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Post 1

wingpig

Morning. I've read most things Mr. Adams has done and admire them all, though his acting in Monty Python was a little stiff and his haircut has only just become fashionable again. Is there any chance of a job scribbling for TDV or h2g2? There are a few bits on my page if you fancy a look. Cheers.


h2g2 writing team vacancies?

Post 2

Jim Lynn

Not after what you just said about Douglas smiley - smiley.


I apologise. Please give me a job you lovely tall person.

Post 3

wingpig

It's much better now, of course. The vast swathe of uncombèdness has gone and the bit on the South Bank Show
where he looked surprised to see Simon Jones' head appear on the screen of his computer was a piece of sheer
mastery. You've all slagged him off as well, implying that maybe it would have been nice if your first day at work at TDV
hadn't involved creating the things you were supposed to be working on. How does he feel about all the guide entries
so far? Not one of them mentions bypasses, towels or the poetry of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings. If you've put in the
bit about space being really bit and so forth the other still-applicable sections from the original texts ought to be included too.
Are you lot wanting entirely serious things saying how good such-and-such a restaurant/kebab shop/motorway is or
would you prefer stuff such as there is already with little information but sufficient humour? I suppose until people
begin carrying internet access around in a small flex-o-panel implanted in their wrists the need for up-to-date, helpful and
non-libellous if slightly inaccurate information about the street corner they're standing on isn't so dire. Seeing as the whole thing
started off as a comedy entity and that Douglas describes himself as a gadgeteer plagued by people asking him to write books and not as
the creator of the definitive Good Pub Guide comedy should be the mainstay until people get down to the boring business of actually
checking up on their memories and finding out exactly how many types of bottled beer the pub they've been going to at lunchtime
for the past twelve years actually sells. Is there going to be any way of clearing up the title lines of things? If it's possible, a few lines
(for location, subject, tablecloth colour preference etc) should be added to the basic title to enable highly-specific searches to be made. Again, this will
be vital when people begin to use the Guide for up-to-the-minute tips and pointers. If someone looking for somewhere to eat in Droitwich
types in "food" as a search criteria they're going to get a vast amount of stuff which, though amusing, is of relatively little use to them. If they could
enter "United Kingdom/Droitwich/Restaurants/red+white chequered" as serch criteria they'd be laughing, although not too much as despite being well-fed
they'd still be stuck with being in Droitwich. What sort of stuff have you approved so far to become official entries? has anyone noticed that rather than creating
user pages a lot of the use of the site seems to be the writing (though it's rather a strong word) of esoteric and worrying forum notices?
The curse of the internet, I suppose. Anyway, this isn't getting anything done, is it? That problem I had getting user pages loaded in
has gone, I'm glad to say. Probably something to do with the network here. Even computers might get a little deranged from having to route
thousands of theses through to the printers daily. Have fun + speak to you again soon, Wingpig.
PS. The few lines about St. John's not letting people in to film and the "so we're doing this bit in the pub" was a stroke of mastery. Bravo.


I apologise. Please give me a job you lovely tall person.

Post 4

Seanie

my head's mashed.... couldn't take all of that in at once.


I apologise. Please give me a job you lovely tall person.

Post 5

wingpig

Allow me to repeat it in smaller bits.
It's much better now, of course. The vast swathe of uncombèdness has gone and the bit on the South Bank Show where he looked surprised to see Simon Jones' head appear on the screen of his computer was a piece of sheer mastery. You've all slagged him off as well, implying that maybe it would have been nice if your first day at work at TDV hadn't involved creating the things you were supposed to be working on. How does he feel about all the guide entries so far? Not one of them mentions bypasses, towels or the poetry of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings. If you've put in the bit about space being really bit and so forth the other still-applicable sections from the original texts ought to be included too. Are you lot wanting entirely serious things saying how good such-and-such a restaurant/kebab shop/motorway is or
would you prefer stuff such as there is already with little information but sufficient humour? I suppose until people begin carrying internet access around in a small flex-o-panel implanted in their wrists the need for up-to-date, helpful and non-libellous if slightly inaccurate (nay, definitively inaccurate) information about the street corner they're standing on isn't so dire.


I apologise. Please give me a job you lovely tall person.

Post 6

Seanie

no, I actually think that was worse than the first time.


Worse?

Post 7

wingpig

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Worse?

Post 8

Seanie

tell me what the word is and I'll consider saying it. Your problem is that you'll never know if I actually 'say' it.

Muu hah hah hahhhhh!!!!!!.....


Worse?

Post 9

wingpig

The word is vodaphone. You're obviously spending too much time working and not enough time at home getting irritated by TV adverts that stick in your brain whether you want them there or not and are all that you can recall when faced with three professors across a table slagging off your ability to recall tenets of human physiology. Grrrrr.


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Post 10

alicat (Patron Saint of Good Taste)

choccy smiley - fishes and peter gabriel for everyone. i have no home...smiley - fish@


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