March 27, 2006
Scoop!
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At the delightfully fragrant request of Andrea Weckerle, I have flatteringly been asked to contribute to Philip Young’s meme-athon.
Whilst not a ‘true’ journalist, per se, I still feel that the erstwhile intergalatic traveller, Ford Prefect, qualifies, because of his extended entry about Earth in ‘The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‘.
“If you were a researcher on this book thing and you were on Earth, you must have been gathering material on it.”
“Well, I was able to extend the original entry a bit, yes.”
“Let me see what it says in this edition then, I’ve got to see it.”
“Yeah, okay”. He passed it over again.
Arthur grabbed hold of it and tried to stop his hands shaking.
He pressed the entry for the relevant page. The screen flashed and swirled and resolved into a page of print. Arthur stared at it.
“It doesn’t have an entry!” he burst out.
Ford looked over his shoulder.
“Yes it does,” he said, “down there, see at the bottom of the screen, just under Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 6.”
Arthur followed Ford’s finger, and saw where it was pointing. For a moment it still didn’t register, then his mind nearly blew up.
“What? Harmless? Is that all it’s got to say? Harmless! One word?”
Ford shrugged.
“Well, there are a hundred billion stars in the Galaxy, and only a limited amount of space in the book’s microprocessors,” he said, “and no one knew much about the Earth, of course.”
“Well for God’s sake I hope you managed to rectify that a bit.”
“Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it’s still an improvement.”
“And what does it say now?” asked Arthur.
“Mostly harmless,” admitted Ford with a slightly embarrassed cough.
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March 27th, 2006 at 12:43 am
Thanks for this - I was planning to pick up ‘journalists in science fiction’ as a theme and this certainly helps. Are you going to keep the thing going by nominating/ nudging/ tagging three more people?
March 27th, 2006 at 6:42 am
Arrgghh! I *knew* I’d forgotten something! I’ll nominate three later today…
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:37 am
Lee,
Completely unrelated, but… where’s your April 1 joke post? There have been some really good ones out there already (see Wikipedia), but in the PR realm it’s got to be Hyku leading right now.
April 3rd, 2006 at 6:57 am
Hey gorgeous!
Well, I’ve been so flat out that I slept through most of April 1 — sheer exhaustion. So I missed my chance at merriment. Sorry!
But I’m more curious about your ‘beyond’ post (http://andreaweckerlecopywriting.typepad.com/new_millennium_pr/2006/03/beyond.html)
What’s the story bhind that???
Lee