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

Have a good one Bushy: catch ya Monday. I'll be up to no shenanigans: my empty life will be full of celebrations for having captured the 2000th post in this thread.

Haha...cheers.

Will be off now...have to sit in with a union member as his rep - trust management to schedule grievance procedures for 3pm Friday afternoon when no-one can be @rsed to do anything!

People...keep cool, stay slinky.

Darn, what have I missed now? Just got back from my annual appraisal (I'm a very good boy. If I keep getting better and working harder I can have some more money in 2017. Probably.).

What's this about an ij entry? Where can I find it? Please tell...

V Max,

Go to Advanced Search (under the "search h2g2" box) and nominate "Search for a Friend" and put ij's name in.

I think ij sounds lovely - do you think he's be interested in the Scarletness? A little bit of colour in his life might perk him up.

The thought of Mrs J prevents me from daring to approach her son!



How was last night's performance PP?

Afternoon your Chelseaness,

Last night vv good (to my surprise). It was somerset Maugham's 'Home & Beauty' at the Lyric. The main selling point in the production has been Jamie Theakston's West End debut, which made me very afraid of it, but Mrs PP had bought the tickets, so I had to go: and it was a delight. Theakston is no Olivier, but he was fine for his role (a War Office soldier in 1919 London) in what is a quasi-farce, and Victoria Hamilton and Alexander Armstrong were magnificent. And to cap it all, the whole thing only lasted 2 hours, with 2 intervals, so I could top up the alcohol levels every 30 mins.

Glad your local difficulty has been resolved: I hope James Carr doesn't stay too upset?

Mornin' all, am I first again?

Saw the ij thing - very funny.

Morning Paul

Yep, you early starter you.

Nice weekend?

Mornin' Peter,

Better than some, worse than others. Quiet. And you?

Mornin' Chaps! Chipper?

Back from Maine Road Temporary Stand (section UU stands for Uncovered and Uncomfortable) and a naff performance! Quite funny when about 100 of us got into the ground we stood at the bottom of rickety stand shouting "What the f*** is that?" and "S*** ground, no roof!"

Don't mention the war, I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it ...

Low cloud, warm 9 celcius, light westerly breeze. Rain forecast later in week.

Read "Stupid White Men", watched Arsenal thrash Birmingham on Sky, cried over Reading's defeat at Hillsborough, watched the first two episodes of Spielberg's "Taken" and wasn't impressed, spent a lot of yesterday trawling the boards, watched "The Doors In Europe" film that I taped on New Year's Eve and was impressed.

Um - that's all, I think.

Mornin' Peter, V Max!

I ignored "Taken" and watched "Messiah II" instead but worked out it was the woman in the records section half way through first episode! What would decent looking bird like her be interested in thick Northern block for unless ... Perhaps I'm just cynical?

"Taken" was rubbish then was it Peter?

Oops!

"... thick Northern block-head ..." even???

Morning all,

Filled 2 gaps in my film knowledge by watching Goldmember and Gosford park. Both wonderful, although in slightly different ways.

Chipper?

Re: "Taken" The second episode was better than the first. Mainly because it depended more on character and plot developement and less on dodgy, cheap CGI effects. That might be a good sign for the future episodes. Trouble is, we've seen it all before (and much better) on X Files.

Hi Pat. Goldmember is hilarious, but without Heather Graham (pant,pant ) how can it compare with Austin 2? Gosford Park is quite brilliant and improves with every viewing. There are so many little touches that you notice each time that you missed before. Wonderful stuff.

X Files annoys me because it never finishes with the scenario that it turned out NOT to be some naughty aliens toying with humanity which is, along with religion, crop circles and the notion that Michael Barrymore used to be a quality entertainer, total and utter nonsense!!

Give me Scooby Doo anyday ... "Darn it! I woulda gotten away with it too if it hadn't of been for them pesky kids!!"

I'll get me ghoulish mask and floppy hat ..?

Peter,

Indeed, Heath (as I call her) would have made GM even better, but Bouncey Knowles wasn't an entirely useless replacement IMHO.

Re Gosford Park. Did you think Fry's bumbling Inspector hit a slightly awkward tone in the plot development? This theory has been put to me, and I disagree, but wondered what your views were?

No, I think Fry was just right. I don't think plot development was the point of the film. This is shown by the fact that it went out of its way to downplay the murder denuement.

Fry was there as a cypher for all police inspectors in "Murder at the Weekend Party" type stories where the person who solves the crime is an amateur sleuth. I think the idea was to show what it would be like in the Country House if you took all the conventions of an Agatha Christie or a Margery Allingham story and set it with "real" people in a true thirties setting.

Thus Stephen Fry's character, although a bumbling fool out of his social class and therefore unable to handle the guests, is just a policeman doing a pretty boring job.

Phew! Too much thinking for ten on a Monday morning!

H Pete and everyone

Happy New Year

permission from the new skipper to come aboard

Ahoy there, matey. Welcome back and welcome aboard.

How was your break?