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

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Hey, you're not cheating are you? Doing little bits of marking in between hootooing?

I mean, it wouldn't be fair, would it - it's not like I can have little naps while I'm waiting for a page to load

Sadly not

Though I could have you disqualified if you're blinking too often It all adds up ...

*looks at *

*eyes "he he he he" suspiciously*


I think I'll save that for morning

Night then I now *am* going to do some work, so we'll call it a draw

A draw ?? Hmmm alright then...


'cept the shoe will be on the other foot in a few hours


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Hey, did you hear in the UK about the tsunami warning here a week or so ago, where people on the East Coast heard about it from places like BBCWorld in the middle of the night?

Civil defense here apparently decided that there was no risk, but forgot to tell anyone.

'A few hours'? I'm thinking it may not go the distance

I didn't hear anything at all about that

No neither did we


*pokes prize*

I'd forgotten all about that

Aren't you going to open it?

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A mini shrew! Over there!

*points*

Oi! I'll have you know I'm more of a maxi shrew (well medium weight at least).

(Sorry - my backlog powers have evaporated this last week ... it's the heat, it's the work, it's the World C... other distractions )

Oooh, can you explain the W*rld C*p to me then? I can't figure it out at all.

You'd be better listening to his explanation of Prittball - far more interesting.

Which bit? Where do we start from?

Thirty-two teams (who've all had to go through qualifying rounds to get there), arranged into eight groups of four - they all play each other and the two teams in each group with the most points after that then go into the second round (which is now a straightforward knockout competition), then the quarter-finals, then the semi-finals, then the finals.

Or is that the easy bit?

Yeah, but at least we get delayed highlights of the WC here. Not sure that TVNZ managed to get the rights to Prittball.

(Prittball's the same. Only the ball's made of pritt. And none of the players can be bigger than a shrew. Or a toilet rabbit).

Upsurge in interest in the Antipodes after yesterday?

(Not that I'm suggesting the Australian mugging of Japan will have been celebrated down your way exactly ...)

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Thirty-two teams (who've all had to go through qualifying rounds to get there), arranged into eight groups of four - they all play each other and the two teams in each group with the most points after that then go into the second round (which is now a straightforward knockout competition), then the quarter-finals, then the semi-finals, then the finals.
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No that's perfect! I hadn't been able to figure all that out and everything I've seen assumes everyone already knows all that.


So where is it all up to? I've got this chart thingy from the paper with the 8 groups on it but the first games in it don't start until the 26th. But there are games already going?