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

i totally agree with your theories on the time of journies and i tells ya its true. im glad i ain't the only python lover on the guide...may i ask you something please dont be offended...has anyone ever commented on your sense of humour because they have mine and many other of my mates who grew up with the pythons have been told this also....is it just us or is it a sort of communal pythonesque humour?

difficult to answer your question really, whether their specific humour is a generational thing or not. Do youngsters talk about python? I think the likes of us has an extra chip in our brains or something (or are we a sandwich short of a picnic?. My favourite sketch is John Cleese standing for local election in Minehead as Adolf Hitler, brilliant conception and impersonation. The ludicrousness of Nazi members staying in a boarding house masquerading as ordinary guests. What a hoot. What's your favourite moment?

alot of people younger than i am are starting to talk about the search for the holy grail but i think they have no idea about it all. there is a bunch of people in my year (including myself) who are absolutely mad about the pythons. we were all brought up on the 80's series and repeats and stuff.we have been accused of being wierd and the like.so i think there is a sort of linked personality that we all have.what other comedy is your cup of tea? this could be the start of a major discovery (well sort of!!)

Sunday Times date: May 20, 2001. Article entitled: Adams, hitch-hiker pursued by a Black Dog.
In the interview Douglas describes his struggle with depression. He says it has always been part of his life and that the motivation behind writing Hitchhiker's guide was poverty and despair. I think he put alot of himself into the novel, reflecting how creative (but painful ) exploring one's pathology can be.
Anyhow, what is relevant to the present conversation is the fact that briefly he teamed up with graham chapman of MPFC fame, but was sadly a brief marriage due to graham's drinking problems. So there you have it, a significant event that threw something into the pot of genius.
What's your favourite MPFC moment?
My other comedy interests? . . . . . Ripping Yarns (Michael Palin) was fantabulous and highly original. Have you seen any of the 6 episodes? also Billy Connolly live, laurel and hardy, red dwarf, vicar of dibley, etc.

i think that the sketches with Roy and Hank are cool E.G: now ive been a hunter all my life, i love animals thats why i like to kill 'em!
im also a sworn Red Dwarf fan i heard a while back that they were making a movie but i think that is just strange folk lore. And my brother managed to form alot of my current lingo from Billy Connolly (when i was at that young and impressionable age!)most of the british comedy from late 80's to mostly early 90's is my style. the young ones was something i found quite funny i know a guy just like neil!!!

i think a joint HHGTTG and monty python series/sketches would have been a match made in heaven.

when talking to the young 'ines of today they always say that they have seen monty python and they love all of HIS stuff. showing exactly that they either have no taste or are really really stupid

Thanks for reply. Call me square but who are Roy and Hank? Am I missing out on something here? PS You didn't wear knotted handkerchief on yer head with welly boots and rolled up shirt sleeves?
MY BRAIN HURTS, etc. So what is your fab moment in MPFC?

roy and hank are the austrailian bush hunters who hunt mosquitos (spoof of ray mears)
funny you should say that because when i was at a school fundraising event i went in as them but only a few people got it and i was suddenly a very embaressed iain!!!

the sketch with the world war two raf people in it was cool
the one where none of them could understand each others banter!

which reminds me that I once entered a half marathon dressed as Rab C Nesbitt and nobody seemed to know who I was meant to be. Which was a p****r really cos I'd taken the trouble to get the stains on the string vest and headband just right. Some people thought I was jimmy nail. Ah well, such is life, biffo. Wilco over 'ol bean.

yup folk just don't understand the nuances of things like that!
did u see that new sci fi series on bbc2 last night called seven days what did u think of it?

Monty python! Yey. I'm 18 and I love it. people call me strange, people say they have never seen any M.P.. People really should be enlightened or thrown away!!!!!! Fav one, how can you hav a favourite with so much genius?!

No, I didn't catch it but I'll certainly make a point of catching it next week. Do you recommend it. Marks out of ten?

JQ you have restored hope in the next generation by following MPFC. Surely, you must have a favourite sketch? Incidentally, what do you collect or is that delicate subject?

Give, and I shall collect. Got anything going?

am i missing something here? collect what?

Is it one way traffic JQ? By all means TAKE a look a butchers at my site and see if there's something you need.

I don't think so, Ian. It's St Jon Quixote who calls himself (or is it herself?)THE COLLECTOR. Between me and you I think he's on the take. We can only assume that it's an emotional thing. Perhaps he collected taxes in a previous life and still working through his karma.

Heard a good joke today, want to hear it? OK then, here goes:

Shelock Holmes and Watson are out camping (heard it?).
After a good meal they lay down for the night and went to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend. "Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see."
Watson pondered for a minute.

"Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.
Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo.
Horologically, I deduce that the time is a Quarter past three.
Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful and that we are small and insignificant.
Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow."

Holmes fell silent for a minute, and then spoke.

"Watson, you fool. Somebody has stolen our tent . . . . ."

Ho ho ho. I just follow the philosophy of rubbish and treasure.

JQ. You sound like an alchemist's apprentice meddling with base materials to make gold.

Alchemy is dead. However, I do study chemistry. But what I meant was, one man's rubbish is another's treasure.

Yup! I find it hard to disagree with yer JQ. Mi thinks of the riches man makes out of re-cycling rubbish. Are you saying that what differentiates the two (rubbish/treasure) is the personal value ascribed to an object? I am mindful of the alchemist's prima materia (from which the Philosopher's Stone was created), being descibed as the lowest of the low.
PS Isn't it true that without alchemy there wouldn't be any chemistry. That, in fact, chemistry is its modern day equivalent.