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

I have had a thought which hopefully you might think is a good one.

Let us construct a marvellous Easter Egg full of idiomatic phrases regarding the concept of Time. It would be great and then we can offer it to pheloxi on the anniversary of his death on the 19th of April 2009. and send it to his family.

I would like to propose the following

No. one idiom in memory of PHELOXI WHOSE ANIVERSARY IS ON THE 19TH APRIL 2010.

IME WAITS FOR NO MAN

"With happy memories of a great researcher on h2g2"

Christiane
AR80

Thursday 1st April 2010 6.31 BSR

Christiane That is a wonderful idea

Here is one from Albert Einstein: “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas. --Groucho Marx


HN

Well, it wasn't actually Groucho who said that. It was some computer scientist.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

>>> Well, it wasn't actually Groucho who said that. It was some computer scientist.

Can we compare notes? I first saw it on a poster at a friend's house in the early 1970s. The poster was closely covered with Groucho Marx quotes.

Christiane, have you become (the dreaded) Cilla Black? (Ler us)





'I'm late for a very important date' - The white rabbit

"Time's in flux, changing every second. Your cozy little world could be rewritten like THAT! (snaps his fingers) Nothing is safe, remember that. Nothing."

Tenth Doctor

Dear Magwitch,

I am sooo ashamed. I did not notice the error. Thanks for pointing it out to me. Really I wonder if I am up to doing this card in pheloxi's memory. I hope so.

However I think that eventually I shall type all your entries on paper with your idiomatic expressions of time, and your messages and memories of pheloxi and then ask the editors if they will be so kind as to post it to pheloxi's family as I have unfortunately lost the whole of my personal address book.

Thank you for your contribution.

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TIME WAITS FOR NO MAN

"In treasured memory of a wonderful friend and fellow researcher who left us so suddenly on the 19th April, 2009

We think of you every day.....

With much affection

AlsoRan80 .

Thursday 1st April, 2010 6.45 BST

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Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time with a gift of tears,
Grief with a glass that ran.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles

Websailor

Time may change me
But I can't trace time
-David Bowie

Christiane,

Don't be ashamed. You made me laugh (on a day when I should'nt).

More laughter, less moroseness. I think pheloxi would've approved, too

...but not about my use of "'"

Time isn't holding us; time isn't after us.
-David Byrne

One of my favorite songs on the 1950's: "Think of the time I save," from "The Pajama Game."

Hinesy:
I'm a time study man, and a time study man can't waste time.
For a time study man to waste time,is a crime.
So i'm ruled by the tick tick tock.
And i live my life by the clock.
I live my life by the tick tick tock of the clock.

When i go to sleep, I don't undress.
That's right, I sleep in all my clothes.
I must confess.
Sure it's a strange way to behave.
And I will admit that the suit gets mussed and it gathers lint and it picks up dust,
but think of the time I save

"A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE"

This is good advice but I do not know the source

"TIME IS THE ENEMY"

I do not particularly like this expression, but I suppose that if one is busy it is a useful idiom to use.

Christiane
AR80

2nd April 29196.10 BST

Oh dear - the date for my last posting was up the pole. It should have been

2nd April. 2010 and now it is 6.20BST

Apologies

Keep the messages rolling in please, and thank you for your super contributions so far.

Christiane. AR80

Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~The Talmud

Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. ~Henry David Thoreau