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

You are a silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly person.
You'll fit right in.
Welcome to the Hitchhiker's Guide to Earth.
A little background.


The not at all true story of the guide
or
How www.h2g2.com got born

The guide was first proposed by a little girl in a frilly pink dress in Essex. No one at all listened to her and she cried and cried until a man wearing a stovepipe top-hat asked her why she way crying. "I want to make a comprehensive guide to Earth" she said between sobs "that has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, but people keep telling me such a book is impossible, or at best highly improbable!" then went right on crying.
The man in the stovepipe top-hat smiled gently at her. He put his caring hands on her tiny shoulders to steady her. Then he slapped her straight across the face. "Pull your self together girl!" he shouted "This is no time to sob and blubber like a little girl from Essex, * this is a time for a little magic." With this he winked slightly and magically.
What he meant by "a little magic" was this. They would set up a site on the Internet that anyone could join and submit inaccurate and/or speculative descriptions and entries with little to no repercussions if they were plagiarized or just dreamed up. There was, of course, nothing at all magic about this per-say, but along with being a man in a stovepipe top-hat, he was also crazy.
The little girl from Essex and the crazy magic man lived happily ever after and died horrible in unrelated accidents on the same day. **

*Aparently he had not read the first paragraph very thoroughly.

** No wrongdoing has ever been proven, and if you want to stay safe, I suggest you don't ask any questions about it.



That is all you need to know, have fun as the newest member. If you have any questions, just try asking me be amazed as I give you no help at all (the only thing I know for sure about this place is that Greebo is a cat, and likes doughnuts).

lovingly
-Prof. Ben Duluth

Prof. Duluth,
Thank you, sonny jim. This information is as almost entirely helpful as it is almost entirely unhelpful. Don't let's start with all that, it's not a torture we need. Doughnut loving cat, I'll keep that in mind. More silliness where that came from, worry not, it is on it's way... and you can't stop it. No no no no no (yes yes yes).
With moderate affection,
-dr. dan silly, silliness doctor*
*Understand that the term doctor here refers more to someone who does quite an alright job of being silly, as opposed to someone who simply finds ailing silliness and doses it with antibiotics.