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

So I suppose I'll have to be patient again...

Well, something bizarre happened!

Poor Abi is unwell so I had to ask one of the other editorial staff to blob it... after having comuter problems yesterday.

The blob number came back but, when I put it in, it displayed the spimcoot from last week not this!

I am sure I sent the correct one in!

Maybe aka's paranormal world is spreading!

shazz

... and as if by it appears!

shazz

Really?

*blinks*

As for me, I've only just discovered the thing exists: I have no quide entry reference for it in my space. Never mind, here we are now, all safe and cosy. Incidentally (what's the abbr. for that? I? Not that I use abbr.s.) I am intending to rewrite my space to give you all a larger portion of the spimcoot brainbox, and to reflect more of me than that nihilistic little phraselet that currently lurks there. I fancy including some of my favouritest literary quotes but what's the copyright sitch re. quotes? Some of them are a few sentences long. I should probably be asking h2g2 at large this question, but we're all friends in here, so I'll ask another: I've been thinking of changing my name. Is that possible or does one have to assume an entirely new identity like the little girl in last week's cartoon?

And now, on with the frivolity or, as Amy quite rightly puts it, *sigh*.

Of course you can change your name... but it is helpful to put the old one in brackets after it for a few days so that everyone gets used to it!

I, of course, am a hopeless case as far as that is concerned! I shall continue to call you spimmie me old coot whatever you change it to!

I have corrected the oversight of not crediting you on the cartoon now btw!

I have visited your page again. It is looking a bit bare! If you need some help with the decorating drop me a line and I'll 'lend a hand' (but not until after the London Meet!)... provided I can have the hand back at some stage.

I remain
your friend

shazz

Damn, I forgot to say that you'd be allowed to call me your own special name and now you've gone and used it in public. The shame, the horror (he he he).

Do my eyes deceive me or did I spot that you are a possibubble for the London Meet?

It will be an honour and a delight to meet you if you can make it!

Re the namechange... I think you should keep spimcoot as the perpertrator of the 'Paper Cuts' - we don't want to confuse the masses!

shazz

Well once I saw that you were going, shazz, how could I resist? I'm only a possible because... no, actually I'm more than likely to be a definite. Just an off chance possibility of possibilibility.

I think I've gone off the idea of a name change for the moment, so the masses are safe from confusion. ! What am I saying? I must be slipping.

Oh, absolutley!

Keep slipping spimcoot... it becomes you!

shazz

I like spimcoot as a name personally.
Changing your name can be a hassle or a benefit, depending on why you're doing it. That's my thoughts anyway.

Great cartoon by the way.

Do you twiggyleaf? I'll definitely keep it then. For now. I like yours too, although I just typed it in as twigglyleaf. Addling an... look, I've done it again, bloody l's!... adding an l to my name makes me sound like a German tank: spimlcoot, and shazzl... drunk and tired. Quite appropriate for those Wednesday evenings eh shazz?

Maybe not a tank, I've just remembered what pimmel means in German. Oops.

I think the 'l' would go better later spimmie... as in spimcloot

(studiously ignoring the German word as she has a good idea what it means! )

shazz

twigglyleaf has a nice ring to it

If spimcloot means I get to play Jane Fonda to Donald Sutherland then I'm all for it shazz. Or should that be the other way round? Who cares, Jane, Donald, I'm easy.


twigglyleaf *does* have a nice ring to it, but don't go changin'.

Any of you geniuses know how to work Word 2000 using the Dutch version?

I am just about to start pulling my hair out over here... and then spimmie won't be able to recognise me at the meet!

shazz

I know Word 2000 the English version. Apart from language are they very different? What are you trying to do?

I think I have it sussed now spimmie

I have no administrative rights on this computer (the one I can connect with), so half the options on Word are absent and I can't add them! So, I copy the work onto a floppy (non-corrupt! ) and work on MY computer which, although all in Dutch, I DO have a whip-hand with and can bend it to my will.

Convoluted and time-consumming, but workable.

Now all I have to decide is the best layout for thsi rather special edition I'm working on and all will be well.

shazz

I have just checked the install for Office 2000 and It apears to have an option for lanuage, this by just be the dictionary and layout format but maby worth a look.

-- DoctorMO --