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

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by"

great quote!

you've got a nice page there there should defo be a pig smiley :@...and a llama one i reckon!

what's it like at cambridge?!

LL

hehe, well you can always trust DNA to produce a great quote...

"Then some publishers became interested, and I was commissioned by Pan Books to write up the series in book form. After a lot of procrastination and hiding and inventing excuses and having baths, I managed to get about two-thirds of it done. At this point they said, very politely and pleasantly, that I had already passed ten deadlines, so would I please just finish the page I was on and let them have the damn thing" - DNA in the introduction to the Hitch-hikers Omnibus Edition

Thanks, I try to update it occasionally, so I'm glad somebody likes it.

Yay! another person wants a pig smiley! I will eventually (that is, "some time before the Last Trump", in the words of DNA) set up an official campaign, like they have one for the moose at the moment. Can I count on your support?

Cambridge, eh? you thinking of coming? Well, the place is nice, the college is nice, the people are nice, and the work is... well... tough, to put it mildly. But then I suppose I /was/ daft enough to choose to do a maths course!

:@)

yep i'm all for pig smileys...s'long as i can count on you for the llama one too? i mean check this --> it's the closest there is...and let's face it, it's way to short and hairy for a llama!

the intro is brilliant as is the whole of the book!

maths...hmmm..."daft" choice eh?? haha must be soo hard! and no, i'm off to oxford for my degree to read classics (which i expect is also madness, but will soon find out!)

LL

Yay! go smileys! . The is about the closest I've got to a Pig as well!!

I totally agree, although it's the radio series that does it for me best!

Well, yes, maths is hard, but I'd rather be doing that than anything else (at least, that's what I keep telling myself! ). Oxord? Bah! What on Earth did you want to go there for? . Well, now I've got the obligatory leg pulling out of the way, good luck to you, I hope you enjoy it. Cambridge is a great place to be, and I'm sure Oxford is nearly as good! Classics, eh? I did Latin to GCSE, and quite enjoyed it (especially the A*, of course!), it just wasn't my calling really. From what the classics people here have been telling me, the Greek is a bit of a b*tch, and supervisors seem to be hypercritical of your essays, but then everyone at Oxbridge feels inadequate in their first term, so it's nothing to be worried about...

:@)

sorry i havent replied in ages - been kinda busy recently...

yeh i'm sure i'll f**k up greek at oxford, but hopefully i'll last! we'll see soon enough...

is there really that much antipathy between oxford and cambridge??!

hope all's well with you - you must be on holiday now?

take care

LL