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

Entry: Hitchhiker Slang - A2118692
Author: spikefruit - U540099

I just saw that there was no Entry about Galactic hiker slang, so I decided to make one.

I really like this Fun stuff in the spirit of h2g2 and our silliness!

I'll look around and see if I can find anything else for you.

- knows where his towel is.

Couldn't this be put in for the edited guide, if it was expanded a bit?

I can't think of any slang off the top of my head ('don't panic' comes close to being slang, in context, but not quite) but I'll keep thinking. Are you only including slang or important referances (like 42, the mice, vogon poetry and so on) as well?

Well, I think I could use "Don't Panic". I'm mostly including slang, but it doesn't need to be straight out of the books. You could make stuff up, as long as it pertains to the books and could be used conversationally. Well, that's about it. Thanks for your support!

Your entry could use a few more. I'd be glad to chime in.

Firstly (if I may suggest);
For 'Zark', you may want to mention that it means '#@*&%';
that 'Zark Off' means 'Get Seriously Lost';
and that 'What the Zarking Photons is that? means 'Run like hell'.
Also:
Zarquon, the Great Galactic Prophet of ancient times, WHO is thought of to be a saint and is greatly revered throughout the Galaxy, popped off, but promised his followers that he would return. His followers expect him at any moment.

The one slang word I immediately noticed missing was 'Teaser':
A teaser is ususlly a bored rich kid who buzzes people of planets that haven't made interstellar contact. They find isolated spots and land right by some poor unsuspecting inhabitant (who noone is going to believe), and strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae and making beep-beep noises.
They are geat to get a lift from, if you can simultaneously flatter them for their nice ship, laugh at their 'Teaser' stories, and perhaps show them where to find backward planets.

aye, thanks.

is it actually hikespeke? Or is it hikespeak?

The Professor
Societas Eruditorum

aye, its hikespeke. it just looks cooler that way.

I don't know that this belongs here and the author has elvised.

Suggesting a move.
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I'll second that