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

Ok, now laugh at me. Loud and long. Let the laughter subside, just to a chuckle, then laugh again, harder, until it hurts and tears rolls down your face and you're fighting for breath and begging for it to stop.

All that patronising toss that I wrote in that posting about Chris Morris hoaxing his fans by pretending to be Tracy Ash - WAS A HOAX. He wasn't. The whole thing was cooked up to give them some breathing room after the special was postponed. See a website called "Cook'd and Bomb'd" for the gist. I not only fell for it, I was even arse enough to trot it out as an example of how you can't believe everything you read on the web. Oh irony.

Colour me contrite.

Be seeing you...

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Actually, given my nickname, colour me a supercontrite shade of the colour blue.

BCNU.

that's irony!

Don't worry over-much about being patronising - I was just rather irritated that after going through exactly the same issue with MoG, It's cropped up a number of times again. Seems that answering questions is futile - because people who don't want to believe something will always be able to think up more 'discrepancies'. No doubt some see the same behaviour in me with regards to LeKZ' post, but there you go.

I recall that during WW2, allied commanders refused to believe that the holocaust was happening, because it was too extreme, too bizzare, too irrational. If the Axis had won that war, would we now still be dismissing the stories of Jews who escaped the camps as 'false memories'? Probably...