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

I love being pedantic, it's one of life's little joys, and a fine way to annoy people, too...

One of? He had other good theories?

Er.. no.

Poor Sigmund...his lifes work in tatters...

i Hastur your step brother and true heir to the universe have kept these weevils as pets! and you brother are just a punk!

Now hastur, it's not very dignified to air your inferiority complex brfore the whole world...Freud would have had a field day...

Is that Freudian slip one of those little bias-cut numbers? Way-hey!

Fuzz, you are neither a pedantic bitch nor a raving psychopath. You are a small frizzy ginger penguin.

I can't really complain about typos any more because I'm using my laptop which has a smaller-than-normal keyboard, making typos a real possibility in what I lovingly (or laughably) refer to as my "contributions" to the h2g2 community.

Well, Nick, you've changed your tune - after virtually tattooing me with the pedantic-psychopathic-bitch handle!!

What a creep. What do you want exactly? You're not getting a christmas card you know!

A creep? Me? With no smilies? Blimey.

Frankly, I thought the "thumping me for mentioning typos" thing was funny (at least to me). We all know you would never do such a thing. I mean, I'm a nice guy and besides, it's just not terribly cricket to strike a mental patient.

Not cricket perhaps, but fun...

Sorry, I don't think I've ever made more than one or two serious forum posts in my life...

Which is one or two more than Nick

Surely you mean about 10 more than Nick...

While most of friends tend to affectionately refer to me as a "mental case", I think that, if pressured, I could probably write something serious.

But that just isn't as much fun.

H2g2 isn't about FUN, boy. It's a serious attempt to document life, the universe and everything. God, you think it was just a place for mental cases to chat to each other about a ton of pants!

A ton of pants? Where!

Now, is that a bizarre reference to actual pants, or is that another one of those wonderful British bits of slang? Hard to tell with that one.

And don't tell me about how h2g2 is about being serious aout life, the universe and everything. I have an apartment full of weevils, for god's sake, some of whom are currently doing my dishes.

I try to make mine do the laundry. It's not as easy as it sounds, they keep airing my dirty linens....

Yeah, but try and get them to do the hoovering after an all-night MarGinFest

Not actually having a working vacuum, my small armada of Northern Dirt Weevils just wander about my floors picking up lint and dirt and putting it in the kitchen garbage/dustbin. It's a it of a trick to avoid stepping on them. Good thing they're a bit oversized for weevils, and they're fast enough to get out of the way of my errant feet.

Although this does mean that my carpets and floors are very clean, it also means, unfortunately, that my carpets and floors are constanly covered in weevils, which doesn't go over terribly well when company comes over.

On the other hand, it's still better than a rampaging moose, let me tell you.