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

Have you ever played pool? Eight ball into the planet

Rick O'Shea might play pool.

What the Irish sniper...... playing pool

An asteroid kicking the into the is what I'm fearing.

But it might make a great movie ...

If anyone is left to watch it . Have you ever read ;When Worlds Collide? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Worlds_Collide

There was a film made later.

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Nope. Never heard of it. Sounds ridiculous. Enough to make a great B-film as well as a few economically successful sequels. Think Sharknado

"When worlds collide" sounds a bit like "End of the world news" by Anthony Burgess. Structurally, it's a mess, but no other book I've read recently has stuck in my imagination as much. It has three unrelated plot lines, and switches between them in the most unpredictable way. Still, the part that deals with Freud's grief at the hands of the Nazis is very soberly. The part that is a musical libretto about Trotsky's efforts to spread Marxism in Manhattan is silly but so audacious that I couldn't help laughing. The third plot line is about a rogue planet that swings so close to earth on its way to the Sun that giant tides are kicked up, high enough to reach the 70th or 80th floors of New York's skyscrapers. Even more audacious is the image of Falstaff walking across rickety bridges that link one skyscraper with another .

You really have to read it to believe it.

I have read "When Worlds Collide", published 1932, by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer and seen the 1951 movie, produced by George Pal.

There's a sequel to it as well, "After Worlds Collide", and a sequel film, both available on YouTube.

Haven't read the Anthony Burgess "End of the World News", yet.

I recently read Neil Stephenson's _SevenEves_. It's not exactly worlds colliding, the moon just explodes into 7 fragments. Then those fragments begin colliding and fracturing creating more fragments. As the number of fragments increase the number of collisions increase and soon the surface of the Earth is wiped clean by a rain of meteors.

I'm reading Stephenson's "Snow crash" right now, so I'm interested in his other books.

I have been cutting my grass today, the first cut of the season. This for a bloke with a sit on tractor mower is very important choice, to go with stripes or circles mowed in the grass stays for the season, I went with stripes......

A traditional choice

my hedge needs cutting...

gets done or not is the other question

So, you mowed boustrophendonically.




(I learned this word from the expensive scanning system I'm currently using to scan Apollo 17 film. It's a fancy word for the back and forth method of plowing a field.)

http://www.google.co.uk/#q=boustrophedonically

and I also hate algebra

I'm sure algebra isn't any too fond of you either.

Pour beer on your hedge Prof, it you use enough it will grow half cu half the work.

...'boustrophedonically' in other words, idiomatically, 'mowing the lawn'....

Lawns are boring.