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

for a cup of tea.

*drags in her Matt*


Have you been busy?

extremely. i have been trying to extract a rowcount from a given table of a database for quite a long time. now that the Nth attempt was successful, i can congratulate myself with a cup of tea. you know, 5 o'clock could be regarded as a turning point in a poor man's life . what colour is your Matt? chocolate?

Indeed it is a turning point A25734323


Yes, my Matt is a sort of colour

as if it was written by me . and what are you doing at this time of the day, besides, of course, hiding behind a block of chocolate?

*giggles*

That was written after Fizzymouse gave me a challenge


I am currently attempting to write another EG, this time about Joe Mercer the Football player and eventually England Manager

you have a plan! who's Joe Mercer and what did he fight for?

*slurping a sip*

Ummm... He was a famous Footballer from my home town.

He played for Everton and Arsenal. He eventually became the manager of Manchester City FC and was the very first care-taker/manager after Sir Alf Ramsey retired.

Sorry..

That should be caretaker/manager of the England Football Team.

you really have a football history! great!

I have lots of local information, as well as those from within the family too

doesn't it bother you that history can easily be twisted? my grandma, for instance, says she never lies. yeah, right

My grandad once told me he had been in the Olympics... as a low jumper

*looking for a definition of "low jumper" in the dictionary*

It was his joke. Meaning he went under the bar and not over it!

He was only 5' tall

Just read the top and bottom: A19441712

Grandad was someone we all took notice of, no matter what he said.


One of my younger cousins was so enthralled by him, he would recite everything my grandad said. Including the naughty version of 'On Top of Old Smokey', which he recited when his parents had business people over for dinner..

not familiar with the song, but pretty sure it was meant as a nice surpirse

It was a surprise to his parents too!

great article. pretty adventureous grandad . mine also had pretty interesting life. not famous though.