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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A558470

Its all about Pogs a once big craze in the mid 1990s which i played in school before it was banned (see the entry) it describes the origins of the game how it was revived in the 1990s and some terms used by players of the game, have fun reading.

Oh the memories! This is a great article, but, to be pedantic, the way the headers were squished right up to the text was annoying. But the editors would probably sort that out.

I loved pogs. They lasted quite a while at my school (this was when they came round in the '90s) before we all got called into assembly and instructed not to bring them in or they would be confiscated. For good.

A few typos (I don't mean to nitpick):
Parag 1;
now a days - I think this would be now-a-days but I'm not sure.
Parag 2;
-sacking-this would be stacking (unless I wasn't playing it right)
-'There were several different versions that people play'- this would either be 'there are...' or '...that people played', I think. Not sure though. I could have misread it.
Parag 5:
-'There are two types of POG available from the WPF the designer POGs and the classic POGs'- I would have put a comma or a semicolon after WPF.

The glossary was great!

Thanks i have made the changes you suggested gald you liked it

Hello has anyone else read this yet?

Hello are the any scouts out there, what does everyone else think. Or am I the only one who remebers pogs?

Hello,

I'm here. Looking things over. It's good. I always wondered what those things were, and now I know.

Yours,
Jake

Ok

Great article on something I can relate to. My perspective is slightly different though in that my school (being poorer) wasn't so in to the 'official' side of it (the rules, the federation, etc..), so using the 'wannabees' was acceptable (apart from some stickers). It also became common for people to make their own slammers, or to introduce really think chunky ones.

I hadn't know about the milktop origin at all - we all thought it was a brand new game. And yes it got banned in our school too.

My only comment as far as the article goes is to add a mention of the variation which came in a particular brand of crisps (forgot which) called, I think, "tago's". They were plastic, had looney toones on them, and 6 slits around the edges so you could make sculptures with them, which was quite cool.

Is there an entry on Crazes (or any other crazes) you can link to?

Tazos-named after Taz

I have a terrible memory

Yes the tazos came with "Walkers" there are doing POKEmon ones now with out the slits.

I colud only find the fads link.

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