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

Yo!

For an eyeful, go check out the article http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/A564563. Read the entire Peer Review thread before you say anything. Wowww.

This brings a whole new level of complexity to the concept 'shallow'. 'Convex' might apply. Hitherto unreached heights (or would that be 'depths'?) of mediocrity?

Also, we know the Editors prefer it if one writes about what one knows. Arpeggio is entirely too sweet to have pointed that out in so many words. Ooo it was tempting. She'd be p****d, so we won't...

LOL and also kinda stunned,

Pretty much everyone except Kassandra and Arpeggio, who are kinder than the rest of us, and don't think it's very nice to make fun of someone just because that someone is in the top ten Most Publicly Foolish Persons We Have Encountered.

Need a good Yiddish-English dictionary, with words like for the auteur behind this article, and any other such sillies. There is a word for this in Yiddish. Not in English, but for sure in Yiddish.

Auntie, for us all

There is a perfectly good word in English, schmoo. Sure it sounds Yiddish, but it isn't. Okay, it isn't in the dictionary either, but anything that's good enough to appear in Li'l Abner has to be 110% a Murcan.

Half way through those comments, I was already getting ready to lambast you for putting me through it. I had read the original article and I did not go back and read the new improved version till I got to your detailed and uncharacteristically subdued critique. After that was all over and I read Peta's praise followed by the schmoo's heated put down. I'm afraid I went just a teeny bit ballistic, proving why I chose not to apply as a scout. That sort of thing is strictly verbotten to scouts and it felt too good to ever consider giving up being able to do such things.

Ah, me.

Sleep. Sleep. Sleee . . .

Barton

Have not read, yet.


Knew I could count on ya, Barton. You're a real mensch.

Auntie, feeling both gateful to you, and pleased with herself...
(you knew that was a set-up, and decided to go through with it anyway, right?)

Ooo. This is Arpeggio. She's a stinker, she is. Kassandra and I would love to apologise for her behaviour, and say how sorry we are that you had to read that caca, let alone go ballistic on our behalf, but... well, we're not sorry at all. We can't wait to go read already.

Just because WE couldn't have a battle of wits with an unarmed person is no reason YOU couldn't. You had not been part of that absurd conversation for a couple of weeks. Auntie's a stinker, but you're a fine upstanding person, and you got to say what we had to get offline and say aloud to a silent apartment a few dozen times.

We'll read, and be back.

I suppose you understand that there is a limit to how far one can lower the elevation on any cannon.

Barton

See 'Cheek, Gall...'

Not, of course, that your cannonball may not, even now, be winging its way back round the Earth, at the back of our head...

It's tough, aiming straight down a vertical plane like that.

Oy.

Us

Having finished reading the brief article about schmoon on the lil-abner dot common place, I withdraw my nomination of the term for describing this phenomenon -- you were right, there just isn't anything in English.

I have noticed that the collective, as well as regal, we have evidently driven him away from attempting any further improvement. But, somehow, I don't think it was because he realized the task was beyond his current abilities.

(I really hate the fact that I *wanted* to do that. Still, the image in my mind right now is of a really cute puppy dog in a cartoon drawn by Gore. If I were Gore, I would draw it, too.)

Barton