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

spelling? you've lost me there

again I'm afraid not - another clue?

(The spelling thing is that we allow any names which sound similar, e.g. Vladimir F Kennedy = John F Kennedy + Vladimir Lenin = John Lennon)

No, I give up. By all means give us a clue...

Oh I see now thanks.

All three are authors

Well I've heard of Brian Daley, but not Brian Smith. Ditto Margaret Daley. I'm not going to get this one, so I'll leave it for someone else with a better knowledge of authors.

Perhaps before I get too deeply into the author theme, my main person has written and published; but not in the accepted sense - he uses the medium of computer and perhaps even programming - think JRR T

*gets curiouser and curiouser*

This is rapidly moving out of my comfort zone!

I thought of Will Smith, the actor, until scorpio said it was an author

As this was my first try, shall I explain who it is and how I got there, so you can tell me where I went wrong? It must be my error 'cos all the earlier ones I watched, seem to have been beyond me; but were apparently relatively easy to the rest of you!

I don't mind being pounced on if I've made a total bodge of this

*waits with bated breath*

Go ahead - and mind, it took me a while to find out how to do it, I even wrote all the versions down and checked - and yet I made mistakes

Yes, please!

I'm useless at this game, and I invented the bl**dy thing!

Main Man: Dan Smith - using Dan Daley (Author and Journalist www.dandaley.net) and Wilbur Smith - Author of When the Lion Feeds etc;

Dan Smith is the guy who created and published the 'Fantasy Fonts for Windows' These are all the character fonts which were used in JRR Tolkeins Lord of the Rings weird languages that nobody understands; but can now be used on computers.

Sorry if I've been a pain

Yes, for once it's not 'Mea maxima culpa', but - heck, what's the Latin equivalent for 'your' ?

not sure, could it be raptus regaliter up?

As I appear to have blotted my copybook at go 1, I'll watch again for the next few goes before I have another attempt.

Hope I haven't spoiled it all completely - its a really good area.

No, please, have another go, you made everything right, it's just that we didn't know your Doppelgangers.

Nothing wrong with your setting, except I just hadn't heard of Dan Daley or Dan Smith.

They can be really difficult to set, as well-known people in one culture are often unheard of in another.

Looking forward to the new one


(If anyone's interested, I can dig out the puzzle on the "Quiz of the Day" thread that started it all - for some solving practice)

yes please for the practice help and thanks for giving me another chance.

Gordon Steelye

OK, this was the quiz that started it all.

All the answers (but not the interim celebrities) are pop artists.

The interim names are vaguely related to each other - i.e. in the same field, if that helps.


*****

1. Shane Blair

2. Bob Charlton

3. Kenneth Coltrane

4. Reg Costello

5. Jacob Cratchitt

6. Julie Curtis

7. Jarvis Dolce

8. Clodagh Everett

9. Audley Foreman

10. Thunderclap Glitter

11. Smokey Jones

12. Vladimir F. Kennedy

13. Noel Lee Travis

14. Bobby Lineker

15. Rolf Marx

16. Michael Tex

17. Ray Turner

18. Michael Vanwarmer

19. Neil Weller

20. Pat Wilkinson

*****

I'll get back to that later, must cook tea now