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

Oh dear... you want to know what I look like. Okay, well, here are a few links to the last few meet-ups. Lots of pictures etc:

Last Christmas:
http://www.h2g2.com/A230563
(I almost started singing "I gave you my heart but the very next day, you give it away...." )

This summer:
http://www.h2g2.com/A325018
http://www.h2g2.com/A330364

I hope you don't think I'm too ugly to talk to!

Matt

I didn't mean I wanted to know what you looked like! But thanks for showing me anyway!! I'll try and find some pictures of me to send. Of course I wouldn't think you were too ugly to talk to, I'm not that shallow! Speak to you when you get back from London,
Love Kate

Hi - I'm back from London. But chances are I'm not going to be online much, or indeed at all, this week. Oh well, c'est la vie!

I don't think that the cameras pointed anywhere near me at any time, so you wouldn't have seen me. And no - I didn't think you were shallow at all - honest!

Matt

Did you have a good time in London? Your 15 minites of fame illuded you. Oh well.

I didn't mean I thought you thought I was shallow by the way! That sounds really confusing doesn't it? I'll shut up about it because we will end up going round in huge circles!!

A few of my friends went to see Scary Movie and they thought it was great. I don't know whether that means it was or not 'cause you can't trust thier taste, they didn't laugh at Chicken Run!! What did you think of it? Scary Movie, not Chicken Run!

It is a shame you can't get on line as much this week but that doesn't matter, we will just have to talk whenever you can make it.

Love Kate

Okay - time to draw this circle to an end!

You asked me what I thought about Scary Movie - well, I didn't really like it that much. The start - that was really great and funny, but the rest of it just turned into gross humour like the Farrely brothers etc., which isn't really my type of humour at all... There are other really funny bits - but sadly they were all in the trailer, so didn't make you laugh when you saw them in the cinema. A great idea, with some good jokes, but I thought it had too many "yuck - that's disgusting "'s than "LOL! "'s.

Oh dear, sounds like you didn't have such a great time!! How was the Shakespeare? I thought Scary Movie looked a bit crap even on the trailors but people have insisted otherwise. You are the first person to see it and not like it!! have you ever read The Dubliners by James Joyce? Don't bother! It is crap!! It is the book we have to do in English lit. at the moment and I wish we weren't!

I still had a good time - it takes a lot to make me not enjoy myself, and never fear, even Scary Movie wasn't that bad . So far 3 of my friends have seen it, and all 3 of them thought it wasn't particularly good. If you didn't like the trailor and don't like gross humour, my advice is don't see it, or watch it on a video or when it comes onto TV. Don't go out of your way to see it.

I haven't read "The Dubliners", and I'll remember your "review" so I won't get it.

But the Reduced Shakespeare Company and the Proms were fun. The Reduced Shakespeare Company wasn't as funny as I thought it would be, more Americanised humour than I expected, but it was still a good night. Have you read/enjoyed much Shakespeare at all?

I love Shakespeare. My favorite is Much Ado About NOthing but The Merchant Of Venice is quite good too. Romeo And Juliet is probubly the one I know best because it was the first one I ever read. We are doing the Tempest next term, which I quite like. Othello is rubbish and so is Hamlet but aprt from that I like most of them. It is 'music with words' as my mum says.

I don't mind sick humour, I just thought scary movie looked usless! The South Park movie still cracks me up! Cartman has some really great lines. He never fails to make me laugh because he is the bast thing in it. Apart from the movie, South Park is crap.

I have to go to a lesson now and I can't be bothered so as Cartman would say, "F**k f**kety f**k f**k f**k"!!!!

Love Kate.

Hello Kate,
the Shakespeare I've read so far is:
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear - of which, I confess, Hamlet is my favourite. Followed by Macbeth. I guess Romeo & Juliet is just too romantic, and too often repeated, for my tastes. I mean, it's everywhere - take that new film "Romeo Must Die" for example... Although I have seen a lot of films of the plays, and they're fun too. Especially Richard III and Henry V.

I think the South Park film and Scary Movie have completely different types of gross humour... but I agree that it wasn't that good, wheras South Park was fun. I don't watch that much South Park though. I'm sorry about the lesson!

See ya later!

Matt

I agree with you about the Romeo and Juliet reworkings, there are far too many and it has put me off the play. I only know it well because we were forced to study every word of it in year 9 and it was the first Shakespeare I ever read rather than watch the movie! My mum is always raving about King Lear but I have only seen the film. I have seen the film of A Midsummer Nights Dream but never read it. I wasn't that keen on it really.

Scary Movie and South Park are similar in the fact that their main aim is to shock a laugh out of the audience. They know that they are pushing the boundries and it makes people so uncomfortable that all they can think of to do is laugh. It apeals to the very basic, primal sense of humour. When everyone is a child developing their sense of humour they find toilet jokes endlessly funny. It is the first thing people learn to find funny. That then wears off but these movies proove it doesn't, it is just surpressed by more intelligent forms of humour like wit and sarcasm. These movies use the same jokes and subjects we would have found funny as a young child and our basic, long-sinse repressed reaction is to laugh our asses off! Except Cartman's lines, which is genuinly funny rather than shocking. If you couldn't guess, Cartman is my favorite!

Kate.

I too had to study Romeo & Juliet in year 9 - it caused quite a stir because we ended up watching the (70s version) film in English class, which actually had a bedroom scene. Then in year 11 we were shown, in English, the Playboy version on MacBeth. Admittedly there wasn't much nudity in it, but it wasn't really what you expected from either school or Shakespeare.

I agree with you that toilet humour is a very early sense of humour that's developed, and yes, some people always find it funny. But for me, Scary Movie was just gross. I guess I lost me toilet humour when I was around 12... I never understood why they make 18 rated films that are toilet humour based when those who enjoy toilet humour most are in their early teens, but I guess that's one of life's mysteries - such as you can get married and have sex when you are 16 yet not watch someone have sex in the cinema until you are 18... Life is mad.

South Park - I'd agree with you that Cartman's the coolest South Park charecter. Stan & Kyle tend to blur into each other a lot, and Kenny - well, his dying every week is a take-off of Bluebottle from the Goon show who frequently died (with the immortal line "You rotten swine you! You have deaded me again!") although the mumbling's a great idea. But Cartman really stands out - and is a great character. But as I said, I don't really watch it, but I enjoyed the film.

Matt

I had to watch that version of Romeo and Juliet in year 9 too. I thought it was rubbish! There are much better versions. It caused a stir in my English class to. Gasps of "They showed his ass" went round the room. But we were year 9 so we were aload to be pathetic!

I did have loads of things to say writen out but just before I could send I got kicked off of the computers by a class of year 7's so I have to start all over again now. I have forgotten most of the stuff I was going to write!

I don't really like watching South Park much either, I just love the movie for some reason. Have you noticed how the further into the movie it gets, the more Sadam Husain (or however you spell it) sounds like Cartman?! At the end their voices are identical!!

I'm going to change the subject now. Umm... I can't think of one. My mind is slightly dead after the physics lesson I just had. We have the most mind-numbingly boring teacher in the world. He goes on and on and on in a monotone voice that puts us all to sleep and slows down time. He taught me last year too and there were about 5 or 6 occasions when I literally fell asleep due to his incescent drone. I was supposed to be coming up with something interessting to say wasn't I? Er... Ok, I give in. Can you think of anything?!

Looks like we saw the same version at about the same age - I didn't mind it much, it was better than having to read the play aloud etc, and gave us a couple of easy lessons. And I like Michael York who played Tybalt... I wasn't that fussed about anyone else, but at least it didn't have Leo DiCrapio in it...

I hadn't noticed the similarity of voices between Cartman & Saddam Husain - I wonder if it was deliberate?

Can I think of something interesting to say? Hmm... that's quite a challenge. At the moment I am busy celebrating everyone's birthday - it's my sisters and one of my housemates - so apparently I have to go out and celebrate non-stop. So I'm off home this weekend - back to Sandown. Is it exciting? I don't know.... Hmmm.....

But I saw "O Brother Where Art Though?" the other day - and that was a great film.

If I think of anything exciting, I'll let you know!

Matt

Hi Matt

I think Michael York is great too. I think Gene Wilder in really cool too, I don't know why but for some reason Micael York makes me think of him!! Maybe I'm just weird. I am ashamed to admit it but I actually own that version on video! I was given it for christmas.

I hope you had fun in Sandown getting monumentaly drunk and celebrating continuously. I just worked all weekend and now I'm really tired! The week is actually my break rather than the weekend!!

I think the Cartman/Saddam thing was probubly because it was the same person (I assume) and they lapsed into it because two different voices in conversation must be hard to keep up.

I have to go to biology now (we have a test) so I'll see if I can write again later. BYE!!!

Kate.

Hiya Kate,

okay, I must admit I've never seen the simalarity between Michael York and Gene Wilder, but then I've never studied Gene Wilder that closely. And don't be ashamed about owning that video - I won't tell anyone - promise!

As for the birthday celebrations, my sister Rebekah's 22nd wasn't quite like that... It involved a family tea with jelly & ice-cream, cake, balloons and the traditional around the table party food - my 9 (soon to be ten!) year old sister wouldn't have it any other way. But it was fun. I didn't have that much time in Sandown to look around at all - but then, it's home. I didn't need to look around it as I know it quite well - but I always love walking along the seafront. I miss it.

But I also met Rebekah's new boyfriend - and he seemed quite friendly.

Well - the best of luck in biology! Tell me about it,

Matt

I don't think there is anything similar between Michael York and Gene Wilder, but in my mind I class them the same. Probubly something stupid like they are both blonde! The only significant similarity is that they are both in films I love (Charlie and The Chcolate Factory and Logans Run). Like I said, maybe I'm just weird!!

I think party food (especially jelly) is the best and only way to have a party! We did that for my friend Gemma's surprise party and we did party bags and everything. Partys used to be fun when I was little, everyone takes them so seriously now! Although we did use Vodka instead of lemonade and we spent ages seeing who could make the best cocktail. Claire won but she cheated, she rang her ex for the recipy for sex On The Beach because he makes really nice cocktails. We all just threw anything that was at least 40% into a glass in huge quantities!!!

The biology test wasn't too bad. It was only a small unimportant thing on gas exchange. I think I did ok, I got about three quarters of the marks. At least half the questions were on things we won't be taught for a couple of weeks like haemoglobin saturation, and one of the questions was taken from the sillabus of a completely different biology course but it was ok because we had to "use our common sense and previouse knowledge" to work it out without actually knowing it. I just guessed.

Did you watch David Bowie on TV last night? Isn't he fabulous?! I think he is wonderfull. It made a change to see him doimg some new stuff rather than the old classics all over again.

Kate.

Well, if you clas them the same, then why not? No harm in it afterall, and if you like them about equally, why not? Nothing weird in that! Does this mean that at last I've found someone else who prefers the 78 version of "The Three Musketeers" to the early 90s version? Rebekah used to love the modern one, but only because she fancied the guys in it... I didn't, so didn't see the appeal.

I didn't see anything on TV during the whole weekend - I've never been much of a television watching person. As for David Bowie - I must say that I consider his finest moment to be Labyrinth, but I'm completely ignorant of everything he's done since. But at least he's always seemed to be an individual.

And kid's parties are quite fun - although this one was quite small with only my sister, half-sister, father, step-mum and my sister's boyfriend there. I've never really been to large disco-like parties. Okay - I, in fact, have never been to a nightclub party. Ever. It's not something I've ever really been invited to etc.

I'm glad that the test thing went okay, though. I hate tests....

I thought the recent Muskateers movie was complete pants!! My brother prefered the new one too, God knows why?!

Night clubs are crap so don't worry about it!! I prefere pubs by a mile, but that could be because Townies wind me up beyond belief. And clubs (in Newbury anyway) are packed to the rafters with Townies.

I am going home now (I'm starving and I want my dinner!) so I will speak to you tomorrow,

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite, Sweet dreams, Au revoir, auf weidesien, bye!!!!

Kate.

I've no idea why people liked the new Three Musketeers film - it didn't have the personality or aura of the older ones. I mean, who can rival Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed and Michael York, eh? No-one. So how dare anyone even try.

I too prefer pubs to clubs - I've been in a club twice, but neither time liked it. I couldn't talk to anyone very well, and as I don't dance, I'd much rather go for a friendly chat in a pub with some friends. Much more relaxed atmosphere, and you can get to know everyone around you much better!

Hope you had a great meal and a good night's sleep,

Matt

I had a useless nights sleep! I am more tired than I was yesturday. I went to a pub quiz last night, I am in a team called Only To Be Expected because (don't ask me how) we ALWAYS come forth!! No matter how many teams we are up against, every single week we have ever been, every single time we come forth. Weird, huh?! It was quite good anyway. I won't bother to tell you what position we had last night.

I am now really bored because I just found out todays Eng. Lit. lesson is cancelled and I have PS until 2:20 (biology) on Tuesdays anyway so I could be at home sleeping! I have apsolutely nothing to do for four and a half hours. I might just walk home and watch some cheesy, American mid-day TV. Diagnosis Murder is so cool, isn't Dick Van Dyke the best?! His son just annoys me though.

I will come back in to school later so I will write then, bye!

Kate.