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

Ok, TR, how many does it take?

How many does what take?

When I slap together an emergency issue at the last minute I use what comes to hand.

I have sent your issue off to shazz.

It is 9:14PM my time right now.

I put together the emergency issue just before two this afternoon, if I remember correctly. Either that, or it was the remainder of my own column.

The Saturday Go/No Go deadline is supposed to allow me to deal with any gaps with a day and a half of breathing space. Not knowing what is going to happen until a couple of hours before the real deadline of 8PM Monday, my time, is not truly convenient for anyone.

I understand that RL and the vagaries of the H2 system make it hard to deliver consistently on a weekly basis. That is why I am here. The Saturday Go/No Go deadline is to allow me to help everyone, including myself. Shazz and Greebo's lives work better with a certain contained level of uncertainty, also. This is why they have a Monday deadline.
The old deadline was on Wednesday and it became too much for them as a whole pile of people would wait until the very last minute.
Believe it or not, those two wonderful people actually read everything that pours into the Post office and attempt to do a bit of editing and smoothing of GML along the way.
Anything we can do to make their lives easier is vastly appreciated.

Understood and I apologize for the unfortunate delay.

How many geneticists does it take to copulate in a light fixture? I really need to know.

Oh, I'm sorry!
I had forgotten that I put that in there.
I really don't have an answer.

Suggestions on a postcard to:

Clueless in Sheboygan

>> How many geneticists does it take to copulate in a light fixture? <<

Doctor, TR's recent preoccupation with the rhetorical question is spreading.
You mean...?
Yes doctor, he's even turning gag lines and riddles into rhetorical questions.
And he has no answers.
That's right. He just phrases everything as a riddle or gag line, then asks it rhetorically.
It's a conundrum.
A what, doctor?
Oh it's a technical medical thingy, you wouldn't understand.
Like a pan demic?
Yeah whatever. But we've got to stop him before he asks the ultimate question and discovers he already knows the answer.

Ah yes, but at least he's asking the right questions. After all, what really is the connection between bedlamps, nitelites, lightbulbs, genetics and screwing? And does the refrigerator light really go out? If so, with whom?


~jwf~

I just spent four hours creating and inserting links into a PR entry...
rhetorical, my donkey!
Actually, the punch line is down with the aliens, if I remember correctly.

An Issue of a donkey and what comes behind - A2790173.

For the queue.

Waz

Thanks.

Do me a favor and the boilerplate.

Also, would you mind to insert:
This box of counterfeit Corgie Cars opened and played with by...

Feel free in the future to modify that line in an imaginative way.

That's done and I will.


Corgie cars, I remember Corgie cars.
Waz

You don't have any left?
I still collect Hot Wheels and Matchbox and Johnny Lightning cars.

Thanks.

My brother 'inherited' them all, together with my favourite yellow Matchbox Vauxhall Victor. I remember buying it, spending ages in the shop with my sister making sure it was the best car. Which it was.

Do you have a yellow Matchbox Vauxhall Victor?

http://www.vauxhall.org.uk/images/Victor%20FB%20V4%204_90.jpg
you mean like this?
No. I didn't even know they existed.
What was special about it?

Not that one. That looks older.
This one http://www.mrmodels.co.nz/New_Uploads_03_05/38000_Vanguards_Victor.jpg

Why? Well you can see what a handsome car it was. Just a bit rakish, with wings but not too overstated, and it's streamlined and it has that grin on it. And it was yellow.
Waz

One of my all-time favorite cars (I've come close to buying one a couple of times) resembles your Victor, but is a bit bigger:

http://www.motormint.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=139&dc=CHX401

But a lot of them did come in yellow!

The earliest favorite Hot Wheels that I remember having was a 36 Ford Coupe, with a functioning rumble seat!
http://www.mysite4u.com/toys/diecast/hw/69/redline%20hot%20wheels%2036%20ford%20coupe%20purple.jpg

same vintage as this toy car, only mine was green.

Well, anyway, the reason I'm here... is...
uh... I had a reason... I swear...

Oh, yeah!

I was trying to relearn some elementary ML for my entry and I came across some other entries that we or I could shlep into a quick and easy issue:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A303508
Advice for Using Footnotes
Edited by:
Polenth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U52099

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A1021078
Fiddling with Footnotes
Edited by:
Jag
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U192106

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A823998
Footnotes and Punctuation
Edited by:
Bels - an incurable optimist. A1050986
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U188050

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A977448
Test of Footnotes
Edited by:
Tango - On pre-mod, please be patient
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U32077

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A957260
GuideML - FOOTNOTE Tag
Edited by:
The h2g2 Editors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U284

I was going to call the issue the "Headcases and Footnotes" issue, so that it would show up in the search engine in the future.

If anyone feels up to it, so be it. Otherwise, I'll do it tomorrow.

Victor's big brother . I used to fancy owning a London taxi cab but had to go for something with a sensible mpg. Modern cars don't look so good in yellow. But they use such a daffy yellow now.

Those footnote pieces are great - over to you as far as I'm concerned. I can't rely on having sufficient internet access to do anything much of anything here between now and Sunday.

Waz

I wasn't specifically targeting you.
But, okay.

I ducked. With much the same enthusiasm and silent encouragement for such an issue. I think it's a great idea. But I am in the midst of car problems and travel plans until the 14th of July. No doubt if I were to embark on such an undertaking I would start trying to add stuff and get all frustrated and the next thing y'know I'da missed the deadline, worked myself into a lather and maybe even managed to screw up the few days of 'vacation' I had planned. I have a serious problem of taking things too seriously. Seriously, I am not now the man for the job. But upon my return I shall redouble my input.

~jwf~

@scuse the interruption ...

http://www.hgm-matchbox.de/matchbox41_45.htm

Scroll down way past my D Type Jag. and you'll find the actual Yellow.