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

if so, and youre close enough to shoeberyness east of south-end-on-sea to drive down and do a look-see for us concerning some research about something to do with douglas adams... then please go here http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F48874?thread=7913745&skip=0&show=20 and post a hello to us thanks

I'm from Essex, but I don't live there now, and won't be down there until Easter. How urgent is it?

well its not the end of the world or anything

go to that link i left to see what we are discussing

it has to do with an interesting thing about arthur dent

one of douglas adams' characters

hopefully someone else can get over there before easter

Sooner would be better, but I'm not sure whether there would be anything to find now, anyway. No harm in looking though.


Geggs

i was thinking of looking on that map here on hootoo that shows where researchers are from...

but i canna remember how to get to it

dang

it is for times like this that I keep a link to the map on my personal space http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/dna/h2g2/brunel/U170775/ext/_auto/-/http://www.mapservices.org/myguestmap/showguestmap.do?id=h2g2

of course if we lose the dna platform that link might stop working and you would need to go direct to
http://www.mapservices.org/myguestmap/map/h2g2

Rather than read a broken discussion can you just tell me what you want here? I could pop down to Southend any weekend but reading through the thread I have no idea what is being discussed.

ooooo mina!!

okay!

there is a town down there called shoeberyness

which is the town that a certain arthur dent had a parish around 1600
and he wrote a book called something like a simple pilgrims way to heaven
which he wrote after he read pilgrims progress

now douglas adams wrote some books featuring arthur dent as a detective
and some have suggested that its no accident

to which douglas replied that it must be an accident because he doesnt remember that book

so its my theory he must have heard of it in his sleep thru a tv or person talking around him
or at school
because he went to school in brentwood

and i was thinking if someone went down there
and chatted the locals up
or checked out the churches from 1600
maybe we would get some clues

i cant go because i am in america
and on the west coast to boot

anyway that link up there is for a pretty short thread
for a peer review on an entry about the 'real' arthur dent

and in the thread we posted a map and a link to info on arthur from wikipedia

also it would be interesting if we could contact his school in brentwood and see what the curriculum was when douglas adams was going there (the school is named in the wiki entry for him) this is a real possibility too because shoeberyness is ancient... neanderthals were there... so surely a school a scant 50 km away would study it!

and this would prove douglas slept in class hahaha

and douglas was 6 feet tall when he was twelve

it totally cracks me up imagining a 12 year old 6 foot douglas sprawled out there in the back row of class in his desk... totally zonked out whilst the professor drones on about some obscure boooooooring pastor from the 1600s...

who wrote a book about some clueless doofus who traveled around in the heavens...

btw shagbark thank you i looked and found one person cyzaki but they moved to london

ok thanks, I did read the thread, but your style of writing is something I'm not used to and I found it hard to follow, sorry.

I've got it now, and Shoeburyness is quite close to me, not 50km I promise you, not even 40. But I don't have time to go off talking to locals or investigating churches. If you have one church you want me to pop into give me the details and I can manage that, but not doing all the research.

BTW, the school Douglas went to is also named in the entry I wrote on Brentwood. But I don't fancy doing all the research on your behalf on that, either. Sorry. I've got my own entry in PR which is a bit neglected itself.

"btw shagbark thank you i looked and found one person cyzaki but they moved to london "

There are plenty of Researchers in Essex - 4 in my town itself, although I'm the only one currently active.

after i rewrite everything from that thread because you cant be bothered to go read it yourself... and i am very tired tonite...

you are so rude as to insult how i write
and insinuate that i am asking someone to do 'my research' for me
and also rude enuf to make sure i know i made a gaff by not looking up your brentwood entry to find out douglas' school...

well i am just flummoxed

dash and be gone wi ye

ye heathen

You are a very weird person.

I'm sorry you took my message like that, but well, you can't help some people.

And I DID read the thread, I just had no clue what you were bloody on about because you write so bloody stupidly, and I struggled with this one too! I didn't have to even bother to try to decipher your weird writing style you know.