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

New cartoon.
I've also re-posted "Last Anus" for Joanna to see and as part of the discussion.

Like the new one Lil.

Phil, the artist was Tracy Emin. She used to live about 2 miles from me in Kent with the poet Billy Childish. I've got a friend who lives in the house now.

That'll be the lass then. A friend I work with has some strong feelings on that piece, and no it's not art...

new cartoon

That ones really good. Got me laughing out loud

Later
Phil

The whole concept of inaccessibility .... There's a good essay by Annie Dillard (Teaching a Stone to Talk) where she uses the geographic concepts as metaphor. I'd had no idea there really is a place on our planet named the Point of Greatest Inaccessibility.

It may have been named before the advent of manned flight.

You could never “prove” it was inaccessible though. Failing to access a place every time you tried to get there only decreases the probability that you will gain accessibility one day. Therefore, although it might seem as if a place is totally inaccessible, you would never know for sure. So, DONT PANIC, the chances are that accessibility is possible. This is an important plot element in a book I once read.

And the Franklin Expedition was an effort to disprove Inaccessibility. The Dillard metaphor would suggest that they were held back by their dependence on monogrammed silverware. Should George divest himself of his towel?

It's back to the old `absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' argument that a friend onvce lectured me about when doing a PhD about fossil fishes...

Well there you go! Just because a coelacanth had not been seen for ages, didn't mean it was gone for ever!

And then there's expectations. I remember that this cartoon came into my life just at a time when something which I had thought a certainty became ... inaccessible. I laughed at George, though, because I felt his expectations were more well-founded than mine.

Ooops, there go the socks again . A fine start to my day, thanks Lil.

New cartoon.
(frame went funny just now. I wonder if this is going to be a duplipost?)

Nice one. Reminds me of all those times when the conversation has run out and you're just sitting there...

new cartoon

*tries to make smiley with tongue hanging out, fails miserably and settles for...*

I suppose that one goes by the 'if you've got it flaunt it' principle