the week.)

I stopped watching television altogether this season. Every time I've tried to put on one of my favorite shows, I've found myself watching Two Guys and a Girl or Jesse or something, you know, really wretched and unwatchable.

Well.. as our TV heard me threaten to put a brick through it and ran away (I think it's the picture tube that blew), I'm not watching this season, either.

This thread is getting a bit messy so I'm not sure where this will end up. It is intended as a reply to Anonymouse's (and others) obs on TV.

TV can show us the way foward. Last year, whilst particularly drunk, myself and a friend realised we had problems being "above average" for all the reasons listed above and below. And came to the conclusion we had to dumb down to enjoy life.

To assist us we chose a TV role model of the most dumbed down we could find (the BBC hadn't re-styled the 6:00 news then so we couldn't chose a BBC news-reader) instead we chose as our new hero Homer Simpson, the true idiot, but happy.

And so the 20th Century version on Homerism was born.

"See the happy Moron, he doesn't give a damm, I wish I was a moron, hurray NOW I am"

CH

PS new thread anyone?

Or, you'd have to have been smart enough to get a vcr that has a remote control. Wires are for sissies!

In the US we have a public radio show called Car Talk that is, indeed an automotive show, but it is hosted by a couple of brilliant and very funny guys named Click and Clack who are MIT alums. This past year they gave the commencement speech at the MIT graduation ceremony, and they used their time to promote a philosophy they call "unencumbered by the thought process". It was hysterical to hear hundreds of utterly brilliant scientists and philosophers and such being told that they would all be much happier if they just stopped thinking so much! Heh. The whole speech is available somewhere at the MIT website. It's really very funny.

Here’s a thing, a chance to link three strands. Music Trivia, Name that Tune (currently on NTTIII) . A lot of what has gone before is summed up in this song lyric. Band, and title later.

“We wouldn’t use guns, we wouldn’t use bombs, we’ll use the one thing that we’ve got more of – that’s our minds. Check your lucky numbers, that much money could drag you under, oh. What’s the point of being rich, if you can’t think what to do with it? Cause you’re so bleeding thick. Oh we weren’t suppose to be, we learnt too much at school now we can’t help but see the future that you’ve mapped out is not much to shout about….”

CH

Uhm... no offense, but can you stop using Word or whatever it is you're composing in that puts those ?s everywhere? Thanks.

??????????? What question marks, honestly I cannot see any in my previous note, which you are right was written off-line in Word. Wot browser are you using? In IE5 I see nothing, but if its a prob, then it's back to WordPad for me.

Chris

*Smile* Of course your IE5 would interpret M$ codes correctly. But not the rest of us, I fear.

All your apostrophes and quote marks are converted to question marks in your previous post.

Just so you know, most of us don't fret too much over misspellings, etc in forums, so you really don't need an extra application. It's okay if you goif in ferims while suing the forem editzor thingemabob.

Mishapes, mistakes and misfits, raised on a diet of broken biscits...
Mishapes, Pulp.
Double A-side with Sorted for E's and Whizz, relesed with 2 diferent CD covers, the Sorted one being quickly withdrawn due to having folding instructions to turn it into a wrap for possible illicit substances. Can I have extra points for that?

Anyway genius' aren't freaky, it's everybody else who is....

u r right of corse, however main reason for using someting else is that it was dun off-line to save my ever increasing fone bill.

Chris

PS Netscape doesn't show anything odd either, but will take your word 4 it and be a good boy (or girl) from now on

you've heard that saying "there's a fine line between genuis and insane" havent you? well, most guniuses just tend to be right on that line. so, there's my answer

You can... oh yes! You can set the VCR with a remote control! I've done it!

Course I usually sit down to do it, because the VCR is in a little cubby, where it only responds to the remote in few and particular places. Still...

All right, s'you win.

And why not?

I'm using n*tscrape.