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

Who?

Just checked train. £50 rtn.

looking up coaches next.

and that's £37 - but that couch offer, would have to be extended by one day they don't run a service on the 1st for some reason.

clive
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you still about???

I am but just off to bed.

what about jesus foreskin???

a qi needs sheparding

Not forgotten, I'll sort it out in the morning. Had a horrible night's sleep. Off to go clean my teeth and try again.

see!!!!i got warner to say islam is corrupt

I did. I was struck at his recent engagement with Gif, he seemed almost ... reasonable.

Wonder how long that'll last?

i have been accused of cheating on a QI??????????

I saw. I've just come to your defence. I think Mal's just got her wires crossed.

Specialist knowledge is the sort of thing QI should thrive on.

You're right to call her on it.

But stay. Please.

clive can you post a link for google and wiki so i can try to link and hopefully show what i get when i try to wiki or google from work

http://www.google.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki


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this is what i get

Well that seems pretty conclusive.

just a bit p*ssed off at the moment

if i wanted to cheat i would not be bottom of the score board

what good does it do me???????

I can tell you are irritated, and with good reason.

I think Mal will come around, and is being the teensiest bit blockheaed about this.


I've often wondered if I could 'spot' someone using google, I've entertained the fantasy it might be possible, but I don't honestly believe that it is.

Mostly my QIs are so riddle like that actually google isn't of much benefit unless you know what your looking for. A case of evolution by natural selection possibly? the thign I fear is keywords.

Remember by iron jewellery question a while back? I mean that wasn't obvious, it's not the first thign you'd chuck into a search engine - but key words like jewellery, Prussia, Napoleon - and you might have got a hit, and that is what I would class as just cheating.
Which is why i say no google or wiki.

I really struggle to see what the problem is with someone reaching over their should and taking off the shelf - Unusual items of finery in 1800s Europe: a collector's guide." and finding the answer, I'm trying to so desperately to hide.

there's no way i can guard against that - and similarly there's no sensible way to guard against where you spent your time on duty, and hey might know a little bit about some places.

I think Mal is wrong about this specifically and wrong about referencing in general, and I've said so. QI is essentially a honours system, I don't see how that can fundamentally change and I can live with that.

Mal seems to be a bit hung up on people deducing the answer solely from the parameters of the question; and I sympathise, I do, but you cannot guard nor control what people bring to to the table when they reply (many a QI of mine has been picked off cos somebody blummin well knew the answer!) but I don'tthink she sees that.

Hence why she's banging on about your 'typical' posting style.

Nonsense on stilts.

So like i said try to maintain some good humour about it and just gently persuade Mal that she's wrong.

i have re read the thread and she said i wasnt too far away with my osnabruke jokyness and hameld is near enough directly south of osnabruke

my next funny ha ha story was going to about the town of lemgo

there was a welsh regiment stationed there and a young german girl went to the gaurdroom and said she was pregnant and wanted to inform the father, when asked what the fathers name was she said "Taff"?!?!?!?!?!?!LMAO

In Pennsylvania, there is a small rural hamlet called "intercourse"


Way back when it meant "crossroads" or "meeting point"

Today they have to nail the road signs to the wall, to stop tourists stealing them

on facebook on my page info take the link to 43 ord coy and have a look in the pictures

theres a chap stood by a town sign