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8 September - h2g2 is Changing...
SEF Posted Sep 15, 2003
How very odd. I was over there only a few days ago. I guess it's the sort of thing which must come up a lot.
8 September - h2g2 is Changing...
SEF Posted Sep 15, 2003
On second thoughts I probably migrated around various such (clone) sites because I remember finding penguins last time and now I've lost them. 
8 September - h2g2 is Changing...
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 15, 2003
SEF, his plan to get $50,000 through $1 donations is... well... ongoing, to say the least. Recent totals at: http://savemyhome.cjb.net
8 September - h2g2 is Changing...
SEF Posted Sep 15, 2003
Peet, oh dear.
Jim, that's the one! I think I liked Bob best. Somewhere there's a religion devoted to Bob (it's cropped up on site a couple of times). Perhaps someone could tell me if there's an obscure connection to the penguin in either direction.
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Sep 15, 2003
Well this is a topic drift I concur with.
Incog.
8 September - h2g2 is Changing...
E G Mel Posted Sep 16, 2003
Well I read the backlog, I'm allowed to just bookmark 
Mel 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 16, 2003
SEF, re "Bob",
http://www.subgenius.com
http://www.subgenius.net
(the ,org seems to be down at the moment)
8 September - h2g2 is Changing...
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 16, 2003
Incidentally, if you have an Atari ST nearby, note that if you arrange four of the sequential low-numbered characters in the default character set (I think it's CHR$(6)-CHR$(9)) in a 2x2 grid, it forms a portrait of JR "Bob" Dobbs... Spooky. 
8 September - h2g2 is Changing...
SEF Posted Sep 16, 2003
I can't tell from that how old the Bob thing is. What about any connection or are they completely unrelated? I'm going to pass on signing up to the church of the one true Bob anyway. I just wondered about the dates/provenance of all these things. Bob is pretty important in Black Adder too.
...then there's the whole jellybaby thing...
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Sep 16, 2003
Just bookmarking 
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SEF Posted Sep 16, 2003
Aarrgghh! Oh no, not again. Petunia to your bookmark! 
8 September - h2g2 is Changing...
Baron Grim Posted Sep 16, 2003
Thanks Jim, the site must have been rearranged many times over since I found these. I'm so happy they're still there.
Count Zero
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Lou, (Listy) Not around too much, don't be offended if I don't reply.. I'LL TRY! Posted Sep 16, 2003
*confused*
thats got a flower in, could become the symbol...
8 September - h2g2 is Changing...
Baron Grim Posted Sep 16, 2003
There's 'probably' no relation between Bob the Penguin and J.R. Bob Dobbs, deliverer of Slack and Bulldada.
The SubGenius Foundation began in the late 1970's I believe, so Bob the Penguin, 'could' have been named for Bob Dobbs. But I doubt it.
Count Zero, as a Minister in the Church of the Subgenius is choosing Bob the Penguin as his personal saviour of the day.
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Lou, (Listy) Not around too much, don't be offended if I don't reply.. I'LL TRY! Posted Sep 16, 2003
*squirms....*
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