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

Have you ever wondered whether you might somehow be responsible fo external events, a sort of cosmic connection with the lives of others?

I had that experience with my Vonnegut article. Five of the authors I mentioned in it were immediately nominated for the Mann-Booker International Prize (Updike, Bellow, Roth, Lessing and Lem).

You, on the other hand, mentioned Hunter S Thompson........

"-Yet when we came back, late, from the hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,"

TS Elliot- The Wasteland

Did Elliott dedicate this poem to Ezra Pound? If so that's truly strange. I found a letter from Pound along with one of his manuscripts in a college student's trunk in 1972. Pound had made

The manuscipt concerned his Pound's theory that monetary units should be based on a unit of human labors.

Apparently he was something of an idealist.

Oh!!! I see! He's dead.

I'll miss his writing.

Is it time to change names again, then?

Damn your hide! I was rather fond of that name!

I hope it was erudition, not Google

It was Google

I never said anything about Authur Miller, Johnny Ramone, Yasser Arafat, or Arthur Hailey.

Looking forward to the next name

Not too skinny, she's not too fat
She's a real humdinger and I like it like that
She's the devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on
Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on

Mitch Rydner and the Detroit Wheels

I remembered this one, but Google helped with the name

Well, Yah boo sucks. I'm not counting that, on at least the following grounds:

1) Googling simply isn't within the spirit, old bean.

2) There's several earlier versions than Mitch Ryder...and I in particular was thinking of someone more famous. Hell, if you trusted Lyrics site, you'd think that 'Busted' first sang 'Teenage Kicks'!

3) I've only just changed it, fer chrissakes!

4) As previously, I rather like it.

5) It's my game and I'm taking the ball home. So there!

Don't blame you a bit. Google did feel like cheating.

Did it make you feel dirty then?

I'm not sure the drift here is in the right direction, as Fred would have said.

Edward The Bonobo - They call me 'The Hyacinth Girl'
Edward The Bonobo - Devil with a blue dress on.
Edward The Bonobo - I'm looking through Tony Curtis' eyes

The first and second names indicate a certain gender confusion. The 2nd name moves gets flat out into cross-dressing territory.

Therefore...following the trend, I'm betting on "Some Like It Hot", by Billy Wilder ,1959, with Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis. This comes to mind withot the aid of Google.

Of course, your explanation about Tony Curtis's mind and H2G2 policy could also be true, and, if so, do the rules now require you to change your name anyway for your fans?

1) It's my rule - so I'm free to break it. (Hell, if our own government feels able to suspend the Human Rights Act and habeas corpus.....!)

2) This is part of a political action - so greater needs prevail.

3) Akshully - you haven't bottomed out the reference anyway.

4) Shan't, shan't, shan't!

Evidently Chicken Town.

Looking through Gary Gilmore's Eyes...and speaking of broken government promises....whatever happen to all those obsolete destroyers we "lent" to you in 1940?

Yes, well spotted.

As for all the destroyers - I imagine most of them are on the bottom of the Atlantic.

Akshully, though, the major US contribution was in freight vessels. They started mass-producing a particular design which - while it was inherently structurally unsafe - could be put into service quickly. They also gave the plans to Britain. The tonnage of shipping built on Clydeside (from where I'm typing at this very minute) exceeded the entire wartime output of the US.

Probably, though, the greatest US contribution to the war effort was the sale to the Soviet Union of railway rails. This allowed the Russians to move their heavy industry far to the east, where it was safe from the Germans, while still maintaining a supply line to the front. It was also why the Cold War stayed cold - there was little interest in toppling the Soviet Union before it had repaid the US.

Gosh Edward!...I picked up a "downloader" trojan worm looking at Nirvana lyrics. Serves me right for googling on your name again. I shall pay much less attention to your name in the future.

For 15 extra credit points...compare and contrast the lyrics in "Evidently Chicken Town" with "Dream a Little Dream of Me", by Ella Fitzgerald.

Interesting factoid about the railroad tracks...I've read a lot of history and never picked up on that one. Roosevelt did a masterful job in getting the other bastards to die for their country, didn't he?

Was the freighter design you are referring to the concrete freighter? I've done several lovely dives over the years on one of those WWII freighters that is sitting in 25 feet of water near Bimini...saw a huge ghost crab down in the engine room one dark night and other interesting things like stonefish..The design might be unstable but it doesn't rust away quite so quickly at a steel freighter. It makes a great dive site and habitat for

DNA? adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T),

You seem to be feeding the flames on the Della/Ivku/?/Winged Victory discussion....

Well! Thanks for finally acknowledging my identification of the basic elements of DNA..I hope your Cremaster muscle responds correctly: "an automatic response which raises and lowers the testes in response to stimulation"...probably thats the one that effects me when swimming in Alaskan Galcier melt.