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

They'll probably still have to pay congestion fees though.

Back to TP, which is the book where the Watch start getting sophisticated and Sergeant colon puts up a speed camera on the brass bridge? i think in the scene he is caught trying to teach the imp what to draw, and he paints two lines on the road. the imp in the iconograph has to paint any car that speeds across the lines.

Can't locate it, though I know what you mean.

Is it the same as the one in which they clamped everything that was illegally parked, including the Opera House?

I want that book!

Still trying to find it.

Try this site:

http://www.rpgclassics.com/quotes/pratchett.shtml

It's got great TP quotes.

Still looking.

This is another great site I've just found:

http://books.detritus.co.uk/pratchett/watch/cast/index.shtml

A nice list of all the Watch members, including a Remembrance Wall.

Still looking...

Found a whole short story, 'Theatre of Cruelty'

http://www.ie.lspace.org/books/toc/

Giving it up for the night...

Hee, i like the story. I'd heard that was a collector's item, lol, i suppose that no longer applies

Wow, what a lot happens here in 24 hours... I think falling waters should be nominated, it's completely uninhabitable... And the suprise is that you'll have to go to the toilet every few minutes because of the sound...

Hello malabarista! We missed you y'day I'm working on my entry, but the creative flow isn't exactly as think and fast as I would like in fact, I've come back to review your specifications

Jormakka whould nominate the Villa Savoye I think. He always tells us that the roof is lacking and in the winter the bath tub is frozen.
Oh and the House Farnsworth: there is a parking lot very near to it... and when you start boiling in the summer you can't open a window because of all the mosquitos

Sounds cozy... I will also nominate the chicken shed we buitl once, the building itself was fine, but we tried to paint it barn red. The guy at the store sold us the wrong tin; it ended up being neon orange! All the chickens were afraid of it, and our neighbours first mocked it and then used it as a landmark for describing the route to their friends...

Can anybody make a list of the nominated things? I don't think that we'll ever find all of them again when we just write them in this thread.

No, too lazy to do so on the institute comp I'll try when I have home internet again!

It's an ancient, slow mac, but that's still better than the evil PC in the other room. It's running Win95 and I defragged it for the first time in its career about two months ago!

poor Malabarista

And they all don't know how to use Macs, either, I had to help them install things they've needed for two years but couldn't figure out how to put on there... They thought macs add prestige, so only the secretary has a PC...

I've never worked on a Mac yet, so I think I'd be rather lost too.

Mac snobbery - now I've heard everything!

It reminds me of my great-uncle: for some reason, he bought one of first VW bugs sold in the United States. It was one of three sold in that year, in the late 1940s. He lived in an extremely remote mountain area of Tennessee. It was a wonder to the people in the hills and hollers of Lost Creek. And they could never find spare parts.

Here's the list as I have it so far:

Wuppertal Swimming Pool: a triumph of bad planning
Falling Water: the bagpipes of the architectural world (due to the wanting-to-go-to-the-toilet problem)
Giant Clothespin statue in Philadelphia, PA: utilitarian eyesore
Villa Savoye: need more data
House Farnsworth: need more data
Malabarista's Neon Orange Chicken Shed: avian terror

Have I left anything out?

The lambanana or whatever it was called...


shall we actually write to these people to tell them they've won the prize? And what shall the prize itself look like?