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

Hi Spartus, thanks for the sub-edit on my Cubs article. One item I'm hoping to change, however, right near the end.

"This discussion would not be complete without at least a few Cub jokes:

Q: What's the second-best baseball team in Chicago?
A: The White Sox

Q: What's the best baseball team in Chicago?
A: Whoever's playing against the Cubs."

You seem to be indicating that these are two separate jokes, when in fact there is only one joke here. It should read like something like this:

"This discussion would not be complete without at least one Cub joke:

Q: What's the second-best baseball team in Chicago?
A: The White Sox
Q: What's the best baseball team in Chicago?
A: Whoever's playing against the Cubs."

Thanks again
TVF

Whoopsy. I thought that looked screwy when I did it, but addled with caffeine as I usually am, I, er, sorta, um, like, overlooked it, like. I'll mail the eds and have it fixed by the time it goes up for real, which I'm assuming will be tomorrow.

You know, on a side note, it's always that, "Uh-oh, I really screwed something up," feeling when you see an entry you edited show up as a title of a thread on your page. Good to see it's not that. It is a great article, by the way, and I actually stumped some Chicago people with the Billy Goat trivia a while back, which, while still only a small victory, is somewhat satisfying.

Riiiiiight....

*sighs and goes off to read up on her Wriglyville trivia in case Spartus gets ambitious again*

Thanks Spartus. I think it is odd when people get upset at the sub-eds, who after all do not have the final say AND are volunteering for the job.

You guys do a great job.

Uh, Spartus, I don't mean to complain, but..........

The eds got rid of the space between the first Q/A and the second, but it still says "a few Cub jokes" instead of "one Cub joke" or some similar wording. Would you mind looking into the matter for me?

Thanks again
tvf

Yay! Happy feedback. I love that. I do have to apologize for having sat on that one for so long, but I've been through a few job changes and a couple of unexpected trips that ended up lasting a great deal longer than I thought.

Subbing is kinda tough, actually, tougher than it was at the beginning. Waaay back when in the early days, it was a snap* to reject 80% of what you'd gotten, but now that there's actually really GOOD stuff being written, you have to pore over it in a lot more detail.

The funny thing that you find while doing this stuff. though, is that people write really odd, esoteric entries, like "Why James Bond is Lucky" rather than actually writing one about James Bond. One of the other ones I did with this batch is titled, "The Literary James Bond", and I went searching high and low for the James Bond entry to link to, only to find there wasn't one. It's like the situation of writing a piece about the Cubs, and not having a piece on the Cubs, as a team, reference to. The Baseball approved entry is pretty rudimentary, too. It's funny what you run into, building something like this from the ground up.

Ooh, I'm pontificating again, aren't I?

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* "a snap" meaning, not that the stuff was total crap, but that the writers had kind of over-emphasized the "Galaxy" part of the site's name, if you know what I mean. About half the stuff we got started out with "The first thing an alien needs to know upon reaching Earth is...". It was kind of disheartening, but there was always the hope that it'd get better, and it has.

This is a unique place, no doubt about it. It doesn't hurt when people are drawn here by books that are unique in their own right.

Incidentally, the article still says "a few Cub jokes," but that isn't really a complaint...............I don't think.

Hey Spartus, is this guy bugging you?

*prepares to give Frink the old bum's rush simply because I feel like it*

Really, I'll get him out of here if you need me to...

*grumbles* Freakin' Researchers daring to question our authoritay*

Nah, it's cool. He's right, you know. Plus, I noticed some other little nittly fixes on the article.

Oh, and Frink, you may be happy to know that the initial problem with this may have somewhat of a solution coming sometime soon-ish. I mentioned to Anna that we really need a...*drones off into semi-techspeak*

If you want to know the idea, let me know. I was hyper-caffeinated at the time I dreamt it up, so it might be stupid, but I'm not sure. It may work, though.

My offer to push Frink around still stands!

We could both push him around...*puts on a dark trenchcoat and sunglasses*

OOO!! Gonna do some thuggin? Can I join in?? *pulls out brass knuckles*

Kid stuff. *pulls out a baseball bat*

*pulls out a catcher's mitt*

Me too me too!

Look, if we're going to go about it this way, Frink's already got a baseball team that could knock us back to Poughkeepsie.

Ahem.

Not that I've ever BEEN to Poughkeepsie, but you know what I mean.

Right, but maybe we should just stick to brass knuckles, eh?

So... you're NOT going to wear a cup?

I ALWAYS wear a cup.

Maybe I'm lettin' you in on more than you needed to know...

I heard this morning that Devi Cruz doesn't wear a cup!
Glad to know Spartus is keeping the jewels locked up...er, I think anyway.

*brandishes customized poking stick with relish (yes, they were out of mustard)*

I wear a cup too. Well, two actually, one over each ear. Ears are handy to grab and come off easily in a fight... you've gotta protect em!

*checks to make sure heavy lead bars are within easy reach*

*heads off to the heavy lead bar to await Frink's return*

Errrmmm...I'll have a heavy lead scotch, please.

*reconsiders*

Nooooo, wait. Make that a glass of Chianti.