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

[Mew flies over to a Kadabra and says something telepathically. The Kadabra sends the message along a line of psychic types, until it reaches Mewtwo]

[male] }Mew's sent the message directly to the ACEs. Green fruitbats potato ice cream.{

What's with the ice cream? A distortion passed from ear to ear?

Yay! It's Psychic Pokémon Chinese whispers!{Goes to call Bill and ask to withdraw his Kadabra to join in}

And what, pray tell, are Chinese whispers?

[Mewtwo takes out Psynoculars] }Okay ... Mew seems to be throwing off fireworks because his first post seemed to be ignored ...{

Let me see. [takes the binoculars] Verawn seems to have set up shop in the Uncertain Areas -- whoops, wrong forum.

[male] }Does Verawn have anything to do with the rumors about The Three I've been hearing on Damogran?{

[Vekura nudges him]

[male] }Okay, Vekura heard Aerol Nex mention it in a forum.{

Yes.

Well, Chinese Whispers is a jolly little game involving a long line of people at a party. The first person whispers a phrase once, and once only to the second person in line. The same person whispers what they heard to the next person, and so on. The object of the game is to see how distorted the phrase is by the time it reaches the last person in the queue. So for instance, 'I made friends with the King' becomes 'My microwave oven goes "bing!"'. OK, maybe not that distorted. Guess it's an English thing.

Fascinating.

Mewtwo, you got that particular idea from "The Simpsons", dincha?

[male] }Yup.{

What's Mew up to?

[male] }Well, he's up to giving the link out 100 times ... in the same post.{

Takin' after me, eh? Nyuck nyuck nyuck nyuck.

'Pokémon: The First Movie' was released in the UK yesterday. It got crap reviews. However, if the reviewers were under the age of twenty, it would have got rave reviews. Oh well, I hope to see it as soon as possible.

Just to let you know ahead of time, Billian, Mewtwo (the male one) is a bit sensitive on that subject.

Whoops. OK, shan't mention it again.

[male] }As long as you don't rub it in I'm okay about it.

I saw the movie yesterday. I liked Pikachu's Vacation 'cuz it had Snubble and particularly Marill. I love Marill

...whose Japanese name is known in America as Pikablu and in Japan as Mariru.

My mom has refused to let Pokémon: The First Movie NEAR the house because she wants to keep the contents of her stomach in her stomach: she saw the bit where Charizard got its head stuck in that pipe and they all went "Ha ha ha ha ha!" and concluded that this would be an example of the whole movie, including where Ash gets blown up by Mewtwo and Mew. (No, I don't think she knows about that part.) [YK suddenly realizes what he said and glances apprehensively at Mewtwo]

I have the book, and the four-part comic book, in case you're wondering how I know about it.

Did you know that "Pika" means "spark" in Japanese?