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

My latest 'I blame 2legs..' was apparently in the style of Raymond Chandler

And my post telling you that was in the style of PG Wodehouse. Even cooler.

Isn't this fun?

I tried it twice with snippets from my new Entry.

The first time it said I write like HP Lovecraft.

The second time, that I write like Douglas Adams!

Well, after that. there was no point trying again *hic*

Great fun. I know it's nonsense, but there's something lovely about being told that you write like Chandler or Charles Dickens.

Or, apparently re the above sentence....JD Salinger!!! Full House!

I wonder what would happen if I entered a German text?

I'm afraid to try. I've an irrational fear of hearing "Barbara Cartland", and having to jump out the window.

Joseph Conrad.

KB. I just entered "I'm afraid to try. I've an irrational fear of hearing "Barbara Cartland", and having to jump out the window."

And got...

Stephanie Meyer.

Step away from the window.

"The following error has occurred: an unknown error has occurred."

Edgar Allen Poe.

Repeating the mantra:

Vampires don't SPARKLE, dammit, Vampires don't SPARKLE...

I've heard they glitter.

I guess they look like

You people are nuts.

You need to put this in , so that they will be successfully mocked...

Sounds like a Dmitri special, to me! You're pretty good at pointing the finger at lunacy.

Thank you kindly. I know, I know, it takes one to know one.

Maybe we can get the best out of this thread and get a report for next week...

I wonder if there's a musical version? "Ah, yes madam, your food processor shows all the hallmarks of Shostakovich at his peak..."

I like it. I'll ask my sister, she's a musician. She must get that sort of email.

Not sure if anyone else has already tried something similar, but an excerpt from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is reported as having H.P. Lovecraft's style. The excerpt is:

Popularly known as Dirk, though, again, "popular" was hardly right. Notorious, certainly; sought after, endlessly speculated about, those too were true. But popular? Only in the sense that a serious accident on the motorway might be popular-- everyone slows down to have a good look, but no one will get too close to the flames. Infamous was more like it. Svlad Cjelli, infamously known as Dirk. He was rounder than the average undergraduate and wore more hats. That is to say, there was just the one hat which he habitually wore, but he wore it with a passion that was rare in one so young. The hat was dark red and round, with a very flat brim, and it appeared to move as if balanced on gimbals, which ensured its perfect horizontality at all times, however its owner moved his head. As a hat it was a remarkable rather than entirely successful piece of personal decoration. It would make an elegant adornment, stylish, shapely and flattering, if the wearer were a small bedside lamp, but not otherwise. People gravitated around him, drawn in by the stories he denied about himself, but what the source of these stories might be, if not his own denials, was never entirely clear.