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

Uh. Okay. I'll try to remember.

Actually you can send the issue anytime.
I only link to her entry which she can change at any time anyway.
I'll just tell her to make sure it's to her satisfaction before comes out next Thursday.

jwf

Draft CAC-C A2669907 using the hats ones posted earlier and one other. I haven't copy pasted the entries for it yet but would like to know what you think - particularly any comments/additions to what's said about the first piece.

Waz

Okay. I'll look at it in a minute.

I have no complaints.

I'll get on to copy/pasting new entries for it later. I can't find any decent blobs of hats for it.

>> ...can't find any decent blobs of hats...<<

Hmmm...
I find that most curious. And perhaps 'telling'.
Not so much about h2g2 and its artists but about the British Isles and a collective loss of consciousness about headwear in general. From my colonial perspective I would say that the British had narrowd hats down to twead caps for the working class and bowlers for the well-to-do.

Americans have a wide range of hats and their children's books are often the source of a child's first initiation into social identities. They are trained to recognise these iconic headgears that identify one's role in society. Fireman, nurse, cop, welder, cowboy, pimp, film-director, farmer, railroad engineer, airline pilot, soldier, sailor, marine...


~jwf~

You've forgotten the woolly hat with the bobble. Actually there's a fashion for baseball caps and hoods. But nothing with any bizzaz. It's an opportunity lost. Hats should have panache, instead they're dreary things here.

I have a Russian hat. The real thing, with ear flaps. It's rabbit - which apparently means working class. A sable hat was higher class and there's a third which I've forgotten. My father was in Bellarus for a while. He bought the rabbit hat but was told not to wear it and to get another more suitable for his status.

It's amazingly warm.
Waz

You'd be surprised how many rabbit hats were actually rats

Was anyone going to tell me my entry was in the CAC-C? I had to find out when I saw Waz's entry on the info page.

True, I'm subscribed to this thread, but I'm juggling too many hats to read all about... well hats.

They would have been very long haired rats to make this hat.

"Was anyone going to tell me my entry was in the CAC-C?" In a word, no. Or I might have let you know at the last minute . Or not. Hadn't decided.

It's standard for declined UG picks to get CAC-Ced. I thought I'd surprise you.

I didn't think of the info page. I should have recycled an old entry. (Noted for next time.)

"juggling too many hats" you need more heads.

Waz

From an article in the New York Times of May 2nd, 2004:

"MATTHEW DIFFEE, a 34-year-old cartoonist from Brooklyn, distinctly remembers when he came to believe he had a shot at becoming a real New Yorker cartoonist. It was around 11:30 a.m. on a Tuesday at the offices of The New Yorker, the appointed time at which, for the better part of 50 years, cartoonists have shown up for the ritual submission of their rough drawings to the magazine's cartoon editor — these days, Robert Mankoff. Mr. Diffee crossed paths with an older cartoonist emerging from Mr. Mankoff's office, looking as though he'd seen a ghost. Mr. Mankoff, the cartoonist confessed, had given him an ultimatum: no more fedoras in his cartoons.
"The look on his face was as though it hadn't occurred to him not to draw people with hats," Mr. Diffee said. "I don't own a hat. I've never drawn a hat, and if I ever had to draw a fedora I'd have to Google it. So I thought, `Maybe I'll be O.K.' ""

I think that's simply disgusting.

"People aren't wearing enough hats."
Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"

There were no "bad hair" days in the golden past when everyone
had "cap head".

I wear my hats with pride...
because I need to keep the sun out of my eyed.

We should start a group and call ourselves The Hat Band. To insiders we'd be known as a Head Band and wearing straw hats with guncotton headbands we'd be a sure-fire cinch.

Sh'boom, sh'boom
La-na-nah, La-na-nah, La-na-nah
Sh-Boom!


~jwf~

Well Hats is finished - changed a little. Not much.

Forgot to mention my father actually bought two rabbit hats. But the first one went off. And had to be incinerated.

Waz

You mean it got mildewed or was past it's sell-by date?

I mean it went off as in meat goes off. It started to decompose. First noticeable by smell, then hair loss. Never asked if he was wearing it when he first noticed.

Oh, my!
I think you are supposed to have them dry cleaned or something.

His story is it wasn't cured properly in the first place. Wonder if it was still warm when he bought...no. Cancel that thought.

Nice ,

Which reminds me of the French market stall I saw selling live snails. The wire lid of the basket had come adrift and they were escaping all over the lettuces and cabbages. The stall holder's kids were making a great to do about finding and recapturing them without thinking to put the lid back on the basket. Very fresh and lively snails they were.

Okay.
Anybody got anything?
Issue or entries?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A2669907

I took this.
Thank you very much.

When do we need an issue by? I've got some time off so I figure I could probably throw one together without too much diffuculty.