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

Aw.. I hate it when Researchers are too busy for h2g2... I've been there myself, Goti...

Finally back now though, so I hope like me you get time to get back here

One question to Shagbark though.. How did the "CELEBRATE STAYING POWER" Plate of Biscuits manage to crop up on the forum page?

He he!

The code that does that is not in the forum page. If you test the Article itself for Guide-ML Language you will find the answer between
and

In my furious rush to party after three months trapped in the barren wasteland of RealLife (modem blew up and i didn't manage to sort the whole thing out til yesterday!) I find i've totally failed to read the backlog here.

However, since a year has gone by without hide nor hair of a , I REFUSE to party, and am instead returning to the soap-box.

oh, maybe i'll just have a few drinks before i go.

smiley? What's this?
I'm out of the loop for three months and suddenly the SATS campaign has no need to campaign anymore?

It's like the end of an era.

But YAY! for smileys!

I clearly made a bit of an error choosing not to read the backlog.

aah, well.


I got back online this mornin'

The campaign was dead

Gone were all of my worries,
Leaving just a inste-yeah-yeah-yed!



Are we looking for a new crusade? Or are we to rest on our laurel's and lurk around just kicking our heals and lying back on s and drinking ?

We will rest on our laurels for a while then cupid stunt, goti fish
and the other members of the SATS will have to decide what we want to do next.

Well, you didn't hear this from me, but there was talk of campaigning for other smileys. Not sure which ones of course...

We could help out the guys campaigning for a

But their idea raised all kinds of controversy on the political correctness front, and its evolution into something more passable in modern society seemed to spiral out of control and dissintegrate into pure insanity in a box.

So maybe that isn't such a good idea after all.

*Wanders off to clear his head - obviously had a few to many*

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oh dear the wheels came off my room stretcher

A stretcher with THAT many wheels

What are the other really long smileys? I've heard of before, but There's a few others just as long as that!

I think rat was coming up with some long ones.
He even had a club for them. But I've forgotton what it was.

Found them Click onto the <./>smiley</.>s page, and click on the "campaign for a smiley" thread

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/FFM20473?thread=148774&skip=80&show=20#p1762688 will take you to the all encompassing version of the , the one which was the culmination of an attempt to make it apply to as many as possible with much less alienation. It is somewhere in an area of the thread filled with long alternatives.

If you care for that sort of thing.