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

I like it all.

yes
I just would not mention the new design but that's just my own opinion/taste.

*The Doc Military two steps in from Stage right, fashionably late and unsuitably dressed, his medals and elbows akimbo*

Ahem!

Good morning. Two relatively sensible entrances in two days outside of the Mad Lab - people will think I am losing it......but to the matter/question in hand - Describe Hootoo in 100 or less words.

It is - like Camelot in the "Holy Grail", a silly place. It also mixes silly with sensible and good personal stories /articles with the longest list known to man of songs where the word "Love" has been replaced by the word "Kn*b". Only on H2G2 could I be known as a "Curmudgeon" and be told that I am somewhere between Charles Bronson and Peter Sellers - both observations I will treasure.
It is Narnia, a museum, a fairground, the Smithsonian, a custard pie in the face, an education, an inspiration, a glorious work of art, a roller coaster, a summer sunrise and a smack round the head with a rubber chicken. It is also the only place I know where two gay interior decorator Cybermen can earn an honest crust.
So, as Dorothy said when she clicked her heels - "Theres no place like home - theres no place like Hootoo"

I thang yew

H2G2 is a Dynamic and interactive Chamber of Wonders. It is always wainting for curious people and a moment of serendipity . There´s plenty of room for anyone who wants to join, bring their object, (write an EG, just talk…) share and enjoy with the Community . It´s not an exclusive club with restricted admision, it´s a world that reflects, recreates and celebrates life, the universe…

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If I were someone with power in the BBC, I´ll link h2g2 to the BBC Learning English site . h2g2 is the best alternative to living in an English speaking country for those learners who want and need a linguistic inmersion, that´is: to live REAL interactive communicative situations where at least two of the four language skills needed to develop the communicative competence can be used (reading and writing)
Besides, Students, learners have the possibility of getting to know not only the English speaking culture, also other people, other cultures, directly or indirectly , reading the Guide, interacting with people... It offers motivation to write and to read.

A motivation that also works for native English speakers of any age.

This place is educative and entertaining, the least I can say.
My English has improved since I joined, many more things have also improved at personal level.
I only hope that this place gets out of the limbo so that I can contribute with some Entries I have in mind but that can´t do it now.

The big and the small...not always...but sometimes often...at the same time.

older than Wiki
more eloquent than Facebook

How do you boil an egg?
How do you bake a loaf of bread?
Where are the best pubs in that town you are going to visit?
How do you behave in a foreign country without getting arrested?
Who was Albert Schweitzer?

You will not find all the answers in Wiki...

You WILL on h2g2!

GT

GT, I like the idea of mentioning some examples of the things you can find here but maybe nowhere else. The entry about Napoleon's horse springs to mind.

For me, things like that would whet my appetite more than something vague about what a quirky and wonderful place it is.

That's the thing KB.

You could search Wiki for a week for an answer.

Look on hootoo and you have your answer in seconds!!

GT

Spot on KB.

I want to write a piece about an obscure caddis fly larva in the High Pyrenees.

The thing I did for my degree was 'Aspects of the ecology of Alogamus auricollis'

I think I could write something funny about that for a guide.

But the new guide needs to be *real* The old guide seems pointless now.

Write, Effers, write.

We still need to show prospective buyers, if there are any, that the Guide is alive and kicking, and not reverted to a chatline only!!


GT

Well if its gonna help and its meaningful to help and can be transferred over to the new thing fine.

But I'm utterly confused about the old and possibly new guide...and what's best.

(BTW its Allogamus auricollis. I spelt it wrong.)

For me is all confusion at present.

Also I feel very angry if I write it here, the BBC will own copyright. I won't if that's true.

Well now, 100 words or less. I've been watching & thinking.

I'm putting together a linked list (from the 3 'favourite' threads) for my club site, that will have an audience of at least 14, probably all our members, perhaps the other clubs in the lower half of the south Island (NZ) and even all the country (and It's not unknown for newsletters to be circulated rather wider).

Currently the intro to that list reads:
>...
These are just a few favourite pieces chosen by others: humour, laugh-out-loud, weird imaginings, pathos, bathos, iconoclasm, stuff to make you think 'why the hell was that allowed to happen?' Stuff to make you glow with fury. Stuff to make you weep.
Pretty much the whole of the human condition is contained there.
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Is that any good to you?

Jolly, you don't need to worry about the BBC owning copyright. The writer owns the copyright of anything in the guide - they've just given the BBC permission to use it.

>they've just given the BBC permission to use it.<

Yes but anyone who pours sweat and tears into something, based on all their schooling and university training, shouldn't accept the BBC being able to do it. The BBC have dumped us. That's *reality* I'm not giving the BBC permission to do anything.

(Yes I know its a million to one that anything I write will be used by them...but its the principle. I hate them now..and they have sent me half mad).

Go ahead and write it. If you don't want to submit it to the BBC, I'm sure we could still use it after we move house.

I'll start on the writing of it, as I had intended, finally contributing to the guide, but I'm NOT posting it anywhere that the BBC has any sort of right over it whatsoever.

sim post

Actually stuff it, I'll post it on the this h2g2 when done. Pragmatism is good.

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