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

Hi TJM, just starting a new thread

Your recommended entry is here: A13784899 so you might like to go subscribe to it
Hopefully I'll be subbing it today but it depends how much access I get to my pc and the entry is quite long so it may not be finished this weekend.

Comments, questions, additions etc. fire away and I will too

GB

If there is an arrowhead and a strong crosswind, then the arrowhead will slanting across the the road.

Could you read that through and then repost what it should be for me? Ta.

Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Do you know about A1098876?

It should be: Liège-Bastogne-Liège and all the other foreign letters have their own codes or we get complaints at EF

I'm going to have to change: "7ft (2m) wide", my son-in-law is 2m tall, 6'6" I went to school when we had old money and I am unsure of the correct length in meters.

This has led to penalties incurred by passed riders when the guy who catches them has misread the stage and has not got the power to ride away leading to the rider behind having to ruin his own time even more by consistently dropping back if they haven't got the energy to re-overtake.

That sentence is far too long, with no punctuation. I don't have any idea what you mean so please can you either punctuate it or split it up?

In most cases, any prize money that a rider wins is shared equally between the squad since in the end of the team, it is a team race.

in the end of the team?

I've added as many H2G2 links as I can find, if you can think of any more I might have missed please mention them.

Taking a break now

Looks good, except I have problems with three of the links you have put it ....


you have linked Mountain Biking to the word mountian

mountain biking is an off road sport on bikes known as 'mountain bikes'

mountain stages in road races are basically riding up the side of a mountain on a racing bike.


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I don't really think that the driving etiqutte in the UK link is needed. The sentence talks about laws in the uk not having the power to completly close down roads for the UK tour, nowt to do with driving etiqutte

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Also you have linked bottled water with the words water bottles

This gives the idea that riders collect clear plastic evian bottles from their team car full of mineral water. While they are called water bottles, they are normally are full of energy drink have nothing to do with commercial bottled water


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and 2 small corrections due to me not checking my facts properly

Queen Album Bicycle Race --- > Queen single 'Bicycle Race'

could have a link here to A4080449


Graham Obre -->Graeme Obree



otherwise, looking good

OK I've removed those links and added the Queen one, changed *album* to *single* and added an "e" to the surname of Obre.

Just waiting for replies to posts 2,4,5 and 6 then I can make the alterations and return it to the Eds

Obree needs his first name changed as well


the 7ft / 2m thing was a rough estimate (cobbled paths are not built to exact standards). Therefore 7ft is an estimate to 1 significant figure, as is 2 meters. 2.135m is far too accruate and suggests the roads are all that exact width.


>>If there is an arrowhead and a strong crosswind, --->

if there is an arrowhead and the Peleton are riding in a strong crosswind,


>>This has led to penalties incurred by passed riders when the guy who catches them has misread the stage and has not got the power to ride away leading to the rider behind having to ruin his own time even more by consistently dropping back if they haven't got the energy to re-overtake.

--->

This has led to penalties incurred by passed riders when the guy who catches them has misread the stage and has not got the power to ride away. If they haven't got the energy to re-overtake, the rider behind has keep dropping back which further ruins their time.


>>>squad since in the end of the team

end of the day

You want me to change:
If there is an arrowhead and a strong crosswind, then the arrowhead will slanting across the the road.
to:
If there is an arrowhead and the Peleton are riding in a strong crosswind, then the arrowhead will slanting across the the road.
?

I was actually querying "will slanting across the the road" because something is very wrong with it, and I don't know what you mean, so I can't correct it.

Changed Graham to Graeme
Changed the metres thing to approx 2m
Changed squad since in the end of the team
to
squad since at the end of the day
Query:
This has led to penalties incurred by passed riders when the guy who catches them has misread the stage and has not got the power to ride away. If they haven't got the energy to re-overtake, the rider behind has keep dropping back which further ruins their time.
behind has *to* keep dropping back?

>>will slanting --> will slant


>>Changed the metres thing to approx 2m
which now implys that 7ft is an accurate measurement.

how about ... onto a 7ft-wide (approx 2m) cobbled path lined by puddles and potholes-->>

onto a cobbled path at is only about 7ft-wide (2m) and is lined by puddles and potholes


>>behind has *to* keep dropping back?

yep

If there is an arrowhead and the Peleton are riding in a strong crosswind, then the arrowhead will slant across the the road.?

the the road?
You still haven't explained that.

which now implys that 7ft is an accurate measurement.
Which is what you originally wrote!

onto a cobbled path at is only about 7ft-wide (2m) and is lined by puddles and potholes

onto a cobbled path at is? Please explain I'm being very thick tonight.

the the = I've typed 1 too many thes


when I write 7ft and 2 meters, both of which are rounded to only 1 figure, they are both assumed to be rough. (this is what I've been taught from 10 years of science expermients and dealing with numerical results)

By saying 7ft is exactly 2.135m which is what you did, you then are impying that both 7ft and 1.2135m are deadly accurate, which they are not.


onto a cobbled path at is >> onto a cobbled path that is

I didn't realise your 7ft was approximate, because I haven't done 10 years of science expermients and dealing with numerical results.

If there is an arrowhead and the Peleton are riding in a strong crosswind, then the arrowhead will slant across the road.

onto a cobbled path that is only about 7ft-wide (2m) and is lined by puddles and potholes without there being accidents

This has led to penalties incurred by passed riders when the guy who catches them has misread the stage and has not got the power to ride away. If they haven't got the energy to re-overtake, the rider behind has to keep dropping back which further ruins their time.

I think that's all.
If you want to give it a final check-through to make sure I did the corrections properly and removed the EGEs you wanted removed, when I get your OK I'll return it to the Eds.

ta

looks good

send it through

thanks

tjm

By my reckoning, isn't this your 50th once it hits the FP?

button pressed

could be, but you never know, this may be fished out before one of my others. Anything can happen in the magical (random) world of the towers.

Yes I know, but you know how many solos you've had plucked from PR don't you? I mean, my 75th is somewhere in the works.

Just to let you know, I didn't change the title of your entry.