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

Dear Sir, as an employee* of the British Broadcasting Corporation, I heartily applaud your stance against the evils of commercial television. I myself have never watched television, or indeed listened to the wireless since the introduction of the foul nonsense known as "The Goon Show".

*He doesn't have to know the exact details, obviously.

How about "You're missing out on high-quality drama such as 'The Jewel In The Crown'. 'And I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Outta Here'."

Oh, I see... I thought we were taking a pro-BBC stance.



God knows it would be an unusual viewpoint on h2g2...

I don't hold with that new channel...what's it called? BBC...2...or something. Full of Leftie twaddle.

Ah, well, I wouldn't know, it's not available in our area yet.

We have now connected your area to the BBC2 networky thing. Soon we will bring you BBC Colour.

Colour? I'm not sure we're ready for that in this part of Esher.

As someone once said:

Who the Hell wants to hear actors talk? (President of Warner Brothers rejecting the idea of moving into talking pictures, 1927.)

And this was before Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie career...

Right, I'm off to RFB now. 'Night, EV.

Good evening to you, sir. *raises hat*

Aren't they bringing back tv's without handheld bits as a sort of exercise machine. You could lose up to 2 kilos a night by channel hopping. The rule is that you have to sit down after each button press or knob twiddle.

Can't be bothered with that

we'd end up stuck in single channel hell through fear of the exercise

That's what used to *happen*. Mind you, in those days there were only three to choose from, and one of those had those awful "advertisments" breaking up the programmes. And, as previously mentioned, that newfangled BBC2 channel was full of Leftie nonsense. So really, there *was* only one channel.

Imagine being allowed to broadcast 'left wing progaganda...

I think I've found a picture of him, just about to have breakfast

http://www.pinetreeweb.com/bp-1878-baker-russell.gif

The lack of a monocle can only be due to it having popped-out when he read about the boat race "poaching" in that morning's Times.

I'm not sure that's him - I doubt whether he'd stoop so low as to allow his photograph to be taken by one of those new fangled camera things. It's a full portrait in oils or nothing!

Absolutely. Also, that's a picture of Kaiser Bill.

Weren't you his batman?

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