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

"OK, I did some checking. Amanda Tapping missed four episodes of Season 9 because of maternity leave."

If it makes you feel any better, she probably appears in more episodes of the entire Stargate franchise, since she was in Atlantis' fourth season.

Though to be quite honest with you, I think Richard Woolsey was a better choice for the open spot.

Amanda Tapping did Stargate Atlantis because her contract still had a year to run when Stargate SG-1 was cancelled. I suppose they gave her command because they couldn't think of anything else to do with someone of her rank.

Yes, I'm a bit of a Gate-Geek, but not as much as some.

Question: Did Christopher Judge and Michael Shanks still have years on their contracts? Because if they did then it suggests there were other reasons.

If you put ---> in your h2g2 username, then your tag appears above your posts in Pliny!!!

I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that they (and Ben Browder, Claudia Black and Beau Bridges, for that matter) didn't have time on their contracts. If they had had time left, the production company would have had to find roles for them in Atlantis, too.

In fact, I seem to recall some fans were upset when Amanda Tapping moved over to Atlantis, as if she was somehow being disloyal to SG1. That's when *she* stated publicly that she'd been contractually bound to do one more series for the production company.

Hmmm... SashaQ, it may only take a dash... let's see.

Nope. nevermind.

I see what you're thinking...

It also works with just two dashes in the arrow --> but not with one...

Fascinating

Doesn't it anyway? Appear above your posts, I mean.

The tag appears above the post title as well as in my username (and Mr X's) at the moment, so it looks like:

"It's a Kind of Magic!" } -->
Useless Facts
SashaQ --> It's a Kind of Magic!

I have added the --> to my name and my tag now appears in Pliny.
Still... a lot of other issues keep me from migrating permanently.
But at least now Plinites can see me for who I really are.
And that's a pretty useless fact, eh.

~jwf~

It is a useless fact indeed!

I switch between Brunel and Pliny too

Canada is comprised of six time zones and
is roughly 41 times the size of the U.K.

~jwf~

On a related note, this appeared on the xkcd page today.


Warning: may be useful


http://xkcd.com/now

>>
"It's a Kind of Magic!" } -->
Useless Facts
SashaQ --> It's a Kind of Magic!<<

Not on my screen (in Pliny, I mean) - neither on my android phone nor on my laptop.

I believe that "feature/bug" has been "removed/squushed".

Yes, sadly it has been "fixed"...

Fun while it lasted, though!

I did like yours, TC: what's this arrow for? I still don't get it } -->

Simple pleasures...

Thanks, Sasha. I suppose I'll have to remove it now.

The male octopus has an arm he uses for reproduction. The arm is used to deposit a packet of sperm in the female's mantle (head/body). The tip of the male's reproductive arm then breaks off. The male swims away and dies in a few months. Poor octopus!

Octopuses can grow new arms when necessary, but a male octopus can't grow a new reproductive arm.