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

for that rant.

I agree with every word of it. The History Channel was bad enough - but Discovery has become impossible, as you say.

I tried looking up 'apocalypse' on Netflix last night. And discovered that 'zombie apocalypse' was a movie category.

I mean, a joke's a joke, people, but I thought George Romero and his Pittsburgh friends had pretty much done it all. What a boring film...

We have to worry, Hyp. You and I know that there are far too many people getting their sense of reality from this dreck. Oy!

The history channel we have (not The History Channel) does have maybe 5-10 per cent of interesting history shows. For some reason it seems to be heavily weighted towards WWII - the North Africa campaign in particular. But the weird thing is that when they can't think of anything else to show, they just throw on either a period drama about servants in Edwardian houses in England, or the Antiques Roadshow.

Surely there's a market for stimulating history programming? I'd watch it, and I know lots of other people who would, too.

Hey, maybe we could start one.

The h2g2 History Channel.

Could we be trusted? I've read your Edited Guide Entries - if you had a history channel it would be all about Jesus' underpants and centuries that never really happened!

We could be definitively inaccurate, at least.

And we wouldn't have zombie apocalypseses...

Uh oh. .



Ah marvellous, I found Comet Ison, thankyouverymuch.

Why did you tell her? Now there will be poems to this thing. Rod was bad enough.

"I suspect that's why people are always expecting it - so it won't happen"

This - and your recent thread about gun debate (or absence of same) - made me remember this:

Niels Bohr - a competent soccer goalie, Nobel prize laureate and one of Oppenheimer's playmates during the happy Manhattan Project days in Los Alamos, New Mexico - was once asked why he had a horseshoe hanging over the door of his humble little Danish farmhouse. "Surely you - one of the finest minds of our time - don't believe in superstition"

"Of course not", answered Bohr, "but I'm told it helps even if you don't believe in it"

That's like my mom, enemy of superstition.

Her father-in-law claimed to be able to 'rub away' warts. She claimed not to believe him, but let him try.

Guess whose warts went away?

do you get vegetarian zombies ?

Sure. They eat vampire watermelons.

DG in diguise here.

I think the prof raises a very interesting question: What happens after a bites a vegan

And a happy new b'akt'un to you too

you sure you don't want to borrow an account

I think that you'd look good as an anarchist duck Dmitri, it is a fetching disguise

and Jimmy, well such a

I just didn't want to log in on Elektra's computer, Peanut. So I typed over her shoulder.

so not to hijack Dmitri's thread, can someone open one to natter about 's co's would they "inherit" a human disease and stuff

well, just in case, of emergencies and all, that involve watermelons

you know that Jimmy can be relied on, with armband replacements, floaties etc...

*swoon* duck

He needs a smiley, I think. but no duck.

I think maybe Anthea would enjoy making a duck smiley.

well you could Prof, at risk of me spouting 'Buffyverse', chapter and gospel at you

You mean there's not already a Buffy fan thread?