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

Will it tell us what the airspeed velocity of an unladen dragon is?

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How am I supposed to know that?

Perhaps you could estimate by means of timing flights between two points on the ground a known distance apart?

Can an overweight dragon be unladen?

Can we all agree that's solely at the discretion of the dragon?

What are dragons typically laden with?

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Could it be scales?

Do dragons need a scale and polish?

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Might the dragon have feathers, like some dinosaurs did?

Mightn't the plumes and scales of a dragon be more ornate than those of any avian?

If a dragon captures a princess, is it laden with a maiden?

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How did we manage to make the subject of dragons (either Welsh or Chinese) endure for so long?

Are you Draggin this out?

Do you have a problem with dragons?

Where did H T Hun spring from - other than Detroit? Nice to have an extra body isn't it?

Shouldn't that have been A T Gun?

Don't you just hate it when predictive text changes a perfectly reasonable word for something you didn't intend? (A T Gun should have been A T Hun in the previous post.)

What's predictive text? And what's nice about having an extra body? Wouldn't it make you look rather odd?

Isn't 'predictive text' a reference to the google keyboard program that guesses what may follow copy typed in by the user, overriding user controls to autoprint the computer's guess, even altering the text from which the made its guess made to make it better conform to the machine error, operation of the predictive autocorrect sometimes deferred until after one has previewed and :posted, so filling some with despair that they've threatened suicide when confronted with the misrepresentations the machine has made of them, forcing people to seek alternative keyboards to the un-uninstallable 'google keyboard', also refered to as 'google textmess' in official computer security software literature, spawn of the bloodsucking msn butterfly of microsoft 2007 which had people remarking on the rise and fall of microsoft and speculating as to whether microsoft might survive their internal affairs disaster or not before a certain software designer moved from microsoft to google?

There are of course other questions one might ask; are there backgound issues of senile dementia, drug related brain damage, paranoid schizophrenia compounded with delusions of grandeur?

Is the last perhaps the reason why a certain software designer courts infamy with what has become arguably the worst software scandal in history, manifesting in angry commentaries in every computer forum I've so far read on the topic?

Should I not affirm that the typos above are my own, the word 'program' missing before "made its guess", missing comma after the 2nd "guess", superfluous colon before "posted", missing comma after "disaster or not" and not this time in any way the fault of the machine?