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

I don't know but there's these insect like race of creatures who have been hiding behind the blue event horizon waiting for the world eaters to go away. They left behind a gateway on a planet 180 degrees away on the other side of the sun.

i tried to write a story about a planet like that once. didn't get very far because the space probe got blown up by a missile from Mirror Earth. then it went all Armegeddon on me and i abandoned it.

It's always tricky getting past that first paragraph isn't it?

oooh, harsh

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

William Shakespeare was born and died on his birthday.

Ghana went metric on my birthday one year.

Then Ghana drove right on my birthday another year.

And to add insult to injury... Ghana had a national pothole day on my birthday - that was my last year in Ghana. We spent the afternoon filling in all the potholes on our street.

I now live in London.

"It's always tricky getting past that first paragraph isn't it?"

There wasn't really a first paragraph, just a first chapter and basic story plan and then a character list which was basically an Armageddon rip off.

Ah... rip off something better...

Lucifer's Hammer (Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle) or The Hammer of God (Arthur C. Clark).

Start with Carl Sagan's Comet so you know what you're talking about first of course.

(I've been threatening to write a similar story for ages but I know I'll have a hard time keeping these fellows previous work out of my head.)

Haven't read those so it shouldn't be too hard to keep them out of my head. Somehow it was basing itself on the Spiderman Unlimited TV series I watched when I was younger. Don't know how that got in there.

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Apparantly they were only half way through giving him the *bumps* at the time too..

william shakespear was born on april 23.
william shakespear died on april 23.
in psalm 23 of the bible, the 23rd line from the start is "shake".
the 23rd line from the end is "spear".
coincidence?

Yes.

ok i suppose so.

"A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness."

-from Repo Man (1984).

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

-deepak chopra

Here we go - conclusive proof! You're not gonna argue with Einstein, are you?

http://sharkauthority.blogspot.com/2006/03/einstein-contribution-on-shark-vomit.html

No, here is the proof

http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php

I was gonna post that but I thought I'd see if anyone fell in first.

It is estimated that around 10% of Americans have picked someone else's nose.

You will never see a fly on an egg. It's physically impossible for a fly to grip an egg's shell.

Mark Twain was born in 1835, the year Halley's Comet appeared. He died in 1910, the year the comet again made an appearance.

Stanley Kubrick never saw a Stanley Kubrick movie.