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

When working in Washington DC I often stay at the Best Western New Hampshire (it is located on New Hampshire Ave. between Washington and DuPont circles) in Foggy Bottom.

I think about the film every time I check in. I loved the part where the dead dog was the only 'survivor' of the airliner crash. Walk past open widows

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I've seen Seth Green in twelve movies.

Wally Shawn is one of my favorite character actors.

Interestingly, "Radio Days" had both Seth Green and Wally Shawn.

Inconceivable!

Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia'...

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Is there a scale for evaluating threads, according to how many posts it takes before you get onto movies?

This thread is doing quite well regarding Godwin's Law.

Has it mentioned the Führer yet?

Nope, specifically there have been no comparisons.

Most h2g2 threads do not follow Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1".

That's because we follow Fawlty's Dictum instead.

Being neither a Lancaster nor a York, I have no need to mention the war.

Godwin's Law could not have existed before 1889, but I'm guessing that Napoleon was still a ubiquitous topic then. After all, "War and Peace" was first published in its entirety just 20 years earlier than that. Need I add that characters in W&P regarded Napol;eon as the Antichrist?

It's always something! The names may change, but pariahs have never been in short supply.

This is so true...

In 'David Copperfield', for example, Mr Dick can't write a 'memorial' without mentioning King Charles' head...

Before there was Napoleon, there was the Jacobite Menace.

Uriah Heep was a pretty nasty guy.

Well, of course he was. Can you imagine what it was like growing up with a name like Uriah Heep. Think of all the names he might have been called on the playground. "Oh, there goes Pissy Pile!"

It's an old Hebrew name. It means 'the comparitively taller mound of yours'.

It does not. It means 'flame (or light) of the Lord'.

Uri Geller will probably bend all your spoons now.

Yeah, maybe, but only if we give him unsupervised access to the spoons beforehand.

http://youtu.be/mxSNuIx4m5k

I want to see people bend s. That would be more interesting.

While the same methods apply, I can find no videos explicitly demonstrating how to bend sporks.




http://youtu.be/vJQBljC5RIo

I was thinking more that s were made of plastic.

Aleister Crowley, who was a much better expert than this Randi person - and far more entertaining - had instructions for doing it, but noted that there was lots of fakery going on in his day. He thought it was a dull topic.

He also wrote, 'It may well be doubted whether even the most tedious writer could describe a seance with success.'

"Not even God Himself could bend a spork."

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/06/amazing-spoon-bending/#.VvPxL6crK1s