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

...ah DO come in Wittgenstein...find a chair and sit down.

Rubik! You put that back the way you found it this instant!

No, Guttenberg. You can bloody well write it like everyone else.

B

It's a nice model, Ford, but I wish you'd put some more colour on it.

Branson, why do I always think of hot air where you are concerned?

I did both of those on the last page.

B

Ah, but I did subtle yet pointless variations on both of them!


Geggs

Caxton, you stupid boy, all this hand carved lettering is back to front. What use is that?

Xerox, you'll never get anywhere by copying off others.


Zeppelin, you're building castles in the air boy.

Telford, Brunel, stop fighting; you need to build some bridges between you.

F

Or equally:

Telford, Brindley, stop fighting! It's all water over the aquaduct.


Geggs

Call it after whatever god you want Goodyear it will never hold water

Coulomb - you're in charge!

ok Fish I bet there 'wont' be 7 oaks there tomorrow morning

There's actually a famous quote along these lines involving a writer. Yon Mr Gibbon was writing his 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' and someone actually turned round to him and said:

It's all scrible, scrible, scrible with you, isn't it Gibbon?


Geggs

It's all scribble, scribble, scribble with you, Tolstoy.

F

Stop messing with that pipe Darcy and Weisbach, somebody's going to loose their head

Hubel, Wiesel, put that cat down and return the drill to the workshop...

Come on Sun Tzu tidy the soldiers away until tomorrow

Quite the little wise guy, aren't you Confusius?

F

overheard at the Battle of Hastings:

"Put that arrow down! You'll have someone's eye out in a minute..."

Structural Engineering isn't the only option Wheatstone