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

Hi there! I just wanted to say that this is a highly entertaining page. I love that anagram generator! Great fun - I'll add it to the links on my page.

Regards,

Don Dry Room.

Hey, thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Why, I think I'll just check out your home page myself...

Heh, good anagram there. Made me laugh.

Hope you liked my page! I must pass on these results from the anagram machine, generated by inputting the name of our beloved British Prime Minister:
"Tony Blair" = "Italy Born", "Tory In Lab", "Lay Briton" and "Liar By Ton".

Heh. I like the last two.

I don't know much about British politics, especially since we stopped getting 'Spitting Image' out here several years ago, which is where I learned everything I know (or once knew) about British politics. I've heard the name Tony Blair, but I don't know which party he's with. I'm assuming he's a tory.

Mr. Blair is supposed to be Labour, but is so far to the right that "Tory In Lab." seems highly appropriate. I found a good one for Douglas Adams, too: "Mad Old USA Gas".

Did you check out the hall of fame area of that anagram site? There are some amazing anagrams there. My favourite is the one from Hamlet:

To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
=
In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

Yes, that Hamlet one IS amazing, isn't it?
I've just been back to the site and found a few more celebrity anagrams. I've posted them in my Journal, and given you a namecheck. I LOVE that site!

Yes, it's a fun site. I used to have a program called 'anna' which did the same thing. I used it when I got stumped doing anagram puzzles. Now it's on the web and I don't need a great big dictionary on my hard drive anymore.

Thanks for the reference in your forum thread. Another good site I use (in a more productive sense) is http://www.dictionary.com which is a great thing to pop up in a second window if you're not sure of spelling or want details on the meaning of a word someone's used in a forum. Useful stuff.

Hi Nick,

Love your festive weevil!
I just wanted to let yoou know two things:
1) I've added a link to this page to the "Some friendly life-forms" section on my page. Hope that's OK with you. And...
2) I've decided that I'm going to anagramize all my friends' names on their Christmas cards this year. This works particularly well in the case of one pal of mine named Paul Atkinson, whose card will be addressed to "Oil Santa, Punk"!

Hey thanks again for the link. I sure hope give Paul some kind of hint that he's dealing with an anagram, or there could be trouble.

What happened to the images on your page, by the way? Most of them are broken when I go there.

P.S. Did you like my anagram for my title in the Church of the True Weevil?

"Grand Weevil-Meister" = "Lead wee vermin grist"

OK, so weevil aren't vermin, but I still like it.

Yeah, the fish images have been vanishing all over h2g2. I'm not very technically-minded and I can't remember the details, but there's something about it in the "h2g2 Post". Hopefully they'll sort it out soon.
Don't worry, by the way - I'm handing over all the anagrammed cards in person, so I will be able to explain the gag to Paul. I'm just about to go for lunch with another friend of mine, name of David Roberts, and give him a card in an envelope marked "Sordid Bar Vet. (anag)". I'll let you know how well it's received!

Pretty good anagram, that one.

I agree, and so did David, who thought it was hilarious!
I know that what I'm doing might sound a bit edgy, but the people the cards are going to would not be among my best friends if they didn't have a highly-developed sense of humour. Mine has preserved my sanity through a lot of hard times, and most of my best pals could say the same thing.
Tomorrow I'll present the next one, to a female friend of mine called Gil Savage. The envelope will read "I gag a slave (anag)." But inside it'll be dedicated to "Visage Gal (anag)!".
So hopefully she'll like it whatever mood she's in!
Anyway, Nick, what I learned from you has already made my festive season more fun than it would otherwise have been. So thank you most sincerely, and I hope the next two weeks pass very pleasantly for you!

Wel, I'm glad I could contribute to your holiday cheer. Funny, though. You say your sense of humour has preserved your sanity. For some reason, my sense of humour causes other people to question my sanity (re: weevils et al).

Go figure.

Well... I know that it's very, very wrong to generalise about nations of millions, but I can't help thinking that it might be significant that you're living in America and I'm living in Britain. There's an awful lot wrong with Britain, but one good thing about this country is that eccentricity and irony are traditionally widely appreciated here. I get the impression that such qualities have more of a minority appeal Stateside. Feel free to shot me down in flames if I'm being unfair.

The only thing you're being unfair about is referring to me living 'Stateside'. I live in Canada. I can't speak for the US, but I'm pretty sure that we appreciate eccentricity and irony over here as well. Perhaps, with this 'weevil' nonsense, nobody quite 'gets' where I'm coming from, if you know what I mean. I know Frizzychick understands what it's all about, because she started it all (she's going to have some words for me if she reads this).

The weevil stuff started out innocently enough during an otherwise normal conversation. I eventually blew it way out of proportion because I thought it would be a rediculous thing to do. It's utterly stupid. That's why I find it funny.

*coughs politely* excuse me, who started all the weevil nonsense again? I think the h2g2 archives may hold the truth to this one (i.e. it was you Nick O'Teen) and I don't know how you have the nerve to deny it, you treacherous beast!!

Oh, and merry festivities to one and most.

Heavens.

Why, Frizzychick, what a pleasant surprise to see you here in this forum.

Wellllll.... perhaps I may have possibly had something to do with the instigation of certain weevil-related notions here on H2G2. You are definitely a partner-in-crime, though.

Changing your story now are you?

Never forget that I know when my pseudonym is being taken in vain (by jiminy what does that mean exactly?).